Ban urges reconciliation in Lebanon
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Lebanon's prime minister and parliament speaker to reconcile and try to elect a new president, warning that failure could lead to two governments and two presidents.
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Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa renewed efforts on Tuesday to end a political standoff in Lebanon, which many fear could turn violent as the country faces its worst political split since the 1975-1990 civil war.
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France&#39;s foreign minister on Tuesday praised an administrative panel&#39;s decision to ban satellite broadcasts by Al-Manar Television station, as officials in Lebanon slammed the move as proof of Zionist pressure.
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Lebanon protested to the United States  on Saturday over a proposal to freeze the assets of senior  officials to put pressure on Syria to withdraw its troops from  Lebanon and crack down on terrorism.
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The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday urged all Lebanese political parties to enter into talks to prevent a further deterioration of the political crisis there.
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Iraq's top Shiite cleric Sunday demanded an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon, warning the Muslim world will "not forgive" nations that stand in the way of stopping the fighting.
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Lebanese majority leader Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday he would soon meet Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a key opposition leader, to discuss ways to end the country's four-month-old political crisis.
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Lebanon's army urged feuding politicians to set aside their differences and strengthen the foundations of the nation on Friday at the funeral of an assassinated general.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met relatives of two Israeli soldiers seized by Hezbollah militants at the start of last year's Lebanon war on Tuesday and promised he will keep working hard to seek their release.
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A United Nations official today called for restraint following Sunday's clashes in which an Israeli officer, a UN peacekeeper and a Hezbollah militant were killed near the border in southern Lebanon.
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The United Nations Security Council has called on Syria to pull its remaining 14,000 troops out of Lebanon. In a unanimously passed declaration, it demanded that Syria respect Lebanon&#39;s &quot;territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence&quot;.
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Iraq's prime minister reached out to Sunni Arabs at a national reconciliation conference on Saturday, urging Saddam Hussein-era officers to join the new army and a review of the ban against members of the former dictator's ruling party.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan on Thursday renewed his calls for Israel to lift its   blockade of Lebanon swiftly and to withdraw fully from the   country as soon as 5,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in the south.
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US resolution is set to call on Syria to stop meddling in Lebanon&#39;s internal affairs, respect its constitution. By Selim Yassine - BEIRUT.
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Rival Lebanese leaders could reach a deal this week to end a political crisis which has sparked the country's worst civil unrest since the 1975-1990 civil war, a senior opposition source said on Monday.
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Lebanese presidential elections must be free of violence and foreign interference, the U.N. Security Council said Thursday, joining an international chorus pressuring the Arab country's rival political forces to advance a process whose delay could split Lebanon apart.
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Lebanon's parliamentary majority leader and Syria support an Arab plan to end the constitutional crisis in Lebanon, which has not had a president since November 23, diplomatic and political sources said on Sunday.