Arab envoy gets rival Lebanese leaders to meet
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Arab League chief Amr Moussa brought feuding Lebanese parties together on Friday to try to agree on a new government and end a protracted political crisis.
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Israel said it hoped a visit on Wednesday by Egyptian and Jordanian envoys will lead to the opening of diplomatic contacts with other Arab states over their land-for-peace plan despite disagreements over key components.
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Two rival Lebanese leaders began talks on Thursday, the first such meeting in four months, to discuss ways to end a political crisis that has raised fears of a civil war.
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Leaders of the Middle East Quartet were to meet former prime minister Tony Blair Thursday, with the focus on his role as their new special envoy against a backdrop of a renewed US push for peace.
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Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Thursday he was hopeful he could clinch a deal between rival Lebanese leaders to end a political crisis which has left the country with no president since November.
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BEIRUT - Lebanon on Monday asked the Arab League to help it counter a UN Security Council resolution, aimed implicitly at its powerful neighbour, Syria, which called for Beirutâs sovereignty to be respected and foreign troops to be withdrawn from the
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DAMASCUS: PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas held a second day of talks Tuesday with Syrian officials on a mission to patch up strained ties with the government and with Damascus-based Palestinian opposition groups.
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An Arab mediator brokered a meeting between rival Lebanese leaders on Thursday but a political source said their dispute was unresolved and a breakthrough remained distant.
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United Nations envoys will meet Israeli   officials on Monday after expressing fears that a week-long   truce between Israel and Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas might   unravel, leading to further bloodshed.
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Arab League foreign ministers open a two-day meeting here on Tuesday focused on Lebanon and its relations with Syria, the situation in war-wracked Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Leaders of the Middle East Quartet meet former British prime minister Tony Blair here Thursday, with the focus on his role as their new special envoy against a backdrop of a renewed US push for peace.
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Nato ministers are set to meet envoys from Israel and six Arab nations for their highest-level talks with the alliance&#39;s southern neighbours.
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Arab foreign ministers on Sunday rejected Syria's demand that Hezbollah and its allies have greater representation in Lebanon's Cabinet, according to delegates at an emergency meeting in Cairo.
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Arab foreign ministers backed Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday against international calls to remove Syrian forces from its tiny neighbor, even though several Arab nations have publicly stepped up pressure on Syria to comply.
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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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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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Lebanon turned Wednesday to the Vatican for help in pressing for a cease-fire in the Middle East, dispatching the son of assassinated premier Rafik Hariri to meet with the Holy See's secretary of state.