Tooth a key clue in UN probe into Hariri killing
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The inquiry into the killing of   a former Lebanese prime minister has asked several countries to   help identify the presumed suicide bomber from a tooth and   other pieces of DNA, the chief investigator told the U.N.   Security Council on Friday.
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Lebanon's prime minister has asked the U.N. Security Council to authorize U.N. investigators to help probe last week's killing of an anti-Syrian lawmaker in a massive car bombing in Beirut.
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Investigators probing alleged corruption at the United Nations oil-for-food program are scrutinizing thousands of pages of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's documents, including e-mail and phone records, to determine whether he exerted influence in securing a contract for a Swiss company that employed his son.
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In a challenge to Syria, the U.N. Security Council voted on Wednesday to set up a court to prosecute the murder two years ago of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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The slaying of billionaire businessman and former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, bore the hallmarks of a decade of attacks targeting politicians, militant leaders, Palestinian refugees, religious leaders and foreign residents. These include:
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Syria suggested Friday it may not cooperate with a planned international tribunal to prosecute the suspected killers of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri because Damascus was not consulted on the plan, according to a letter circulated at the U.N.
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A divided Security Council approved a resolution establishing an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister.
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The Lebanese government decided on  Tuesday to ask the United Nations to extend an ongoing inquiry  into the killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri,  official sources said.
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The U.N. Security Council has given a green light to U.N. investigators to help probe last week's killing of an anti-Syrian lawmaker in a massive car bombing in Beirut.
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The U.N. special rapporteur on  extrajudicial killings said on Friday he plans to investigate  deaths caused by the U.S. military and contractors in Iraq,  including the recent Blackwater case in Baghdad.
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A statement attributed to al Qaeda and  posted on the Internet on Tuesday denied Islamists had killed  former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, saying  Lebanese, Syrian or Israeli intelligence were behind the  attack.
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The United Nations signed an agreement on Tuesday as a first step in creating a tribunal that would try suspects in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and other anti-Syrian figures.
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Five days after a Dutch-Moroccan man killed the outspoken filmmaker Theo van Gogh in broad daylight here, intelligence officials say they are investigating a possible
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MAROUN A-RAS, Lebanon -- UN troops sent tanks and armor yesterday to a tense area along the frontier with Israel to try to determine whether an Israeli bulldozer crossed into Lebanon, sparking the first shootout since last summer's Hezbollah-Israel war.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report released Wednesday that he hopes to appoint judges to the international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri by the end of the year.
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A U.N. move to set up a tribunal for suspects in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri could spell more instability for Lebanon, Lebanese newspapers warned on Thursday.
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The panel investigating the murder of Lebanese ex-PM Rafik Hariri has identified suspects, investigators say.