Lebanon fails to pick president, but tension eases
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Lebanon's deadlocked parliament failed to elect a new head of state on Tuesday, but the anti-Syrian majority and the opposition renewed a dialogue to seek agreement before the house meets again on October 23.
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The speaker of the Lebanese parliament postpones the election of a new president for the 14th time.
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Lebanon's parliament adjourns a crucial session to elect a new president until 23 October.
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France is the latest country to lose patience with Syria, the country that holds the key to ending Lebanon's political impasse
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The presidential election in Lebanon is postponed for a ninth time, despite more efforts to resolve the crisis.
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BEIRUT -- Lebanon's political crisis worsened yesterday, with government ministers fearing for their lives after an assassination of one of their own, businesses on strike, and all sides ignoring calls for dialogue.
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Despite this week's violence in Lebanon, both Hizballah and its enemies realize they have nothing to gain from being drawn into civil war
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Hezbollah fighters have vanished in south Lebanon, melting back into the population. Whether peace holds will depend on how they put up with the newest players in their longtime stronghold: the Lebanese army and a beefed-up U.N. peacekeeping force.
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Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed from Monday to February 11, the parliament speaker said on Sunday, announcing the 13th delay of a vote blocked by the country's political crisis.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - An uneasy calm settled over a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday after the Lebanese army and Islamist militants declared an end to 33 days of fighting in which 172 people were killed.
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Lebanon's deeply divided parliament failed to elect a new president on Tuesday and speaker Nabih Berri deferred the vote until October 23.
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The office said Hariri would not form the next government. The outgoing prime minister has led Lebanon for most of the time since the end of the civil war in 1990.
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Lebanon&#39;s political factions including the pro-Syrian opposition Hezbollah on Saturday began two days of talks in France to try to ease the deadlock paralysing the nation.
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After the Lebanese parliament failed to muster a quorum, the vote for president was postponed until Oct. 23.
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The murder of an anti-Syrian Cabinet minister in Beirut raises tensions in Lebanon, where the government is already close to collapsing
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Lebanon on Friday postponed its presidential election to January 21 from Saturday, the 12th such delay, despite efforts by the Arab League to get rival Lebanese leaders to agree an Arab plan to end the country's crisis.
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Hezbollah in Lebanon says it will not allow a president to be elected unless it gets a third of the cabinet seats.