Lebanon leader: PM violated constitution
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Lebanon's pro-Syrian president said Tuesday that his rival, the prime minister, violated the constitution by sending to the United Nations an approval of an international tribunal to prosecute the suspected killers of former prime minister Rafik Hariri.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 7 -- Hezbollah's leader, Hasan Nasrallah, vowed Thursday to keep protesters in downtown Beirut until a new Lebanese government is installed, but insisted that his group and its allies would not provoke another civil war in Lebanon.
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The fugitive leader of an al-Qaida-inspired group lashed out at the head of Lebanon's army, accusing him of destroying a Palestinian refugee camp as part of deal to become the country's next president, according to an audio tape posted on a militant Web site Monday.
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Germany's president says a new law allowing for hijacked airliners to be shot down may violate the constitution.
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Lebanese editorials on Saturday rued  parliament's decision to amend the constitution to extend  Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud's term despite strong  objections from Washington and the United Nations.
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QORNET SHEHWAN: The Qornet Shehwan Gathering opposition movement warned on Thursday that Lebanon is in a &quot;danger zone&quot; because Parliament provoked international disapproval by altering the Constitution under Syrian pressure.
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Rival Lebanese leaders tried to salvage a parliamentary session on Monday which is due to elect the army chief as president, a move that could defuse Lebanon's worst political crisis since the 1975-90 civil war.
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President Arroyo's bid to change the Philippines constitution comes under fire
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Lebanese security forces on Monday stormed the Beirut home of a man they identified as a Palestinian who appeared in a video claiming responsibility for the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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HAITIâS interim prime minister has accused ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide of directing violence from exile. Gerard Latortue has also claimed that the South African government hosting Aristide is violating international law.
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Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah  said British Prime Minister Tony Blair participated in the  killing of Lebanese by not doing enough to stop Israel's war in  Lebanon and lashed out at the government for welcoming him.
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Lebanon's political crisis deepened this weekend after the failure for the 10th time by rival parties to agree on a way to elect a President
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Hezbollah has created a "state within a state" in Lebanon and must be disarmed, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said in an interview published Thursday in an Italian daily.
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President Jacques Chirac said Lebanon had missed an  opportunity for democracy by bowing to Syrian pressure and extending the term of its president through a constitutional amendment rather than putting the issue to a popular vote.
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In November 2004, Lebanese President Emil Lahoud will complete his six-year term. Parliament, according to the constitution, has to elect the new president (from the Maronite Christian community).
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A parliamentary session to elect Lebanon's president was postponed for the 11th time Friday, with feuding factions deadlocked over a constitutional amendment and the shape of a future government.
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BEIRUT -- The Lebanese prime minister warned yesterday that his army will seize all weapons shown publicly in southern Lebanon, offering a sharp retort to a boast from Hezbollah's leader that his fighters are on the border with Israel and won't leave.