Arab League hopes for Beirut deal
617173
Arab envoys try to broker a deal between rival political factions in Lebanon after days of mass rallies.
506310
BEIRUT -- The Arab League won vital Syrian support yesterday for its efforts to end a standoff between Lebanon's government and a Hezbollah-led opposition that has been rallying hundreds of thousands in central Beirut, an envoy said.
528569
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at its powerful neighbour, Syria, which called for Beirutâs sovereignty to be respected and foreign troops to be withdrawn from the
85684
Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Wednesday he was making significant progress toward a deal to end Lebanon's political crisis.
177825
Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah   said in remarks aired on Tuesday he expected a U.N. "mediator"   to visit Lebanon next week to try to secure a deal for the   release of the two Israeli soldiers the group kidnapped in   July.
114122
Arab League chief Amr Moussa said more time was needed to resolve Lebanon's political stand-off after he brought the feuding parties together on Friday.
592885
PARIS, Jan 25 (IPS) - Representatives of 50 industrial countries and  international institutions have pledged 7.6  billion dollars to a  recovery plan for Lebanon at a donor conference in Paris  Thursday. The  fresh aid certainly buys time for the embattled  government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad  Siniora, but it  remains doubtful if it can buy it peace.
14247
Time is running out for rival Lebanese factions to resolve their worst political dispute since Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Wednesday.
84971
The Arab League won vital Syrian support on Monday for its efforts to end a standoff between Lebanon's government and a Hezbollah-led opposition rallying hundreds of thousands in central Beirut, an envoy said.
530873
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.
533776
Sponsors of an internationally backed Mideast peace plan will send their foreign ministers to the region next week in hopes of restarting peace talks in the wake of Yasser Arafatâs death.
769274
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he wants the upcoming meeting of key Mideast players to agree on a package to stop the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting and ensure lasting peace between Israel and Lebanon.
65449
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.
110698
The head of the Arab League said Saturday that he was leaving Lebanon after failing to get the country's feuding politicians to agree on a plan to elect a new president and end the deepening political crisis.
214767
The Arab League won vital Syrian support on Monday for its efforts to end a standoff between Lebanon's pro-Western government and a Hezbollah-led opposition rallying hundreds of thousands in central Beirut, an envoy said.
586776
Hizbollah expects a United Nations   "mediator" to visit Lebanon next week to try to secure a deal   for the release of two Israeli soldiers it captured in July,   the group's leader said in remarks aired on Tuesday.
277250
Palestinian mediators on Wednesday presented the Lebanese army with a plan to end a month of fighting with al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.