Lebanese Cabinet Votes to Extend President&#39;s Term in Office
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Lebanon&#39;s Cabinet voted Saturday to amend the country&#39;s constitution to permit President Emile Lahoud to stay in office for three more years after his present term ends.
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Lebanon delayed its presidential election by nearly three weeks to November 12 on Monday to allow more time for rival pro- and anti-Syrian groups to agree on a compromise candidate.
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BEIRUT -- Four Cabinet ministers resigned yesterday to protest the extension of President Emile Lahoud's term, part of a bruising political battle that divided allies and drew the attention of the UN Security Council. The ministers' resignations were not expected to bring down the 30-member government of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. But they prompted Lahoud to convene a meeting with ...
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Lebanon's parliament voted on Friday to  extend the term of Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud,  despite a U.N. Security Council resolution warning Damascus  against interfering in Lebanon.
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The election of a president by Lebanese members of parliament has been  postponed fro a second time.
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The election of Lebanon's president must  go ahead on Saturday as scheduled, French President Nicolas  Sarkozy told his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in a phone  call, Sarkozy's spokesman said on Friday.
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Now that destiny was fulfilled, faster than anyone expected, with the Lebanese Council of Ministers accepting to amend the constitution in order to extend President Emile Lahoud&#39;s term for three more years, it is enough for the Lebanese, who objected to
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Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed from Saturday until the end of next week, a senior political source said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilize the country.
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BEIRUT -- President Emile Lahoud's effort to stay in office for three more years was assured yesterday, when his rival, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, bowed to Syrian pressure and proposed a constitutional amendment allowing Lahoud to extend his term.
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BEIRUT - The Lebanese Parliament, which was scheduled to elect a new president yesterday, postponed the vote until Oct. 23 after it failed to muster a quorum because of the deadlock among the country's political factions.
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MPs in Beirut vote to extend the Lebanese president's term despite a UN warning to Syria not to interfere in Lebanon.
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WASHINGTON -- The State Department accused Syria on Friday of threatening members of Lebanon&#39;s parliament to force enactment of an extension of three years in the term of pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud.
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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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Lebanon's parliament is going ahead with  a vote to extend the term of Syrian-backed President Emile  Lahoud Friday despite a U.N. Security Council resolution  warning Damascus against interfering in Lebanon.
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The Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri submitted the resignation of his government to the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud who accepted it.
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Israel's Security Cabinet approved early Tuesday widening the ground offensive in Lebanon and rejected a cease-fire until an international force is in place, a participant in the meeting said.
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As expected, Lebanon&#39;s Parliament on Friday rubber-stamped Syria&#39;s order to keep its handpicked president in office, voting in an extraordinary session to amend the Constitution to give him three more years.