Hariris snub government overtures
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BEIRUT: Lebanese opposition leader Walid Jumblatt and Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir stood together to receive condolences alongside the sons of assassinated former Premier Rafik Hariri at his ...
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PM refuses to be drawn on prospect of early election.
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Lebanon's parliament will delay electing a president next week, political sources said on Saturday, allowing more time for rival pro- and anti-Syrian groups to agree on a compromise candidate.
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Nepalese Prime Minister has rejected the UN offer of mediating in talks with Maoist rebels. But Sher Bahadur Deuba has not ruled out an expanded role for India to resolve the conflict in the Himalayan kingdom.
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri resigned Wednesday and said he would not form a new government, following a widely opposed constitutional change to keep the Syrian-backed president in office.
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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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Iraqi interim government officials and the country&#39;s election commission have all but ruled out demands by Sunni Arab parties to postpone parliamentary elections scheduled for January
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JUST weeks before Emile Lahoud is scheduled to start his newly extended three-year term as president of Lebanon, the country has been plunged into a political crisis with the decision by Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to give up his post, dissolve his
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MARSEILLE, France : In a major broadside, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin rejected a senior government minister's idea of using state funds to build mosques and train Islamic ...
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Prime Minister Rafik Hariri resigned, dissolved his Cabinet and made the surprise announcement Wednesday that he would not try to form the next government, dropping out of the political scene at a time when Syria's role in Lebanon is being challenged by the United Nations.
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Lebanon&#39;s hothouse politics have been thrown into turmoil by Syria&#39;s insistence - at a suddenly summoned special cabinet meeting over the weekend - that the president
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Lebanese majority leader Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday he would soon meet Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a key opposition leader, to discuss ways to end the country's four-month-old political crisis.
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[India News]: Imphal, Nov 21 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday extended an &quot;open invitation&quot; to insurgent groups for talks in the restive northeastern region and said his government was willing to meet any outfit that shunned violence.
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Lebanon&#39;s Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri resigned Wednesday and said he would not form a new government, following a widely opposed constitutional change to keep the Syrian-backed president in office.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s refusal to pardon prisoners on Bastille Day stirred debate, with the justice minister on Monday calling it a &quot;true political break&quot; with past practice by French leaders.
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri  resigned Wednesday and said he would not form a new government,  following a widely opposed constitutional change to keep the  Syrian-backed president in office.
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At least 28 Lebanese legislators say they will not take part in consultations on a new government that President Emile Lahoud began today, a day after the Cabinet of veteran Prime Minister Rafiq Al Hariri resigned.