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Two Lebanese men, walk next to a portrait of the slain former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, (tmg1)
Court   Hariri   Lebanon   Photos   UN   		 Daily Star Lebanon 
Preparations suggest Hariri court will begin work on January 1
| 'I don't think Bellemare will announce he is ready tomorrow' | By Michael Bluhm | Daily Star staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | BEIRUT: Preparations at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon are proceedin... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)
In this July 8, 2007 file photo, a poster showing radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, right, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, is held up during a protest march in the Amil neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. Hezbollah instructors trained Shiite militiamen at remote camps in southern Iraq until three months ago when they slipped across the border to Iran, presumably to continue instruction on Iranian soil, according to two Shiite lawmakers and a top army offic
Beirut   Hezbollah   Photos   Shiite   Sunni   		 Daily Star Lebanon 
Hizbullah, Salfists ink accord banning sectarian strife
| By Hussein Abdallah | Daily Star staff | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | BEIRUT: Hizbullah signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding with representatives of Sunni Salafist groups in a step aimed at ... (photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed)
Fouad Siniora, the Prime Minister of Lebanon, gestures while speaking at the United Nations in New York Friday April 21, 2006-ayt1  International Herald Tribune 
Lebanese PM to visit Iraq for trade talks
| : Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Monday he would visit Iraq this week to discuss energy and trade, in another sign of improving ties between the Arab world and the Shi'ite-led governm... (photo: AP/Frank Franklin II)
Government   Iraq   Photos   President   Washington  
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Bernard Kouchner, Minister for Foreign Affairs of France at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. (mb1)  Daily Star Lebanon 
Kouchner to visit Lebanon on Middle East tour
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Monday, August 18, 2008 | PARIS: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner will travel to Lebanon, Syria, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Egypt between August ... (photo: UN /Eskinder Debebe )
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An armed member of Hezbollah guards a street in a newly seized neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 9, 2008. Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of neighborhoods in the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday following sectarian clashes reminiscent of Lebanon's bloody 15-year civil war. Daily Star Lebanon
US says Hizbullah training Iraqi hit squads in Iran
| American military urges Iraq's government to take steps to protect targets | Compiled by Daily Star staff | Monday, August 18, 2008 | Hizbullah and the Iranian Revoluti... (photo: AP / Bela Szandelszky)
Iran   Iraq   Military   Photos   War  
In this picture released by the Syrian national news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman at the presidential palace in Damascus, Thursday, Aug. 14. 2008 Daily Star Lebanon
Sleiman describes Lebanon-Syria summit as first step toward brotherly ties
| Gemayel: ties will not be normal if Damascus 'does not change its mentality' | By Hussein Abdallah | Daily Star staff | Monday, August 18, 2008 | BEIRUT: President Mich... (photo: AP / SANA,HO)
Damascus   Lebanon   Photos   Summit   Syria  
President George W. Bush delivers a statement regarding the death of terrorist al Zarqawi, an al Qaeda leader in Iraq, in the Rose Garden Thursday, June 8, 2006. "Through his every action, he sought to defeat America and our coalition partners, and The Australian
Bush adversaries exploit his waning global power
| THE Kremlin's expanding military push into Georgia is fuelling concerns within Washington's national security establishment of a broader challenge to US power globally ... (photo: White House/Eric Draper)
Military   Photos   Politics   Russia   US  
Fawzi Salloukh, Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations, addressing the Security Council meeting on the UN International Independent Investigation Commission into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. , today International Herald Tribune
Lebanon expects full ties with Syria in 2 months
| : Lebanon's foreign minister said he expected full diplomatic ties with Syria to be established and ambassadors to be exchanged within two months. | Foreign Minister Fa... (photo: UN /Paulo Filgueiras)

Diplomatic   Lebanon   Photos   Politics   Syria  
Reactor building of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006. Iran's nuclear chief said Sunday that Tehran had agreed in principle on Moscow's offer to host Iran's uranium enrichment program, Russian news reports said. Buffalo News
Reining In Iran
| There are a number of ominous signs that Israel, alone or perhaps together with the United States, may be preparing a so-called pre-emptive military strike against the ... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)

Iran   Israel   Military   Photos   Weapons  
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Kashmiri muslims walk in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. Schools offices and shops reopened Tuesday after a week, owing to massive protests in Indian Kashmir Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days The Boston Globe
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Kashmiri Muslims gather to listen to their leaders during a march in Srinagar August 18, 2008 Muslims mount protest in Kashmir The Boston Globe
Terrorism
Reactor building of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006. Iran's nuclear chief said Sunday that Tehran had agreed in principle on Moscow's offer to host Iran's uranium enrichment program, Russian news reports said. Reining In Iran Buffalo News
Lebanese soldiers, gather next of a bus which was destroyed by a bomb planted on the side of a road filled with people heading to work, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. The bomb exploded near the bus carrying civilians and off-duty members of the military in the northern city of Tripoli early Wednesday, killing nine, including seven soldiers, and wounding at least 10 others, security officials said. Suspicion fell on the possibility of al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants seeking revenge on the milita Rush-hour roadside bombing in Lebanon Canberra Times
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora answers questions during a news conference, after his meeting with the Egyptian President Hosni Moubarak in Cairo Egypt, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006. Siniora said Thursday that the ongoing diplomatic battle to complete Siniora insists deadly bombing will not intimidate Lebanese Daily Star Lebanon
Human Rights
North Korean chief negotiator Kim Gye Gwan boards a car prior to a bilateral meeting with US chief negotiator Christopher Hill in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, March 13, 2008. The talks held in Geneva are about the normalization of the relations between the US and North Korea and about the North Korean nuclear program. N. Korea says US is hampering nuclear disarmament Syracuse
The streets of Kunduz -- Afghan women shop in Kunduz, Afghanistan The Afghan women jailed for being victims of rape The Independent
Book market in a Confucian temple in Shanghai, China Taking a leaf out of Confucius' book The Guardian
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