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Berri : The Lebanese spring can become permanent

21.07.2008 19:42    yalibnan.com
Beirut - Speaker Nabih Berri said there is no justification for the delay in drafting the ministerial statement. "Every minute passing by has its costs," he told the Lebanese daily As-Safir.


A minefield awaits Obama in the Middle East

21.07.2008 19:42    yalibnan.com
By Ginger Adams OtisBeirut - It's not going to be all rousing cheers and adoring accolades. Barack Obama's diplomatic skills will get a real workout this week as he wraps up his congressional fact-finding in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Samir Kuntar is a convicted murderer and not a hero

21.07.2008 19:41    yalibnan.com
By: Elias BejjaniBeirut- It is really sad, shocking and shameful when a convicted murderer is decorated as a hero. Shame on Lebanon's leaders, parties, dignitaries, politicians and officials

Mouallem: We will be waiting in Syria for president Suleiman

21.07.2008 19:41    yalibnan.com
Baabda - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem met Lebanon's president Michel Suleiman at the Baabda palace to hand deliver to him an invitation from his Syrian counterpart to visit Damascus


Hamas: Hezbollah could have struck a better deal with Israel

21.07.2008 19:41    yalibnan.com
Beirut / Gaza - Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahhar said he had hoped a larger number of Palestinian and Arab detainees in Israeli jails would be released as part of the Israeli-Hezbollah prisoner swap.

Israeli official: Hezbollah attack on Israel is imminent

21.07.2008 19:40    yalibnan.com
Beirut/ Jerusalem - Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin has said a Hezbollah attack on the Jewish state was imminent.

Modest Kolerov: Russia's Foreign Policy Strategy outlines new highlights regarding former USSR republics

21.07.2008 18:34    regnum.ru
Russia's foreign policy strategy approved by President Dmitry Medvedev contains a few of new public highlights regarding Russia's policy in the post-Soviet territory.Firstly, it is announced clearly and unambiguously that the creeping "historic" rehabilitation of Nazism and aggressive nationalism in

Making music, from Aamir to Dev D

21.07.2008 13:17    rediff.com
Amit Trivedi, the 29-year old composer tells Patcy N more about composing for Aamir and his forthcoming movie Dev D.
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'There cannot be a case for a windfall tax'

21.07.2008 13:17    rediff.com
Naresh Nayyar, MD & CEO, Essar Oil, tells Business Standard that a windfall profit tax on private oil companies will only worsen the situation.
India    Opinions    Interviews

'The mood in the UPA camp is upbeat'

21.07.2008 13:17    rediff.com
Moily, a former Karnataka chief minister and Congress spokesperson, spoke about the chances of the UPA government, the emergence of the third front and the nuclear deal.
India    Opinions    Interviews

Monday News Briefs

21.07.2008 06:44    yalibnan.com
Beirut - The focus will shift today to the Lebanese Syrian relations . Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem is expected here today to deliver an invitation to President Michel Suleiman from Syrian president Bashar al Assad to visit Damascus to

Iraq - Surge Protector

21.07.2008 01:27    nosi.org
New York Times - Admiral Fallon shows the way forward in Iraq.

Jund el-Sham leader died from wounds in overnight clashes

21.07.2008 00:32    yalibnan.com
Ein El Helweh - Shehada Jawhar, Jund al-Sham leader who was wounded last night during clashes at the Ein el Helweh Palestinian refugee camp died this morning

Official: Syria is open to Damascus and Beirut embassies

21.07.2008 00:32    yalibnan.com
Beirut / Damascus - Syria is open to having an embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and a Lebanese embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, a Syrian official said Saturday.

Israeli government didn't know of cluster bomb use in Lebanon war

21.07.2008 00:32    yalibnan.com
Beirut/ Jerusalem - A former Israeli defense official has said the Israeli military used cluster bombs for two weeks during the 2006 offensive on Lebanon without telling the Israeli government.

Lebanon MP calls for scrapping the 1991 treaty with Syria

21.07.2008 00:32    yalibnan.com
Beirut- Lebanon's MP Akram Chehayyeb called for demarcation of borders with Syria before establishing diplomatic relations and embassies in both capitals and also called for scrapping the Lebanese Syrian Treaty of Brotherhood, Cooperation, and Coordination

US secretly removes 550 tons of uranium from Iraq

21.07.2008 00:31    yalibnan.com
Beirut / Baghdad - The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program , a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium , reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad

Sfeir: Hezbollah's force undermines Lebanon's sovereignty

21.07.2008 00:31    yalibnan.com
Beirut / Sidney- Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir , who is currently visiting Australia criticized parties that are "stronger than the state."

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