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Lebanon's Maronites Celebrate St. Maroun in Beirut and Brad
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Lebanon's Maronites celebrated the 1600th anniversary of St. Maroun's death on Tuesday in two separate masses held in Beirut's Saint George church and in Brad in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir held the mass at Saint George in downtown Beirut. The mass was attended by President Michel Sleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and several cabinet ministers, MPs and politicians. Sfeir said ...
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Saudi Gov't Urges International Response to Israeli Threats
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The Saudi government on Monday urged the international community "for taking a firm stance on the issue of Israeli threats against Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinians." During a session headed by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi government also called for "intensifying efforts to stop the inhumane Israeli practices against the Palestinian people and for halting arbitrary arrests, aerial strikes on the Gaza Strip, desecrating ...
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Netanyahu: Impose Crippling Sanctions on Iran Now
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On a day Iran is making another step in its nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling on the international community to act quickly. "Iran is pushing forwards with its nuclear arming race while slighting the wishes of the international community which needs to protect peace and impose sanctions on Iran. Not partial and moderate sanctions. The duty is to impose paralyzing sanctions on Iran now," Netanyahu said Tuesday ...
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UN Says Needs 100 mln dlrs in 2010 for Palestinian Refugees
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The cash-strapped UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday it needs at least 100 million dollars this year to continue its services for millions of refugees in the Middle East. "The fundings are insufficient to meet our needs to continue our services," UNRWA Commissioner General Filippo Grandi, who was appointed in January, told reporters in Amman. "So in addition to what donors have told us... we need approximately 50 million ...
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Maliki: Iraq Election Row to Be Resolved before Campaign Starts
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday he has received assurances that judges will resolve a simmering row over who can stand in Iraq's general election before official campaigning starts on February 12. Around 100 lawmakers had gathered earlier at parliament for an emergency session to debate a contentious decision to allow hundreds of candidates to stand in the vote. The meeting was triggered by Maliki after he branded as "illegal" a ...
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Mottaki: Israel is a Crazy Country Run by Crazy People
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manchour Mottaki declared Monday that Israel was now weaker than ever before, adding that it was a "crazy country run by crazy people." Mottaki told the Al-Jazeera news agency that Israel was in no position to embark on another military conflict, due to its internal political crisis and its losses over recent years in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. "Therefore, we must prepare for the chance that Israel will do ...
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Two NATO Occupation Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Bombing
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Two soldiers with NATO-led occupation forces fighting Taliban-led militants were killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Monday. "Two ISAF service members died following an IED (improvised explosive device) strike in southern Afghanistan yesterday (Sunday)," NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. The latest deaths took to 61 the number of the foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the start ...
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Gates Says New Iran Sanctions Move Likely 'Within Weeks'
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is hoping for a new UN resolution on sanctions against Iran in "a matter of weeks," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said on Tuesday. Gates "thinks this is a matter of weeks, not months," Morrell told reporters as the defense secretary prepared to leave Paris following a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "He thinks that we need it and that we can do it in that time," Morrell added. "In all ...
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South American Leaders Meet to Help Haiti
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Haitian President Rene Preval will be the main guest Tuesday at a gathering of South American presidents meeting to discuss aid to his earthquake-devastated Caribbean country. Preval, who left Port-au-Prince, late Monday, will share the podium at the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) meeting with two regional rivals: Colombia's pro-Washington president Alvaro Uribe, and leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. At the summit of the ...
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Sri Lanka's Presidential Loser Faces Court Martial
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Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka is to be court-martialed, officials said Tuesday, a day after he was hauled from his office by armed troops. Hours before his arrest, Fonseka told reporters he would face any international probe into alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan troops last year in the final stages of the conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels. He had been meeting Sri Lankan Muslim Congress ...
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British PM to Face Iraq Inquiry in Early March
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will appear before the public inquiry into the Iraq war in early March, a spokesman for the probe said on Tuesday. Brown was finance minister at the time of the 2003 US-led invasion, and is being called to give his account of the conflict several weeks after then Prime Minister Tony Blair gave his long-awaited evidence on January 29. Inquiry chairman John Chilcot initially said he would not call ...
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UN Calls for Aid Pledges for Displaced Pakistanis
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The United Nations led an appeal Tuesday for millions of dollars to feed and assist more than one million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan's northwest and in border areas with Afghanistan. The appeal focuses on funds needed to implement the Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP) 2010, which the United Nations, international and local aid groups have drawn up with the cash-strapped Pakistan government. "The PHRP requires ...
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