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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki leaves the Turkish Foreign Ministry after talks with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 18, 2008. Mottaki said Friday that forthcoming nuclear talks in Geneva and the participation of a U. S. diplomat for first time look positive and he expects prog
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 Daily Star Lebanon 
Iranian MP touts cooperation in Sadr investigation
| Compiled by Daily Star staff | Monday, September 08, 2008 | Iranian MP Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moqaddam said on Saturday that Iran and Lebanon will jointly pursue the disappearance of Imam Musa Sadr. | M... (photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilic)
Hezbollah militants stand at attention during a memorial service for Hezbollah's recently assassinated top commander Imad Mughniyeh in his home village of Tair Debba, south Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008
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 The Australian 
Hezbollah set for revenge
| IMAD Mugniyeh was blown up in February on a quiet street in central Damascus, three floors below the modest flat from which he had directed Hezbollah's plots and war operations over the past decade.... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill)
 Doris Lessing, British writer, at lit.cologne, Cologne literature festival 2006, Germany ( fa0 ) wnhires  Gulf News 
Lessing's books to be translated into Arabic
| Dubai: The Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation has acquired exclusive rights for the translation of three books by Doris Lessing, acclaimed British novelist and the winner of the 2007 Noble Pr... (photo: GFDL file)
Books   Culture   Dubai   Photos   Society  
Sunni leader Saad Hariri and leader of the parliamentary majority speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Speaking for the first time since he was besieged in his residence in Beirut's Muslim sector protected by Lebanese troops, Hariri said he supports canceling the Cabinet decisions that sparked clashes in the country "to save Lebanon  Middle East Online 
Hariri: Syria ‘exporting terrorism’ to Lebanon
BEIRUT - Anti-Syria parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri has accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of trying to use unrest in north Lebanon to engineer a return to military control of the coun... (photo: AP / Ahmad Omar)
Lebanon   Photos   Politics   Syria   Terrorism  
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Israelis hold banners of captured Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser,right, and Eldad Regev outside the cabinet meeting in the Israeli Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem Sunday, June 29, 2008. The Independent
Robert Fisk: It's never good to swap people for bodies
| Al-Jazeera - much praised by the now-dying US administration until it started reporting the truth about the American occupation of Iraq (at which point, you may recall,... (photo: AP / Dan Balilty)
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 Lebanon´s Christian leader Michel Aoun speaks during a press conference in his house in the outskirts of Beirut, Monday, June 20, 2005, a day after the end of Lebanon´s parliamentary elections. Aoun, who broke with the anti-Syrian alliance to Daily Star Lebanon
Aoun comes under fire for remarks on newspaper headline
| March 14 coalition accuses fpm chief of 'threatening journalists | By Dalila Mahdawi | Daily Star staff | Saturday, September 06, 2008 | BEIRUT: Charged remarks continu... (photo: AP Photo/Marwan Assaf)
Coalition   Defence   Hezbollah   Lebanon   Photos  
Syrian children carry Syrian flags and posters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and posters of General Youssef Azmeh, center rear, the Syrian hero of the Maysaloun battle that Syria had fought against the French occupation in 1920, in Maysaloun, one of Damascus suburbs, Thursday April 17, 2008. Syria which became independent in 1946 marks its independence on Thurs Daily Star Lebanon
Assad is sending all of the wrong messages to the Lebanese
| By The Daily Star | Saturday, September 06, 2008 | Editorial | President Bashar Assad's comments on the security situation in the northern city of Tripoli have drawn a ... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi)
Defence   Lebanon   Photos   Politics   Syria  
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks to supporters during a rally in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, Friday, June 10, 2005. Nasrallah urged people to go out and vote in the eastern Bekaa Valley Sunday saying that "we protect the resistance with the vote in order for it to protect us with blood". Lebanon will hold on Sunday June 12 the third phase of its parliamentary election. (js1) The Times of India
Hezbollah will never lay down arms: Nasrallah
| 5 Sep 2008, 1214 hrs IST,IANS             BEIRUT: The leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has said hi... (photo: AP / Darko Bandic)
Arms   Beirut   Hezbollah   Nasrallah   Photos  
Kashmiri Muslims prays during a march to the Eidgah in Srinagar August 22, 2008. Thousands Gulf News
Who speaks for Islam: Part I
| What do the world's one billion Muslims really think? What does the silent majority of Muslims want for their lives, and in their politics? Why are the aspirations of t... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
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Sunni leader Saad Hariri and leader of the parliamentary majority speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Speaking for the first time since he was besieged in his residence in Beirut's Muslim sector protected by Lebanese troops, Hariri said he supports canceling the Cabinet decisions that sparked clashes in the country "to save Lebanon
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki leaves the Turkish Foreign Ministry after talks with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 18, 2008. Mottaki said Friday that forthcoming nuclear talks in Geneva and the participation of a U. S. diplomat for first time look positive and he expects prog
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 ** FILE ** Zahi Hawass, general secretary of the Superior Council of Antiquities of the Egyptian government, poses in front of Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, in this March 3, 2007 file photo. Hawass told The Associated Press in an interview that if persuasion do
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- Qatar heroes take the game to Uzbekistan
 About hundred and fifty Qatari traditional dhows sailing near the Doha Sheraton Hotel at Doha, Corniche in a sea parade before the opening ceremony of the Doha Cultural Festival (DCF) in Qatar on Tuesday, March 22 2005. An unknown group has claimed respo
Qatar makes early headway in Asia
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Pakistani President elect Asif Ali Zardari, left, head of the ruling Pakistan People's Party and widower of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is congratulated by party members during a celebration dinner at the Prime Minister residence in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.
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- Ephemeral art takes root in the ruins above Beirut
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- Tour guides host hike to promote Chouf Nature Reserve
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Mourners carry posters with pictures of Hezbollah top commander Imad Mughniyeh, during his funeral procession in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. Hezbollah's chief on Thursday vowed to retaliate against Israeli targets abroad after accusing Israel of taking the fight beyond Lebanese borders by assassinating militant commander Imad Mughniyeh in Syria.
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- Syria accused of plotting return to power in Lebanon
- 'Assad aiming for military control of Lebanon'
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- Hariri: Syria ‘exporting terrorism’ to Lebanon
Mourners carry posters with pictures of Hezbollah top commander Imad Mughniyeh, during his funeral procession in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. Hezbollah's chief on Thursday vowed to retaliate against Israeli targets abroad after accusing Israel of taking the fight beyond Lebanese borders by assassinating militant commander Imad Mughniyeh in Syria.
Slain Hezbollah warlord an enigma
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