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Israel's Labor Party leader Ehud Barak gestures, during a meeting of the party's central committee in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu reached a preliminary agreement Tuesday that would bring the centrist Labor Party into his coalition, an important step toward moderating the emerging government. Labor Party activists gathered Tuesday afternoon to vote on the deal, which calls on the government to pursue peace negotiations with the Palestinian
Defence   Hezbollah   Israel   Lebanon   Photos		  Daily Star Lebanon 
Barak: Israel will hold all of Lebanon responsible for any Hizbullah attack
Tue 9 Mar 2010
By Patrick Galey Daily Star staff Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - Powered by BEIRUT: Israel will not launch an assault on southern Lebanon but will retaliate indiscriminately should it be provoked,... (photo: AP / Dan Balilty)
Women look for discounted clothes in a shop in Hamra Street, Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008.
Beirut   Discrimination   Mideast   Photos   Women		  Daily Star Lebanon 
Lebanese women still face discrimination - study
Mon 8 Mar 2010
By Dalila Mahdawi Daily Star staff Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - Powered by BEIRUT: Women in Lebanon have made considerable strides toward gender equality in education and the workplace but continue to... (photo: AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil) / )
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, center, gestures upon his arrival at Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 8, 2010.  The New York Times  Mon 8 Mar 2010
Biden Arrives in Israel on Trip to Restart Peace Talks
JERUSALEM — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in Israel on Monday, culminating a two-month procession of high-ranking Americans seeking to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and... (photo: AP / Baz Ratner, Pool)
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   US
U.S. Army soldiers from B Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment stand guard over a man suspected of planting a roadside bomb after polls closed for the national election in Mosul, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 7, 2010.  The Independent  Mon 8 Mar 2010
Robert Fisk: Once again, a nation walks through fire to give the West its 'democracy'
In 2005 the Iraqis walked in their tens of thousands through the thunder of suicide bombers, and voted - the Shias on the instructions of their clerics, the Sunnis sulking in a boycott - to prove Iraq... (photo: AP / Maya Alleruzzo)
Democracy   Election   Iraq   Mideast   Photos
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Lebanese men place large posters with a picture of army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman on a municipality building, part of preparations to celebrate the new president at his home town Aamchit, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 24, 2008. Daily Star Lebanon Sun 7 Mar 2010
Sleiman urges reforms aimed at curbing sectarianism
By Nafez Kawas Daily Star correspondent Monday, March 08, 2010 - Powered by BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman stressed Sunday the need to promote several reforms starting... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Beirut   Parliament   Photos   President   Sectarianism
Lebanese majority leader lawmaker Saad Hariri speaks during a press conference. Daily Star Lebanon Sun 7 Mar 2010
Hariri meets Kuwaiti emir for talks on bilateral cooperation
By Nafez Kawas Monday, March 08, 2010 - Powered by BEIRUT: Premier Saad Hariri discussed Sunday regional and international developments with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah... (photo: AP / Grace Kassab)
Beirut   Cooperation   Hariri   Kuwait   Photos
Ismail Haniyeh inspecting the Rafah crossing opened Daily Star Lebanon Sun 7 Mar 2010
Hamas in Lebanon urges Arabs to correct 'mistakes'
By The Daily Star Monday, March 08, 2010 - Powered by BEIRUT: Hamas called on Arab leaders Sunday to reject the Arab Peace Initiative and take measures condemning Israeli... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Beirut   Hamas   Lebanon   Photos   Star
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 Daily Star Lebanon Sun 7 Mar 2010
Hariri the son, and premier
Monday, March 08, 2010 - Powered by Editorial The truly unique circumstances which led Prime Minister Saad Hariri to enter politics have meant that his political life has... (photo: AP / Ahmad Omar)
Hariri   Life   Photos   Politics   Search
Hezbollah fighters parade during the funeral procession of Hezbollah top commander Imad Mughniyeh, 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 Middle East Online Sun 7 Mar 2010
Hezbollah disarmament not for discussion
BEIRUT - A Lebanese minister said on Sunday that disarming Hezbollah was not "a subject for discussion," two days before Lebanon's national dialogue on defence strategy... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Beirut   Disarmament   Hezbollah   Photos   Weapons
Suveying down town in Bagdad m&c Sun 7 Mar 2010
Iraqis begin voting for parliament; car bomb kills 3 in Najaf
Baghdad - Iraqis headed to the polls amidst heavy security on Sunday morning to cast their votes in the second parliamentary election since the US overthrow of Saddam... (photo: Jamal Penjweny)
Elections   Iraq   Parliament   Photos   war


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Governor Umaru Yar'Adua, who is a leading presidential candidate, is seen after casting his vote at the venue of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) primary elections in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. Nigeria's ruling party was voting Saturday to choose its presidential candidate for April elections, with the governor of a northern state emerging a front-runner in a dozen-strong fie Hundreds protest to demand Nigeria leader appears Zeenews
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (waving), President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is shown with his delegation in the General Assembly Hall during the general debate of the Assembly's sixty- fourth session, 23 September, 2009. Ongoing Iran diplomacy needed China Daily
China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi speaks during a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during the National People's Congress, Sunday, March 7, 2010. China says Iran sanctions offer no cure Daily Star Lebanon
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi addresses the United Nations Security Council at the U.N. Headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007.(ss2) China wants more diplomacy before Iran sanctions DNA India
Nuclear Watch
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, listens to Iran's Defense Minister Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, right, looks on during a military parade in Tehran in Sept. 2007. Jafari, on Friday Nov. 23, 2007, warned that if the nation's enemies continued plotting against it, they would launch what he called "a tidal wave of resistance" Iran can deter attacks on nuclear sites: minister Khaleej Times
French president Nicolas Sarkozy gestures during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the chancellery in Berlin, on Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. The leaders of Germany and France are pushing for the Group of 20 summit in September to agree on action to control bankers' bonuses. Sarkozy urges global expansion of nuclear energy Wtop
IAEA Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei An outsider challenges Egypt’s ruling party Taipei Times
An unidentified woman stands in front of Khurais oil facilities, 60 miles southeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, June 23, 2008. Middle East oil demand to outpace world Daily Star Lebanon
Warfare
Poll: Obama More Popular Than Congress Poll: Obama More Popular Than Congress WPXI
Brasília - O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva durante cerimônia de assinatura de protocolo para contratação de obras de drenagem do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) . Iran sanctions could lead to war, Lula says The Siasat Daily
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain David Miliband holds a bilateral with Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, not shown, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2009, at the State Department in Washington. UK minister urges push for Afghan peace Khaleej Times
Religion
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks at a dinner reception in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010. Maliki leads in Iraqi poll count Asia Times
Iraq's Sunni vice president Tariq al-Hashemi gestures as he gives an interview to The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 26, 2007. Iraqi Sunnis vote, but grievances linger The Star
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of OIC Islamic Conference warns of war after 'sacrilege' of Al-Aqsa The Siasat Daily
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