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President General Michel Suleiman

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June 4, 2008

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Malek Fady el Khazen founder of khazen.org on behalf of himself and his direct family convey their happiness and congratulates his Excellency President Of …

Key Lebanon bloc threatens to quit cabinet line-up talks

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June 4, 2008

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BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanon’s ruling parliamentary bloc on Wednesday threatened to walk out of talks aimed at forming a national unity government, …

Lebanese – Syrians Relations

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June 4, 2008

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KUWAIT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his country will consider opening an embassy in Lebanon for the first time once its smaller neighbor forms a government able to foster good ties with Damascus. Assad said Syria had raised the issue in 2005, when Syrian troops left Lebanon after a 29-year sojourn, but decided against opening an embassy as ties with Lebanon deteriorated. "Our conditions were that there should be a national unity government firstly and that there be good ties with it.... Obviously, if there is a unity government that represents all the Lebanese parties then our ties with it will be good," he said in comments carried on Kuwait's state news agency KUNA. "When these conditions are provided for then we will exchange soon, God willing, embassies with Lebanon after studying the situation of the Syrian-Lebanese Supreme Commission." Ties between the two countries have so far been governed by a joint commission in what many Lebanese consider a reluctance on Syria's part to recognize their country's sovereignty.

(MENASSAT) -- Syrians are paying increasing attention to Lebanon

Lebanese soldiers kill man carrying grenade

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June 1, 2008

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SIDON, Lebanon (AFP) - Lebanese soldiers shot dead a man carrying a hand grenade outside the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh on Saturday, an army spokesman said. "The man was carrying a hand grenade and we are also investigating whether the belt he was wearing contained an explosives charge," the spokesman said, refusing to provide any further details. The man's body was still at the scene and soldiers prevented journalists and photographers from approaching it, the spokesman said.

Security forces told an AFP correspondent at the scene that they would carry out a controlled explosion involving the body. Eyewitnesses said the man was shot close to an army checkpoint in the Taameer Ein el-Helweh zone, which is controlled by the military, except for a southern part which is considered a bastion of the Islamist group Jund Al-Sham. It was not immediately clear where the man had come from. The incident came just hours after a Lebanese soldier was killed in a blast at an army intelligence post near the northern city of Tripoli and another explosive device was defused, a security official told AFP.