Tue Mar 13, 3:43 PM

 Members of an Al-Qaeda-linked Palestinian splinter group have admitted carrying out last month's deadly Lebanon bus bombings

Monday, March 12, 2007

Speaker Nabih Berri and parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri, who are preparing for a third round of talks, agreed over the weekend to "fast and serious" consultations to find a solution to Lebanon's enduring political crisis. Meanwhile, Hizbullah officials on Sunday renewed their vow that the opposition would step up its campaign against the government if a "compromise" solution was not reached soon.

"We could have reached a solution a while back if it wasn't for hampering efforts by the US, France and some officials in the March 14 camp," Hizbullah MP Hussein Hajj Hassan said during a commemoration of the passing of 40 days of mourning for Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad.

Thu Mar 8, 2007 6:18pm ET

Two rival Lebanese leaders held late-night talks on Thursday, the first such meeting in four months, to discuss ways to end a political crisis that has raised fears of a civil war.

Anti-Syrian majority leader Saad al-Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, met Shi'ite Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a key opposition leader, at Berri's headquarters amid heavy security