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* Lebanon: Arab League urges 'immediate' election of Sleiman

Arab League foreign ministers meeting here have called for the "immediate" election of the consensus candidate for the Lebanese presidency Michel Sleiman, the organisation's secretary general said Saturday.

 

* More opposition activists held in Syria

Two opposition activists have been arrested in Syria in the past 48 hours, a human rights group said in a statement on Friday, taking to nine the number detained in the past month.

 

* Syria: Jordanian prisoners to begin hunger strike

Several hundred Jordanians detained in Syrian prisons are planning to begin a hunger strike on Saturday to protest against their detention.

 

* Tishrin: Syria Willing to Facilitate End to Lebanon Crisis Away from Bush Pressures

The Syrian state-run Tishrin newspaper on Saturday said Damascus was "willing" to facilitate an end to to the ongoing Lebanon crisis without pressures, particularly from U.S. President George Bush's administration "which only works to serve Israel's interests."

 

* Bush May Add Lebanon, Iraq To Stops on Trip

President Bush takes off Tuesday on a much-anticipated trip to Israel, the Persian Gulf states and Egypt.

Or is it Lebanon and Iraq?

 

* Syria, Iran Discuss Lebanon

* UN troops in Lebanon ready to fight terror: Spanish PM

* Turkey seeks to set up exclusive investment zone in Syria

* Lebanon's majority urges Arab pressure on Syria

* Larijani in Syria Damascus

* Turkey, Syria to further cooperation in transportation

* Hezbollah sets resolution terms

* Lebanese Opposition Threatens to Resort to Civil Disobedience

* Siniora : Partership seekers seek solutions not set conditions

* Turkey - Syria Business Meeting Ends

* French mediation with Syria still on: Nasrallah

* Nasrallah: no opposition veto, no presidential election

* Iran keeps economic ties with Syria

* Muhibbah wins contract in Syria

* Syria breaks off contacts with France over Lebanon: minister

* Syria denies talks with U.S. lawmaker on political detainees

* French MP: Syria has 10 to 15 active terrorist cells in Lebanon

 


Arab & World


* Israel presses raid into northern West Bank city

* Hamas ready for unconditional talks with Abbas: Meshaal

* Olmert says 'hand of God' favours Israel in peace talks

* Bush calls on Israel to dismantle wildcat settlements

* Bush has no plans for joint Abbas, Olmert meeting: White House

* Israel reports new bird flu outbreak in poultry

* Five killed in new Israeli strikes on Gaza

* Israeli shell kills Hamas fighter in Gaza: Palestinians

* Gaza clashes kill seven Palestinians at end of a bloody year

* Tens of thousands gather for Hamas anniversary in Gaza

* US will offer Palestinians 500 million dollars: source

* Two plead guilty over California terror plot: prosecutor

* Israeli-Palestinian talks to resume December 23: Abbas

* Seven Danes accused of selling 'terror' T-shirts acquitted: court

* United condemnation follows murder of Lebanese general

 

 

Comment

  

* Syria's Diplomatic Isolation Grows

Nicholas Blanford


* Specter's 17th Visit To Syria Again Produces Nothing

Barry Rubin


* Pakistan and Lebanon, the same struggle

Hiram Chodosh & Chibli Mallat


* Sarkozy And The Syrian Regime

Randa Takieddine


* Damascus may have just lost the Arabs

Michael Young


* The End of an Arab Year: A Country without a President and a Nation without an Impact

Mohammed Salah


* Who's Responsible for the International "Retreat" in Support for Lebanon's Path of Independence?

Raghida Dergham


 

Latest Releases

* ALC STATEMENT ON THE RECENT VISIT TO SYRIA BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (American Lebanese Coalition)

* The Syrian Authorities’ Gift at the Final Day of 2007: Torture leading to death & unfair sentences (The Syrian Human Rights Committee)

* Syria: End Repression of Human Rights Groups (Human Rights Watch)

* The one who should and will be soon trialed by the Syrian people is Syria’s dictator Bachar al-Assad (Press Office of Mr. Abdel Halim Khaddam)

* EU Presidency Statement concerning the travel ban on Mr Riad Seif (EU Presidency)

 

 


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