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A Lebanese man sits under posters of Imam Moussa al-Sadr, upper right, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Shiite aligned with the opposition, upper left, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 16, 2008.

Leaders to meet with Hezbollah about unity deal
The Washington Times

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is to meet with Hezbollah in Qatar today. BEIRUT - Leaders of Lebanon's U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition went to Qatar yesterday for the highest-level talks since the country's political crisis began 18 months ago. The talks on forming a national unity government and electing a president...
photo: AP Photo / Nasser Nasser

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Single-parent
The Washington Times

As a product of a poverty-stricken single-parent home, I know first-hand about the negative...

Robert Fisk: So just where does the madness end?
The Independent

I am not sure what was the worse part of this week. Living in Lebanon? Or reading the...

People Get the Government They Deserve
All Africa

This is often quoted to explain why some governments are...

Gutierrez quells fears about U.S. beef

Workers process meat for packaging on the cutting table at Maverick Meats in Denver on Tuesday, March 25, 2008.

The Washington Times

South Korean protesters rally against U.S. beef imports in Seoul. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez said the U.S. would sell beef to South Korea that "we feed our children in the U.S." SEOUL - Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez yesterday...
photo: AP / David Zalubowski

Senate poised to take up sweeping global warming bill

Isla Reta, Talicud, Island Garden City of Samal

USA Today

Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Erin Kelly, Gannett News Service WASHINGTON — Landmark legislation to reduce global warming is set to spark an intense Senate debate in early June. While it is unlikely to become law...
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal

Qazi asks coalition to go for impeachment

People of Lahore, Pakistan dance in front of a huge portrait of Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf, Friday, Oct. 29, 1999. Musharraf, Pakistan´s ruling army general who dismissed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, refused, Friday, to give a visiting Commonwealth del

Dawn

By Our Staff Reporter LAHORE, May 16: Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmad has urged the PPP and the PML-N to go for impeachment of Pervez Musharraf as both the parties have the required strength in parliament. At a press conference after a meeting...
photo: AP Photo/K.M. Choudary

Obama criticizes McCain for 'naive' foreign policy

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama

The News Tribune

WATERTOWN, S.D. -- Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential...
photo: AP / Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg

Suit says rights violated for border fence

President George W. Bush stands with U.S.Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff during the swearing-in ceremony of W. Ralph Basham, right, as the new Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, (gm1)

The Washington Times

WASHINGTON (AP) - Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit today alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican...
photo: White House/Eric Draper

Asian stocks close mostly higher

A passer-by walks past an electronic stock board in downtown Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. Japanese stocks were higher at midday Tuesday on a broad-based rally in the wake of gains on Wall Street overnight. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 66.71 poi

Dawn

HONG KONG, May 16: Asian stocks closed mostly higher on Friday as official figures showed robust economic growth in Japan and Hong Kong despite the fallout from the global financial crisis. Japans economy, the worlds second biggest, grew at a...
photo: AP /Itsuo Inouye

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