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Speaking during a political gathering in the southern village of Housh in the port city of Tyre, Musawi said the Future Movement-led March 14 parties were betting on the fall of the Assad regime in the hope of regaining power more than a year after...
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Musawi said at a political gathering in Tyre, south Lebanon. “A dialogue that aims to disarm the resistance is one that is needed by the Israelis and will not happen in Lebanon,” he added. The March 14 coalition politicians, primarily head of the Future...
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Fatfat from Saad Hariri’s parliamentary Future bloc said there was nothing new in Nasrallah’s speech, except insistence on keeping Hezbollah’s arms. “Sayyed Nasrallah appeared to be confused as a result of the [March 14 leaders’] speeches at the BIEL...
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Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Lebanese Shiite cleric Sayyed Ali Fadlallah highlighted during a telephone conversation the importance of calls to combat strife, a statement by Fadlallah’s media office said Friday. The two discussed general...
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Council. In 2010, Hezbollah-backed March 8 coalition ministers also boycotted national dialogue sessions over disputes on the subject of the U.N.-backed court. In another related dispute in early 2011, March 8 ministers resigned from the Cabinet headed...
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Voice of Lebanon Radio station. Hamadeh’s words echo former Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s remarks earlier this week calling on the resistance to hand over the four suspects, all members of Hezbollah, indicted in the assassination of statesman Rafik...
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The party has dismissed the U.N.-backed STL as “an American-Israeli” court, and has vowed not to turn over the four suspects indicted by the court, who are Hezbollah members. Hariri Tuesday called on Hezbollah to reconsider its strands on the tribunal. ...
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Shame. Burhan Ghalioun is out. Anyone who wants to become a President cannot have duel citizenship. As for the 10 year living in Syria condition, you need to remember how paranoid we are about foreign intervention. This paranoia is not exactly without...
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The Arab League agreed Sunday on its latest initiative to stop the bloodshed, calling for the UN to approve a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping force. But Syria has "categorically" rejected the proposal and Russia cast doubt on it. Lebanese opposition leader...
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Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri called on Hezbollah Tuesday to begin steps to surrender its arms to Lebanese authorities in order to relieve the Lebanese people of the danger of violence. He also vowed to prevent any Sunni-Shiite strife as a result of...
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For former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, it was an occasion to highlight his approach to the paramount national issues of the day. Hariri put forward an adamant no to sectarian civil strife, and a firm yes to dialogue about Hezbollah’s weapons. Speaking...
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Opposition: Who Is Running the War Against the Regime? For all it's strong talk, Lebanon's anti-Syrian alliance is a shadow of its former self, having been defeated by Hizballah in gun battles in Beirut in 2008, and ejected from the government by...
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Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged Hezbollah to surrender its weapons to the state and reconsider its opposition to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. “I call on Hezbollah to reconsider its stance regarding the international tribunal,” Hariri said,...
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Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri predicted Monday the collapse of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, saying this would give the Lebanese an opportunity to build their own state free of the pressure which Syria used to exert when it dominated...
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“As much as I feel present in each and every one of you, I feel the sadness of speaking from abroad while addressing my family, my friends and beloved ones in all of Lebanon. It is not easy from me at all to speak on this February 14th commemoration...
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"Daniel Bellemare, the chief prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, informed me on his recent visit to Beirut that he would submit a new revised indictment before leaving office end of February," Mikati told AFP. He added that Bellemare...
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“The Syrian regime will inevitably fall,” he said, adding, “we are living a moment of historic transition from one era to another.” Saad Hariri’s government was toppled in January last year when the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement and its allies quit...
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Aoun was apparently responding to Siniora who accused the government in an interview with An-Nahar newspaper of spreading “misery and failure” in the country. Aoun Monday hit back at Siniora, who is the head of the parliamentary Future bloc of former...
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Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Monday nothing could stop the course of the court probing the assassination of his father, statesman Rafik Hariri. “They know, all the Lebanese people know that the court’s work will go on,” the Future Movement...
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Saad ed Deen Rafiq al-Hariri (Arabic: سعد الدين رفيق الحريري; born 18 April 1970) is the current Prime Minister of Lebanon. He is the second son of Rafiq Hariri, the assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister. After his father's death, he inherited the helm of the Movement of the Future, an essentially Sunni movement that was created and led... Full Article
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Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri arrives on October 24, 2011 at a mourning ceremony held by the Saudi royal family at the Riyadh air base upon the arrival of the body of the desert kingdom's late Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who passed away last week in the United States.
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French President Jacques Chirac (R) welcomes Lebanese member of Parliament Saad Hariri, the son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, 21 July 2006. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, who is in Beyrouth today warned that the escalating...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) chats with outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on April 4, 2011 before their talks in Ankara.
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Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri unveils a statue of his father, slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, during a ceremony in front of the Government House in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 31, 2011.
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Lebanese outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri delivers a speech before unveiling a statue of his father, ex-premier Rafiq Hariri whose 2005 assassination sparked the uprising that led to the departure of the Syrians, in Beirut on 31 March 2011.
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Outgoing Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri delivers a speech as part of a mass rally gathering ten of thousands Lebanese opposition supporters to demand Hezbollah to be disarmed and to mark the sixth anniversary of a popular uprising against Syrian troops in the country.
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BEIRUT, LEBANON - MARCH 13: A woman holds a poster of outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri during a demonstration on March 13, 2011 in Beirut, Lebanon. Tens of thousands of Lebanese opposition supporters demanded Hezbollah be disarmed as they rallied to mark the sixth...
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Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks during a rally marking the sixth anniversary of the assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as he stands in front of the Martyrs' statue where a giant poster of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is seen attached,...
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Outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati attend the funeral of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. Prince Sultan died abroad Saturday...
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