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Livni hints at renewed conflict if Hizbullah fails to disarm
BEIRUT: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has warned of a new conflict with Lebanon if Hizbullah does not disarm. Tensions between Israel and Lebanon have remained at a fever pitch since Israel launched a 34-day war on this country in the summer of 2006 after Hizbullah took two Israeli soldiers prisoner. A cessation of hostilities was put in place by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which called, among other things, for the prohibition of armed groups in South Lebanon outside of official national institutions and UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL, the disarmament of Hizbullah and for Israel to respect the territorial integrity of Lebanon.
However, Hizbullah has retained its weapons and Israel routinely violates Lebanese airspace. The Jewish state also continues to occupy the Lebanese side of the border village of Ghajar and the Shebaa Farms, which Lebanon claims as its own. Israel and the UN, meanwhile, have said that the Farms are Syrian.
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The Pakistani Army has been given orders to retaliate against any unilateral strike by the Afghanistan-based US troops inside the country.
Army Spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the orders in a brief interview with Geo News on late Thursday night.
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David Miliband has allegedly come in for a rather undiplomatic tongue-lashing from his Russian counterpart.
The Foreign Secretary was apparently given a furious dressing down by Sergei Lavrov over the telephone.
Mr Miliband’s criticism of Russia’s recent incursion into Georgia is believed
PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa - A South African judge ruled Friday that prosecutors were wrong to charge ANC President Jacob Zuma with corruption, effectively clearing way for the 66-year-old former freedom fighter to become the country’s next president.
Judge Chris Nicholson’s ruling
Thailand’s political turmoil deepened Friday when the ruling coalition failed to turn up to parliament to reelect leader Samak Sundaravej as prime minister.
Lawmakers from the six-party coalition did not attend an emergency session of parliament called to choose a prime minister, three days after a court stripped Samak of power for accepting payments for hosting
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