BEIRUT (AFP) - Saad Hariri announced on Monday's sixth anniversary of his father's murder that he will lead Lebanon's new opposition against a government his pro-West camp says will be under Hezbollah command.
"Today, we are in opposition because of... our commitment to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and our belief in the need to protect the Lebanese from weapons," the outgoing premier [...]
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AFP) - The tribunal set up to try the killers of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri started a hearing Monday on how to define the crime of terrorism as listed in a draft indictment.
"Today's proceedings show that Lebanon, a proud founding member of the United Nations, is set for a course of judicial accountability through the rule of law," presiding judge Antonio [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon added his backing to the work of a UN tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, in a meeting with his son, the current premier.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed new support for the tribunal in a meeting with Prime Minister Saad Hariri in New York on Friday. Growing tensions in his country h [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Sunday told Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri that Tehran was prepared to help the Lebanese army, state television's website reported.
"We have stated on several occasions, and we say it again today, that we stand alongside the Lebanese army and are prepared to cooperate" with it, Vahidi said during a meeting with the visiting prem [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Iran on Saturday on a first official visit amid a tense political stand-off between his pro-Western camp and rival Iran-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah.
During his three-day visit, Hariri, accompanied by several ministers, will meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials, state media reported.
Iran's ambassador to [...]
THE HAGUE (AFP) - A Canadian report implicating Hezbollah in the assassination of Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri could endanger certain lives, the prosecutor of a UN-backed court into the 2005 killing said Tuesday.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired a documentary Monday citing unidentified sources saying UN investigators had evidence that "points overwhelmingly" to the involve [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah on Thursday warned that the Shiite group would "cut off the hand" of anyone who tried to arrest any of its partisans over the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.
"Whoever thinks the resistance could possibly accept any accusation against any of its jihadists or leaders is mistaken -- no matter the pressures and threats," Hassan Nasrallah said [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Thursday his group will "cut off the hand" of anyone who tries to arrest any of its partisans over the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.
"Whoever thinks the resistance could possibly accept any accusation against any of its jihadists or leaders is mistaken -- no matter the pressures and threats," Nasrallah said in a speec [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's cabinet was scheduled to hold a crucial meeting on Wednesday on a UN-backed tribunal on former premier Rafiq Hariri's murder, as political deadlock over the court threatens to bring down the government.
Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah wants a vote on its demand for an inquiry by the nation's highest court into people it claims are bogus witnesses who fed false info [...]
BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - A reconstruction of the 2005 blast that killed Lebanon's ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri was staged on Tuesday at a military camp in France, an international tribunal probing the killing said.
Investigators carried out a "controlled explosive experiment" at an air force camp in Captieux, near Bordeaux in southwestern France, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, base [...]
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