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THE MAKING OF A NATION - After the Civil War: Searching for the Man Who Shot Lincoln By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, June 16, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Spe
Perfect Dark Zero looks set to be an Xbox 360 hit With the release in the UK of the Microsoft Xbox 360, the first shot has been fired in the long-awaited war between third generation games consoles . Gamers all over the country queued overnight for
Ziad Doueiri's film The Insult has been nominated to receive the Academy Award for best foreign language film. The film explores the cultural, religious and political divides that have existed in Lebanon since 1948. The story is rooted in a dispute b
Safe from the violence in Syria, Hussein Hassan now fears his children face another threat the icy water that floods their shelter in Lebanon. Hassan and his 11-member family fled conflict near their village near Deir ez-Zour two months ago. They are
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 24 November 2007 Lebanon's outgoing president, Emile Lahoud, has asked the army to take charge of security in the country, after members of parliament again failed to elect a successor, shortly before he left office at midni
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 17 December 2007 Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed a ninth time, as top political leaders again failed to reach a political deal that the Hezbollah-led opposition is demanding before a vote can take place. T
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday said Defense(防卫,保护) officials are closely watching protests that have flared up in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon, as Pentagon hosts senior Egyptian military leaders for talks
By Challiss McDonough Cairo, Egypt 26 March 2008 Egypt says it is sending a junior minister to the Arab League summit scheduled for Damascus this weekend. Lebanon is boycotting the meeting, and Saudi Arabia will also send a low-level delegation. The
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 25 September 2007 Lebanon's parliament has failed to attain the required two-thirds quorum to elect the country's next president, forcing a postponement of the electoral session to October 23. Edward Yeranian reports for the
By Challiss McDonough Beiruit 24 May 2008 The Lebanese parliament is scheduled to elect a president on Sunday, ending an extended period of political turmoil that erupted earlier this month into violent clashes between Lebanon's U.S.-backed governmen
The United States is cautioning Syria against new intervention in Lebanon following a terrorist attack in Damascus late last month that Syria has blamed on Lebanon-based militants. U.S. officials say they have been monitoring Syrian military activit
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 30 October 2007 The leader of Lebanon's anti-Syrian ruling coalition says he has information about a plot to kill him. He and other anti-Syrian politicians have been living under tight security for several years amid a str
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 14 December 2007 Lebanon's feuding political leaders joined in Friday's funeral of Brigadier General Francois al Hajj, honoring the late army officer who was killed in a car-bomb on the outskirts of Beirut Wednesday. Hajj is
The War Is Not Over Walters Kazha Ta na na na... na na... Na na na... na na... I slowly walk into the night around To see how dreams of people die They gently fall from windows all around And crash against the ground like glass And I'm so sorry I'm s
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 19 September 2007 A powerful car bomb, targeting a pro-government Christian member of parliament, exploded in an east Beirut suburb, killing the legislator and six other people and wounding some20 others. Edward Yeranian rep
Israel and the United Nations are set to continue talks in the coming weeks on the fate of Ghajar, a village on the Lebanon-Israel border. The 2,000 residents of Ghajar are Alawites and identify culturally with Syria which the village was a part of u
TRIPOLI, March 20 (Xinhua) -- War clouds are gathering over here as Western forces have started launched air strikes against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces after a no-fly zone is imposed on Libya. At around 02:30 a.m. local time (00:30 GMT) o
By Challiss McDonough Beirut 07 December 2007 Lebanon's parliament is scheduled to meet Friday to vote on the country's next president, but virtually nobody believes the vote will actually take place. It is likely to be postponed for a seventh time,
The British head of the U.N. Mine Action Program in southern Lebanon, Christopher Clark, and his 990-member team of mine clearers will receive the 2008 Nansen Refugee Award. The U.N. refugee agency says the prize recipients are being honored for the
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic plans to boycott a scheduled court appearance Monday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. A lawyer for Mladic said Sunday that the former Bosnian Serb military commander is refusing to appear beca