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News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 5 months ago
President Shimon Peres said, "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's announcement that a nuclear attack from Iran would be met with an appropriate response from the US, proves, once again, the damage that the Iranian President Ahmadinejad is causing...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 5 months ago
AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Lebanese Sunni Muslim pro-Western supporters celebrate after the polling stations closed, in the Sunni stronghold of Tarik Jadideh, in Beirut, Lebanon, late Sunday, June 7, 2009. Hezbollah and its allies appear to have failed...
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News Source: Ynet News
| 5 months ago
A surprise election victory by an anti-Syrian coalition in Lebanon against the Iranian-backed Hizbullah and its allies was officially confirmed on Monday. Results declared by Interior Minister Ziad Baroud showed Saad Hariri's pro-Western bloc had...
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News Source: Macleans
| 5 months ago
Final election results released by the Lebanese government show that pro-western factions have defeated Hezbollah and its allies in a tight race and will retain a majority in parliament...Iran and Syria - and risked pushing one of the region's most...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
The ruling coalition in Lebanon has won a majority in national elections, fending off Hezbollah and its allies in a tight race, according to an official tally released Monday. The count of Interior Minister Ziad Baroud, who read the returns from all...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
Lebanese voters have renewed the existing power balance in parliament, confounding Hezbollah and its Christian ally Michel Aoun, who had sought to overturn the fragile majority held by Saad al-Hariri's anti-Syrian bloc. Preliminary results suggested...
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News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 5 months ago
Speaker Nabih Berri praised the âpatriotic stancesâ exhibited by Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri and Democratic Gathering bloc leader MP Walid Jumblatt following the announcement of the election results in several districts on Sunday...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
Interior Minister Ziad Baroud confirmed that the coalition led by Saad Hariri had won 71 seats in the 128-member body, one more than four years ago. The bloc led by militant and political movement Hezbollah won 57 seats. Mr Baroud said voting passed...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
Michel Aoun, a former military chief and leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), which is allied to Hezbollah, conceded on Lebanon's OTV that his party's candidates had been defeated. The win by the March 14 coalition had been by no means...
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News Source: AKI
| 5 months ago
Lebanon's pro-western coalition has on Monday, declared victory in the country's parliamentary elections, defeating the Hezbollah-led alliance, called the March 8 coalition, Lebanese media said. The American-backed March 14 coalition, led by Saad...