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Former US President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to visit Lebanon in December, the Lebanese Central News Agency (CNA) said on Wednesday.
CNA reported hat Carter was scheduled to meet with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, House Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Fouad Seniora on a “private visit.”
Carter is also to meet with […]
Monday, September 01, 2008
Report
Executive Summary
1. Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) called upon the Government of Lebanon to secure its borders and all entry points to prevent the entry into Lebanon without its consent of arms or related material.
2. At the invitation of the Security Council, and in close liaison with […]
Mahmoud Darwish, the renowned Palestinian poet, has died after open heart surgery at the Memorial Hermann medical centre in Texas. Ann Brimberry, Memorial Hermann’s spokeswoman, confirmed that Darwish died at 1.35pm (18:35 GMT).
Siham Daoud, a fellow poet and friend […]
Israel will transfer $23 million (72 million shekels) to the Gaza Strip to pay the salaries of Palestinian civil servants, according to Israeli sources. Matan Vilnai, the deputy defence minister, did not specify how the transfer would be carried out in his statement to public radio on Tuesday. “These funds will be transferred by the […]
DeBakey pioneered numerous cardiovascular procedures, including the coronary bypass and the artificial-heart transplant. In 1954, he devised a technique to repair arteries using a Dacron tube he made on his wife’s sewing machine. In 2006, he became the oldest survivor of the procedure he invented. (more…)
