Friday, November 23, 2007

Lebanon’s State of Emergency Becomes Official

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 23 — The departing Lebanese president, Émile Lahoud, asked the military to take charge of the nation’s security on Friday, a few hours after the speaker of the Parliament prolonged the country’s political crisis by postponing for a week a vote to choose a new president.

read more | digg story

No comments:

Twitter Updates

Search This Blog

Total Pageviews