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...agreement broadly gives Hizballah what it wants: legitimacy as an armed state-within-a-state. The opposition will now have enough ministers in the Lebanese cabinet to veto any major decisions, effectively ending any attempt to move against Hizballah's weapons. It also calls for parliament to elect a consensus candidate, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman, to the country's presidency, which has been vacant for months. The government had been hoping to elect one of its own, since it controls a majority in parliament...
...from Spain. Napoleon's brother and brother-in-law landed in their royal vestments too. And now, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the exquisitely attired and democratically elected incarnation of modern Italian royalty swept into this troubled coastal city, bringing his can-do Milanese attitude and a small army of cabinet ministers. But these days, conquering Naples is most of all a matter of picking up the garbage...
...month after his impressive election victory, Berlusconi on Wednesday made good on an unusual campaign promise by holding his new government's first cabinet meeting in the heart of this troubled city of one million. The center-right leader's appearance is a nod to the entrenched social ills that afflict Naples - most notably a trash-collection emergency that has left rubbish heaps piling up on sidewalks. Naples' litany of urban blights have made life increasingly unpleasant for locals, and tarnished the international image of both the city and the entire nation...
...cabinet meeting produced a series of measures to confront the trash emergency, including assigning the army to guard landfills, granting extraordinary powers to Italy's Civil Protection chief to confront the problem, and turning over trash-related investigations to anti-mafia prosecutors...
Another Berlusconi campaign promise, to crack down on illegal immigration, was also on the cabinet's agenda Wednesday. The government put forward a controversial bill to make it a crime to be an undocumented foreigner, as well as the introduction of measures aimed at stopping the Roma, or gypsy, population, from living in camps on the outskirts of Italian cities...