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...Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, 68, a former Lebanese general widely viewed as a Syrian puppet. Assad believed that Hariri was behind U.N. Resolution 1559, a measure sponsored last year by the U.S. and France demanding that Syria withdraw its remaining 14,000 troops from Lebanon. A well-placed Western diplomat says Hariri was the "main mover and shaker, the one who managed to forge the alliance between the U.S. and France that was behind the resolution. And the Syrians knew it." Perhaps counting on Hariri's history of placating Syria, Assad summoned Hariri to Damascus to send a message: Back...
...Guimet show acknowledges the back-and-forth influences between peninsular Korea and island Japan, especially after the fall of China's Ming dynasty in 1644. But Japanese screens were mainly intended to remain stationary, while those in Korea were designed to be portable. As the French journalist-diplomat Georges Ducrocq wrote 100 years ago, "When they cannot enjoy the countryside, the Koreans have their screens to provide them with the illusion of it." And though people in 21st century Paris can't go back to the kingdom of Choson, they have the Guimet exhibition to gain an enchanting sense...
...Security Council, is completing a long-term $70 billion oil-and-gas deal with the Iranian regime. Would China sacrifice its oil needs to support sanctions? "This, potentially, could be the first time that China's oil interests run head on into our strategic interests," says a U.S. diplomat. In the global oil patch of the 21st century, it probably won't be the last. -With reporting by Nahid Siamdoust/ Tehran and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...that a total of 169 people died in the confrontation - but not one civilian was killed by government forces, according to Prosecutor General Rashid Kadyrov. Andijan is still sealed off from the outside world, though, and hundreds of refugees have fled over the border into Kyrgyzstan. A group of diplomats and journalists was allowed to make a brief, tightly controlled visit last week, but they saw little. "There are still lots of troops on the streets," says Abdukadir Sattarov, an Andijan resident. Andijan could be a turning point in the resistance to Karimov's rule. Prominent local businessmen took...
...That gloom hasn't yet filtered down to ordinary South Koreans. And the startling disconnect between official views of the danger that Kim Jong Il's despotic government poses to the world and the sanguine attitudes of South Korean citizens is making it desperately hard for diplomats from Washington and Seoul to forge a common strategy for defusing the crisis. After years of regarding North Koreans as bitter enemies, the prosperous, democratic South now holds a benign view of the hunger-wracked police state. To southerners, North Koreans may be brothers from another planet (as the International Crisis Group...