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...Beirut Did Hizballah Kill Hariri? Lebanese Shi'ite paramilitary group Hizballah is believed to have orchestrated the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (pictured), according to a report in the German magazine Der Spiegel. The report, which cites an unnamed source linked to the U.N. tribunal investigating the assassination, was published two weeks before Lebanon's parliamentary elections, in which Hizballah and its allies will face off against a Western-backed coalition. Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah has dismissed the allegations as an "American-Israeli scheme" to incite political turmoil and sabotage the election...
...claiming a spot under the ideological umbrella of Iran's ayatollah, Nasrallah entered Hizballah into Lebanon's general election that year; the group won eight parliamentary seats, solidifying its legitimacy. Meanwhile, the group continued its steady stream of attacks against Israeli troops in southern Lebanon until Barak, then Prime Minister, ordered their withdrawal in 2000 - allowing Hizballah to proclaim the achievement of their 18-year mission...
...that voters in country after country across the continent so often choose to thump national politicians over distinctly domestic issues. As the results of Thursday's Europe-wide poll trickled in late Sunday, nowhere was that more evident than Britain. Rounding off an abysmal week for Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister's Labour Party slumped to third in the Euro vote with just 15.7% of the vote, far behind the opposition Conservatives and trumped even by the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), a fringe group whose singular focus is to get Britain to quit the E.U. altogether. Worse still...
...between Brown and Labour MPs. Despite the rumpus, though, there are reasons Brown - only two years into his premiership - could yet cling on. Rebel MPs have so far shown little sign of uniting around a single replacement for Brown. Even if they manage to, choosing a second successive unelected Prime Minister would make an immediate general election almost inevitable. - Adam Smith / London
...that has dominated Italy's campaign season, was followed by a pack of paparazzi as she cast her first-ever vote in Naples on Sunday. Donning designer sunglasses and accompanied by her parents, Letizia presumably sided with Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition, though both she and the Italian Prime Minister have repeatedly denied anything "spicy, or more than spicy" (as the PM put it) to their mutual affinity...