But in announcing the settlement Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of N.

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Lebanon balked at another French idea about strengthening an existing U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon called UNIFIL. France proposed UNIFIL be given the given the power and authority to contain and disarm Hezbollah.

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And yesterday, an Israeli airstrike killed four U.N. observers at an outpost in southern Lebanon.

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Michael Eisenstat, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says a stabilization force will have to look much different from the current U.N. force, which has been in southern Lebanon for the past 28 years.

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But if the military tide were to turn against the SPLA-N there would be fierce popular pressure on the southern government to help it wholeheartedly.

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And finally our last headline, the U.N. announced yesterday that the regional government of Southern Sudan is going to try to mediate between rebel groups in Darfur.

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's explicit recognition that Israel, by withdrawing from southern Lebanon in 2000, fully implemented U.N.

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Rogers has his hands full fending off environmentalists like Stephen A. Smith of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, an Asheville, N.

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And so the other major provision in this resolution is really to enlarge and strengthen a contingent of U.N. troops known as UNIFIL. And they're already in southern Lebanon, a small contingent, about 2, 000 right now.

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The best is in the Sahara desert, particularly in Niger's Air mountains, in the Tibesti mountains of northern Chad and southern Libya, and in south-east Algeria's Tassili n'Ajjer range.

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