Beirut/Doha - Rival Lebanese leaders continued their talks Sunday in Doha for the third consecutive day amid differences over Hezbollah arms and the formation of the upcoming national unity government, but progress was made on a new election law.
According to a Lebanese delegate at the talks, the six-member committee - half composed of representatives of the Hezbollah-led opposition and half of representatives from the ruling Western-backed majority - has held three sessions already, and it was expected to complete its mission on Sunday.
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DOHA (AFP) — Rival Lebanese leaders pressed on with talks on Sunday to try to end a feud that pushed the nation towards all-out sectarian war,

DOHA, Qatar, May 18--Rival Lebanese factions meeting for top-level talks in Qatar to end the country's 18-month old political crisis, are trying to lay a framework for a new election law had already made progress on the second day of discussions.
Lebanese factions flew to Qatar on Friday in an attempt to forge a national unity government and agree to elect a president following the country's worst violence since the 1975-1990 civil war.
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By Agencies Lebanon's political leaders have agreed to form a committee to discuss the country's electoral law, as part of ongoing crisis talks in Qatar.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Feuding Lebanese factions traded accusations Sunday while meeting a second day in Qatar for talks in the country's 18-month political crisis.
In discussions between the government, which has U.S. support, and Hezbollah-led opposition in Doha, Hezbollah's chief negotiator, Mohammed Raad, accused the government of trying to "blackmail" the opposition by raising the subject of Hezbollah's weapons.
he was not authorized to talk to the media. He said almost no progress had been made and that the talks were "still at the beginning."

AP AP Photo XHJ101, XHJ102, XHJ108 By HUSSEIN DAKROUB Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Feuding Lebanese factions meeting in Qatar for high-level

By AP BEIRUT - Lebanon's US-backed ruling coalition challenged their Hezbollah-led rivals yesterday, demanding that top-level talks in Qatar on ending

Lebanon's rival political leaders are holding talks in Qatar aimed at ending the sectarian conflict which left at least 65 people dead in recent days.

Doha - Lebanese leaders agreed on Saturday to form a - member panel that will debate a new electoral law and the political standoff in the country during a meeting in the Qatari capital Doha.
The committee will focus on the issues of the electoral law and the government, since the Lebanese ruling majority and the opposition have agreed that Michel Suleiman, the army's commander-in-chief, will be elected the new president.
Shiite militant movement Hezbollah.

Lebanon's government and opposition leaders are meeting for talks brokered by the Arab League in the wake of the country's worst internal violence since the

DOHA (AFP) - Lebanon's squabbling political leaders were to meet in Qatar on Friday for talks brokered by the Arab League aimed at ending a long-running feud that drove the country to the brink of a new civil war.
After nearly a week of fighting that left 65 people dead and some 200 wounded, the US-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition agreed to a new national dialogue to elect a president and form a unity government.
the authority of the Lebanese state throughout the country," to refrain from using weapons to further political aims and to remove militants from the streets.

By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent - Analysis BEIRUT (Reuters) - Any deal among rival Lebanese leaders invited to Qatar for talks to defuse Lebanon's crisis will reflect the new power equation imposed by Hezbollah's military punishment of its U.S.-backed foes last week.
High-level Arab League mediators announced in Beirut on Thursday that pro-government factions and the Hezbollah-led opposition had agreed to meet in Doha on Friday to seek to break their country's political deadlock.
lecting a president, forming a national unity government and revising the electoral law -- issues at the heart of an 18-month-old political stalemate.