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Israel said the raid was launched to stop arms-smuggling from Iran and Syria to the militant Shiite Muslim fighters, while Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Saniora called the operation a "flagrant violation" of the UN truce. An Israeli officer was killed during the raid and two soldiers were wounded, one seriously.
If the Syrians and Iran continue to arm Hezbollah in violation of the resolution, Israel is entitled to act to defend the principle of the arms embargo," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
The Israeli military also said the raid was launched "to prevent and interfere with terror activity against Israel, especially the smuggling of arms from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah.
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... to comply with the American trade embargo led to Canada enacting the Foreign Extraterritoria...
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..., together with their family members; an embargo on exports of luxury goods to the DPRK; an embargo...
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The defeatist attitude portrayed in this editorial is unbelievable in today's world of crowded emergency rooms and with health-care issues in the headlines every day. At least we have a starting point: including physical activity as a prerequisite to a high school diploma. All good ideas take formulation, evaluation and repeated revision. What high school students are doing now is simply not working. Ask any health-care practitioner in this province about the knowledge base of the average health-care consumer, and they will tell you it is sorely lacking. To say that it is humiliating to "force" high school students to exercise undermines all of those gifted athletes who may never excel at calculus or chemistry. Many prerequisites to university are "forced" upon students who may prefer b...
... Cohlmeyer mistakenly refers to as an embargo) has been and continues to be a major roadblock to...
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The Harper government claims that it is keen to develop a strong policy towards Latin America. Yet it is a flawed approach, supporting US policy at a time when it is at its lowest point in decades, while ignoring both a clear leftward swing of elected Latin American governments in the last five years and the significant importance of Cuba in the region. This paper examines the Harper government's approach to Cuba. Following some general comments on the evolution of Canadian policy towards revolutionary Cuba, it examines some of the errors in the Harper approach, suggests an explanation for the approach employed, and makes suggestions about policies that Ottawa should consider to improve relations. In sports terms, Cuba "punches above its weight"-a fact which is known widely in Latin Ame...
... with Cuba and to endorse its economic embargo. Preferring instead to craft his own Cuba policy, ...
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... "suffocation" of the arms race through an embargo of new weapons systems, though Allan Gotlieb, Unde...
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... foreign nationals by imposing a 120 day embargo after confirmation of the certificate was unconsti...
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...already had an extensive embargo on trade with Iran with certain extra-territorial ...
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... United Nations Act, implement the arms embargo and the assets freeze under Canadian domestic law....