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Matthew Cordell - May 21, 2008 - 11:36 am

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>><!--top1-->Lebanon<!--top1End--> - <!--top1Content-->After five hard-fought days of negotiation in Doha, Hezbollah and Lebanon's government have agreed to a final agreement to end the 18-month political crisis. Under the agreement General Michel Suleiman, the commander of the Army, will be elected President in the next few days. Also, Hezbollah and its allies will be given an apportionment of cabinet seats sufficient to sustain a veto. And, a new electoral law, governing representative in the government, will be put up for debate.<!--top1ContentEnd-->

>><!--top2-->Spain<!--top2End--> - <!--top2Content-->A joint operation between French and Spanish authorities nabbed Francisco Javier Lopez Pena (aka Thierry), the top political leader of the Basque separatist group ETA, in Bordeaux. Pena is thought to have led ETA since the failed 2006 peace negotiations. He is also thought to have ordered the 2006 bombing of the Madrid airport, which ended a nine-month ceasefire.<!--top2Content-->

>><!--top3-->Uganda<!--top3End--> - <!--top3Content-->According to foreign investigators and humanitarian groups, the Lord's Resistance Army has stepped up its campaign of child abduction over the last month, scooping up over 100 children from the Congo, Uganda, and the Central African Republic who will likely be pressed into service or used as sex slaves. This occurred during international efforts to finalize a peace agreement between the LRA and the Ugandan government. <!--top3Content-->

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