Diplomatic Divide Widens...

Reuters Paul Taylor July 27, 2006 at 09:45 PM
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A diplomatic divide over how to end the fighting in Lebanon widened on Thursday, with France pressing for an early U.N. ceasefire resolution while the United States directed new warnings atSyria and Iran.

European Union president Finland saidIsrael might have drawn the wrong conclusion from an international conference in Rome on Wednesday by believing it had been allowed to continue its offensive against Hizbollah guerrillas.

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