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INDIA Buddhist volunteers wash a road that the Dalai Lama is to pass through, a day before his visit to Tawang, in northeastern India.
(Manish Swarup/associated Press)
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LEBANON
Hariri set to form unity government
Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri of Lebanon will announce a new national unity government to include Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah in the next few days, politicians said Saturday.
Lebanon has been without a functioning government since Hariri led his coalition, backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia, to victory in a June parliamentary election against Hezbollah and its allies.
Politicians from both sides said Hariri has clinched a deal with the opposition on the new government's composition.
A government acceptable to all main parties is seen as key to maintaining stability in a country facing sectarian and political tensions, as well as a huge debt burden.
"The government is as good as formed," said Okab Sakr, a lawmaker close to Hariri. "It's all about the final touches now, and its formation will be completed this weekend."
-- Reuters
IRAN
3 foreign nationals freed after 2 days
Iran's judiciary has freed three foreign nationals who were arrested Wednesday during demonstrations on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, state-run media reported Saturday.
"One Canadian and two Germans . . . have been freed," the Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Tehran's prosecutor general, Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi, as saying late Friday.
