Sudden flooding and mudslides killed at least 400 people in Brazil, and many more are still missing. In Tunisia, President Ben Ali offered concessions to try to quell growing protests that have left at least 23 people dead.

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Lebanon's prime minister, Saad Hariri was meeting with President Obama at the White House when the resignations came in. (White House photo by Pete Souza.) Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman announced Thursday he will launch formal talks next week to…

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Cabinet ministers from Hezbollah resigned from Lebanon's governing coalition and Haiti marked one year since a powerful earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince.

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In other news, 90 people were killed when an Ethiopian airliner crashed just off the coast of Beirut, and Baghdad was hit with a series of bombings.

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In other news, President Barack Obama predicted stimulus funds will help create or save 600,000 jobs this summer and Lebanese election results show the ruling, pro-Western bloc beat back a political challenge from Hezbollah.

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A Western-backed, anti-Syrian coalition maintained a parliamentary majority in Lebanon after elections Sunday in which some observers had expected to see Hezbollah make gains.

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Lebanon's parliamentary elections on Sunday pit a Western-backed coalition now holding the majority in the government against an Iranian- and Syrian-backed alliance led by Hezbollah.

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In other news, President Obama signed a bill approving sweeping changes for the credit card industry aimed at helping cardholders.

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In another in our series about the Kennedy Center's Arabesque art festival, Jeffrey Brown profiles Lebanese folk singer Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs about love and strife, politics and injustice.

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