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Sharon, Abbas fail to resolve Gaza issues
Jun 21 2005 9:54PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas failed Tuesday to resolve key issues on Israel's planned Gaza withdrawal, and the Palestinian chief said he received no positive answers in a "difficult" meeting _ their first since they agreed to a truce four months ago.
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Blast kills anti-Syrian critic in Lebanon
Jun 21 2005 9:19PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A bomb killed an anti-Syrian politician Tuesday in the second such assassination in three weeks. The United States condemned it as an attack on Lebanon's quest to break free of Syrian domination.
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Envoy: Iraqi militants aim for civil war
Jun 21 2005 9:17PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - America's new ambassador to Iraq expressed horror Tuesday at the violence wracking the country and said Islamic extremists and Saddam Hussein loyalists are trying to start a civil war.
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Saudi police kill 2 suspected terrorists
Jun 21 2005 9:05PM (CT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi security forces on Tuesday killed two suspected terrorists accused of fatally shooting a senior security official outside his home, the government said.
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Memos: U.N. knew Saddam violated sanctions
Jun 21 2005 7:32PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council had detailed knowledge of how Saddam Hussein was violating U.N. sanctions, but was so divided that many violations went largely unchecked, according to documents released Tuesday by a congressional panel.
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Israeli train collides with truck; 7 dead
Jun 21 2005 7:04PM (CT)
REVADIM, Israel (AP) - A passenger train plowed into a coal truck Tuesday and sent three cars tumbling off the tracks in a sunflower field in southern Israel, killing seven people and injuring nearly 200 in one of Israel's worst train accidents.
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Rice predicts no breakthrough on Iraq debt
Jun 21 2005 5:39PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - An international conference on Iraq's reconstruction will not yield promises to cancel the nation's huge debts, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
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Former Saddam aide Tariq Aziz testifies
Jun 21 2005 5:03PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Tariq Aziz, Iraq's foreign minister under Saddam Hussein, was questioned Tuesday about his alleged role in mass killings prior to the regime's ouster, his lawyer said.
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Rice links Syria to Lebanon assassination
Jun 21 2005 4:44PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice linked the assassination Tuesday of an anti-Syrian politician in Lebanon with the continued activities of longtime overlord Syria, but said she cannot be certain who is behind the killing.
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Bitter Iran leadership dispute intensifies
Jun 21 2005 4:39PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The bitter third-placed finisher in Iran's presidential race called on voters Tuesday to flock to polling stations this weekend to defeat an Islamic hard-line candidate he termed a "symbol of totalitarianism."
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Iraqi: U.S. delaying Saddam interrogations
Jun 21 2005 4:06PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Iraq's justice minister accused the United States on Tuesday of trying to hinder the Iraqi investigation of Saddam Hussein by limiting his access to interrogators, and said "it seems there are lots of secrets they want to hide."
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Anti-West forces unite in Iran elections
Jun 21 2005 12:49PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The ultraconservative political newcomer seeking Iran's presidency is helped along by powerful patrons _ including the military guardians of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the son of the nation's supreme leader.
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Al-Qaida announces Iraqi suicide squad
Jun 21 2005 10:14AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Iraq's most feared terror group said Tuesday that it has formed a unit of potential suicide attackers who are exclusively Iraqis, an apparent bid to deflect criticism that most suicide bombers in Iraq are foreigners.
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Israel: No more restraint toward militants
Jun 21 2005 4:30AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military will no longer exercise restraint with regard to Islamic Jihad militants because their attacks demonstrate they do not consider themselves bound by a truce agreement, a senior army officer said Tuesday.
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