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Suspected Israeli double agent dies
Jun 27 2007 9:11PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Ashraf Marwan, the controversial son-in-law of Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, has died, a state-run news agency reported Wednesday. He was 62.
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Bombing near Shiite shrine kills 14
Jun 27 2007 8:42PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - America's No. 2 diplomat in Iraq predicted progress by fall on bringing together Iraq's feuding factions as violence claimed more lives Wednesday, including 14 people killed in a late night car bombing near a Shiite shrine in the capital.
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Bombing near Shiite shrine kills 14
Jun 27 2007 8:42PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - America's No. 2 diplomat in Iraq predicted progress by fall on bringing together Iraq's feuding factions as violence claimed more lives Wednesday, including 14 people killed in a late night car bombing near a Shiite shrine in the capital.
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Blair faces challenges as Mideast envoy
Jun 27 2007 7:50PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Among the biggest challenges Tony Blair will face in his new role as Middle East envoy is Arab anger over the wars in Iraq and Lebanon, and perceptions that he speaks for President Bush.
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Egypt says mummy of queen discovered
Jun 27 2007 7:50PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah _ possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday.
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Egypt says mummy of queen discovered
Jun 27 2007 7:50PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah _ possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday.
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Egypt says mummy of queen discovered
Jun 27 2007 7:50PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah _ possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday.
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Saudi religious cops implicated in death
Jun 27 2007 4:37PM (CT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - In a new blow to Saudi Arabia's powerful religious police, a member of the force has been implicated in the death of a man whose house was raided because he was suspected of possessing and consuming alcohol, an official statement said Wednesday.
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US foot patrols seeks to sidestep mines
Jun 27 2007 2:46PM (CT)
BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) - U.S. armored vehicles stand idle on the edge of western Baqouba's apartment blocks. The soldiers who normally ride in them have left on foot patrols _ a simple, but apparently effective, tactic being used against insurgents planting increasingly large and devastating bombs deep underground.
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Israeli troops kill 11 Gaza Palestinians
Jun 27 2007 2:01PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight gunmen and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.
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Israeli troops kill 11 Gaza Palestinians
Jun 27 2007 2:01PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight gunmen and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.
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Israeli troops kill 11 Gaza Palestinians
Jun 27 2007 2:01PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight gunmen and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.
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Israeli troops kill 11 Gaza Palestinians
Jun 27 2007 2:01PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight gunmen and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.
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Israeli troops kill 11 Gaza Palestinians
Jun 27 2007 2:01PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight gunmen and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.
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Israeli troops kill 11 Gaza Palestinians
Jun 27 2007 2:01PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight gunmen and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.
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Israeli troops kill 11 Gaza Palestinians
Jun 27 2007 2:01PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight gunmen and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.
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Iran's gas rationing sets off violence
Jun 27 2007 12:59PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranians smashed shop windows and set fire to a dozen gas stations in the capital Wednesday, angered by the sudden start of a fuel rationing system that threatens to further increase the unpopularity of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Iran's gas rationing sets off violence
Jun 27 2007 12:59PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranians smashed shop windows and set fire to a dozen gas stations in the capital Wednesday, angered by the sudden start of a fuel rationing system that threatens to further increase the unpopularity of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Iran has new conditions for U.S. talks
Jun 27 2007 11:12AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran said Wednesday it would consider "with a positive point of view" an Iraqi request for a new round of Iranian-American talks, but only after the United States responds to the invitation.
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Turkey military: Need Iraq guide
Jun 27 2007 4:20AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's military chief asked the government on Wednesday to set political guidelines for an incursion into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish guerrillas targeting Turkey.
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Jordan struggles with Palestinians
Jun 27 2007 3:28AM (CT)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - This key U.S. ally must walk a delicate path to appease its own large group of Palestinian refugees, as the bloody conflict between Hamas and Fatah erupts across the Middle East.
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Israel denies air strike in Gaza
Jun 27 2007 1:54AM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Israeli military denied Palestinian reports of an air strike near Gaza City Wednesday morning in which Palestinians said an Islamic Jihad militant was killed.
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Blair takes on hard job as Mideast envoy
Jun 27 2007 1:13AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - In his new job as Mideast envoy, Tony Blair will take on a task that has bedeviled many before him _ a role complicated by Hamas' takeover of Gaza, the weakness of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, and animosity deepened on both sides by six years of conflict.
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