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Iran: U.S., Israel waging smear campaign
Jul 3 2005 11:33PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran accused the U.S. and Israel on Sunday of a smear campaign against its president-elect and warned Europe, which is in tricky nuclear negotiations with Tehran, not to join in the mudslinging.
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Gunmen kidnap Egypt's top envoy in Iraq
Jul 3 2005 11:05PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Gunmen seized Egypt's top envoy to Iraq, officials and witnesses said Sunday, in an apparent bid to discourage the country's Arab neighbors from bolstering ties to the embattled U.S.-backed government. Insurgents killed at least three Iraqi policemen and wounded two American soldiers in a series of attacks across the insurgent heartland.
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Iraqi government reaches out to militants
Jul 3 2005 9:59PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Militants who have targeted foreign troops in Iraq before January's historic elections can join the country's political process, the prime minister's spokesman said Sunday.
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Palestinian government, Hamas to talk soon
Jul 3 2005 9:40PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Talks with Hamas and Islamic Jihad on setting up a "national unity" government will begin this week, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia said Sunday.
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Saudi forces kill top al-Qaida militant
Jul 3 2005 9:38PM (CT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - In a swift and telling victory, Saudi anti-terror forces killed al-Qaida's top leader in the key U.S. ally in a gunbattle Sunday, but experts warn the kingdom still faces a surge in attacks despite its two-year crackdown on militants.
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Missing soldier rescued in Afghanistan
Jul 3 2005 8:20PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - One member of an elite military team missing in the Afghan mountains since last week has been rescued, a U.S. Defense Department official said Sunday.
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Jordan upholds convictions of 8 militants
Jul 3 2005 5:56PM (CT)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - A military court on Sunday upheld the conviction of eight Jordanian militants for possessing explosives, and government officials said a man considered the spiritual mentor of terror mastermind Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi was freed earlier in the week.
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Leading rabbi says some hummus not kosher
Jul 3 2005 5:51PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - An influential Israeli rabbi has ruled that a key ingredient in hummus is not kosher when prepared by non-Jews, his top aide said Sunday, presenting a religious challenge to followers who savor the Mideast staple.
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Israel rejects delaying Gaza withdrawal
Jul 3 2005 4:06PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Cabinet easily defeated a proposal to postpone next month's pullout from Gaza at a meeting Sunday that reflected fears of violent opposition to the withdrawal _ each ministers was fitted for a bulletproof vest.
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Jewish settlers begin leaving Gaza homes
Jul 3 2005 4:01PM (CT)
GANIM, West Bank (AP) - Houses and streets are deserted. Boxes stuffed with old magazines, toys and towels _ remnants of an old life _ are piled on a porch. Residents in this tiny West Bank settlement marked for demolition are leaving one by one, without waiting for troops to remove them by force.
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Militants groups in Iraq name spokesman
Jul 3 2005 2:54PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two militant groups said Sunday they have named a new spokesman to silence those who claim to speak for the insurgency.
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Shiite-Sunni tension rises anew in Iraq
Jul 3 2005 12:37PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The Shiite mourners were crying for blood, threatening to burn down a Sunni town where dozens of Shiite travelers had been slain. Their rage boiled over after a fresh spate of bombings killed nearly 40 people in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad.
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Reports of Iraqi police abuse concern UK
Jul 3 2005 11:03AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The British government said Sunday that it had raised concerns with the interim Iraq government about reports that its police force had abused prisoners.
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Syrian troops, Arab militant die in clash
Jul 3 2005 10:16AM (CT)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian security forces have killed an Arab extremist who was trying to illegally cross into neighboring Lebanon with other suspected militants, Syria's official news agency reported Sunday.
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Ex-Iranian agent: Photo not Ahmadinejad
Jul 3 2005 7:14AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top Iranian former secret agent said Saturday the hostage-taker in a 1979 photograph that has come under intense scrutiny is not President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but a former militant who committed suicide in jail.
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Gladiators battle in revived Jordan games
Jul 3 2005 6:25AM (CT)
JERASH, Jordan (AP) - After a 2,000-year lull, games have again hit the sands of Jordan's famed Roman-ruin city of Jerash, 30 miles north of the capital, Amman, as a group of Jordanian investors and a Swedish history buff are re-creating gladiator matches and chariot racing at Jerash's 2nd Century hippodrome.
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Egypt's top envoy to postwar Iraq abducted
Jul 3 2005 5:32AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt's top envoy to post-Saddam Hussein Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad just weeks after arriving in the war-torn country, Egyptian diplomats said Sunday.
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