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Palestinian rocket hits Israeli city
Jul 4 2006 7:27PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian militants hit an Israeli city with a rocket from Gaza for the first time on Tuesday, causing no casualties but drawing a pledge of harsh retaliation from Israel while it was already in the midst of a military offensive.
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Troops celebrate low-key 4th in Iraq
Jul 4 2006 6:37PM (CT)
RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - It was a far cry from the Fourth of July parties a world away, but five U.S. Marines in one of Iraq's most dangerous cities celebrated with what they had: a hookah, relaxing exhales of strawberry-scented smoke and thoughts of home.
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Iraqis blast U.S. over rape-slaying case
Jul 4 2006 6:23PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi lawmakers blasted the United States on Tuesday over an alleged rape-slaying case, while a southern governor said he was resigning amid fears Iraqi forces cannot handle security once coalition troops transfer responsibility there this month.
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Israel hits Palestinian Interior Ministry
Jul 4 2006 5:56PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli warplanes struck the Palestinian Interior Ministry early Wednesday for the second time in a week, Palestinian witnesses and the Israeli military said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Iran rejects calls for quick nuke answer
Jul 4 2006 2:45PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran rejected Russia's and China's calls for a quick response to incentives to suspend its nuclear program, indicating Tuesday that it wanted to negotiate the terms of the offer.
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Murder case puts Iraqi gov't in quandary
Jul 4 2006 1:45PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - No sooner had U.S. authorities filed rape and murder charges against ex-soldier Steven D. Green than an account of the incident appeared on an Islamist Web site in the name of an insurgent group, the Mujahedeen Army. It promised "harsh punishment" for the alleged crime.
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Israel marks 30th anniversary of Entebbe
Jul 4 2006 1:36PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel, awaiting word of the fate of a captured soldier, marked the 30th anniversary Tuesday of its dramatic rescue of dozens of hostages from hijacked plane in the African nation of Uganda.
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Syria untouched by outside pressures
Jul 4 2006 12:03PM (CT)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A few days after Israeli jets buzzed his summer residence, a beaming President Bashar Assad, accompanied by his elegant wife, inaugurated the first phase of restoration on an ancient citadel here.
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Iraq provincial governor threatens to quit
Jul 4 2006 10:54AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A provincial police chief resigned Tuesday and the governor said he would leave his post after coalition forces turn over security to Iraqi forces in the southern area later this month, citing fears that violence will increase.
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Iraq seeks oversight of rape-slaying case
Jul 4 2006 4:38AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's justice minister demanded Tuesday that the U.N. Security Council ensure a group of U.S. troops is punished for allegedly raping and murdering a young Iraqi woman and executing her family, calling the attack "monstrous and inhuman."
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