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Mideast violence threatens truce; 8 dead
Jul 15 2005 9:56PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A Mideast truce was in tatters as Israel killed six Hamas militants in a series of airstrikes Friday and early Saturday after Palestinian fighters unleashed a deadly barrage of rockets and mortars.
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Car bombs and explosions kill 30 in Iraq
Jul 15 2005 9:46PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Suicide car bombs and explosions rocked wide areas of the Iraqi capital Friday, targeting U.S. and Iraqi security forces and killing at least 30 people. Two U.S. Marines died in a blast near the Jordanian border.
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Biblical scroll fragments found in Israel
Jul 15 2005 8:13PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - A secretive encounter with a Bedouin in a desert valley led to the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll _ the first such finding in decades, an Israeli archaeologist said Friday.
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Minister: al-Zarqawi fled Baghdad recently
Jul 15 2005 6:23PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The leader of Iraq's most feared terror group fled Baghdad about two weeks ago because a U.S.-Iraqi military operation in the capital was threatening his al-Qaida movement, Iraq's interior minister said in a television interview aired Friday.
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Egyptian took grad courses in N. Carolina
Jul 15 2005 5:09PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The biochemist detained in Cairo in connection with the London bombings is an intelligent, quiet young man who advanced to one of Egypt's most prestigious research centers and whose lower middle-class family spent heavily for him to study abroad, neighbors say.
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Israel launches airstrikes in Gaza Strip
Jul 15 2005 4:55PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli aircraft launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza City and the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis early Saturday, witnesses said. Two people were lightly injured in the attacks, hospital officials said.
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Three of Iraqi president's guards killed
Jul 15 2005 12:06PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide car bomb exploded Friday on a bridge overlooking the home of President Jalal Talabani, killing three of his guards, a spokesman for Iraq's largest Shiite Muslim group said.
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General: Iraq insurgency static in size
Jul 15 2005 11:09AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a sign of the Iraq insurgency's resilience, an American general said Friday that in his command area in north-central Iraq the level of violence is about where it stood prior to the January elections.
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Two Hamas members killed in explosion
Jul 15 2005 7:52AM (CT)
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Two members of the Hamas militant group were killed in a Friday explosion in the West Bank, and Palestinian security officials said the two men were hit during an Israeli missile strike.
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Biochemist has U.S., British connections
Jul 15 2005 7:20AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian biochemist, who taught at a British university and studied in the United States, was arrested Friday in the probe into the London bombings, a government official said.
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Chemist sought in London probe arrested
Jul 15 2005 7:08AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Egyptian police on Friday arrested an Egyptian biochemist sought in the probe into the London bombings, an Egyptian government official said. Metropolitan Police in London said a man has been arrested in Cairo, but they would not confirm his name or characterize him as a suspect.
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