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Israel faces fierce battles with Hezbollah
Jul 23 2006 11:36PM (CT)
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) - Mideast diplomats were pressing Syria to stop backing Hezbollah as the guerrillas fired more deadly rockets onto Israel's third-largest city Sunday. Israel faced tougher-than-expected ground battles and bombarded targets in southern Lebanon, hitting a convoy of refugees.
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Rice: Poor Syria relationship overstated
Jul 23 2006 11:14PM (CT)
SHANNON, Ireland (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday the United States' poor relationship with Syria is overstated, pointing out that there are existing channels for talking with Syrian leaders about resolving the Mideast crisis when they're ready to talk.
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Hunger-striking Saddam is fed with tube
Jul 23 2006 11:04PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein was hospitalized Sunday and fed with a tube on the 17th day of a hunger strike to ensure he was healthy enough to continue with his trial, the chief prosecutor said. The procedure came as the ex-leader's troubled trial nears a verdict that could lead to his hanging.
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Over 60 killed as Iraq violence escalates
Jul 23 2006 10:55PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Bombs killed more than 60 people and wounded more than 200 Sunday in Baghdad and the northern oil center of Kirkuk _ a dramatic escalation of violence as U.S. and Iraqi forces crack down on Iraq's most feared Shiite militia.
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Ariel Sharon's condition worsens
Jul 23 2006 10:53PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The condition of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma since suffering a stroke in January, has deteriorated though there was no immediate danger to his life, hospital officials and former aides said Sunday.
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Syria says it will press for cease-fire
Jul 23 2006 9:50PM (CT)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria, one of Hezbollah's main backers, said Sunday it will press for a cease-fire and was willing to engage in direct talks with the United States to help end the fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group.
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Families tell of escape from Lebanon
Jul 23 2006 9:47PM (CT)
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) - Children with grimy hands and dirt-smeared faces peeked through the rusty bars on windows at the old prison in the heart of Sidon. Cells in the two-story stone relic teemed Sunday with refugees from Israel's fierce assault on southern Lebanon.
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Strike on fleeing Lebanese kills 4
Jul 23 2006 8:23PM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli warplanes hit a convoy of people fleeing their homes in southern Lebanon Sunday, killing three refugees in a minibus and a journalist racing to cover their flight.
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Group accuses Jordan of torturing for U.S.
Jul 23 2006 8:09PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Security agents in Jordan are torturing terrorism suspects on behalf of the United States in hopes of forcing confessions, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International contended in a new report Monday.
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Militants in Gaza fire rockets at Israel
Jul 23 2006 5:53PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian militants in Gaza fired five rockets at Israel on Sunday despite reports that they had agreed to halt such attacks.
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Lebanon: Captured Israeli soldiers 'OK'
Jul 23 2006 5:22PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's foreign minister said Sunday the two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah are in "good health" and another leading politician said the government was ready to negotiate a prisoner swap with Israel through intermediaries.
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Israeli troops: Hezbollah a tough enemy
Jul 23 2006 3:20PM (CT)
ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER (AP) - Israeli soldiers returning from the front in Lebanon talk of battling an intelligent, well-prepared and ruthless guerrilla army whose fighters don't seem to fear death.
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Pa. Guardsman cleared in Iraqi's death
Jul 23 2006 2:52PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military has dismissed all charges against a Pennsylvania National Guardsman accused of killing an unarmed Iraq civilian near Ramadi, finding that the soldier had reason to believe the man had a weapon.
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U.N.'s Egeland denounces Israeli strikes
Jul 23 2006 2:43PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The U.N.'s top humanitarian official on Sunday denounced the Israeli airstrikes that have devastated Beirut and southern Lebanon, saying civilians were paying a "disproportionate price" in the attacks targeting Hezbollah strongholds.
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Hezbollah rocket attacks not subsiding
Jul 23 2006 2:21PM (CT)
HAIFA, Israel (AP) - One Hezbollah rocket slammed into a major road in this Israeli port city, spraying a car with shrapnel and causing a fatal crash. Another blew open an apartment building filled with the elderly and their Filipino caretakers.
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Moderate Arabs look to curb militants
Jul 23 2006 2:20PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt and Saudi Arabia _ both with strained U.S. ties _ are working to entice Syria to end support for Hezbollah, a move that is central to resolving the conflict in Lebanon and unhitching Damascus from its alliance-of-convenience with Iran, the Shiite Muslim guerrillas' other main backer, Arab diplomats and analysts said Sunday.
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Rocket attack in Haifa kills 2, wounds 13
Jul 23 2006 10:52AM (CT)
HAIFA, Israel (AP) - Hezbollah guerrillas launched a "significant barrage" of rockets Sunday on the port city of Haifa, badly damaging a house, hitting a major road and killing at least two people, officials said.
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Lebanese photographer dies in airstrike
Jul 23 2006 8:37AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A photographer working for a Lebanese magazine was killed Sunday when an Israeli missile exploded near her taxi in southern Lebanon, making her the first journalist to die in Israel's offensive, security officials said.
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Israeli official wants NATO on border
Jul 23 2006 6:03AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister said Sunday that Israel would accept a temporary international force, preferably headed by NATO, deployed along the Lebanese border to keep Hezbollah guerrillas away from Israel.
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Car bomb explodes in Kirkuk, killing 17
Jul 23 2006 5:05AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded at midday Sunday in a market in the northern oil center of Kirkuk, killing at least 17 people and wounding 30, police said.
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Blast kills 33, wounds dozens in Baghdad
Jul 23 2006 4:26AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide bomber blew up a minibus at a Baghdad market on Sunday, killing at least 33 people in addition to himself, police said.
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Iranian official: Enrichment on the table
Jul 23 2006 4:07AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran left open the possibility Sunday that it might consider suspending uranium enrichment, one of the most contentious features of its suspect nuclear program.
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Hezbollah rocket attack kills 2 in Haifa
Jul 23 2006 3:36AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Hezbollah rockets fired into northern Israel on Sunday badly damaged a house and slammed into a car on a main road in the city of Haifa, killing at least two people, Israeli police said.
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Survival may equal victory for Hezbollah
Jul 23 2006 12:27AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah acknowledges that Israeli troops can sweep across south Lebanon. But if he and his militants can survive and keep fighting, he will cement his image as the unlikely new hero of Arab nationalism.
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