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No consensus in Lebanon cease-fire talks
Jul 26 2006 11:56PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Top U.S. and European officials agreed Wednesday on the need for urgent action to halt the fighting in Lebanon and on the creation of a multinational force to keep the peace. But the two sides had starkly divergent views of what that means.
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Hezbollah fighters kill 9 Israeli troops
Jul 26 2006 11:51PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah dealt Israel its heaviest losses in the Lebanon campaign Wednesday, killing nine soldiers in fierce firefights. With key Mideast players failing to agree on a formula for a cease-fire, an Israeli general said the operation could last weeks.
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Report: U.N. observers' calls unheeded
Jul 26 2006 11:10PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Israel, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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Marines in Lebanon remember '83 bombing
Jul 26 2006 11:03PM (CT)
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - It was a quiet flight over _ the 1983 attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans weighed heavily on their minds.
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Australian: Peacekeepers to leave Lebanon
Jul 26 2006 10:02PM (CT)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia has decided to withdraw its 12 peacekeeping troops from southern Lebanon because of the danger there, the defense minister said Thursday.
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Envoy: Taliban fueled by foreign funds
Jul 26 2006 9:41PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A Taliban insurgency in five provinces of southern Afghanistan is being fueled by international terrorist networks, foreign money and a porous border which the Pakistani government doesn't control, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan said Wednesday.
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Kin of captured Israeli soldiers seek news
Jul 26 2006 7:18PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - The mother of one of two Israeli soldiers captured July 12 _ triggering the escalating conflict between Israel and Lebanon _ appealed Wednesday for indications that her son is alive.
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Ancient statue looted in Iraq is returned
Jul 26 2006 5:32PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A prized statue of an ancient king that was stolen during widespread looting in Iraq following the U.S. invasion three years ago has been returned to the country's government, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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Hezbollah fighters kill 9 Israeli soldiers
Jul 26 2006 4:43PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah dealt Israel its heaviest losses in the Lebanon campaign Wednesday, killing nine soldiers in fierce firefights. With key Mideast players failing to agree on a formula for a cease-fire, an Israeli general said the operation could last weeks.
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Terrorized Americans fleeing Lebanon
Jul 26 2006 4:17PM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - A group of Americans huddled at the port Wednesday before boarding the Princesa Marissa to begin their journey home _ away from the epicenter of southern Lebanon's war zone.
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Saddam prefers firing squad to gallows
Jul 26 2006 4:07PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein said Wednesday he would rather die by firing squad like a soldier than hang "like a common criminal," as the defiant ex-president made his final appearance before the tribunal until it renders a verdict.
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Sharon undergoes form of kidney dialysis
Jul 26 2006 4:06PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed to the intensive care unit of a Tel Aviv hospital Wednesday to undergo a form of kidney dialysis, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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Iranian volunteers set off for Lebanon
Jul 26 2006 3:59PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Surrounded by yellow Hezbollah flags, more than 60 Iranian volunteers set off Wednesday to join what they called a holy war against Israeli forces in Lebanon.
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Lebanon offensive criticized in Israel
Jul 26 2006 3:56PM (CT)
KIRYAT SHEMONA, Israel (AP) - As Israel's offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon enters its third week, the government is coming under growing criticism at home.
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Israel targeting Hezbollah infrastructure
Jul 26 2006 3:45PM (CT)
DWEIR, Lebanon (AP) - Israel is targeting not only Hezbollah's fighters but also the social network that earned it wide popularity among Lebanon's Shiites: an orphanage run by the group has been hit and a seminary that provided help to families leveled.
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Iranian president wants Lebanon cease-fire
Jul 26 2006 3:25PM (CT)
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a cease-fire in Lebanon and criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East on Wednesday, saying Washington wants to "recarve the map" of the region with Israel's help.
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Israeli strikes kill 23 in Gaza Strip
Jul 26 2006 3:22PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli strikes killed 23 people in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including 16 militants and a mother and her two young daughters, in the deadliest day of fighting since Israel withdrew from the coastal strip last year.
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Israel seeks to establish new buffer zone
Jul 26 2006 2:23PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel will create a Hezbollah-free zone in south Lebanon just over a mile deep, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday, outlining for the first time the dimensions of Israeli plans in the area.
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5 suspected in Iraqi death squad arrested
Jul 26 2006 2:20PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. soldiers arrested five suspected members of an alleged "death squad" south of Baghdad on Wednesday as Iraqi army troops battled insurgents on a major street in the center of the capital.
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U.S. could face a showdown with al-Sadr
Jul 26 2006 2:12PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Putting more U.S. soldiers in the streets of Baghdad risks a new showdown with a radical anti-American cleric who has modeled his movement after Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Hezbollah offices bombed in city of Tyre
Jul 26 2006 1:26PM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli warplanes destroyed an empty building containing the offices of Hezbollah's south Lebanon commander in this southern port city Wednesday, and 12 people in a nearby structure were wounded, security officials and witnesses said.
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Many Americans stuck in southern Lebanon
Jul 26 2006 1:15PM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - Clutching his 1-year-old son, Ali Abbas Tehfi pushed his wife and their 2-year-old son into a car and prayed. Trapped for two weeks in a border village at the epicenter of a raging ground battle, the American and his family made their escape Wednesday. But Tehfi's elderly grandmother had to be left behind in Yaroun, because she was too frail to travel. He said more Americans were still stuck in the town.
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U.S., allies divided over cease-fire terms
Jul 26 2006 12:59PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the international community on Wednesday to work quickly to end the "spasms of violence" rocking the Middle East, but the U.S. remained isolated from most of its allies by insisting that any cease fire address the region's long-term problems.
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Ship to pick up last load of Americans
Jul 26 2006 7:55AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The U.S. sent a cruiseliner to Beirut on Wednesday to pick up the last scheduled boatload of Americans evacuating Lebanon after two weeks of Israeli airstrikes. U.S. officials said they were worried that possibly hundreds of Americans were stranded in south Lebanon without safe passage to evacuation points in the capital and on the coast.
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Israel seeks 1.2-mile-wide 'security zone'
Jul 26 2006 7:08AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel wants to establish a 1.2-mile-wide strip in south Lebanon that will be free of Hezbollah guerrillas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday, giving the dimensions of a new "security zone" for the first time.
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Lebanese psychic flooded with calls
Jul 26 2006 4:15AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Michel Hayek, Lebanon's most famous psychic, predicted an Israeli incursion into the south _ and since the fighting began, he's been fielding calls from frantic Lebanese and Arabs asking how long the conflict will last, if the economy will crash and if they should leave the country.
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Israel army collecting bodies of Hezbollah
Jul 26 2006 4:14AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli troops are collecting bodies of Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon and storing them in refrigerated containers in Israel, the army said Wednesday.
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Hezbollah: Israeli soldier killed in clash
Jul 26 2006 12:49AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah fighters battled Israeli troops attempting to advance on the border town of Bint Jbail on Wednesday, and the guerrilla group's TV station reported one Israeli soldier killed and five wounded.
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Hezbollah: Israeli onslaught a surprise
Jul 26 2006 12:05AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Israel to react with an all-out offensive after the capture of two soldiers, the first acknowledgment by the group that it had miscalculated the consequences of the raid two weeks ago.
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