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AP: U.N. council weighs Mideast cease-fire
Jul 29 2006 11:27PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A draft resolution circulating Saturday among U.N. Security Council members would call for an immediate halt to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and seek a wide new buffer zone in south Lebanon monitored by international forces and the Lebanese army.
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Israeli forces kill Islamic Jihad leader
Jul 29 2006 10:36PM (CT)
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops killed a top leader of the radical Islamic Jihad in a West Bank raid Saturday, the group said, and the Israelis pressed ahead with their offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel pulls out of Hezbollah stronghold
Jul 29 2006 10:34PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli troops pulled back from a Lebanese border town Saturday after a week of heavy fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas who hailed the retreat as a victory. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the Middle East to push a refined U.S. peace plan.
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U.S. to move 3,700 troops to Baghdad
Jul 29 2006 10:25PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. command announced Saturday that it was sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell the sectarian violence sweeping the capital, and a U.S. official said more American soldiers would follow as the military gears up to take the streets from gunmen.
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Iran's high court approves death sentences
Jul 29 2006 10:03PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Supreme Court has confirmed death sentences for five Iranian Arab separatists convicted for bombings near the Iraqi border, state-run Iranian television reported Saturday.
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Iranian leader calls Chavez a 'trench mate'
Jul 29 2006 8:56PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The presidents of Iran and Venezuela, leading U.S. critics, pledged Saturday to support one another in disputes with Washington, with the Iranian calling Hugo Chavez "a brother and trench mate."
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State radio: Iran to reject U.N. proposal
Jul 29 2006 7:38PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's government will reject a proposed U.N. resolution that would give it until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of international sanctions, state-run radio said on Saturday.
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Islamic Jihad: Israel killed militant head
Jul 29 2006 6:00PM (CT)
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops killed two Islamic Jihad militants on Saturday, including the man the group described as the leader of its militant wing in the West Bank city of Nablus.
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Lebanese war victims buried in mass grave
Jul 29 2006 4:55PM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - The coffins were turned in the direction of Mecca, the Muslim holy city, and a Shiite cleric recited the prayer for the dead before the 31 plywood caskets were lowered Saturday into a new mass grave.
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Israel-Lebanon fighting leads Arab media
Jul 29 2006 4:25PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - For Arab news media, the war between Israel and Hezbollah is a fresh chapter in a tale with strong emotional pull and well-defined enemies, and has pushed Iraq to the back of newscasts and off front pages.
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Hezbollah chief threatens rocket attacks
Jul 29 2006 3:54PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah's leader on Saturday threatened more attacks on central Israeli cities, a day after guerrillas for the first time fired a rocket powerful enough to reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
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Arab support for Hezbollah growing
Jul 29 2006 3:48PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A top Egyptian cleric issued an edict Saturday defending Hezbollah's fight against Israel, as Arab support for the militant group grew around the region.
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Analysis: Israel lowers its expectations
Jul 29 2006 3:02PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - At the start of this war, Israeli leaders talked with some confidence of crushing Hezbollah. Now they seem ready to settle for pushing the guerrillas a few miles back from the Israeli border.
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Humanitarian aid piles up in Beirut
Jul 29 2006 2:31PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Medicine, food and other humanitarian relief piled up in Beirut on Saturday, with only a trickle making it to the tens of thousands of Lebanese trapped in the war zone in the south.
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Israel rejects U.N. request for cease-fire
Jul 29 2006 9:46AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel on Saturday rejected a request by the U.N. for a three-day cease-fire in Lebanon to deliver humanitarian supplies and allow civilians to leave the war zone.
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Iranian leader bans usage of foreign words
Jul 29 2006 8:31AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.
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