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Israel halts air attacks in south Lebanon
Jul 30 2006 11:55PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel suspended air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours starting early Monday in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike on a house that killed 56 Lebanese, almost all of them women and children.
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Iran to re-evaluate nuke incentive package
Jul 30 2006 11:07PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president on Sunday said the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon has forced Tehran to re-evaluate a Western nuclear incentives package, but his country still plans to respond to the offer next month.
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Hugo Chavez receives Iran's highest honor
Jul 30 2006 10:55PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran awarded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez its highest state medal on Sunday for supporting Tehran in its nuclear standoff with the international community, while Chavez urged the world to rise up and defeat the U.S., state-run media in both countries reported.
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4 Marines die as Iraq violence continues
Jul 30 2006 9:51PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Four U.S. Marines were killed in a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, and pressure mounted in parliament Sunday to replace the interior minister because of the security crisis in the capital.
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U.N. council: 'Shock' over Lebanon deaths
Jul 30 2006 9:48PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council called Sunday for an end to the violence in Lebanon and deplored Israel's airstrike on a house in the village of Qana which killed 56 people, almost all of them women and children.
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Iraqi cleric demands cease-fire in Lebanon
Jul 30 2006 8:04PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's top Shiite cleric Sunday demanded an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon, warning the Muslim world will "not forgive" nations that stand in the way of stopping the fighting.
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Bodies pulled from wreckage in Lebanon
Jul 30 2006 5:38PM (CT)
QANA, Lebanon (AP) - Abu Shadi Jradi pulled bodies out of wreckage for hours _ two toddler girls wearing tiny gold earrings, a small boy whose pale blue pacifier still hung from his neck. Somewhere in the middle, Jradi slumped beneath a tree and wept.
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Analysis: Hezbollah may have the edge
Jul 30 2006 3:41PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - It's hard to defeat a group of extremists who can mingle among civilian supporters and are pros at propaganda. Israel's military faces the same conundrum the United States has encountered elsewhere _ finding that airstrikes are costly in civilian deaths and public support, while ground attacks are risky for soldiers.
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Marines prop up ailing local gov't in Iraq
Jul 30 2006 2:42PM (CT)
RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - Peering over piles of sandbags in this ravaged city, U.S. Marines sometimes see more gunmen on the streets than municipal employees going to work.
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Israeli soldiers deal with grief, trauma
Jul 30 2006 2:40PM (CT)
ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER (AP) - Some 20 paratroopers sit on the grass, skullcaps on their heads and M-16 rifles lying gently on their laps, and sing the traditional tunes marking the end of the Sabbath. They have plenty of reason for prayer, to give thanks that they survived the fighting in Lebanon and to mourn their slain commander.
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Iran's Jews caught again in no man's land
Jul 30 2006 12:30PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Nothing in the office of Iran's sole Jewish lawmaker calls attention to his faith _ no Star of David, no menorah or other symbol of Judaism. But like nearly every public building in Iran, it has a portrait of the Islamic Revolution's patriarch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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USMC sniper metes out swift death in Iraq
Jul 30 2006 11:57AM (CT)
RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - He was 5 when he first fired an M-16, his father holding him to brace against the recoil. At 17 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, spurred by the memory of 9/11. Now, 21-year-old Galen Wilson has 20 confirmed kills in four months in Iraq _ and another 40 shots that probably killed insurgents. One afternoon the lance corporal downed a man hauling a grenade launcher five-and-a-half football fields away.
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Lebanon asks Rice not to visit Lebanon
Jul 30 2006 4:12AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Lebanese government asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday to put off a visit to Lebanon after an Israeli airstrike that killed more than 50 people.
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Olmert: Israel not ready for cease-fire
Jul 30 2006 2:59AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Israel would not rush into a cease-fire in southern Lebanon until it achieves its goals there.
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Israeli airstrikes kill 20, destroy homes
Jul 30 2006 1:44AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli airstrikes destroyed several houses in a southern Lebanese town Sunday, killing at least 20 people, Lebanese officials said.
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Israeli forces kill Islamic Jihad leader
Jul 30 2006 12:50AM (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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