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Israeli warplanes pound Beirut suburbs
Aug 6 2006 10:51PM (CT)
KFAR GILADI, Israel (AP) - A defiant Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with rockets Sunday after rejecting a U.S.-French truce proposal, killing at least 15 people. Israel also struck hard, killing at least 14 in Lebanon as both sides tried to take advantage of the days before a U.N. resolution is put to a vote.
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Egyptian group denies it's in al-Qaida
Aug 6 2006 10:34PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian militant group denied on Sunday that it had joined al-Qaida, saying the majority of its members were sticking by a truce with the government declared almost a decade ago.
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3 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq bombing
Aug 6 2006 10:25PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Fighting erupted early Monday in a Shiite militia stronghold of Baghdad, and a suicide bomber blew himself up among mourners at a funeral in Saddam Hussein's hometown, killing 10 people and injuring 22.
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Israeli planes strike deep into Lebanon
Aug 6 2006 9:28PM (CT)
KFAR GILADI, Israel (AP) - A defiant Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with rockets Sunday after rejecting a U.S.-French truce proposal, killing at least 15 people. Israel also struck hard, killing at least 14 in Lebanon as both sides tried to take advantage of the days before a U.N. resolution is put to a vote.
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U.S. delays action on Mideast peace deal
Aug 6 2006 9:10PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States and France ran into strong opposition from Lebanon and the Arab world Sunday in their drive for speedy adoption of a U.N. resolution aimed at ending the escalating Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, primarily over the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
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Medic recounts finding Iraqi girl's body
Aug 6 2006 8:08PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi army medic on Sunday told a U.S. military hearing of the horrific scene that confronted him in a tiny home south of Baghdad where he found the naked and burned body of a 14-year-old girl allegedly raped and murdered by American soldiers.
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Israel: U.N. deal must disarm Hezbollah
Aug 6 2006 7:41PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - A U.N.-declared cease-fire to stop the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas must ensure that the militant Shiite group cannot be rearmed by Syria and Iran, a senior Israeli official said Sunday.
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American-Israeli victim buried
Aug 6 2006 6:41PM (CT)
KIBBUTZ SAAR, Israel (AP) - An American immigrant killed by a Hezbollah rocket as he was riding his bicycle toward a bomb shelter in northern Israel was buried on Sunday.
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Jordan court convicts Islamist lawmakers
Aug 6 2006 4:45PM (CT)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan's military court on Sunday convicted two Islamist lawmakers of instigating sectarian strife by praising Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as a martyr.
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Japan marks 61st Hiroshima anniversary
Aug 6 2006 3:49PM (CT)
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - The mayor of Hiroshima on Sunday called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons as he marked the 61st anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack, which killed more than 140,000 people in the Japanese city.
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Iran says will expand nuclear activities
Aug 6 2006 3:24PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran vowed Sunday to expand its uranium enrichment, defying a U.N. Security Council deadline for it to suspend its nuclear activities by the end of the month or face the threat of political and economic sanctions.
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Hezbollah rockets kill at least 3
Aug 6 2006 1:52PM (CT)
HAIFA, Israel (AP) - A barrage of Hezbollah rockets crashed into Haifa on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding more than 40, officials said, in the heaviest attack on the port city since fighting with the Lebanese-based militia began nearly four weeks ago.
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Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan
Aug 6 2006 12:26PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war," between Israeli and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win.
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Blair work phones, plugging U.N. draft
Aug 6 2006 10:45AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Seeking to ensure passage of a proposed U.N. resolution on the Mideast, British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke to President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday in a fresh round of telephone diplomacy.
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More than 100 killed in Ethiopia floods
Aug 6 2006 9:22AM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - More than 100 people were killed by flooding Sunday in a town in eastern Ethiopia, a government official said.
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Syrian minister rejects cease-fire plan
Aug 6 2006 8:40AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Syrian foreign minister declared on Sunday that the U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war."
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Lebanon rockets hurt China peacekeepers
Aug 6 2006 7:49AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A rocket blast in southern Lebanon injured three Chinese peacekeepers on Sunday, just hours after China called on the United Nations to ensure the security of U.N. peacekeepers in the Middle East, state media reported.
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Lebanon rejects cease-fire resolution
Aug 6 2006 7:11AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Lebanese parliamentary speaker, a prominent Shiite who has been negotiating on behalf of Hezbollah, rejected the U.S.-French draft U.N. cease-fire resolution on Sunday because it did not include the government's plan for ending the fighting.
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Israeli army arrests Hezbollah guerrilla
Aug 6 2006 6:51AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli soldiers in Lebanon have arrested a Hezbollah guerrilla involved in the July 12 raid that captured two Israeli soldiers and sparked the devastating round of fighting between Israel and the militant group, the army said Sunday.
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Hezbollah rockets kill 10 in Israel
Aug 6 2006 6:47AM (CT)
KFAR GILADI, Israel (AP) - Hezbollah guerrillas fired a barrage of rockets across northern Israel Sunday, killing 10 people at a communal farm and wounding eight in the worst attack on Israel since fighting erupted July 12.
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