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Lebanese PM rejects U.N. cease-fire plan
Aug 7 2006 11:54PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's government rejected a U.N. cease-fire plan backed by President Bush on Monday, demanding Israel immediately withdraw even before a peacekeeping force arrives and promising to send 15,000 troops to take control of the Hezbollah stronghold along the border.
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Annan: Israel raid may be part of pattern
Aug 7 2006 10:35PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Israel's air raid on in the Lebanese town of Qana, which killed 28 people, may be part of a larger pattern of violations of international law in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report Monday.
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Israel shows video of Hezbollah fighter
Aug 7 2006 9:14PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's army released a video Monday purporting to show the interrogation of a Hezbollah fighter acknowledging his part in the raid on an Israeli army patrol July 12 _ the spark that ignited the current conflict in Lebanon.
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Iraq PM criticizes U.S.-led attack
Aug 7 2006 8:48PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's prime minister sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack Monday on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, breaking with his American partners on security tactics as the United States launches a major operation to secure the capital.
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Morocco arrests 44 terrorist suspects
Aug 7 2006 8:35PM (CT)
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Moroccan security services have arrested 44 suspected terrorists and dismantled a network allegedly planning attacks in the North African country, the state news agency reported Monday.
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Palestinians probe suspicious envelope
Aug 7 2006 8:10PM (CT)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinians launched an investigation Monday after seven people were hospitalized when one of them opened a suspicious envelope addressed to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, officials said.
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Red Cross: Israel denying safe passage
Aug 7 2006 5:47PM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - The Israeli military has denied permission for aid groups to move food and medicine to besieged villages in southern Lebanon for two days, the Red Cross said Monday.
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Army details rape-slaying of Iraqi girl
Aug 7 2006 5:14PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - American soldiers took turns raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, and one of them put a bullet through her head after killing her parents and 5-year-old sister, an Army investigator testified Monday.
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German court rules for Iranian lesbian
Aug 7 2006 4:21PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - A German court said Monday that it has ruled that an Iranian lesbian cannot be deported to her homeland because she risks facing punishment there for her sexual orientation.
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Israeli hospitals working under fire
Aug 7 2006 3:43PM (CT)
HAIFA, Israel (AP) - In a hospital basement with walls of bare concrete and a ceiling crisscrossed by yellow and blue pipes, a patient just back from heart surgery lay immobile on a bed.
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Israeli army declares curfew in Lebanon
Aug 7 2006 3:36PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli army said it declared an indefinite curfew that began Monday night on the movement of vehicles in Lebanon south of the Litani River.
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Baby winning fight for life in Lebanon
Aug 7 2006 2:18PM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - Only two hours old, Raad fought for his life in an ambulance that screamed along a treacherous, bombed-out stretch of road out of the heart of southern Lebanon's war zone.
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Analysis: Firebrand cleric more cautious
Aug 7 2006 2:16PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi forces strike the Baghdad base of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr _ but his gunmen hold their fire. U.S. soldiers kill 15 of al-Sadr's followers, drawing little more than a few perfunctory complaints.
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Lebanon: Resolution won't end fighting
Aug 7 2006 2:15PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Lebanon warned on Monday that a U.N. draft resolution will not end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants and could exacerbate divisions in the country to the point of "possible civil strife."
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Lebanon commits 15,000 troops to south
Aug 7 2006 2:14PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Lebanese government unanimously agreed Monday to send 15,000 soldiers to south Lebanon if Israeli troops withdraw, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said.
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Obstacles abound to U.N. Mideast force
Aug 7 2006 2:13PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Across the globe, at least 15 nations are considering sending troops to an eventual U.N.-mandated international force in southern Lebanon _ including Malaysia, Indonesia and Norway.
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Israeli attack kills 5 in Beirut suburbs
Aug 7 2006 1:25PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - An Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut shortly after nightfall Monday killed at least five people, police said. Security officials said there were at least 20 total casualties.
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Israeli shoots down Hezbollah spy drone
Aug 7 2006 1:23PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli air force shot down a Hezbollah drone for the first time Monday, sending its wreckage plunging into the sea, the army said.
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France to consider Lebanese objections
Aug 7 2006 12:36PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - France's U.N. ambassador promised Monday to consider Lebanese concerns that a proposed U.N. cease-fire resolution does not seek the withdrawal of Israeli troops, but he did not say whether his nation was prepared to add such language.
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Olmert talks expansion with officials
Aug 7 2006 10:01AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Monday with top defense officials to discuss whether to expand Israel's 27-day-old offensive in southern Lebanon, and several members of his Cabinet pressed for an escalation in the fighting.
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Arabs to send delegation backing Lebanon
Aug 7 2006 9:42AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Arab foreign ministers decided Monday to send a delegation to the United Nations to represent Lebanon's interests at the Security Council, an aide to Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said.
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U.S. troops endure 125 degrees in Iraq
Aug 7 2006 8:01AM (CT)
RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - After a long day searching homes in suffocating Iraqi heat, Lance Cpl. Mike Young saw a most surprising source of relief _ a sprawling Wal-Mart had appeared in the distance.
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Israeli Arabs seek refuge in Bethlehem
Aug 7 2006 4:16AM (CT)
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - After spending three weeks in a bomb shelter in northern Israel, Rashid Khoury and his friends are lounging around a spacious hotel lobby in Bethlehem.
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Arab anger at their governments grow
Aug 7 2006 2:48AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - As their anger against Israel and America swells, protesters across the Middle East are also increasingly venting their frustration at their Arab rulers, especially in moderate countries whose governments have been reliable U.S. allies.
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Hezbollah fighters resume Beirut patrols
Aug 7 2006 2:35AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah operatives emerged onto the smoke-filled streets soon after an Israeli airstrike leveled a building in their urban stronghold, walkie-talkies tucked unobtrusively under their black T-shirts.
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Arabs condemn Israel arrest of Palestinian
Aug 7 2006 12:19AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Arab and Islamic officials on Sunday condemned Israel for arresting the Palestinian parliament speaker and called for his immediate release.
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