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Blasts kill 62 in Shiite area of Baghdad
Aug 13 2006 11:26PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Car bombs and a rocket barrage struck a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 62 people, a municipal official said. The rockets apparently were fired from a mostly Sunni district targeted by U.S. troops in a crackdown against the sectarian violence roiling the capital.
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Israel pounds Beirut ahead of cease-fire
Aug 13 2006 10:54PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Cabinet became the final party to sign on to the U.N. cease-fire deal Sunday, while Israeli planes blasted Beirut and ground troops battled Hezbollah in south Lebanon seeking to batter the militant Islamic group in the hours before fighting stopped.
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Shiite to preside over 2nd Saddam trial
Aug 13 2006 10:34PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A 54-year-old Shiite jurist will preside as chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein and six others for their role in the 1980s campaign that killed an estimated 100,000 Kurds, a court official said Sunday.
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Haifa residents wary of cease-fire
Aug 13 2006 10:14PM (CT)
HAIFA, Israel (AP) - Residents of war-weary Haifa said Sunday that they had no confidence that a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas will hold.
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Israel novelist Grossman's son is killed
Aug 13 2006 10:02PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The son of Israeli novelist and peace activist David Grossman has been killed in southern Lebanon, the army said Sunday, just days after the author urged the government to end the war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Iran leader: U.N. serves U.S. interests
Aug 13 2006 6:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blames the U.S. for growing violence in the Mideast, saying fighting has continued in Lebanon because the United Nations only serves U.S. interests.
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Israeli air raids kill 7 in east Lebanon
Aug 13 2006 5:37PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Two Israeli air raids on a village in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley late Sunday killed at least seven people and wounded nearly two dozen, a civil defense official said, hours before a cease-fire was to take effect.
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General hears Marines' concerns in Iraq
Aug 13 2006 4:23PM (CT)
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - The top U.S. general dropped into this volatile city Sunday to hear what was on the minds of Marines doing battle daily with a resilient and deadly insurgency. Some of what he heard sounded like a sign of creeping doubt _ not about the Marines' mission but about the wider purpose it is supposed to be serving as the U.S. war death count tops 2,600.
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Iraqi has worst fuel shortage since '03
Aug 13 2006 3:28PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Under a scorching sun, Baghdad taxi driver Sameer Abdul Razzaq wraps a wet towel around his head and waits for gasoline in a line stretching a mile. "I've been here since 6 a.m.," he said Sunday. "If I'm lucky, I'll get to the end of the line by sunset. I actually think I might end up spending the night here."
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Hezbollah leader a hero to many Arabs
Aug 13 2006 12:50PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Despite the terrible toll in death and destruction in Lebanon, even enemies and critics say the stature of Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has risen dramatically from his guerrillas fighting toe-to-toe with the Israeli army.
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Female general looks back on her climb
Aug 13 2006 12:35PM (CT)
CAMP ANACONDA, Iraq (AP) - Retracing her path to becoming a brigadier general in Iraq, Rebecca Halstead remembers her first command back in 1981 where, as a freshly minted lieutenant, she was teamed with a sergeant who had served in Vietnam.
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Iraq minister says 7 bodyguards arrested
Aug 13 2006 10:40AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear.
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Analysis: For Israel, an imperfect deal
Aug 13 2006 10:33AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - For Israel, the U.N. cease-fire deal is far from perfect. A U.N. force deploying in south Lebanon as part of the truce will have trouble keeping Hezbollah at bay for long or prevent the Iranian-supplied guerrillas from rearming, critics said, pointing to past failures of international peacekeepers.
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Mayor: Mine collapse kills 2 in Turkey
Aug 13 2006 8:15AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A methane gas explosion collapsed a coal mine in northwest Turkey on Sunday, killing two miners, local officials said.
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Annan: Mideast cease-fire starts Monday
Aug 13 2006 8:10AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that a cease-fire in the Hezbollah-Israel fighting will take effect at 8 a.m. Lebanese time (1 a.m. EDT) Monday.
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Explosions rock Hezbollah stronghold
Aug 13 2006 6:59AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - At least 20 huge explosions rattled Beirut over a two minute period Sunday, in what appeared to be shelling of south Beirut by Israeli warships anchored off the Lebanese coast.
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Israeli cabinet to vote on cease-fire
Aug 13 2006 3:21AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Cabinet met Sunday to approve a U.N. cease-fire plan despite widespread concerns among Israelis that it would be viewed as a draw with Hezbollah guerrillas who have inflicted heavy losses on Israeli troops.
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Arab League criticizes U.N. resolution
Aug 13 2006 1:33AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Arab countries criticized a U.N. Security Council resolution for not clearly labeling Israel the main aggressor in the conflict with Hezbollah, but expressed cautious hopes that an end to the monthlong conflict could be nearing.
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