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Lebanese army moves below Litani River
Aug 16 2006 11:44PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese troops began deploying south of the strategic Litani River early Thursday, a senior military official said, after the Israeli army stepped up its withdrawal from the south Lebanon region and handed over some of its positions to U.N. peacekeepers.
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Group warns of unexploded Mideast ammo
Aug 16 2006 9:49PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday that unexploded munitions threatened to take more lives as civilians returned to their homes after 34 days of fighting in southern Lebanon.
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Peres: Israel may leave Lebanon in weeks
Aug 16 2006 9:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Israel will withdraw its forces from Lebanon once the Lebanese army and an international peacekeeping force are deployed in Hezbollah's stronghold near the border with Israel, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Wednesday.
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Israel wants U.N. to help monitor border
Aug 16 2006 7:51PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Israel wants an expanded U.N. force to help monitor the Lebanese border to prevent Iran and Syria from replenishing Hezbollah's weapons, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Wednesday.
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Israel begins handing over positions
Aug 16 2006 5:23PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli army has begun its withdrawal from southern Lebanon, handing over some of their positions to a U.N force, the army said Thursday.
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Iran leader praises Hezbollah resistance
Aug 16 2006 5:14PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to Hezbollah head Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, described the militant group's clashes with Israel as a "victory" for Islam.
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Judge orders 23 plane-plot suspects held
Aug 16 2006 4:04PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A district judge ruled late Wednesday that 23 suspects in the foiled British terror plot would be kept in custody through next week.
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Lebanese general held over Israeli video
Aug 16 2006 3:44PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A Lebanese general was ordered arrested Wednesday for appearing in a videotape drinking tea with Israeli soldiers who had occupied his south Lebanon barracks during their incursion of the country.
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Wife pleads for kidnapped Fox cameraman
Aug 16 2006 3:42PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The wife of a kidnapped Fox News cameraman made a public plea Wednesday to his kidnappers to release him and his fellow journalist. Palestinian officials said they have no firm leads on where the two men are being held.
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Hospital says Sharon in stable condition
Aug 16 2006 3:38PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The hospital treating former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday he was in stable condition two days after being put on antibiotics for double pneumonia.
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Lebanese signing up for Hezbollah aid
Aug 16 2006 3:36PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese turned out by the hundreds Wednesday to sign up for aid from Hezbollah, which is offering rent money, reconstruction money and even money for new furniture in a campaign likely to win new public support.
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Red Cross: Explosives hinder Mideast aid
Aug 16 2006 3:33PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Unexploded bombs littering southern Lebanon slowed evacuation of the wounded and deliveries of food and fuel Wednesday to people cut off by weeks of fighting, officials said.
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Criticism of Lebanon war rises in Israel
Aug 16 2006 3:27PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister appointed a former army chief of staff on Wednesday to investigate the military's handling of the 34-day war in Lebanon as public criticism intensified that the offensive was poorly planned, unsuccessful and not worth its cost in human lives.
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Teen boy killed in Hamas-Fatah clashes
Aug 16 2006 1:49PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian gunmen from the rival Hamas and Fatah militias clashed Wednesday in southern Gaza, killing a 14-year old boy in the crossfire and injuring four others, security and hospital officials said.
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21 killed in series of Baghdad bombings
Aug 16 2006 1:33PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Bombs killed 21 people in central Baghdad on Wednesday, and gunmen attacked the governor's office in Iraq's second-largest city _ another sign of unrest in the Shiite heartland as U.S. troops step up operations in the capital after the deadliest month for civilians of the war.
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3-day sweep secures Baghdad neighborhood
Aug 16 2006 1:04PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The nightlife is zero and most shops are shut, but U.S. and Iraqi forces said Wednesday that a three-day security sweep has cleaned up _ at least for now _ a mostly Sunni neighborhood in west Baghdad, notorious for kidnappings, murders and bombings.
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In western Iraq, insurgency is gaining
Aug 16 2006 8:47AM (CT)
HADITHA, Iraq (AP) - In the dusty plains of western Iraq, al-Qaida is gaining strength. Daily attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces are on the rise, and there is little sign of progress in persuading the population to support the national government. U.S. commanders acknowledge they are locked in struggle with insurgents for the allegiance of Iraq's youth.
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Al-Qaida gains strength in Sunni heartland
Aug 16 2006 4:08AM (CT)
HADITHA, Iraq (AP) - In the dusty plains of western Iraq, al-Qaida is gaining strength. Daily attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces are on the rise and there is little sign of progress in convincing the population to support the national government.
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U.N. says peacekeepers now in Lebanon
Aug 16 2006 3:12AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations says the 2,000 U.N. peacekeepers now in southern Lebanon can start overseeing the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the deployment of the Lebanese army very quickly if all the parties agree.
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