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Israeli soldiers clear out Gaza Strip
Aug 17 2005 10:44PM (CT)
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (AP) - Jewish settlers sobbed and screamed, some of them ripping their shirts in mourning, as Israeli troops dragged them from homes and synagogues Wednesday _ the beginning of the end of Israel's 38-year occupation of the Gaza Strip.
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Three car bombs kill up to 43 in Iraq
Aug 17 2005 9:54PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three car bombs exploded Wednesday near a crowded bus station and a nearby hospital where survivors were being taken, killing up to 43 people in the deadliest suicide attack in Baghdad in weeks. Rescuers used bolt cutters to free some victims hurled into barbed wire fences by the blast.
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U.N.: Sudan rebel group committed to peace
Aug 17 2005 8:43PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The head of the United Nations in Sudan said Wednesday that one of the main Darfur rebel factions was dedicated to resuming peace talks even though it had asked to postpone a session slated later this month.
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Palestinian banners fuel U.N. dispute
Aug 17 2005 7:18PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations is embroiled in a dispute with American Jewish organizations over the funding of Palestinian banners in Gaza, and U.S. Ambassador John Bolton on Wednesday protested the "unacceptable" payments.
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Aspiring Egypt leaders launch campaigns
Aug 17 2005 6:18PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Campaigning in Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential election kicked off Wednesday with President Hosni Mubarak _ unchallenged for 24 years and almost certain to win _ trying to depict himself as just another competitor in a 10-man race.
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Gaza evictions wrench settlers and troops
Aug 17 2005 4:56PM (CT)
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (AP) - During the first day of Israel's forcible evacuation of Gaza settlers, troops were authorized to be tough but were still under orders to act as sensitively as possible.
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Gaza settlers push children to front line
Aug 17 2005 3:38PM (CT)
KEREM ATZMONA, Gaza Strip (AP) - One family pinned orange Star of David badges to eight screaming children, who marched from a trailer with hands raised _ apparently to recall images of the Nazi deportation of Jews.
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Palestinians cheer Gaza Strip withdrawal
Aug 17 2005 2:01PM (CT)
AL-MAWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) - As soldiers chased down a group of protesters outside a Jewish settlement Wednesday and hauled them away in a bus, Abu Salah and his family watched and smiled.
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Pullout revives exiles' hopes to go home
Aug 17 2005 1:55PM (CT)
GAZA CAMP, Jordan (AP) - As children in the street chanted "Gaza is liberated," 65-year-old Ayed Suleiman Abu-Hashish broke into tears.
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Iraq enjoys some of world's cheapest gas
Aug 17 2005 12:33PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Motorists struggling with high gas prices in the United States and Europe may be surprised to learn that consumers in Iraq pay as little as 5 cents a gallon, according to the International Monetary Fund's first assessment of the Iraqi economy in 25 years.
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Group criticizes Iraq constitution panel
Aug 17 2005 9:03AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The largest Sunni Arab political party criticized the committee drafting the constitution on Wednesday, calling it biased and chaotic.
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Iraq leader paves way for legal hangings
Aug 17 2005 7:30AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - President Jalal Talabani has paved the way for the first legal execution in Iraq since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, the presidential office said Wednesday. The case involves three men sentenced to hang for murdering three policemen.
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Annan accuses Sudan rebels of banditry
Aug 17 2005 6:27AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan accused Sudanese rebels of increasing abductions, extortion and banditry in a "descent into lawlessness" that has intensified insecurity in the conflict-wracked Darfur region.
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Woman sets herself on fire in Israel
Aug 17 2005 5:58AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - A right-wing West Bank settler opposed to Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip set herself on fire Wednesday in southern Israel, suffering life-threatening burns on 70 percent of her body, police and hospital officials said.
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Palestinian farm family could lose land
Aug 17 2005 5:13AM (CT)
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Israeli settlement of Morag, one of 21 to be dismantled by Israel in the coming days, sits on 150 acres owned by a Palestinian farming family.
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Three car bombings in Baghdad kill 41
Aug 17 2005 3:45AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three car bomb attacks near a bus station and hospital in central Baghdad Wednesday killed at least 41 people and wounded 85, police said.
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