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Lebanon buries war dead in mass funerals
Aug 18 2006 11:45PM (CT)
QANA, Lebanon (AP) - The breeze blew fine dust across graves where 29 people killed in an Israeli airstrike _ half of them children _ were buried, as the ground was opened for funerals in south Lebanon on Friday, the Muslim holy day.
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Annan urges Israel to lift blockade
Aug 18 2006 11:27PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Israel on Friday to immediately lift the air and sea blockade on Lebanon so hundreds of thousands of Lebanese caught up in the 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah war can quickly receive aid.
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Israeli jets reportedly fly over Lebanon
Aug 18 2006 11:25PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli warplanes crisscrossed the skies above Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley early Saturday, near the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek, security officials said.
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Analysis: Frustration dogs Iraq politics
Aug 18 2006 11:21PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Frustration in Washington. Digging in heels in Baghdad. There's little sign that Iraq's government of national unity is bringing together the country's sectarian and ethnic groups _ as hoped _ so that U.S. troops can leave anytime soon.
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Jordan sends ambassador to Iraq
Aug 18 2006 9:56PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Jordan has become the first Arab state to send a fully accredited ambassador to Iraq, a major display of political support for the U.S.-backed government in the face of past kidnapping-slayings of Muslim diplomats.
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Israeli troops criticize army, equipment
Aug 18 2006 9:56PM (CT)
METULLA, Israel (AP) - Israeli soldiers returning from the war in Lebanon say the army was slow to rescue wounded comrades and suffered from a lack of supplies so dire that they had to drink water from the canteens of dead Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Gadhafi says he spoke with North Korea
Aug 18 2006 7:02PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi told a visiting Japanese official that his country has urged North Korea to give up efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
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U.N. appeals to Europe for peacekeepers
Aug 18 2006 6:58PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations appealed to European countries Friday to contribute to an expanded peacekeeping force in Lebanon that would have a balance of European and Muslim troops so that Israel and Lebanon will view it as legitimate.
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Turkey says it forced Iran planes down
Aug 18 2006 4:03PM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - The Turkish Foreign Ministry said Friday that it had forced two Syria-bound Iranian planes to land and be searched for rockets and other military equipment during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Mass funerals in southern Lebanon
Aug 18 2006 3:12PM (CT)
QANA, Lebanon (AP) - The breeze blew fine dust across graves where 29 people killed in an Israeli airstrike _ half of them children _ were buried, as the ground was opened for funerals in south Lebanon on Friday, the Muslim holy day.
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Wife of kidnapped cameraman makes plea
Aug 18 2006 2:53PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The wife of a kidnapped Fox News cameraman made a tearful plea Friday for information about the whereabouts of her husband and a fellow Fox journalist.
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Israeli overflights reported in Lebanon
Aug 18 2006 2:24PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli aerial drones and warplanes crisscrossed the skies over Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley Friday night near the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek, security officials said.
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18 Iranians die in bus crash in Turkey
Aug 18 2006 11:49AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A bus carrying Iranian tourists crashed into a truck in eastern Turkey early Friday, killing 18 and injuring 29, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
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Israel: Hezbollah used Russian missiles
Aug 18 2006 11:04AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli officials said Friday that a senior delegation went to Moscow this week to complain that Russian-made anti-tank missiles were used by Hezbollah guerrillas in their 34-day conflict with Israeli forces in Lebanon.
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Group doubts fairness of Saddam tribunal
Aug 18 2006 10:45AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi tribunal is incapable of fairly and effectively trying Saddam Hussein and six others on genocide charges stemming from an Iraqi campaign that killed an estimated 100,000 Kurds in the 1980s, a human rights group said Friday.
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Kiss controversy claims Israeli official
Aug 18 2006 10:33AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's justice minister, a key ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, announced Friday that he will resign, clearing the way for him to stand trial on accusations he forcibly kissed an 18-year-old female soldier.
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U.N. says most Lebanese returning home
Aug 18 2006 10:02AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Most of the people who fled fighting in southern Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel are returning home from shelters in Lebanon and Syria, U.N. officials said Friday.
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Baghdad cars banned for Shiite ceremony
Aug 18 2006 9:10AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi authorities banned private vehicles from Baghdad streets starting Friday night to prevent attacks during a major Shiite religious ceremony marking the death of a Shiite saint.
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Jordanian first Arab ambassador in Iraq
Aug 18 2006 8:43AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Jordanian envoy Ahmed al-Lozi has presented his credentials to the Iraqi government, becoming the first fully accredited Arab ambassador in the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein, an official said Friday.
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Hezbollah guerrillas reflect on damage
Aug 18 2006 2:51AM (CT)
ADAISSE, Lebanon (AP) - In ruined towns along Lebanon's southern border, Hezbollah fighters swerved their motorbikes around flattened houses and sewer pipes protruding from bombed-out roads. One offered up mineral water with a Hebrew label _ taken from the stash of some Israeli soldiers who never made it home.
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Arabs seek new Mideast peace initiative
Aug 18 2006 2:20AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Arab nations want the U.N. Security Council to help launch a new peace process to end the broader Arab-Israeli conflict, saying the "road map" unveiled in 2003 to establish a Palestinian state is dead.
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U.N., others to help in Lebanon oil spill
Aug 18 2006 12:39AM (CT)
PIRAEUS, Greece (AP) - U.N. and maritime agencies promised help to Lebanon Thursday to clean up an oil slick caused by Israeli bombing during the monthlong fighting.
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