Middle East News
European News
Canadian News
Latin American News
Asian News
Australian & Pacific News
African News
|
|
|
|
|
|
20 Shiite pilgrims shot to death in Iraq
Aug 20 2006 11:25PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Snipers lurking on buildings and in a cemetery sprayed bullets into Shiite Muslim religious processions in the capital Sunday, killing at least 20 people in another spasm of sectarian bloodletting that many Iraqis fear is pushing them toward civil war.
|
|
|
Lebanon warns against inciting Israel
Aug 20 2006 11:23PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's defense minister said Sunday he is certain Hezbollah will not break the cease-fire but warned all militant groups of harsh measures and a traitor's fate if they incite Israeli retaliation by firing rockets into the Jewish state.
|
|
|
Israel puts conditions on peacekeepers
Aug 20 2006 11:21PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that countries which don't have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state should not participate in the international peacekeeping force that will police a truce along the Lebanese border, his office said.
|
|
|
Iran says it won't suspend enrichment
Aug 20 2006 9:04PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran said Sunday that it will offer a "multifaceted response" Tuesday to a Western package of incentives aimed at persuading Tehran to rein in its nuclear program, but insisted it won't suspend uranium enrichment altogether.
|
|
|
Saddam faces genocide charges Monday
Aug 20 2006 7:55PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A new legal chapter opens Monday for Saddam Hussein when the ousted Iraqi leader goes on trial for a second time, charged with genocide and war crimes from his scorched-earth offensive against Kurds nearly two decades ago.
|
|
|
Pleas made for release of 2 journalists
Aug 20 2006 7:06PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A New Zealand envoy and the brother of an American reporter made separate televised pleas Sunday urging militants to release two Fox News journalists kidnapped last week in the Gaza Strip.
|
|
|
Israel seizes senior West Bank lawmaker
Aug 20 2006 6:23PM (CT)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israeli forces seized a senior Palestinian legislator Sunday in the latest move in a 7-week-old crackdown on the ruling Hamas movement, drawing angry accusations from Palestinian leaders that Israel is undermining their efforts to form a unity government.
|
|
|
Arab ministers gather to discuss Lebanon
Aug 20 2006 3:52PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Arab foreign ministers debated Sunday how to fund reconstruction in Lebanon and defuse Mideast tensions amid rising discord between moderate Arabs and Syria, a main backer of Hezbollah.
|
|
|
Lebanese town full of Hezbollah fighters
Aug 20 2006 3:41PM (CT)
BOUDAI, Lebanon (AP) - Jumpy Hezbollah fighters flooded Boudai on Sunday, brandishing Kalashnikovs and stopping, searching and questioning outsiders the day after the town fought off an Israeli commando raid with a 90-minute shootout.
|
|
|
Analysis: Lebanon's fragile unity cracks
Aug 20 2006 3:12PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon had not even finished burying the dead from 34 days of war when the country's deep sectarian and political divisions split open again. That has shattered the semblance of unity that held, just barely, through the Israeli attacks against Hezbollah.
|
|
|
Texting, ring tones all the rage in Iraq
Aug 20 2006 1:45PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Beep, beep, beep. Then the text comes: "President Bush calls for a timetable for the withdrawal of the Iraqi people from Iraq."
|
|
|
Iran test-fires 10 short-range missiles
Aug 20 2006 8:50AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran test-fired 10 surface-to-surface short-range missiles on Sunday, a day after it launched a series of large-scale military exercises throughout the country, state-run television reported. The Saegheh missile had a range of between 50 and 150 miles, the report said. It did not specify whether the missile was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, but it was not believed to be.
|
|
|
Snipers kill 16 pilgrims in Baghdad
Aug 20 2006 7:44AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Snipers fired on a major Shiite religious procession in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 16 pilgrims and injuring 230, officials said. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police.
|
|
|
Iran tests short-range missile
Aug 20 2006 1:29AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran on Sunday test-fired a surface-to-surface short-range missile a day after its army launched large-scale military exercises throughout the country, state-run television reported.
|
|
|
|
|
|