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Iran wants to talk but keep nuke program
Aug 22 2006 11:36PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran said Tuesday it was ready for "serious negotiations" on its nuclear program, offering a new formula to resolve a crisis with the West. A semiofficial news agency said the government was unwilling to abandon uranium enrichment _ the key U.S. demand.
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U.N. envoy: Israel may OK prisoner swap
Aug 22 2006 10:16PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - A senior U.N. envoy said Tuesday that efforts were continuing to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah and that Israel may be warming to the idea of trading Lebanese prisoners it holds in exchange.
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Romania oil rig in Persian Gulf attacked
Aug 22 2006 9:34PM (CT)
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romania said Iranian warships opened fire and seized a Romanian oil rig Tuesday off the coast of Iran, holding its workers for hours in an incident stemming from a commercial dispute.
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Report: Iran wields influence in Iraq
Aug 22 2006 8:42PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Iran wields more influence than the United States in Iraq and has established itself as America's chief rival in the Middle East, a British think tank said in a report released Wednesday.
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U.N. draft rules of engagement detailed
Aug 22 2006 8:39PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Proposed rules of engagement for an expanded U.N. force in southern Lebanon would allow troops to open fire in self-defense, protect civilians and back up the Lebanese army in preventing foreign forces or arms from crossing the border, according to a U.N. document obtained Tuesday.
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Israel accused of war crimes in Lebanon
Aug 22 2006 7:51PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Israel of war crimes, saying it broke international law by deliberately destroying Lebanon's civilian infrastructure during its recent war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Palestinian civil servants to strike
Aug 22 2006 7:45PM (CT)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinian civil servants, including teachers, announced Tuesday they would launch an open-ended strike Sept. 2, the first day of the school year, in another blow to the cash-strapped Hamas government.
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Pressure on Europe to supply U.N. troops
Aug 22 2006 7:08PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Pressure is mounting on the European Union to pull together peacekeeper contributions to bolster the shaky cease-fire in Lebanon.
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Israel: No plans to end Lebanon blockade
Aug 22 2006 6:43PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Israel has no plans to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon takes up positions along the Syrian border and at Beirut's airport.
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Lebanese see scant hope in peacekeepers
Aug 22 2006 6:17PM (CT)
NAQOURA, Lebanon (AP) - When Israeli airstrikes and artillery pounded the rocky hills around this Mediterranean village last month, U.N. peacekeepers could do little but watch helplessly.
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Lebanon's month-old oil slick sinks
Aug 22 2006 6:11PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing has begun sinking to the floor of the Mediterranean, blanketing marine life with sludge, according to a Greenpeace video that shows dead fish along the sea bottom.
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Iraq looking into young girl's death
Aug 22 2006 4:28PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq has launched its own probe into the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl by American soldiers even though they face a possible U.S. court-martial in the case, an official said Tuesday.
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Israel president in sex harassment probe
Aug 22 2006 3:35PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli President Moshe Katsav will face questioning in a sexual harassment investigation, police said Tuesday after seizing computers and documents in a late-night raid on his official residence.
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Tour bus overturns on Sinai, killing 11
Aug 22 2006 2:01PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A bus carrying tourists overturned in the Sinai peninsula Tuesday killing 11 people, most of them Israeli Arabs, and injuring more than 30, police and hospital officials said.
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In Saddam trial, Kurds describe attack
Aug 22 2006 1:52PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A Kurdish woman testified Tuesday in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein, breaking down in tears as she described how foul smoke billowed across her village in a 1987 poison gas attack and how her male relatives disappeared at a prison camp.
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Olmert: Blockade ends when force lands
Aug 22 2006 12:21PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a visiting U.N. envoy Tuesday that Israel will lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon once an international peacekeeping force is deployed along Lebanon's borders.
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Hezbollah fighter's zeal undiminished
Aug 22 2006 10:41AM (CT)
SRIFA, Lebanon (AP) - Abu Hadi is a farmer. He also claims to be a fighter for Hezbollah, the guerrilla movement whose unexpected attack on an Israeli outpost last month plunged Lebanon and Israel into a 34-day vortex of destruction that left more than 800 people dead.
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Israeli police search president's home
Aug 22 2006 6:32AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Police raided the official residence of Israeli President Moshe Katsav as part of a sexual harassment investigation, seizing computers and documents, officials said Tuesday.
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Iraqi panel launches own rape-slay probe
Aug 22 2006 4:31AM (CT)
MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi investigative panel has launched an independent probe into the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl allegedly by American soldiers currently in U.S. custody, who will be tried in absentia if necessary, an official said Tuesday.
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Israelis kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza
Aug 22 2006 3:38AM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops shot and killed three militants from the Islamic Jihad group near the Israel-Gaza border on Tuesday, as soldiers conducted house-to-house searches and made arrests elsewhere in the coast strip.
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Israeli Defense Ministry suspends review
Aug 22 2006 1:59AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli Defense Ministry has suspended a panel's review of the military's performance during the just-ended war in Lebanon, security officials said.
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