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Iraqi Shiites to submit amended charter
Aug 26 2005 9:56PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's Shiite and Kurdish leaders decided Friday to send an amended constitution to parliament this weekend, even though Sunni Arab negotiators said they rejected the latest document. Bypassing Sunnis would be a blow to U.S. efforts to lure them away from the insurgency.
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Hamas Bombmaker vows to continue attacks
Aug 26 2005 8:56PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The militant group Hamas on Saturday released a rare videotape of a man it said is the shadowy bombmaker who has eluded Israeli forces for more than a decade.
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Jewish population in West Bank expanding
Aug 26 2005 8:49PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - As Israel basked in world admiration for pulling out of the Gaza Strip, new official figures released Friday showed the Jewish population of the West Bank is expanding rapidly, growing by more than 12,000 in the past year alone.
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Group struggles to feed refugees in Sudan
Aug 26 2005 5:47PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The U.N.'s food relief agency said Friday that it's battling to feed 90,000 Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees displaced in eastern Sudan mainly due to a serious funding shortfall.
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Saudis say suspected militants arrested
Aug 26 2005 5:45PM (CT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi authorities on Friday announced the arrest of 41 suspected militants, including those captured during a series of simultaneous raids earlier this month in which al-Qaida's leader in Saudi Arabia was killed.
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Palestinians may rename some settlements
Aug 26 2005 5:29PM (CT)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - The Palestinian Authority is looking for new names for evacuated Jewish settlements, and is considering calling some of them after the late Palestinian leaders Yasser Arafat and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, officials said Friday.
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Envoy says Iran won't budge on uranium
Aug 26 2005 5:06PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Tehran's top nuclear envoy said Friday that Iran will not negotiate away its right to enrich uranium and shrugged off threats of possible U.N. action if Tehran insists on possessing technology that could be used to make the bomb.
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Iraqi constitution draft to be presented
Aug 26 2005 4:36PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The chairman of Iraq's constitution committee said the new draft will be sent to parliament either Saturday or Sunday.
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Egypt TV airs criticism of Mubarak regime
Aug 26 2005 2:31PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - It wasn't odd that an opposition figure should slam President Hosni Mubarak's campaign promises to battle unemployment. The surprise was where it happened: on Egypt's state-run television.
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U.S. hits suspected terror base in Iraq
Aug 26 2005 2:02PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. warplanes launched multiple airstrikes Friday against a suspected "terrorist safe house" in the western Anbar province, destroying the building where up to 50 militants were believed to be hiding, the U.S. military said.
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Egypt police withdraw from mountain range
Aug 26 2005 10:24AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian police have withdrawn from a Sinai mountain range where a land mine killed two senior officers during a search for Islamic militants believed involved in a series of resort bombings, security officials said Friday.
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U.S. commander: Iraq violence could worsen
Aug 26 2005 9:32AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior U.S. commander in Iraq predicted Friday that insurgent violence will increase in the Sunni-dominated areas he commands north of Baghdad, but he also said there is a growing confidence among Iraqis that the insurgents will fail to stop planned elections in October and December.
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Jordan's constitutional monarchy on hold
Aug 26 2005 2:29AM (CT)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan's reform-minded, U.S.-educated monarch, King Abdullah II, follows two separate lines when discussing the idea of surrendering some powers and moving his kingdom toward a European-style constitutional monarchy.
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