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Lebanese offical blasts NYC man's arrest
Aug 26 2006 10:15PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's information minister on Saturday criticized the arrest of a businessman in New York on charges of providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah's Al-Manar television to New York-area customers.
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Israeli airstrike hits Reuters vehicle
Aug 26 2006 9:59PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli aircraft fired two missiles early Sunday at an armored car belonging to the Reuters news agency, wounding five people, including two cameramen, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.
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Palestinians hopeful on Fox News crew
Aug 26 2006 9:18PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A 72-hour deadline set by a militant group holding two Fox news journalists passed Saturday night with no new information on their fate, but Palestinian officials expressed confidence the men would be released soon.
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Iran opens heavy-water nuclear reactor
Aug 26 2006 8:33PM (CT)
KHONDAB, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line president on Saturday inaugurated a heavy-water production plant, a facility the West fears will be used to develop a nuclear bomb, as Tehran remained defiant ahead of a U.N. deadline that could lead to sanctions.
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Israel asks Muslim states to send troops
Aug 26 2006 8:13PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli government said Saturday it is asking friendly Muslim countries to contribute troops to the U.N. force that is to help police the cease-fire in southern Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Witnesses: Israel strikes Reuters car
Aug 26 2006 5:03PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Two missiles fired by Israeli aircraft early Sunday morning hit an armored car belonging to the Reuters news agency, moderately wounding two television cameramen and three bystanders, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.
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Lebanon border troops focus on smugglers
Aug 26 2006 12:48PM (CT)
AITA AL-FOUKHAR, Lebanon (AP) - A mile from the Syrian border, a Lebanese armored personnel carrier sat behind freshly dug berms of red earth Saturday and a second sheltered under camouflage netting. Soldiers in new uniforms checked vehicles traveling the mountain road.
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Iraq tribal chiefs sign 'pact of honor'
Aug 26 2006 12:31PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Hundreds of Iraqi tribal chiefs gave important support Saturday to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's national reconciliation plan, while the government leader called the release of a leading Sunni Arab lawmaker by kidnappers a gift to his unity campaign.
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Kidnapped Sunni Arab lawmaker freed
Aug 26 2006 11:00AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Kidnapped Sunni Arab lawmaker Tayseer al-Mashhadani was released Saturday after being held for nearly two months, and the prime minister described her release as a "gift" on the day he launched his project for national reconciliation.
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Gunmen kill translator in Basra
Aug 26 2006 6:22AM (CT)
BASRA, Iraq (AP) - Gunmen in a speeding car opened fire Saturday on two sisters working as translators for the British consulate, killing one of them and seriously wounding the other, police said.
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