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Hezbollah head says he didn't expect war
Aug 27 2006 11:51PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.
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Iraq bomb attacks, shootings kill dozens
Aug 27 2006 11:49PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A wave of bomb attacks and shootings swept Iraq Sunday, killing dozens of people despite a massive security operation in the capital and appeals from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for an end to sectarian fighting.
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21 wounded as blasts hit Turkish resort
Aug 27 2006 11:47PM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A bomb blast blew apart a minibus in a Turkish tourist resort late Sunday injuring 21 people including 10 British tourists, the local police chief said.
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4 Palestinian militants killed in Gaza
Aug 27 2006 11:40PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Four Palestinian militants were killed early Monday in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza, Palestinian doctors said.
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Olmert said illegally appointed allies
Aug 27 2006 11:29PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert illegally named political allies to a business authority when he was minister for industry and trade, officials said Monday.
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Jordan parliament OKs terrorism law
Aug 27 2006 10:04PM (CT)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan's parliament on Sunday endorsed the country's first anti-terrorism law despite objections by some lawmakers that the bill curtails freedoms.
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Egypt's Mubarak shuffles cabinet
Aug 27 2006 9:28PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made minor adjustments to his cabinet Sunday, topping the changes with the reassignment of the justice portfolio.
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Fox News journalists describe captivity
Aug 27 2006 9:25PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Two Fox News journalists freed by militants Sunday described a harrowing two weeks of captivity during which they were blindfolded, tied in painful positions and forced at gunpoint to say on a video that they converted to Islam.
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Group calls for release of journalist
Aug 27 2006 9:11PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Journalism watchdog groups called on Sudan's government to release a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist who was in custody Sunday on charges of espionage and other crimes.
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Olmert puts off decision on war inquiry
Aug 27 2006 8:47PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday put off a decision on launching an inquiry into the handling of the recent fighting in Lebanon, officials said.
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Hamas official criticizes government
Aug 27 2006 8:44PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - In a rare case of self-criticism, a senior official in the Hamas-led government said the Palestinians have bungled the aftermath of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and called on residents to stop blaming Israel for all their woes.
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Abu Ghraib empty, Iraqi official says
Aug 27 2006 8:18PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Abu Ghraib prison, whose name became synonymous with abuse, has been emptied of detainees, a senior Iraqi justice ministry official said Sunday.
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Fighting in Gaza kills 4 Palestinians
Aug 27 2006 6:27PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed three Palestinians and wounded two television cameramen, Palestinian officials and residents said.
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Turkey torn on joining U.N. mission
Aug 27 2006 5:31PM (CT)
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - The European Union and the United Nations are pushing for Muslim participation in the expanded U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but a growing public chorus in Turkey opposes sending troops who could be seen as supporting Israel against fellow Muslims.
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Iran tests submarine-to-surface missile
Aug 27 2006 4:52PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran tested a new anti-ship missile fired by a submarine during war games Sunday, raising worries it could disrupt vital oil tanker traffic in the Gulf amid its standoff with the West over its suspect nuclear activities.
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Trickle of supplies reaches Lebanon
Aug 27 2006 2:51PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hospitals dipped deep into emergency stockpiles, lines grew at gas stations and grocers complained of shortages of foreign goods Sunday as an Israeli air and sea blockade kept all but a trickle of supplies out of Lebanon.
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Gunmen kill 12, wound 25 in Iraqi market
Aug 27 2006 1:51PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Gunmen in three cars opened fire on a busy market in a predominantly Shiite town north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 25 others, police said.
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Hope, cynicism shadows U.N. peacekeepers
Aug 27 2006 1:03PM (CT)
MARWAHEEN, Lebanon (AP) - It was the fourth day of the war, and an Israeli army loudspeaker boomed a warning across the border to this village: "You have two hours to leave."
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French troops aid in Lebanon rebuilding
Aug 27 2006 10:50AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Dozens of French soldiers arrived Sunday to help the Lebanese army rebuild bridges that were destroyed or damaged by Israeli airstrikes during the 34-day fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Gaza hostage sorry for worrying family
Aug 27 2006 10:07AM (CT)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - The first thing Olaf Wiig told his family after militants released him in the Gaza Strip Sunday was that he was sorry he'd worried them, relatives said.
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Bomb blast kills 6 outside Baghdad hotel
Aug 27 2006 4:00AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A bomb planted in a mini van detonated Sunday outside a hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 16, police and witnesses said.
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1 dead in car bomb attack on Iraqi paper
Aug 27 2006 2:58AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded in the parking lot of a government-run newspaper in Iraq's capital Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 30, police said.
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