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Italian task force sets sail for Lebanon
Aug 29 2006 8:37PM (CT)
ABOARD THE GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI (AP) - A five-ship Italian fleet set off for Lebanon on Tuesday carrying more than 800 soldiers bound for U.N. peacekeeping duties.
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Gonzales: Iraq's future depends on law
Aug 29 2006 7:54PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Iraq's future would depend on its enforcing the rule of law, but only its people and political leaders could decide what type of law that would be.
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Unemployed Palestinians demand welfare
Aug 29 2006 6:58PM (CT)
1 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Some 300 unemployed Palestinian laborers surrounded the parliament building Tuesday, demanding welfare payments, scuffling with police and waving empty plates in another challenge to the beleaguered Hamas-led government.
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U.N. may hold off on confronting Iran
Aug 29 2006 6:10PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council will need until mid-September before acting on its threat to punish Iran if Tehran's leaders flout a Thursday deadline to suspend uranium enrichment as is widely expected, Britain's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday.
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Iran president challenges Bush to debate
Aug 29 2006 5:36PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged President Bush to a televised debate, a proposal the White House immediately dismissed as a "diversion."
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Progress made in curbing Iraq disorder
Aug 29 2006 4:44PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Police found more than two dozen bodies across the capital Tuesday and the government said 73 people had died in fighting in the south as violence surged despite promising signs that a U.S. crackdown is curbing sectarian killings in Baghdad.
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Pipeline explosion kills 36 in Iraq
Aug 29 2006 4:42PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A pipeline carrying oil byproducts exploded in a southern Iraqi city Tuesday, sparking a massive fire and killing at least 36 people, the Interior Ministry said.
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Annan calls on Israel to end blockade
Aug 29 2006 4:08PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon a "humiliation" Tuesday and demanded it be lifted. But Israel said it first needed assurances that forces deployed on the border can stop weapons shipments to Hezbollah.
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Saudi Arabia releases 9 Gitmo detainees
Aug 29 2006 3:48PM (CT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabian authorities have released nine men who were previously held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as terror suspects, a Saudi security official said Tuesday.
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Militant Kurds warn of wreaking havoc
Aug 29 2006 3:43PM (CT)
ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) - After a rash of bombings, an extremist Kurdish militant group warned Tuesday that "the fear of death will reign everywhere in Turkey" and it urged tourists to avoid travel to the country.
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Iraqi Shiite: No interference from Iran
Aug 29 2006 2:29PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraq's most powerful Shiite politician, defended Iran on Tuesday against American allegations that it trained and equipped Shiite militias, and said the U.S. has not provided any proof.
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Jackson says captured Israelis are alive
Aug 29 2006 2:21PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Tuesday that two Israeli soldiers who were captured by Hezbollah guerrillas in a cross-border raid that sparked 34 days of fighting are reportedly alive, as is a third soldier seized earlier by Palestinian militants.
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Ex-Iran President Khatami gets U.S. visa
Aug 29 2006 12:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite intense disagreement over suspected nuclear weapons and terrorism, the Bush administration decided Tuesday to allow former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to visit the United States.
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Iraqi says overall attacks are declining
Aug 29 2006 11:26AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - While acknowledging an uptick in violence in the past few days, one of Iraq's deputy prime ministers said Tuesday that attacks overall are declining.
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Footage may be of missing Israeli airman
Aug 29 2006 10:17AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - New video purportedly showing an Israeli airman alive after his 1986 capture by Lebanese guerrillas underscores how little Israeli intelligence knows about his fate, officials said Tuesday.
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Thousands of Lebanese unable to go home
Aug 29 2006 7:49AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Thousands of Lebanese are unable to return to their homes two weeks after the cease-fire took hold because they feel too insecure or their houses are destroyed, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Lebanese father mourns loss of family
Aug 29 2006 6:50AM (CT)
MARWAHEEN, Lebanon (AP) - Last month, Khamel Ali Abdallah kissed his wife and six children goodbye, then put them on a bus to his native village in south Lebanon for summer vacation. He was supposed to join them a week later, but war between Hezbollah and Israel broke out.
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2 American soldier killed in Iraq
Aug 29 2006 1:35AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq, one in fighting in the restive Anbar province and the second from injuries sustained in a Humvee accident, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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