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Envoy urges Israel to reopen Gaza borders
Oct 24 2005 10:03PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - A top Mideast envoy criticized Israel in especially tough language for moving too slowly on negotiations to open Gaza's borders, saying the country is behaving almost as if the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip never happened.
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Reporters' hotel in Iraq attacked; 6 dead
Oct 24 2005 10:03PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Suicide bombers including one in a cement truck packed with explosives launched a dramatic attack Monday against the Palestine Hotel, where many foreign journalists are based, sending up a giant cloud of smoke and debris over central Baghdad. American troops and journalists escaped without serious injury but at least a half-dozen passers-by were killed.
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Syrians protest Hariri report en masse
Oct 24 2005 6:20PM (CT)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Civil servants and students massed in the streets Monday to protest a U.N. report implicating Syria in the killing of a Lebanese leader, joining in a government-orchestrated campaign to drum up support before a U.N. Security Council meeting.
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AP chief in Baghdad describes bomb scene
Oct 24 2005 5:15PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - I was seated at a computer terminal when the first blast occurred, a thunderous explosion, clearly very close, followed by a volley of automatic fire. My first thought was a car bomb or perhaps a large rocket. I knew it was close. Someone shouted that the nearby Sheraton Hotel had been hit. I looked at my watch. It was 5:21 p.m.
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Evangelicals, Jews are kindred spirits
Oct 24 2005 3:52PM (CT)
KFAR ETZION, West Bank (AP) - Dozens of evangelical Christians from the United States, Europe and Asia toured Jewish settlements in the West Bank in recent days, taking time out from their organized pilgrimage to the Holy Land to show their support for the Israeli settlers.
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Baghdad hotels are world's view of war
Oct 24 2005 2:19PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The Palestine and Sheraton hotels were the world's windows on Baghdad during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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Journalists' hotel in Baghdad attacked
Oct 24 2005 11:25AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three enormous bombs, including a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives, blew up near an Iraqi police post outside the Palestine Hotel _ home to many foreign journalists in Iraq. Iraqi officials said 17 people were killed.
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