| West Bank Jewish Population Growing Updated:17 August 2006 |
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| Saudi Police Kill 2 Men During Gun Battle Updated:21 August 2006 |
| Saudi police kill two men during a gun battle in the Red Sea port of Jeddah. The Saudi Press Agency says police followed a group of men to an apartment building and ran into heavy gunfire.
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| Ustad Bismillah Khan, Dead At 91 Updated:21 August 2006 |
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| Aso Pledges Closer Ties With Asia If Elected Japanese PM Updated:22 August 2006 |
| Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso has formally declared his intention to run for the country's premiership and pledges to improve diplomatic ties with Asian countries. Japan will elect a new prime minister on September 20 to replace Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi who is set to retire next month.
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| Israeli Minister Warns Of Impending Iranian Attack Updated:22 August 2006 |
| Israel's Minister of Pensioner Affairs, Rafi Eitan, warned Tuesday that a conflict with Iran may be just around the corner, and that Israel must ready public bomb shelters and make other home front preparations now. Eitan says, "We are liable to face an Iranian missile attack. The Iranians have said very clearly that if they come under attack, their primary target would be Israel."
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| War Damage To Israel's North Tops $1.3 Billion Updated:22 August 2006 |
| A month of Hezbollah rocket attacks has resulted in over $1.3 billion in direct and indirect damage to the communities of northern Israel, according to the latest estimates published by the treasury. That figures includes structural damage to infrastructure, public buildings and homes, as well as lost income resulting from some one million residents closing businesses and either fleeing the area or hiding in bomb shelters day and night.
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| Archeologists Uncover Major Israelite Administrative Center In Jerusalem Updated:22 August 2006 |
| Israeli and foreign archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be a major administrative center on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem dating back to the period of the Judean monarchy. Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog toured the dig site at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel on Monday and described it as "the rarest and most important [find] presented by Israeli archeology."
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| Russian Airliner With 171 Aboard Crashes In Eastern Ukraine Updated:22 August 2006 |
| A Russian airliner en route from Black Sea resort town of Anapa to the country's second city of St Petersburg with about 171 people on board crashed on Tuesday afternoon in eastern Ukraine, official news agency Interfax reported, quoting the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry. Russia's state-run RIA Novosti reported wreckage of Flight 62 has been found in Ukraine.
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| Indonesia Wants To Send Troops To Lebanon Updated:22 August 2006 |
| The Indonesian government continues to push for their involvement in the expanded United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon despite calls from Israel that this should not be allowed. Israel says that any country that does not have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, Indonesia included, cannot deploy troops to southern Lebanon.
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| Flights To and From Lebanon Must Go Through Jordan Updated:22 August 2006 |
| Middle East Airlines announced that is has resumed flights to all international destinations. However, any flight leaving Rafiq Hariri International Airport is required by Israel to stop in Jordan for a security check, according to reports.
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| Iran Picks Italy To Negotiate Israeli Soldiers' Return Updated:22 August 2006 |
| Iran has reportedly singled out Italy as the third party it would like to see negotiate with Hezbollah over the return of two abducted Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. Italian Senator Sergio De Gregorio said Monday that Iranian national security adviser Ali Larijani told him Tehran would instruct Hezbollah to deal only Italy on the matter. Hezbollah and its sponsors in Iran and Syria want Israel to release hundreds of jailed terrorists in return for its two soldiers.
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| Philippine's Worst Oil Spill Threatens Panay Island Updated:22 August 2006 |
| The Philippine's worst oil spill from a sunken tanker is threatening to reach a second island in the central Philippines. Poor villagers of Guimaras have dispersed on the beaches and mangroves in an attempt to contain the mess. Foreign contractors are expected to arrive to survey the tanker.
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| Israeli Air Strike Destroys The Home Of A Militant Updated:21 August 2006 |
| An Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip destroys the home of a militant belonging to Islamic Jihad. The Associated Press identifies the militant as Hashem Asliya. His son apparently broke his leg while jumping out of the house to escape the missile strike.
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| Israel's Governing Coalition In Trouble Updated:23 August 2006 |
| Israel's governing Kadima-Labor coalition is in danger of collapsing amid mounting pressure for a public inquiry into the handling of the war with Hezbollah. Most of Israel's public has already passed judgment after their leadership failed to deliver the promised victory over the Lebanese terror group and to adequately care for those most affected by Hezbollah's firing of nearly 4,000 rockets during the 34-day conflict.
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| Israel Expands Submarine Fleet Updated:23 August 2006 |
| Israel last month inked a deal with Germany for the purchase of two additional Dolphin-class nuclear-capable submarines. The new acquisition will significantly increase Israel's second-strike nuclear capabilities, according to foreign analysts.
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| Abbas Pays Salaries To Hamas Armed Force Updated:23 August 2006 |
| PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas this week paid the salaries of some 5,000 members of the Hamas-led government's new Gaza-based security force. Most of the members of the special "operational force" also belong to Hamas's armed wing, Iz al-Din al-Qassam, which has claimed credit for killing and maiming thousands of Israelis.
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| France Says Blockade Must End Updated:23 August 2006 |
| France said Wednesday that Israeli's sea and air blockade of Lebanon must be ended. Foreign Minister Phillippe Douste-Blazy added that United Nations forces should maintain a strict enforcement of the embargo on arms to the country.
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| Egypt's State-Owned Press Attacks Syria Updated:23 August 2006 |
| An Egyptian state-owned newspaper on Wednesday said Syrian President Bashar Assad committed "massacres" in Lebanon. In an editorial in Al Gumhuriya addressed to the Syrian ambassador in Cairo, said "the Egyptian army has done much to save you over the course of history."
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| Iran Strengthened By War On Terror - Report Updated:23 August 2006 |
| According to a British foreign policy think tank, the United States "war on terror" has strengthened Iran's sphere of influence in the Middle East. The group said there is little doubt that Iran has been the "chief beneficiary of the war on terror" in the region.
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| Italy Wants EU To Contribute More Troops To Lebanon Updated:23 August 2006 |
| Rome is pressing fellow European Union member states to back its pledge of troops by sending their soldiers to join the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Italy has said it will provide as many as 3,000 troops out of European contingent that could be as many as 9,000. The UN has authorized a total force of 15,000 to deploy in southern Lebanon.
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| Syria Rejects Troops On Its Border Updated:23 August 2006 |
| Syria has rejected a call for the deployment of United Nations troops along the border between Syria and Lebanon. Syrian President Bashar Assad said that such a move would create un-needed animosity between the two countries.
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| China Urges Iran To Take Diplomatic Route In Solving Nuke Issue Updated:23 August 2006 |
| A senior Chinese Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday the Iranian nuclear issue could be resolved peacefully through diplomatic talks. The official, who asked not be named, said it is the best choice Iran has to take as well as all parties concerned. The statement of the Chinese official came a day after Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larjani on Tuesday said his country is prepared to have "serious talks" to six superpowers to end its nuclear programs standoff. Larjani with envoys from China, Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Switzerland in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday to discuss its options.
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| Israel, Hezbollah Exchange Fire In Lebanon Updated:23 August 2006 |
| Israeli forces and Hezbollah gunmen exchanged fire for about three hours in southern Lebanon Wednesday afternoon, with Israeli artillery entering into the fray that centered on the border town of Shebaa, adjacent to the disputed Shebaa Farms area Beirut claims is occupied Lebanese territory.
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| Israeli Arab Charged As Hezbollah Spy Updated:23 August 2006 |
| An Arab resident of the northern Israel border town of Ghajar was indicted Wednesday on charges of aiding Hezbollah in its July 12 assault on the Jewish state. That attack led to 34 days of brutal fighting that saw hundreds killed and millions displaced on both sides of the border.
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| France Demands Iran Halt Uranium Enrichment Updated:23 August 2006 |
| French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy Wednesday demanded Iran halt its uranium enrichment efforts as a precondition for any further negotiations over its nuclear program. Douste-Blazy told a Paris news conference, "As we have always said... a return to the negotiating table is tied to the suspension of uranium enrichment."
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| 200 Students In Chile Arrested After Clashing With Police Updated:23 August 2006 |
| Student protesters clash with police in Chile, resulting in more than 200 arrests and dozens of injuries. About 2,000 students marched in Santiago and elsewhere over what they say is the government's lack of progress on education reforms.
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| Austrian Woman Says She Is Schoolgirl Who Disappeared 8 Years Ago Updated:23 August 2006 |
| An 18-year-old woman in Austria tells police she escaped a kidnapper who held her captive for eight years in a sealed garage. Police say relatives identified the woman as Natascha Kampusch, who disappeared in 1998 while she was walking to school.
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| France To Study Iranian Nuclear Response Updated:23 August 2006 |
| The French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy has acknowledged that it has received Iran's answer to to incentives that will hope to end the ongoing nuclear standoff. "Yesterday, the response arrived. It is a very long document, very complex, we are going to study it," Douste-Blazy said.
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| Israel Warns Time Running Out For Truce Updated:24 August 2006 |
| Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned in talks with her French and Belgian counterparts in Paris on Wednesday that time was running out to shore up a tenuous UN-imposed truce between her nation and Hezbollah forces operating out of Lebanon. Jerusalem fears that failure to deploy the promised 15,000 peacekeepers and enforce the terms of the ceasefire, in particular an arms embargo on Hezbollah, will leave Israel with no choice but to do the job itself, leading to a likely resumption of hostilities with the Lebanese terror group.
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| Top West Bank Palestinian Militant Leader Shot In The Head Updated:24 August 2006 |
| A top Palestinian militant leader is shot in the head and seriously wounded. According to hospital officials, the West Bank leader of Islamic Jihad's militant wing, Hossam Jaradat, was shot in the Jenin refugee camp.
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