| Italy To Commit 2,500 Troops To Lebanon Updated:29 August 2006 |
| The Italian government on Monday said it will contribute to the planned international peacekeeping force that will be deployed in southern Lebanon to help maintain the fragile cease-fire in the region. Italian undersecretary Enrico Letta said the government approved on Monday Italy's participation in the U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission.
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| S. Korea Says Pyongyang Is Capable Of Testing Nuclear Weapons Updated:28 August 2006 |
| South Korea's main spy agency said on Monday that North Korea has the facility to test-fire a nuclear weapon and said these facilities were on a standby mode, awaiting orders from Pyongyang. Rep. Shin Ki-nam head of the parliamentary intelligence committee and a ranking government official both quoted King Seung-kyu as telling a close-door meeting of the committee there is a possibility the North would test a nuclear explosion.
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| Source: EU Funds To Pay Salaries Of Palestinian Employees Updated:28 August 2006 |
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| Israeli Arabs Busted For Selling Stolen IDF Weapons Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Seven Israeli Arabs were indicted at the Haifa District Court Tuesday on charges of selling up to 60 guns they had stolen from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.
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| Northern Israel Businesses May Be Latest Casualties Of War Updated:29 August 2006 |
| A report published by Israel's Trade and Industry Ministry Monday warned that tens of thousands of small and medium-size businesses in northern Israel are in danger of having to close their doors as a result of the economic damage caused by the recent war with Hezbollah.
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| Sharon's Condition Improves Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Doctors at Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Center announced Tuesday that they had successfully treated comatose former leader Ariel Sharon for double pneumonia and had moved him out of intensive care. Sharon's condition severely deteriorated two weeks ago. A CT scan at the time showed infections in both of his lungs and an MRI indicated decreasing brain activity.
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| Hamas Lawmaker Says Palestinians To Blame For Situation In Gaza Updated:29 August 2006 |
| In an uncharacteristic display of self-criticism, a senior Hamas government official Sunday said the current abysmal living conditions in the Gaza Strip were caused by a "bacteria of stupidity" inflicting the Palestinians, and not by Israeli actions, as so many claim.
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| Italian Troops Head To Lebanon Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Italian troops have left for Lebanon as part of a deployment to buttress the UN peacekeeping mission in the country. The 800 troops are part of what Rome calls a "long and risky" mission in Lebanon. Italy has send they will send a total of 3,000 troops to the country, making them the largest contributor to the UN force in Lebanon.
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| IDF Kills 2 Terrorists In West Bank Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian terrorists during a gun battle in the West Bank town of Nablus Tuesday morning. A third gunman was wounded in the firefight, as were two Israeli soldiers. The shooting began after Israeli forces surrounded a house in the ancient town's Balata district where members of Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade had holed up.
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| Villagers Want The UN In Lebanon Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Lebanese villagers are looking toward the United Nations for protection. Many of the UN peacekeepers are placed in between Israel and villages suspected of housing Hezbollah fighters.
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| UNHCR Bringing Aid To South Lebanon Updated:29 August 2006 |
| The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has been carrying tents, blankets, mattresses and cooking kits into southern Lebanon on a daily basis. So far, at least 17 convoys have arrived in the southern portion of the country devastated by the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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| Annan Visits Devastation In Lebanon Updated:29 August 2006 |
| United Nations Secretary General on Tuesday viewed the devastation in southern Lebanon caused by the 34-day fighting between the Israeli army and the Hezbollah militants. Annan toured the southern part of the country after meeting with Lebanese officials to discuss the deployment of 15,000 international peacekeeping force. He also visited the 2,000 U.N. troops currently deployed in the region at the southern port of Naqoura before flying over the scenes of the destruction.
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| Police Seize Hot Meat From China At Port Of Manila Updated:29 August 2006 |
| The police on Tuesday seized four trucks full of banned frozen meat from China at the Port of Manila in the Philippines. Police Senior Supt. Francisco Don Montenegro of the Philippine National Police anti-smuggling task force said, "They're banned items. This would fall under unfair trade competition because they would be sold at lower prices compared to the prevailing market value."
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| Japanese Yakuza Top List Of Aliens Barred From Philippines Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Suspected members of the Japanese Yakuza (Japanese gangsters), top the list of foreigners barred from entering the Philippines during the fist six months of 2006, officials of the Bureau of Immigration said Tuesday. Immigration records show a total of 797 aliens were prevented from entering the country from January to June because of several reasons but mostly because they were either classified as undesirable aliens or were traveling using a fake travel document.
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| Palestinians: No 'Freedom Of The Press' In Gaza Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Dozens of Palestinian journalists protested outside the offices of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City Tuesday against a growing campaign of intimidation and censorship by terror groups and the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. A number of Palestinian reporters and editors have been beaten and killed over the past few years. The authorities have never managed to capture their assailants.
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| Annan Booed In Hezbollah-Stronghold In Lebanon Updated:29 August 2006 |
| UN chief Kofi Annan was booed by a crowd chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans today as he toured Beirut's southern suburbs devastated by Israel's war against the Shiite militant group. Dozens of men, women and children angrily waved pictures of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and shouted "Allah, Nasrallah and all of the suburbs" while others booed and shouted "death to Israel" and "long live Syria" as they surrounded Mr. Annan's convoy of vehicles accompanied by a heavy security detail.
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| Gaza Becoming Lebanon, Warns Israeli Security Chief Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Israel Security Services (Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin Tuesday warned that the Gaza Strip will soon pose as big a threat to Israel as Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon did two months ago. In a briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Diskin said that Palestinian terrorists are smuggling huge numbers of weapons and even personnel into Gaza via the Sinai Peninsula.
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| India Will Not Conduct Racial Profiling Of Air Travelers Updated:29 August 2006 |
| India's Civil Aviation Ministry says it will not conduct racial profiling of air travelers. The Ministry's decision comes as the country implements a pilot project aimed at receiving advance information on passengers arriving in the country's airports.
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| Israelis Beaten By Serbian Skinheads Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Two visiting Israelis were beaten by skinheads sporting Nazi symbols in the Serbian capital of Belgrade Sunday. One of the victims suffered serious head injuries.
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| U.S. Sends AEGIS Cruiser To Japan Amid Possible N. Korean Weapons Test Updated:29 August 2006 |
| The U.S. sends a cruiser with an advanced missile defense system to Japan amid intelligence reports that North Korea is set to test-fire a nuclear weapon. In July, tension in the region flared as Pyongyang test-fired seven long-range ballistic missiles over the coast of Japan.
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| Hundreds Of Palestinians Demand Welfare Payments Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Hundreds of unemployed Palestinians clashed with police as they demanded welfare payments while surrounding the parliament building in Gaza City. Some 300 laborers waved empty plates and pita bread as they chanted, "Oh, for shame, we are starving."
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| Two Undersea Quakes Hit Southeastern Indonesia Updated:29 August 2006 |
| Southeastern Indonesia is struck by two undersea earthquakes on Tuesday. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that one quake hit south of North Sulawesi and measured 5.6 in magnitude. This was followed by aftershocks in the same area. Later, another quake with a magnitude of 5.1 hit northeast of Tanimbar Islands in Maluku province.
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| France Ready To Renew Talks With Iran Over Its Nuclear Program Updated:29 August 2006 |
| France says it is ready to renew talks with Iran, but insists the dialogue must focus on Tehran's suspension of uranium enrichment. The offer is made two days before the expiration of a deadline set by the international community demanding that Iran halt its nuclear program or face sanctions.
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| Japan Arrests Executives For Selling Equipment Used In Nuke Development Updated:29 August 2006 |
| The president of Mitutoyo Corp. is arrested on suspicion of exporting Malaysia to equipment that can be used in making nuclear weapons. Trade Ministry official Hiroyuki Murakami says police also raided an Iranian trading company called Seian.
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| Report: UK Terror Plot Was Not Imminent Updated:30 August 2006 |
| The New York Times reports that the major terrorist plot that was exposed in Britain was not set to take place in the near future as it was publicized; the report also claims that the fact that 10 planes were targeted was an exaggeration. The investigation which is still going on in Britain as well as in other countries, does not reveal if there was any evidence that the suspects who were arrested on August 10 were about to make a hit, says the daily.
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| Olmert Rejects Annan's Appeal Over Lifting Blockade Updated:30 August 2006 |
| Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert on Wednesday, threw out a request from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to lift air and sea blockades from Lebanon at a joint news conference. Olmert rejected Annan by saying that the cease-fire, U.N. security Council resolution 1701, needs to be executed completely: "The international community must not divert its attention [until that happens]."
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| India's Nominee For UN Gen Sec Post Proposes Four-Point Agenda For UN Reform Updated:30 August 2006 |
| India's nominee for the post of Secretary General Shashi Tharoor has said the greatest problem for the world legislators is that it does not have one big issue to deal with but a host of them shouting for attention. An international institution like the United Nations with "impressive achievements" and "haunting failures" has changed but needs to change further, Tharoor said in an article in the forthcoming issue of a news magazine while suggesting a four-point plan to revamp the UN.
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| Defiant Iran Allegedly Still Enriching Uranium Updated:30 August 2006 |
| An official from the European Union said on Wednesday that a defiant Iran has been enriching uranium despite the looming August 31 deadline set by the world body to suspend such operations or face possible sanctions from the U.N. Security Council. The official who asked not be named said that Tehran has persisted on its uranium enrichment program until Tuesday.
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| Olmert To Annan: Not Without Our Soldiers Updated:30 August 2006 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on notice Wednesday that Jerusalem will not view Security Council Resolution 1701 as fully implemented until its abducted soldiers are returned. While much of their meeting focused on the deployment of international peacekeepers to and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon, Olmert stressed that "Resolution 1701 would not be implemented in full without the soldiers' release and return home."
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| Kim Jong Il Of North Korea May Be Conducting China Visit Updated:30 August 2006 |
| A South Korean newspaper has quoted intelligence reports claiming that a special North Korean train that its reclusive leader Kim Jong Il uses, has reached China. But the Dong-a Ilbo newspapers said the intelligence report does not indicate if the communist leader was on board the train. The train left for China at the height of the fresh tension in the region because of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
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