| Egyptian Militant Group Joins Al-Qaeda: Al-Zawahiri Updated:6 August 2006 |
| In a latest videotape aired on Aljazeera television on Saturday, Al-Qaeda's deputy head, Al-Zawahiri announced that Egyptian militant group Gamaa Islamiya has joined its network.
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| False Bomb Scare At Israeli PM's Office Updated:6 August 2006 |
| The office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was briefly evacuated Sunday afternoon on suspicion a bomb had been smuggled into the building.
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| Beirut Rejects Draft UN Resolution On Middle East Crises Updated:6 August 2006 |
| Demanding amendment in text of draft United Nations Security Council's Resolution for solving Middle East crises, Lebanese government rejected it on early Sunday.
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| Farmers Group: Int'l Team To Investigate Killings Of Militants In The Philippines Updated:6 August 2006 |
| A farmers group in the Philippines said Sunday that an international team of human rights advocates will conduct a three-day inquiry into the reported killing of Filipino militants to attract the attention of the United Nations. Carl Ala, spokesperson of the leftist Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said 18 farmers, doctors and teachers from the United States, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, Mexico, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia began on Sunday their visit to Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog, where most cases of alleged extra-judicial killings had been recorded.
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| Israel Foils Palestinian Suicide Bombing Updated:6 August 2006 |
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| 12 IDF Reservists Killed In Hezbollah Strike Updated:6 August 2006 |
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| Syria 'Ready For War' With Israel Updated:6 August 2006 |
| Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem insists his nation is ready to go to war against Israel if Jerusalem dares to strike Syria as part of its battle with Hezbollah. In the first visit by a senior Syrian official since Damascus's 29-year occupation of Lebanon came to an end last April, Moallem arrived in Beirut Sunday for talks with Lebanese officials.
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| Dhaka To Send Letter To UNSC Members With Call For Cease-Fire In Lebanon Updated:6 August 2006 |
| Bangladesh is going to send a letter in a day or two to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council Members (UNSC) with a clarion call for immediate and unconditional cease-fire in Lebanon.
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| Olmert Slams European Hypocrisy Over Civilian Casualties Updated:6 August 2006 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has taken issue with Europe over its condemnation of the Jewish state for unintentionally killing several hundred civilians in Lebanon. He accused Europe's leaders of employing a double standard against Israel when it comes to the costs of war.
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| Police Arrest Alleged Gunman Of Photojournalist Updated:7 August 2006 |
| The Northern Police District Command in the Philippines announced on Sunday its arrest of alleged killer of photojournalist Prudencio Melendrez. NPD director, Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil made the revelation during the burial of Melendrez and said the motive of the killing was a "vendetta" and not related to his work as a journalist. NPD director, Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil made the revelation during the burial of Melendrez and said the motive of the killing was a "vendetta" and not related to his work as a journalist. Bataoil was accompanied by Philippine National Police Deputy Director General Avalino Razul Jr.
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| Hezbollah Spy Network Operating In Israel Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Despite lacking advanced guidance systems, Hezbollah rockets have struck communities and military installations in northern Israel with surprising accuracy due to the efforts of a deeply-embedded spy network. Tens of Hezbollah agents are reportedly operating inside Israel, most of them Arab citizens of the Jewish state.
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| Sri Lankan Troops Continue To Pound Rebel Positions Updated:7 August 2006 |
| The Sri Lankan military on Sunday resumed shelling rebel Tiger positions but insisted they were not targeting those who were opening the sluice gates at a key waterway which has been the cause of renewed fighting between government troops and the rebels. Reportedly shelling resumed as Norwegian cease-fire monitors were accompanying members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in opening the Maavilar sluice gates in an effort to end days of fighting and save the volatile truce.
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| Update: IDF Kills 14 Hezbollah Terrorists Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Fourteen Hezbollah gunmen were killed during fierce battles with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ground troops across southern Lebanon Monday morning. Three IDF soldiers, including an officer, were wounded during the fighting.
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| Israel Doubts New Peacekeeping Force Will Be Deployed Updated:7 August 2006 |
| A senior Israeli government official on Sunday expressed doubt that the new multi-national peacekeeping force for southern Lebanon envisioned by Israel, the US and Europe will ever materialize. A draft UN Security Council resolution on ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah fails to directly address the make-up or deployment of such a force, deferring the issue to a later, unspecified time.
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| Death Toll In North Korea Floods Reach 549 Updated:7 August 2006 |
| A pro-North Korean newspaper based in Japan said on Monday that last month floods in Pyongyang has killed some 549 people and left another 295 missing. The new figure represents a sharp rise from previously released data that had 154 dead and 127 missing from the floods. North Korea's official media previously reported "hundreds" of deaths as a result of the flooding but gave no details.
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| IDF Threatens Expansion Of Lebanon Operations Updated:7 August 2006 |
| After a particularly bloody day for Israel in which 12 reserve soldiers and three civilians were killed in Hezbollah rocket attacks, the Israel Defense Forces threatened Monday to escalate military operations to include Lebanese infrastructure.
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| Americans Rally In Support Of Israeli War On Hezbollah Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Two thousand American Jews and Christians gathered in Denver Sunday in a mass show of support for Israel's war against Hezbollah. Organized by Americans Against Terrorism, the demonstration also denounced international efforts to impose a ceasefire that enables Hezbollah to continue posing a military threat to northern Israel.
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| Minister Urges Israel To Wage Real War Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Israeli Agricultural Minister Shalom Simhon Monday urged his government to approve a far more aggressive bombing campaign against Lebanon and the Hezbollah terrorist organization. A member of Israel's Labor Party and resident of the battered northern region, Simhon said Israel must "realize we are at war and conduct a war. We have to wage war like war and ensure the Israeli army returns victorious from Lebanon."
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| Israeli Arabs Want Nasrallah Eliminated Updated:7 August 2006 |
| The Arab population of Israel's northern regions is becoming increasingly infuriated with Hezbollah and its leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah as more and more Arabs are added to the list of casualties from terrorist rockets. In a massive barrage Sunday against the port city of Haifa, which boasts a large Arab population, many of the casualties were Arabs.
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| Russian Arms Dealer Criticizes U.S. Sanctions Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Russia's state arms dealer Rosoboronexport on Monday expressed "utmost surprise" over the sanctions imposed against it and the state-owned warplanes maker Sukhoi by the United States and said its arms dealing with Iran was exclusively for "defensive armaments only." In a statement the company said, "Our cooperation with Iran, which is not subject to any international sanctions, is in strict compliance with inter-state agreements and is confined to supplies of only defensive armaments."
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| Hazardous Substance Mailed To Palestinian PM Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Four clerks in the Ramallah office of Palestinian Authority Deputy Prime Minister Nasser al-Din Shaer were hospitalized Monday after opening a package containing a poisonous substance. The package was reportedly addressed to PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, though the senior Hamas official rarely, if ever, visits Ramallah out of fear Israel will arrest or harm him.
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| Jakarta Bans Militants From Joining "Jihad" Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world has announced on Monday it would detain and prevent militants from going to the Middle East to engage in "suicide missions" to answer the call of "jihad" or holy war. Indonesian police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam told Xinhua News Agency, "We will conduct surveillance on them as well as conduct raids if needed. We have also alerted our immigration office to be on the lookout."
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| Gang In Sao Paulo Strikes Again Updated:7 August 2006 |
| In the latest resurgence of violence that has plagued Brazil's largest city for months, a powerful organized crime group known as the First Command of the Capital, or PCC torched buses and attacked police posts, banks and other buildings in Sao Paulo on Monday, leaving at least two dead and three hurt. The state's public security secretariat says 27 different targets were hit in and around Sao Paulo, South America's financial capital, including the state prosecutor's building, whose entryway was destroyed by a homemade explosive.
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| Update: 3 IDF Soldiers Killed In Fierce Lebanon Battles Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Three Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were killed during fierce day-long battles with Hezbollah fighters in and around the southern Lebanon town of Bint Jbeil Monday. Two died after being hit by an anti-tank missile, a weapon Hezbollah is using to great effect against the Israelis.
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| Mayon Volcano Puts Residents On Alert In The Philippines Updated:7 August 2006 |
| The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Monday said Mayon volcano in Lagazpi City, Albay in the Philippines may erupt anytime as the volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines, was rocked by six successive volcanic blasts, followed by a fountain of lava from its crater. By mid morning the peak was covered in a dark cloud of volcanic material several kilometers high.
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| IDF Downs Hezbollah Drone Updated:7 August 2006 |
| The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shot down a Hezbollah unmanned drone over Israeli waters just north of the port city of Haifa Monday. It was not the first time Hezbollah has employed drones against Israel.
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| Three Chinese Peacekeepers Injured In Hezbollah Rocket Attacks Updated:7 August 2006 |
| China has urged Israel and Lebanon to declare an immediate ceasefire and demanded the United Nations to ensure better security for peacekeepers in the conflicted Mid-east. The demands came after three Chinese were wounded during a rocket attack in southern Lebanon on Sunday.
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| Philippine, U.S. Navies To Conduct Joint Exercises Against Terrorism Updated:7 August 2006 |
| The navies of the Philippines and the United States are set to conduct joint exercises under the "Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training Exercises 2006" in an effort to boost security and counter-terror training of both countries. ABS-CBNNews.com quotes Commander Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, Philippine Navy spokesman said CARAT was in line with the R.P.-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty and is aimed at enhancing the interoperability between the two navies. The joint exercise will start on August 14 and will run for one week.
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| Thunderbolts Kill 4 In Bangladesh Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Four people were killed and seven others injured in lightning in three districts of Bangladesh on Monday, a local news agency reported. In the Jamalpur district, two farmers were killed and two others injured by thunderbolts at Baghadoba village in Melandah upazila in the morning.
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| Police Place Israeli Embassy In Manila Under Heightened Alert Updated:7 August 2006 |
| Manila, Philippines (AHN) - The police in the Philippines have ordered the deployment of additional troops to guard the Israeli Embassy in Manila. The Philippine National Police placed the embassy under a heightened alert in anticipation of protest rallies against Israel's missile strikes on Lebanon which have prevented Filipinos from evacuating the war-torn country.
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