| Saudi King Visits Turkey For First Time In 40 Years Updated:9 August 2006 |
| Saudi King Abdullah arrived in Ankara Tuesday for a four-day official visit, the first by a reigning Saudi monarch in 40 years. The visit is seen as a move to bolster economic, strategic and political ties between the two nations.
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| Australia To Send More Troops To Afghanistan Updated:9 August 2006 |
| Australia will send 150 more soldiers to Afghanistan to help secure the nation. Australian Prime Minister John Howard says they will bring their commitment to over 600 troops, the majority of which will help protect their engineers in the central Oruzgan province.
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| U.S. Signs Defense Agreements With Poland, Czech Republic Updated:9 August 2006 |
| The U.S. has signed defense agreements with both Poland and the Czech Republic, in an effort to expand American anti-missile bases. The U.S. is looking for allies to help create a missile shield to stop incoming ballistic missiles from countries like Iran and North Korea.
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| Jordan King: West Has No Comprehensive Strategy For The Middle East Updated:9 August 2006 |
| Jordan's King Abdullah declared that the United States, Britain and Europe have still yet to agree on a comprehensive strategy to deal with the issues of the Middle East. Arab countries are also working to discover a common ground to end the violence between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, the king said.
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| U.S. Working Closely With France For A Middle East Resolution Updated:9 August 2006 |
| In a briefing from the U.S. Department of State, the Bush Administration continues to outline its objectives in a feasible ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Department of State spokesman, Sean McCormack, explains, "We are working away up at the Security Council with the French as well as other members... and we are working very well with the French."
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| Israel Unhappy With BBC Coverage Of War Updated:10 August 2006 |
| Israelis are expressing a growing sense of frustration with what they insist is the BBC's biased coverage of Israel's war with Hezbollah. Foreign Ministry officials said they are under pressure once again to boycott the BBC and revoke the press credentials of its correspondents in the country.
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| Hezbollah War Costs Israel Over $1.6b Updated:10 August 2006 |
| The first month of Israel's war with Hezbollah cost the country over $1.6 billion, Finance Minister Avraham Hirchson estimated Wednesday. If a newly-approved expanded ground offensive is put into action, that number will more than double in the coming month.
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| Israeli Lawmaker: Hamas Plans To Emulate Hezbollah Updated:10 August 2006 |
| A senior Israeli lawmaker warned on Wednesday that Hamas-affiliated terrorists are planning to escalate their war against southern Israel based on Hezbollah's example. Israel has been engaged in a large-scale anti-terror operation in the Gaza Strip since June 25, when Palestinian terrorists crossed into southern Israel and abducted a young Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier and killed two other members of his tank crew.
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| "Super Typhoon," Saomai Heads For China Updated:10 August 2006 |
| More than 1.3 million residents in southeastern China as it prepares for a category five "super typhoon." The typhoons is thought to be the biggest to hit the country since August 1956, when a typhoon in Zhejiang, triggered a tsunami killing over 3000 people.
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| Bodies Of Iranian Soldiers Among Hezbollah Dead Updated:10 August 2006 |
| Israel has identified the bodies of several Iranian soldiers among Hezbollah dead collected from battlefields across southern Lebanon. A senior member of Israel's Labor Party says he believes war with Iran is inevitable, and that the war with Hezbollah is just the opening round of that much larger fight.
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| Israel Paying High Toll For Its Morality, Reservists Say Updated:10 August 2006 |
| A day after 15 Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were killed and another 25 wounded, reservists complained Thursday that Israel is paying a steep price for its deep sense of morality when conducting war. Most of those killed and wounded Wednesday were reservists, men with families who have been sent to defend the nation's northern regions against a Hezbollah enemy bent on destruction.
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| Brief Opening Of Gaza Strip's Rafah Border Was Made This Morning Updated:10 August 2006 |
| According to reports, the Gaza Strip's Rafah border crossing, along the Gaza-Egypt border, was briefly opened on Thursday for only a few hours and only in one direction. The European Union helped negotiate the deal between officials from the Israelis and the Palestinians, although it was only going to be allowed for a few hours.
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| Israeli Bedouin Charged With Aiding Hezbollah Updated:10 August 2006 |
| An Israeli Arab was officially charged Thursday with spying for Hezbollah during a time of war. Riyad Mzarib, 30, a resident of the Bedouin village of Beit Zarzir in the Lower Galilee, was arrested on July 21.
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| UK's Parties 'United' Over Terror Plot Updated:10 August 2006 |
| The UK's main political parties are "completely united" over a terror plot which would have caused "unprecedented" carnage. Home Secretary Reid in a news conference said, "The loss of life to innocent civilians would have been on an unprecedented scale."
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| Typhoon Saomai Forces Evacuation Of More Than 1.5 M People Updated:10 August 2006 |
| Saomai, the strongest typhoon in past five decades, has forced the evacuation of more than 1.5 million people in China. State news agency Xinhua said at least two people were killed and 80 others were injured as the powerful storm packed with winds of more than 200km/h (124 mph) slammed south-east of China.
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| Cuba To Crackdown On Satellite Dishes Updated:10 August 2006 |
| The Cuban government has ordered a crackdown on illegal satellite dishes in an effort to keep the island closed to outside information. The state-run Communist Party newspaper Granma says the stations, many of which broadcast by the exiled Cuban community in Miami, "are fertile ground for those who want to carry out the Bush administration's plan to destroy the Cuban revolution."
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| Update: Hezbollah Rocket Kills Arab Mother, Child Updated:10 August 2006 |
| A Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah into northern Israel Thursday killed a young Arab woman and her five-year-old son. The child's three-year-old brother was critically wounded in the attack
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| Heightened Security Affects Americans Traveling Abroad Updated:10 August 2006 |
| The U.S. Department of State and the government of the United Kingdom are updating travel restrictions following a failed attempt to destroy as many as 10 jetliners in flight between the two countries. According to authorities, the U.K. has heightened security at all airports and Americans with immediate travel plans into or out of the United Kingdom should contact their respective airlines before traveling to the airport.
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| Tourist Stabbed To Death In Jerusalem Updated:10 August 2006 |
| An Arab assailant stabbed and killed a European tourist in Jerusalem's Old City Thursday evening. Police believe the attack was political in nature. A group of three or four European visitors in their 20s were approaching Herod's Gate on the northeastern side of the Old City when an Arab youth wielding a knife jumped out behind them, seemingly indiscriminately stabbed one and fled the scene.
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| Poland Returns 40 Kg Uranium To Russia Updated:10 August 2006 |
| The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday said that Poland has returned some 40 kg (88 pounds) of highly enriched uranium, enough to make an atomic bomb, back to Russia. The U.N. watchdog said the move is in part of a global effort to secure high-risk nuclear material.
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| IDF Captures Southern Lebanon Town Updated:10 August 2006 |
| The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Thursday captured the southern Lebanon town of Marjayoun with little or no resistance from Hezbollah fighters in the area. A Christian community, Marjayoun lies just five miles north of the Israeli town of Metulla.
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| Venezuela's Chavez Says Castro "Will Prevail" Updated:10 August 2006 |
| A close Cuban ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Fidel Castro will recover and return to power in Havana. Chavez says "From here, let's pray to God for Fidel and his recovery, and he's fighting a great battle."
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| IDF Frustrated By Lack Of Victory Updated:11 August 2006 |
| Senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers are upset that they have not been given a real chance to defeat Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. They see flurry of ceasefire activity at the UN as the beginning of the end of Israel's war against the Lebanese terror group.
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| Death Toll From Typhoon Saomai Rises To 28 Updated:10 August 2006 |
| The death toll from Typhoon Saomai rises to 28, as the storm destroys houses and capsizes boats in southeastern China. More than 1.5 million residents in flood-prone areas had been evacuated before the storm landed on Thursday evening.
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| Fires Burn In Spain, 1,200 Soldiers Sent To Battle The Flames Updated:10 August 2006 |
| Firefighters in Spain continue to battle over 100 wildfires across the country. Authorities have sent over 1,200 soldiers to the Galacia region to help fight fires which have burned over 24,700 acres of land, and killed three people.
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| Abbas Urged To Dissolve Palestinian Authority Updated:11 August 2006 |
| In apparent pressure tactic on Israel, PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is being urged by senior members of the Palestinian leadership to dissolve the Palestinian Authority. One official said the move should be considered in order to force Israel to withdraw its forces to positions held before September 2000, release frozen tax revenues and free jailed members of the Hamas leadership.
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| UN Human Rights Chief Takes Hezbollah To Task Updated:11 August 2006 |
| Arab member states of the UN's new Human Rights Council called an emergency session Friday to discuss what they called Israeli "human rights violations" in Lebanon, but it was on Hezbollah that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, focused much of her attention. Arab delegates presented a draft resolution putting all the blame for the current crisis on Israel and accusing the forces of the Jewish state of committing "gross human rights violations." The text did not mention Hezbollah.
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| Egypt Thwarts Coup By Radical Elements Updated:11 August 2006 |
| Egypt recently thwarted a plot by anti-Israel terrorist elements to overthrow the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. While details of the plot are being withheld, Egyptian officials said it was in its "elementary stages" and involved the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group.
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| Some Israeli Arabs Ready To Fight Hezbollah Updated:11 August 2006 |
| While some Israeli Arabs have blamed Israel and the US for their suffering under Hezbollah rocket attacks, others have signaled their readiness to join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and do battle with the Lebanese terror group. A group of young Israeli Arabs have asked Defense Minister Amir Peretz to immediately draft them into the IDF in response to Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's call earlier this week for Arab residents of Haifa to evacuate.
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| Security Tightened At Airport, Diplomatic Zone In Bangladesh Updated:11 August 2006 |
| Security has been tightened at the Zia International Airport and diplomatic enclaves in Dhaka following an abortive terrorist attempt to blow up US-bound planes from United Kingdom. Intelligence agents and detectives have been asked to keep a keen eye on airports diplomatic zone and city hotels. The order comes after the news a plot blow up passenger planes in London on Thursday.
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