| Food Running Out In South Lebanon Updated:11 August 2006 |
| The mayor of Tyre, Lebanon, Abdel-Mohsen al Husseini, says the port city could run out of food in two days as humanitarian agencies tried to get aid to an estimated 100,000 people trapped in southern Lebanon on Friday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it had not been able to reach villages from where it had hoped to take several hundred people, including wounded, to safety in the north.
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| Boat Capsizing Kills Six In Bangladesh Updated:11 August 2006 |
| Six people, including three members of a family, drowned when an engine boat capsized in a `haor' (water body) in Sunamganj district of Bangladesh on Wednesday night, a local news agency reported.
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| 72 Lawmakers From Brazil Charged With Corruption Updated:11 August 2006 |
| Seventy two lawmakers in Brazil were charged by a congressional committee of accepting bribes and advised that they be held under disciplinary proceedings. They have also been connected to plans of falsifying government acquisitions of medical and educational vehicles and supplies.
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| Suicide Bomber Kills NATO Soldier In Afghanistan Updated:11 August 2006 |
| A suicide bomber attacks a convoy in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing a NATO soldier and himself. The bomber crashed his vehicle, which was packed with explosives, into the convoy in Spin Boldak district, near the border with Pakistan.
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| Cuba To Celebrate Castro's Birthday With Major Concert Updated:11 August 2006 |
| Supporters of ailing Cuban Leader Fidel Castro are preparing to celebrate their leader's 80th birthday on Saturday. The concert which begins 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Sunday) in Havana and will last throughout the night.
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| Gunmen Free Italian Woman Kidnapped In Haiti Updated:11 August 2006 |
| Gunmen in Haiti free an Italian women held in captivity for three days. However, Gigliola Martino's husband was killed by the kidnappers. Her nephew, Paollo Vitiello, says the 65-year-old is in good health.
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| India Announces $215 Million Aid For Nepal Updated:12 August 2006 |
| The Indian government will release the $215 million aid for Nepal in the next few days, Indian envoy to Nepal SS Mukherjee informed on Thursday. The announcement of economic assistance was made as India pledged to Nepal during the visit of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to New Delhi in June.
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| Saomi Kills 104 In China Updated:12 August 2006 |
| Typhoon Saomai, the most powerful typhoon to hit China in the last 50 years, killed at least 104 people on Friday. Another 190 people were missing after the super typhoon stroked coasts in the southeastern parts of the country.
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| Israel Widens Air Strikes Despite UN Resolution Updated:12 August 2006 |
| Israel widens its air strikes in Lebanon despite the United Nation Security Council's Resolution for peace in the Middle East region.
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| Activists Release 4 Men Held In Connection With Mexico Rally Murder Updated:12 August 2006 |
| Four people taken hostage in Oaxaca have been released after spending 18 hours with activists. The political stand-off started when the teachers in the area went on strike demanding the resignation of the state governor. In the midst of the rally a man was shot dead.
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| Congo Election Invesigated Updated:12 August 2006 |
| Half a dozen election officials have been arrested for allegedly rigging the recent election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first election in 40 years. The officials were taken to court Thursday after reportedly being caught red handed. They are being accused of falsifying voting documents.
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| Demonstrators Protest Japanese War Shrine Updated:12 August 2006 |
| Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese demonstrators marched Saturday to protest Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, a war shrine that some say glorifies Japan's military conquests. About 200 demonstrators, many holding placards, candles and enlarged photographs of Japanese wartime brutalities, chanted for Japan to sincerely repent for its invasions and occupation of areas in Asia during the 20th century.
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| Hezbollah Blames Crisis On Israel Updated:12 August 2006 |
| Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah laid all blame for the current Middle East crisis on Israel, insisting accusations that the terror group instigated the fighting by abducting two Israeli soldiers and shelling northern Israel are "nothing but lies." Speaking on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station, Nasrallah said his group's attacks on Israel, including the July 12 assault during which two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were kidnapped, were all a reaction to what he called "Israeli aggression."
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| Israel Calls On Hezbollah To Surrender Updated:12 August 2006 |
| An Israeli Arabic-language radio broadcast into southern Lebanon Saturday called on all Hezbollah members there to lay down their arms and surrender to advancing Israeli forces. In compliance with a UN ceasefire resolution, the radio broadcast instructed Hezbollah fighters to raise white flags over their houses and collect all weapons into common areas.
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| Hezbollah Says Israel's End Is Nigh Updated:13 August 2006 |
| As fighting winds down in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah leaders are hailing a great victory over Israel, and encouraging other Arab nations hostile to the Jewish state to learn from their example.
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| Israel, Hezbollah Expected To Stop Fighting Monday Updated:13 August 2006 |
| UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan expects Israel and Hezbollah to cease all hostilities by Monday in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1701, and says both Jerusalem and Beirut have signed on to that timetable. Said Annan, "I am very happy to announce (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora) have agreed that the cessation of hostilities and the end of the fighting will enter into force on 14 August at 0500 hours GMT."
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| Captured Hezbollah Fighter: We Weren't Told Of Any Ceasefire Updated:13 August 2006 |
| An injured Hezbollah gunman being treated at an Israeli hospital says the terror group's men on the ground have been told nothing of a ceasefire. Identifying himself as Abdullah Nasser, the man said, "We didn't hear of a ceasefire, our fighters in the field were told nothing of such a thing."
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| Violence Continues In Sri Lanka Updated:13 August 2006 |
| Pushing Sri Lanka towards civil war, Tamil rebels move forward to the strategically important Jaffna Peninsula despite Norwegian truce monitors asking to stay away.
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| Israelis Told Not To Return North Yet Updated:13 August 2006 |
| Residents of northern Israel were warned by Home Front Command to remain in bomb shelters or refrain from returning from other parts of the country despite the approval of a UN ceasefire resolution. One person was killed and 14 others were wounded as Hezbollah continued to rain down rocket on northern Israel Sunday.
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| Typhoon "Saomi" Kills 114 In China, Hundreds More Missing Updated:13 August 2006 |
| Officials in China said Sunday some 114 people were reported killed and hundreds more were missing as typhoon "Saomi," the strongest storm to hit China in 50 years, left a swath of destruction in the country's southeast coast. Authorities said more people died Sunday when buildings being used as an evacuation shelters collapsed.
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| Archbishop Fasts And Prays For Middle East Updated:13 August 2006 |
| Archbishop John Sentamu, who spoke out against President Bush's refusal to call for a ceasefire in the Middle East conflict, will fast for one week in solitude for the people in the Middle East. Sentamu will also sleep in the 13th century cathedral of York Minister in England. He said he will hold prayer every hour during the next week for those who wish to prey for people affected by the conflict.
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| Three Television Crew Killed In Vehicular Accident Updated:13 August 2006 |
| Three television crew on their way to Manila, Philippines after covering the eruption in Mayon Volcano in Legazpi City, Albay also in the Philippines, died Sunday afternoon when the vehicle they were riding was bumped by a speeding bus in Naga City. Officials of the ABC - 5 television network, the employer of those killed, identified the victims as Smile Cabugayan, 38, driver; Analiza "Hazel" Richeta, reporter, and Arnel Guiao, cameraman. Rescuers said three were killed on the spot when their service vehicle was hit by a Raymond Bus at about 5:45 p.m. along Barangay del Rosario, Pamplona, Camarines Sur.
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| Western Philippines Faces Oil Slick Updated:13 August 2006 |
| An oil tanker of Petron Corp., carrying some 538,344 gallons of bunker fuel sank off the coasts of Nueva Valencia in western Philippines which could trigger an oil slick. The Office of the Civil Defense in Western Visayas said the huge volume of bunker fuel could destroy marine life off the coasts of Guimaras, Iloilo City and Negros Occidental and said a massive clean up operations must be readied immediately.
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| Perceived Hezbollah Victory Encourages Palestinians Updated:14 August 2006 |
| The end to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah Monday morning saw the terror group laying claim to victory, and Palestinian supporters enthusiastically embracing that assertion. Palestinian political analysts expressed concern that the perception that Hezbollah had beaten Israel would encourage Palestinian extremists and inflame further violence in the West Bank and Gaza.
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| Israel Gears Up For Day After War Updated:14 August 2006 |
| With a UN-brokered ceasefire going into effect Monday morning, Israel began looking to the day after its war with Hezbollah and the inevitable inquiries into the government's handling of the conflict. Knesset Member Yossi Beilin, leader of the far-left Meretz Party, called for the establishment of an official investigative committee to examine the root causes of the war and Israel's inability to adequately care for its northern residents as they fell victim to more than 3,000 Hezbollah rockets.
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| Death Toll From Chinese Typhoon Reaches 255 Updated:14 August 2006 |
| The death toll from typhoon Saomai which recently hit China has reached 255, officials said on Monday. However, more than 100 people are still reported missing after Saomai, the strongest typhoon to have hit the country in five decades, struck Cangnan County in Zhejiang province last Thursday.
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| Palestinians Talk Ceasefire, Fire Two Missiles Updated:14 August 2006 |
| Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip fired two Grad-class Katyusha missiles into Israel Monday morning, even as Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh spoke of desiring a ceasefire with Israel. Haniyeh said his government has "no qualms about negotiating with Israel," and is ready to enter into a long-term truce involving all Palestinian terror groups."
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| Israel Says It Killed 530 Hezbollah Terrorists Updated:14 August 2006 |
| Israel's military released a statement Monday estimating that its forces killed at least 530 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon over the past month. It said that leaflets were distributed across Lebanon with the names of 180 dead "terrorists that have been identified with certainty by the forces."
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| Scores Killed In Shiite Area Bombings In Baghdad Updated:14 August 2006 |
| A series of rocket attacks followed by vehicle bombs killed more than 60 people and wounded at least 100 others in a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad Sunday evening, according to ministry officials. The attack comes despite an additional 12,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops sent to quell violence in the region.
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| Lebanese Return Home To Rebuild Shattered Lives Updated:14 August 2006 |
| Thousands of Lebanese streamed back into southern Lebanon minutes after a cease-fire between Israel and the Hezbollah guerrillas took into effect Monday morning. One man was even captured on television kissing the ground as he returned home. People packed their cars with mattresses and some covered their faces as they slowly snaked their way into the bombed out roads of southern Lebanon, even as some areas were still smoldering from previous air strikes by Israeli war planes minutes before the truce begins
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