| Juan Peron's Body To Be Moved Updated:16 September 2006 |
| Plans to move the body of former Argentinian President Juan Peron are underway. Officials are planning to move the president's coffin to a ceremonial mass and then to a newly constructed mausoleum.
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| Pope Apologizes For Remarks Over Islam Updated:16 September 2006 |
| Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday apologized for the remarks he made during a speech in Germany in which he referred to Islam and Jihad. In a statement read out by a senior Vatican official, the Pope said he was sorry that the Muslims had found his words offensive and that he respected their faith and hoped they would understand the true sense behind it.
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| Pakistan, India To Resume Peace Talks Updated:16 September 2006 |
| Pakistani and Indian officials agreed Saturday to restart peace negotiations while meeting at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana. The latest round of talks was ended after bombings in Mumbai killed over 200 people this Summer.
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| Canada To Send More Tanks And Troops To NATO Effort In Afghanistan Updated:16 September 2006 |
| Despite mounting calls to withdraw from Afghanistan amidst heavy troop casualties, Canada's Defense Department says it is sending 200 additional soldiers and armored units to the region. Canadian leaders say they will also send heavy weapons and support equipment to the NATO-led effort to fight the remnants of the Taliban.
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| British Soldier Dies in Traffic Accident During Training In Canada Updated:16 September 2006 |
| A military bus with 17 British Army personnel rolled over in heavy rain on Highway 1 near the town of Bassano, Alberta, about 93 miles from Calgary. One UK Soldier was killed and 16 others were slightly injured.
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| Iraq National Museum Staff Working To Rebuild Collection After Looting Updated:16 September 2006 |
| The staff at Iraq's National Museum is working hard to recover some of the priceless archaeological pieces looted after the invasion of Iraq. The museum did house one of the region's best collections of antiquities. But after the U.S.-led invasion of the city, staff say more than 13,840 items went missing. Many of the items have made their way onto the black market.
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| Lebanon Criticizes German Chancellor Angela Merkel Updated:17 September 2006 |
| Lebanon criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel's comments concerning German participation in the United Nations peacekeeping force in the country on Saturday. Fawzi Salloukh, Lebanon's Foreign Minister, urged Berlin to be an "unbiased" contributor to the UN mission in Lebanon.
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| Suicide Bomb in Iraq Kills 18 Updated:17 September 2006 |
| At least 18 people are dead and another 55 wounded after a suicide truck bomb exploded in the city of Kirkuk Sunday. A gunman sitting beside the suicide bomber also opened fire on civilians shortly before the truck slammed into the city's criminal court and exploded.
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| EU Yet To Accept Training Syrian Border Troops Updated:17 September 2006 |
| The European Union continues to discuss an Italian plan aimed at helping provide logistics to Syrian troops monitoring the Lebanon-Syria border. EU foreign ministers were cautious on Friday to the plan that would see EU personnel in civilian clothes help Syrian troops.
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| Hezbollah Says UN Force Should Defend Lebanon Updated:17 September 2006 |
| Hezbollah said that the United Nations peacekeeping force in the country should defend Lebanon against Israel. A top leader in the militant organization said the Shiite group would have no problems with the UN force in the country as long as it did not pursue other agendas.
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| Palestinian Unity Government On Hold Over Hamas Intransigence Updated:17 September 2006 |
| PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has put on hold unity government negotiations with the ruling Hamas faction over the latter's refusal to meet the international community's conditions for restarting the flow of financial aid.
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| French Troops Begin Heading South Updated:17 September 2006 |
| French troops have begun to deploy to the southern portions of Lebanon. On Sunday the first French battalion assigned to the United Nations peacekeeping force in the country began to move south from Beirut to take up positions in Bint Jbeil.
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| Nun Shot to Death; Possible Retaliation for Pope's Islam Remarks Updated:17 September 2006 |
| An Italian nun is dead after being shot to death by Somali gunmen Sunday. The murder happened just hours after a Muslim cleric condemned Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks on Islam.
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| Israeli Cabinet Approves War Commission Updated:17 September 2006 |
| Israel's cabinet Sunday overwhelmingly approved the formation of an official state commission of inquiry into the handling of this summer's Lebanon war. Though the panel, which will be chaired by retired Tel Aviv District Court judge Eliahu Winograd, was appointed entirely by the government, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced it will have the same authority as a full state commission of inquiry.
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| India And Pakistan Announce Resumption Of Talks At Nonaligned Nations Meet Updated:17 September 2006 |
| The on again-off again peace negotiations between India and Pakistan appear to be on again after a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sing and Pakistan President Pervez Musharrif at the Nonaligned Nation Movement conference which is taking place in Havana. India and Pakistan have fought several wars since the 1948 partition of the two countries over parts of Kashmir, a province which the U.N. awarded to India in the original partition, but which Pakistan claims belongs to it.
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| Hezbollah Fighters Return To Normal Life Updated:17 September 2006 |
| The Shiite militant group Hezbollah that recently fought a 34-day war with Israel, seems to be returning to normal life. Many of the fighters have said they are ready to pick up arms again if Israel wants to start a new war, but at the moment they are back with their families and living normal lives.
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| ADB Provides $ 96.1 Million To Bangladesh For Rural Infrastructure Updated:18 September 2006 |
| The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $ 96.1 million to Bangladesh to help expand economic opportunities for the rural poor by way of improving rural infrastructure and local governance. An agreement to this effect was signed between the ADB and the Bangladesh government at a simple ceremony in Dhaka on Sunday.
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| Palestinian PM's Bodyguards Open Fire On Protestors Updated:18 September 2006 |
| Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's bodyguards opened fire on jobless protesters outside the parliament building in Gaza City Monday as they tried to block the Hamas chief's entrance to the building. According to witnesses, a spokeswoman for the demonstrators was wounded in the shooting.
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| Israel Offers Incentives For Hamas Compliance Updated:18 September 2006 |
| Israel on Monday offered substantive goodwill gestures to the Palestinians if Hamas softened its positions on the Jewish state and ordered the release of an Israeli soldier being held by terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Both Israel and the US have expressed disappointment that an emerging Palestinian unity government would not require Hamas to explicitly recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce terrorism, or abide by all previous agreements between Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority.
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| Israel Drawing Up Battle Plans For Next Lebanon War Updated:18 September 2006 |
| The Israeli defense establishment is already drawing up battle plans for the next conflict with Hezbollah, which is expected to be complicated by the presence of up to 15,000 U.N. troops and the Lebanese army.
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| EU Lawmakers Cancel Trip To Lebanon Updated:18 September 2006 |
| A delegation of European Union parliamentarians planning to visit and evaluate war damage in both Israel and Lebanon canceled their trip at the last minute after Beirut refused to allow an Israeli to join the group while in Lebanon. The lawmakers were part of a wider Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) delegation, which also included parliamentarians from North Africa nations.
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| Iran's Ahmadinejad Says He Doesn't Want Nuclear Arms Updated:18 September 2006 |
| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that his nation is not seeking to build nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned that the day is rapidly approaching that Iran will reach a point where it cannot be stopped from obtaining nuclear weapons.
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| Israel Warns The World May Have A Nuclear Iran In A Few Months Updated:18 September 2006 |
| In a call for sanctions against Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Sunday that the world may have as little as "a few months" to avoid a nuclear Iran, telling CNN"s "Late Edition," "The crucial moment is not the day of the bomb. The crucial moment is the day in which Iran will master the enrichment, the knowledge of enrichment."
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| 16 Killed, 50 Injured In Road Accidents In Bangladesh Updated:18 September 2006 |
| At least 16 people were killed and 50 injured in several road accidents in Bangladesh on Monday. Nine people were killed and 50 injured when a truck hit a passenger-bus in front of the Shahjibazar Gas Field at Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj district at around 11:30 am (local time).
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| U.N. Says 350,000 May Be Displaced If AU Leaves Darfur Updated:18 September 2006 |
| The United Nations said on Monday that some 350,000 people in Sudan's war-ravaged west could be displaced if African Union forces leave Darfur when their mandate expires at the end of the month. It forecast that if the 7,000-strong AU force pulled out of Darfur, humanitarian access there would deteriorate dramatically as attacks on vehicles made road travel impossible outside urban centers.
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| Tourists Cancel Due To Thai Bomb Scares Updated:18 September 2006 |
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| Iraqi Protestors Set Effigy Of Pope Ablaze Updated:18 September 2006 |
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| Al-Qaeda Posts Promise Of Jihad Until West Defeated Updated:18 September 2006 |
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| Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 4 Canadians In Afghanistan Updated:18 September 2006 |
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| Opposition Calls Road-Rail-Waterway Blockade, Strike In Bangladesh Updated:18 September 2006 |
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