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Israel strikes new Gaza targets Israeli aircraft have targeted several sites across Gaza, seriously damaging the Palestinian interior ministry. Reports also suggest Palestinian militants have clashed with Israeli special forces in northern Gaza, though Israel denies having troops there. Israel is trying to force the release of a captured soldier. |
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Death toll at least 16 for Northeast floods TRENTON, N.J. - Muddy, coffee-colored floodwaters poured into homes, basements and stores on both sides of the Delaware River and rose as high as the street signs Thursday in some of the worst flooding to hit the Northeast in decades. At least 16 deaths were blamed on the deluge. The city of Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania was spared when the newly raised levees held back the raging Susquehanna River, and officials lifted an evacuation order covering 200,000 people. But other communities drenched by days of record-breaking rain were not as lucky. |
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Baghdad market blast kills dozens At least 33 people have died in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, police say. More than 40 others were injured in the blast in a market in Sadr City, a Shia area of the capital which has previously been targeted by insurgents. In a separate incident, a female Sunni MP and seven of her bodyguards were kidnapped, parliamentary sources said. |
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Media groups defend secret-program stories WASHINGTON - Two journalism organizations criticized lawmakers on Friday for condemning newspapers that reported on the government’s secret program for tracking the finances of terrorists. “The administration of President George W. Bush and some members of Congress are threatening America’s bedrock values of free speech and free press with their attempts to demonize newspapers for fulfilling their constitutional role in our democratic society,” the American Society of Newspaper Editors said in a statement. |
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Israel to 'intensify' Gaza action Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered the military to intensify its actions in Gaza to secure the release of a captured Israeli soldier. His comments came hours after Israeli helicopters attacked the Gaza HQ of Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya. |
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Storms threaten shuttle launch again CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The prospect of stormy weather continued to threaten NASA's planned launch Sunday of the space shuttle Discovery, an attempt at the second U.S. spaceflight since the Columbia disaster three years ago. Electrically charged clouds forced the space agency to call off Saturday's launch, delaying by a day the first space shuttle flight in a year. The forecast wasn't much better Sunday morning, with a 70 percent chance that clouds and storms would prevent the launch, planned for 3:26 p.m. EDT. "We knew we were going to get in a race against the weather," said launch director Michael Leinbach, adding that he expected the same for Sunday. "You can't control the weather, and we have very strict rules." |
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Mexico’s presidential election too close to call MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s presidential election was too close to call Sunday, with a leftist offering himself as a savior to the poor and a conservative free-trader both declaring themselves the winner. Officials said they won’t know who won for days, raising fears of instability and violence. Electoral officials said they could not project a winner, which they previously said would happen only if the leading candidates were within 1 percentage point of each other in a scientific sampling of votes. Luis Carlos Ugalde, president of the Federal Electoral Institute, said an official count would begin Wednesday, and a winner would be declared once it’s complete. |
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Israel launches more strikes in Gaza GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel massed tanks and troops along Gaza’s northern border early Monday, firing artillery and unleashing more airstrikes in a show of force after the prime minister ordered his army to “do all it can” to free an abducted soldier. At daybreak Monday, a small force of Israeli tanks entered northern Gaza, but the military said it was a “limited” mission to find explosives and tunnels near the border fence. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s warning signaled the government was losing patience with diplomatic efforts to end the week-old crisis over the captive soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, and was preparing for a possible escalation of its military offensive. |
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Lawmaker: Numbers of Iraqi Officials Found in Zarqawi's Phone BAGHDAD, Iraq — In the aftermath of last month's air strike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, his cell phone included the phone numbers of several senior Iraqi officials. An Iraqi lawmaker did not identify the officials. But he says they included ministry employees and members of Iraq's Parliament. |
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Violence Surge in Sri Lanka Kills Nine COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Two explosions and a shooting killed at least nine people Monday and wounded 17 in troubled Sri Lanka, where an unraveling cease-fire between the government and Tamil rebels is threatening to plunge the country into all-out civil war. A bomb at an army checkpoint in the northeast killed four police officers, two soldiers and a civilian, the army said. Fourteen others were wounded. |
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CAPE CANAVERAL FLORIDA - NASA managers celebrated the success of the nation's first Fourth of July manned shuttle launch, saying they were not worried about a small piece of foam that broke off and hit the Discovery during its ascent. "They don't get much better than this," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said of the launch. Griffin chose to go ahead with the mission over concerns from the space agency's safety officer and chief engineer about foam problems that have dogged the agency since Columbia was doomed by a flyaway chunk of insulation 3 1/2 years ago. |
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GUSTINE, Calif. - A man who was seen arguing with his wife Tuesday later killed his four young children in their home with a hunting rifle before turning the gun on himself, officials said. The children apparently died of gunshots to the head, and their father, Trevor Branscum, 38, died of a self-inflicted wound, Mayor Jim Bonta said. Police Sgt. Vince Inaudi said the children appeared to be sleeping when they were shot. The evidence was consistent with a murder-suicide, but the department planned to conduct a full homicide investigation, he said. Authorities identified the dead siblings as Aubrie, 12; Jacob, 10; and twins Taylor and Alyssa, both 5. The wife, Amanda Branscum, was uninjured, officials said. |
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Israel tanks enter northern Gaza A small force of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles has moved into northern Gaza and has reportedly entered a former Israeli settlement. The push came after a second rocket hit the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon and follows an Israeli decision to step up attacks on the Hamas-led government. The rocket from the Gaza Strip landed harmlessly in a green space though some people were treated for shock. Israel has been raiding Gaza since the capture of a soldier on 25 June. |
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Putin goes online to take people's challenges PRAVDA - the Russian News Service President Putin is to communicate with people over the Internet during his online conference tomorrow, July 6, at 5 p.m. Moscow time. Putin's first public appearance on the world wide web took place five years ago on March 6 2001. Lat time the president answered only 32 from 21,357 questions from Internet users. A certain part of the questions was selected as a result of special competitions held in various regions of the Russian Federation. Five years ago Russian web surfers were mostly interested in an opportunity to catch Putin on the net and ask him a question out of idle curiosity. The people were also interested in problems of the housing and communal field, bureaucracy, changes in the Tax Code of Russia, the situation in Chechnya, etc. Foreign correspondents were mainly interested in Russia's reaction to USA's plans to deploy the national Air Defense system. |
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N.Korea denies hostile intent SEOUL (Reuters) - Reclusive North Korea insisted on Friday that its missile launches were not an attack on anyone, as a senior U.S. envoy arrived in Asia to push Washington's case that a dangerous Pyongyang must be brought to heel. The United States has stumbled in attempts to impose U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea for its July 4 missile tests because of opposition from Russia and China. "This (the missile launches) is not an attack on someone," North Korea's councilor at the U.N. mission in Geneva, Choe Myong-nam, told South Korea's Yonhap news agency. |
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Ex-soldier pleads not guilty in Iraq crimes LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A former Army private charged with raping an Iraqi woman and killing her and her family entered a plea of not guilty through his public defenders Thursday. Steven D. Green also waived a detention hearing and a preliminary hearing, and agreed that his case would be prosecuted in the Western District of Kentucky. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Moyer set an arraignment date of Aug. 8 in Paducah for Green, who was arrested Friday by FBI agents in Marion, N.C. Green appeared in baggy shorts and flip-flops, and was wearing the same Johnny Cash T-shirt he wore to a hearing Monday in Charlotte, N.C. |
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