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BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Gunmen in uniforms seized 30 or more Iraqi sports officials, including the national Olympics chief, and their bodyguards in Baghdad on Saturday, barely an hour after parliament voted to extend a state of emergency.
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July, 2006
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16 July
Middle East conflict muscles way into Group of Eight agenda
ST PETERSBURG — Middle East conflict muscled its way onto the Group of Eight (G-8) agenda on Saturday, setting the United States, a strong backer of Israel, against those who say the Jewish state has been too violent.
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16 July
Bush options limited
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, having stayed mostly on the sidelines during the latest Middle East crisis, now faces the threat of a broader regional conflict with few options for defusing it.
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16 July
Missile, not drone, hit Israeli warship, army says
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — A missile fired by Hizbollah, not an unmanned drone laden with explosives, damaged an Israeli warship off Lebanon, the army said Saturday.
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16 July
Yemen jails 12 officers over Al Qaeda escape
SANAA (AFP) — A Yemeni court has jailed 12 intelligence officers for up to three years after convicting them of negligence in the February escape of 23 suspected Al Qaeda members, official media said Friday.
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16 July
Iran leadership rejects freeze of nuke work
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran’s leadership has rejected demands to freeze sensitive nuclear work contained in an international proposal aimed at resolving the crisis over Tehran’s nuclear drive, an official was quoted as saying Saturday.
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14 July
Egyptian MPs Discuss Israeli-Palestinian Clashes and Demand Egypt Obtains Nuclear Weapons
Following are excerpts from an Egyptian parliamentary debate on the recent Israeli-Palestinian clashes, which aired on Channel 1, Egyptian TV, on July 4, 2006: MP Ibrahim Al-Gogari: It is not enough to demand the recalling of the Egyptian
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14 July
Lebanese TV News Presenter May Chidiac Who Survived an Assassination Attempt: My Mind Is Still in Place
Following are excerpts from an interview with Lebanese TV news presenter May Chidiac, who was injured in an assassination attempt last year. This interview was aired on LBC TV on July 2, 2006.
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13 July
Lebanese Civilian Deaths Rise, Arab Foreign Ministers Plan Emergency Meeting while European Stocks Fall
The Israeli army has warned Lebanon to evacuate all residents from a southern Beirut neighborhood where it believes Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah lives, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
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13 July
Region Never Threatened by Iran
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly Gholam Ali Haddad Adel stressed Iran’s sensitive position and standing in the region and reminded that his country has never posed any threat to the region all throughout the history.
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