July, 2006

• 24 July

  10 buildings for every rocket

   “Army chief of staff Dan Halutz has given the order to the air force to destroy 10 multi-storey buildings in the Dahaya district (of Beirut) in response to every rocket fired on Haifa,”

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• 24 July

  Nasrallah: Invasion will not stop rockets

   “Any Israeli incursion will have no political results if it does not achieve its declared goals, primarily an end to the rocketing of Zionist settlements in northern occupied Palestine,” Nasrallah said in remarks published on Monday.

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• 24 July

  Romania shaken by spying blunder

  Radu Timofte’s resignation followed the disappearance of a Syrian-born suspect in the abduction of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005.

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• 24 July

  Israel takes aim at Hezbollah stronghold

  The fighting took place in the Bint Jubeil area, north of Maroun al-Ras, and involved aerial and ground forces.

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• 24 July

  South Lebanon caught in cross-fire

  HASBAYA, Lebanon (Reuters) – Caught between Hizbollah rocket fire and Israeli air strikes, some residents of southern Lebanon are losing patience with the guerrilla group they blame for a war that is costing them lives.

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• 24 July

  Israel kills five in Gaza

  GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli shells killed five people and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including two members of the same family who were riding a donkey cart when they were hit, Palestinian witnesses said.

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• 24 July

  Born-again allies, France and US unite over Lebanon

  PARIS (Reuters) – France and the United States worked together to oust Syria from Lebanon and, despite tactical differences due to divergent agendas in the region, they agree who is to blame for the current crisis — Hizbollah.

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• 24 July

  Oil slips as Rice calls for Mideast ceasefire

  LONDON (Reuters) – Oil slipped below $74 a barrel on Monday due to diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict in the Middle East, a region that pumps almost a third of the world’s oil.

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• 24 July

  Lebanon needs huge aid inflow to repair war damage

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon will need billions of dollars in aid to recover from Israel’s war with Hizbollah, which has ruined many civil installations, hit tourism, forced businesses to close and forced hundreds of thousands to flee.

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• 24 July

  Two more suicide attacks in Afghanistan

  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers targeted Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan on Monday, amid a wave of such attacks before NATO takes over security in the country’s violent south.

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