July 22, 2006 Eurasia, Eurasia News
BEIJING (CNN) — A moderate earthquake shook southwestern China Saturday morning, killing 13 people, injuring 41 people and toppling 56 houses, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israeli strikes have killed at least 263 people and wounded at least 624 in Lebanon since July 12, according to official Lebanese sources.
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
JERUSALEM (CNN) — Ten people were wounded by Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel Saturday morning, Israeli ambulance services said. About 10 rockets fell on northern Israel Saturday morning, the Israel Defense Force said. (Posted 4:13 a.m.)
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (CNN) — Insurgents killed three Iraqi police and wounded five others in what appeared to be a planned ambush in a market in the city of Baquba Saturday morning, Iraqi police said.
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD — A U.S. soldier was killed when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad Saturday morning, the U.S. military said.
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BEIRUT (CNN) — Israel airstrikes disrupted television and phone service throughout north Lebanon Saturday, a Lebanese government official said.
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
LANARCA, Cyprus (CNN) — The U.S. ambassador to Cyprus expects nearly 4,000 Americans to be evacuated to the island nation from war-torn Lebanon on Saturday.
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (CNN) — Iraq’s prime minister, whose country is mired in Sunni-Shiite sectarian fighting and a relentless insurgent violence, wants to put another conflict on his busy agenda next week when he meets with the Bush administration and other officials — Lebanon.
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BEIRUT (CNN) — The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. said on Saturday one of its employees was killed and another was wounded in the Israeli airstrikes on transmission towers. The LBC confirmed that Suleiman Shidiyaq was killed on the transmission tower in Fatqa and Charbel Aqiqi was injured in another air strike …
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July 22, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
(CNN) — The Israel Defense Forces said about 70 rockets hit Israel on Saturday, projectiles fired by Hezbollah militants fighting the Jewish state.
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