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'We hear every bomb that falls'

By Trevor brown · Sunday, July 23,2006 8:29 p.m.

Taking refuge in an area near downtown Beirut, Lebanon, IU student Huda Fakhreddine listens as just miles away in the city's southern suburbs bombs continue to blast away at the nearby Hezbollah power base and at the country's infrastructure.

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Car bombs in Baghdad, Kirkuk kill more than 60

By Abdullah AlShihri and Ryan Lenz · Sunday, July 23,2006 6:22 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Bombs exploded Sunday in Baghdad and the northern oil center of Kirkuk, killing more than 60 people and dramatically escalating tension as the prime minister left for Washington for talks on reversing the country's slide toward civil war.

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Islamic militia deploys outside Somalia government base

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:56 p.m.

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The Islamic militiamen holding most of southern Somalia deployed hundreds of fighters outside the base of the U.N.-backed interim government Wednesday and said they planned to seize it. Seizing Baidoa would make the Islamic militia -- which the United States has linked to al-Qaida -- the uncontested authority over most of the country. The interim government was on high alert and ready to defend itself from an attack, Deputy Information Minister Salad Ali Jelle told The Associated Press.

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12 Palestinians die in Israeli raids in Gaza and the West Bank

By Alyson Brodsy and Sarah El Deeb · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:54 p.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in fighting in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday as the army pressed a wide-ranging offensive against militants. The raids were the latest in a three-week operation that began after Hamas-linked militants captured an Israeli soldier. The fighting has persisted even as Israel waged a second battle with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon after they seized two soldiers last week.

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Lebanese prime minister says 300 killed from Israel's week of bombardment

Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:53 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's prime minister said Wednesday that 300 people have been killed, 1,000 have been wounded and a half-million displaced in Israel's week-old onslaught on Lebanon. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said he would seek compensation from Israel for the "unimaginable losses" to the nation's infrastructure and he appealed for an end to hostilities on a humanitarian basis. In a swipe at the international community, particularly the United States, which said Israel was acting in self-defense, Saniora said: "Is this what the international community calls the right of self-defense? Is this the price to pay?"

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2 people killed in rocket attack in Nazareth

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 19,2006 8:53 p.m.

NAZARETH, Israel -- Hezbollah rockets Wednesday slammed into this Arab-Israeli town revered as the place Jesus grew up, killing two young brothers as they played outside and wounding 18 other people, Israeli authorities said. The attack on Nazareth -- the first by the Lebanese guerrillas to reach near important holy sites -- came hours after Israeli troops engaged in a fierce firefight with Hezbollah inside Lebanon, a clash that killed two soldiers and one militant. Nazareth residents ran to a building in flames from one of the airstrikes to help firefighters unwind hoses. Another strike killed brothers ages 3 and 9, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said. Television footage showed a large crater in the middle of the road. It also is a key site in Christian tradition. The Galilee town of 70,000 people is filled with churches, including the Basilica of the Annunciation, the largest basilica in the Middle East, which towers over the town center.

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Israel responds to rockets with escalation

By Abdullah AlShihri and Josef Federman · Sunday, July 16,2006 10:49 p.m.

HAIFA, Israel -- Lebanese guerillas fired a relentless barrage of rockets into this northern Israeli city during morning rush hour Sunday, killing eight people at a train station and wounding seven in a dramatic escalation of a five-day-old conflict that has shattered hopes for Mideast peace.

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Israel begins offensive in Lebanon after Hezbollah captures 2 soldiers

By Alyson Brodsy and Joseph Panossian · Thursday, July 13,2006 5:06 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid Wednesday and dozens of Israeli troops crossed the frontier with warplanes, tanks and gunboats to hunt for the captives. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the soldiers' capture "an act of war" and his Cabinet prepared to approve more military action in Lebanon -- a second front in the fight against Islamic militants by Israel, which already is waging an operation to free a captured soldier in the Gaza Strip.

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Chicago subway derails; causes fire, evacuation

By Alyson Brodsy and Megan Reichgott · Thursday, July 13,2006 2:49 p.m.

CHICAGO -- Wary Chicago commuters headed back into the downtown subway stations Wednesday morning, a day after an eight-car train derailed and sparked a tunnel fire that injured more than 150 people in one of the city's few underground stretches of subway line. The damaged, soot-covered train was hauled back to a railyard after the rush hour derailment Tuesday evening, and the downtown Blue Line stations reopened Wednesday, but with delays. Law enforcement officials said there was no indication of foul play or terrorism.

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Dozens more evacuated as wildfire tears through communities in California desert

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 12,2006 7:51 p.m.

YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. -- Firefighters evacuated dozens more people from their homes early Wednesday as a wildfire raced across the desert and destroyed several homes in an area where dozens of Hollywood Westerns were filmed. Wind exceeding 40 mph fanned the flames, and officials said they didn't expect the weather to change anytime soon. The fire had covered more than 17,000 acres. Dozens were evacuated from communities in Little Morongo Canyon and Burns Canyon. Up to 1,000 fled the flames Tuesday, authorities said.

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122 confirmed dead in Siberian plane crash

By Abdullah AlShihri and Henry Meyer · Monday, July 10,2006 1:22 a.m.

MOSCOW -- A Russian passenger plane carrying at least 201 passengers skidded off a rain-slicked runway in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday and plowed through a concrete barrier, bursting into flames. At least 122 people were killed, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Fifty-eight people were injured in the accident, the second major commercial airline crash in two months in Russia. The commission investigating the crash said preliminary information indicated that the braking system on the Airbus A-310 operated by airline S7 had failed, Russian news agencies reported, citing officials it did not identify.

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Enron founder Kenneth Lay dies of heart attack at age 64

By Alyson Brodsy and Kristen Hays · Wednesday, July 5,2006 8:14 p.m.

HOUSTON -- Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay, who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, has died of a heart attack in Colorado. He was 64. A secretary at his church and another secretary for his lead criminal lawyer, Michael Ramsey, on Monday both confirmed the death. Lay frequently vacationed in Colorado. Lay, who faced life in prison, was scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 23. Nicknamed "Kenny Boy" by President Bush, Lay led Enron's meteoric rise from a staid natural gas pipeline company formed by a 1985 merger to an energy and trading conglomerate that reached No. 7 on the Fortune 500 in 2000 and claimed $101 billion in annual revenues.

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Astronauts of Discovery start shuttle inspections

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Schneider · Wednesday, July 5,2006 8:12 p.m.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The crew of Discovery began their first full day in space Wednesday with one of the most comprehensive in-flight inspections of any shuttle flight. As they hurtled toward a Thursday rendezvous with the international space station, the astronauts maneuvered a 50-foot boom with cameras attached to inspect Discovery's right wing for any damage from debris during liftoff.

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North Korea defiantly testing missiles

By Deb Riechmann · Wednesday, July 5,2006 7:16 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush White House condemned North Korea for its defiant missile tests and accused Pyongyang of trying to "intimidate other states" but said the missiles posed no danger to the United States. The test-firings of six missiles -- including a long-range missile designed to reach U.S. soil -- came as America celebrated the Fourth of July and raised the stakes in a nuclear standoff and pressured the U.S. and its partners to penalize Pyongyang. North Korea fired a seventh missile early Wednesday, after the initial round of U.S. reaction.

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