Insurgents hit a Canadian base in southern Afghanistan with mortars, wounding six soldiers, a military spokesman said Wednesday.The attack happened in Zhari district of the southern Kandahar province on Tuesday, said Capt. Edward Stewart, a Canadian military spokesman.None of the soldiers' injuries was life threatening, he said.Seven Canadian troops have been killed in the area since NATO-led troops took control of security from the U.S.-led coalition on August 1 in Afghanistan's insurgency-wracked southern provinces.U.S. and NATO forces have stepped up operations along Afghanistan's eastern and southern borders with Pakistan, where wanted al-Qaida fugitives are believed to be at large along with allies from the toppled Taliban regime and Islamic extremists belonging to Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar....
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 Lebanese hospital struggles to cope with the dead |
As a truce held in south Lebanon on Wednesday, workers dug a mass grave for more than 100 people killed during Israel's war with Hizbollah but later postponed the burial so relatives had more time to claim bodies. Corpses are being removed from the ruins of destroyed buildings in the south following the truce. Many are taken to a makeshift morgue at a hospital in the southern city of Tyre, where other unclaimed bodies have lain for days or weeks. The hospital had been planning a mass burial of up to 126 bodies in a grave near an army barracks. Seventy-two corpses were buried there on July 21. However, the latest burial was postponed because not all the bodies had been identified and some relatives, who had been unable to claim their loved ones in the upheaval of war, wanted to bury them elsewhere. "There are names which are not clear," said Dr Moustafa Jradeh. "There are people who want to bury them in their villages. If we bury them here it will cause a lot of problems."...
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| Lebanon Plans to Start Troop Deployment to South Tomorrow |
Lebanon will start to deploy government troops to the south of the country tomorrow in the first stage of a plan to position a peacekeeping force between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, a presidential spokesman said. ``The army is expected to deploy in the south tomorrow following a cabinet decision today,'' spokesman Rafik Shlala said by telephone. Lebanon plans to send a total of 15,000 soldiers in a buffer force backed by United Nations troops. The deployment of the first Lebanese troops will be followed by the arrival in about two weeks of foreign troops to boost the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, to about 3,500 soldiers. UNIFIL has been based in south Lebanon since 1978. The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Aug. 11 that demands an end to hostilities that broke out July 12 and calls for the withdrawal of Israeli troops after UN and Lebanese forces are in place. ...
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| Israel's defense minister creates committee to investigate conduct of Lebanon war |
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Wednesday created a committee to investigate Israel's conduct during the 34 day fight against Hezbollah guerrillas, senior defense officials said.The committee, made up of business executives and retired generals, will be led by a former army chief and will look into the army's preparedness ahead of the fighting, the officials said.The formation of the committee was a step toward addressing criticism over the handling of the crisis but fell short of meeting growing demands for the creation of an independent commission of inquiry to investigate both the government's and the military's performance.The announcment came as demands mounted for the military chief's resignation, and the government came under increasing criticism over how the war against Hezbollah was waged....
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| Philippines quash president impeachment case Opponents accuse Arroyo of vote-rigging, corruption |
Philippine lawmakers on Wednesday quashed an impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for the second time in a year, dealing a major blow to efforts to oust her on allegations of vote-rigging, corruption and other improprieties. The House of Representatives’ justice committee, dominated by Arroyo allies, had been widely expected to dismiss the new impeachment bid. The full 232-member House will vote, probably next week, on whether to endorse the committee’s action. Last year, they voted 158-51 to uphold a committee decision to dismiss the first case against Arroyo, who has had a rocky time since taking over when predecessor Joseph Estrada was ousted by a “people power” revolt in January 2001. She won her own six-year term in 2004, an election that the opposition claims she stole. The justice committee, which has 102 voting members _ 71 of whom back Arroyo _ voted unanimously last week that the new complaint had the proper ...
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| Ethiopia fears sharp rise in floods death toll |
Ethiopia braced Wednesday for a sharp rise in the death toll from flash floods in the south, east and north that have killed at least 455 people and are spreading amid heavy seasonal rains.As efforts continued to rescue up to 20,000 people marooned in the south where 194 people died at the weekend and locate 250 missing in the east where 256 drowned last week, new floods were reported north of the capital.Officials in the remote Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's state said poor weather that hampered relief operations in the Omo River basin had lifted but feared for the worst as they discovered more inundated villages."As there are four more villages that were unreachable for the last two days, there is a fear the death toll may rise," regional police spokesman Daniel Gezhegn said....
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