A grand jury will investigate the blockade of a Mississippi River bridge by armed police officers last year who turned back Hurricane Katrina evacuees trying to flee New Orleans. Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan did not say when the grand jury will be convened. He refused to reveal any details of the investigation but said in a prepared statement that he had received a report from the state attorney general's office.Several hundred evacuees claimed that police from suburban Gretna blocked them as they tried to flee New Orleans for safety on Sept. 1.Many of the evacuees, who had been stranded at the New Orleans convention center without food and water, said they were told to cross the bridge to be evacuated from the city. But Gretna police confronted them on the bridge and forced them to turn around....
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 Hezbollah Rockets Hammer Northern Israel, Killing Four Israelis _ Three of Them Arabs |
Hezbollah rockets hammered northern Israel on Friday, including a half-hour barrage of 45 missiles that killed four Israelis, three of them Arabs. One rocket crashed into a house in the Arab village of Mughar, near the town of Tiberias, killing a 26-year-old woman and seriously wounding a second person, police said. An Israeli man died near the town of Kiryat Shemona, police said. At least four people were wounded in Kiryat Shemona, Safed and Kfar Horpash. Later, rockets hit the Arab villages of Majdel Krum and Dir el-Assad, killing a man in each, police said. Some rockets overshot their targets in northern Israel and landed in Syrian territory, the Israeli military said. ...
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| Israeli air raid kills 33 civilians in Lebanon |
An Israeli air strike killed at least 33 farm workers in northeastern Lebanon on Friday and Hizbollah fired scores of rockets into Israel in a worsening conflict that world powers have failed to halt. Most of the dead and 20 wounded were taken to nearby Syria after the raid near Qaa in the Bekaa Valley. At least three rockets hit a farm where workers, mostly Syrian Kurds, were loading plums and peaches on to trucks, local officials said. It was the second deadliest strike in Lebanon after an air raid killed up to 54 civilians in the village of Qana on Sunday. Israeli aircraft also destroyed four bridges on the main coastal highway north of Beirut, disrupting efforts to aid civilians displaced or trapped by the conflict in Lebanon. With no action to end the 24-day-old war emerging from the United Nations, fierce fighting raged in the south as Israeli troops tried to expand seven small border enclaves they control. ...
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| Motorola warns of Lebanon impact |
Motorola has warned that continuing hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon may disrupt its business. The US phone giant could be especially affected by the ongoing conflict because it has sizeable manufacturing and engineering operations in Israel. It has about 3,500 employees in Israel, including its Israeli headquarters in Tel Aviv, the country's largest city. Motorola added that the conflict could also hit its sales across the region. "We also sell our products and services throughout the Middle East and demand for our products and services could be negatively impacted by the hostilities," the firm said. ...
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| Virus program incurs church wrath |
Vicars in the UK are up in arms after parts of a program they use to organise church services were branded spyware. Many users of the Visual Liturgy software rendered the program useless after deleting a file wrongly identified as spyware. The creators of Visual Liturgy criticised anti-virus firm Symantec for the time it took to fix the bug. Symantec said the mistake had been fixed and users could avoid the problem by updating their anti-virus software. The row between Symantec and Church House Publishing, the creator of Visual Liturgy, blew up on 8 July following an update to the Norton anti-virus software. More than 4,500 Church of England parishes rely on Visual Liturgy to help them plan and prepare church services. The update identified a file called vlutils.dll as being part of a keylogging program called SniperSpy. In fact the file was an integral part of Visual Liturgy. Many people who reacted to the warning by deleting the files crippled the program. ...
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| EU mulls action against Eritrea |
The European Commission is considering action against Eritrea in protest at food aid being sold, and the proceeds used for government work programmes. Eritrea may be asked to repay the $3m cost of food thought to have been sold. The EC's ambassador to Eritrea, Geert Heikens, told the BBC that attempts to discuss the matter with the authorities had failed, and that action was needed. The row comes at a time when more than 15% of Eritreans are malnourished and the country depends on outside aid. The Eritrean government introduced a new policy of cash-for-work in May, saying this was to prevent the population becoming dependent on outside aid. ...
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