 Israel's refusal to halt attacks in south Lebanon is hampering aid attempts and preventing stranded civilians from leaving the war zone.The UN's emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, requested a three-day ceasefire in Lebanon to allow aid through but Israel refused to agree to a truce. Israeli planes continued air strikes in southern Lebanon, killing a woman and six children in a house in the village of Nmeiriya this afternoon, according to Lebanese medical sources. Hizbollah guerrillas have fired longer-range missiles deeper into Israel today than ever before and fighting continues near the Israel and Lebanon border....
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 Israel Pulls Forces Back From Embattled Border Town Bint Jbail |
Israeli troops pulled back from a Lebanese border town Saturday after a weeklong battle with Hezbollah, the bloodiest ground fighting of the 18-day Israeli offensive, as Hezbollah's leader vollied new threats at Israel on a TV broadcast. Elsewhere, Israeli warplanes blasted bridges and demolished houses, killing seven people, including a woman and her five children.The battle for Bint Jbail has symbolized Israel's difficulty in pushing guerrillas back from the border, whether by air bombardment or ground assault. Hezbollah on Friday escalated its cross-border attacks, firing longer-range missiles deeper into Israel than ever before....
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| Report: Big Dig company questioning warning Memo from 1999 warning of unsafe tunnel ceiling at issue |
Officials at a Big Dig construction company have been unable to locate a memo a safety officer said he wrote in 1999 warning his superiors that portions of a tunnel’s ceiling could collapse, a newspaper reported Saturday. The Boston Globe, which first reported on the memo Wednesday, cited a construction industry official it did not identify as saying that officials at Modern Continental Construction Co. were searching their files for the memo and taking other steps to determine whether it is authentic.The Globe said it received the memo by mail on Tuesday bearing the signature of the worker, John J. Keaveney, and dated May 17, 1999. It outlined several concerns about the safety of the ceiling design in the Interstate 90 connector tunnel where a woman was killed July 10 when ceiling panels fell on her car. The memo warns that “an innocent State Worker or member of the Public” could “be seriously injured or even worse killed as a result” of the ceiling design. It also questions “how ...
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| Israel strikes on Gaza continue |
Israel is keeping up its offensive on Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip, with air strikes on a suspected arms factory on Saturday. A tunnel used by Palestinian militants was also bombed, the Israeli army said. On Friday, the Israeli army withdrew from the area, following a two-day offensive which killed 29 Palestinians. The renewed attacks come as Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas held brief talks with President Mubarak of Egypt to discuss proposal to end the violence. There were no reports of casualties from the latest air raids. Israeli ground forces were also reported to have launched a new incursion into northern Gaza, near the Erez crossing point. In its earlier two-day operation, the Israeli army destroyed several buildings across the territory, killing two Palestinians, one a teenage boy. The Israeli army says it attacked weapons facilities in four areas in a continuing campaign to weaken militant groups in Gaza. ...
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Editor - 11:23:00 07-29-06
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| As the shells fall around them, Hizbullah men await the Israelis |
Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee. By the door is a pile of Kalashnikovs and ammunition boxes; handguns are tucked into the men's trousers. The four are Hizbullah fighters, waiting for the Israelis. "Patience is our main virtue, we can wait for days, weeks, months before we attack. The Israelis are always impatient in battle and in strategy," says the cleric, Sayed Ali, who claims to be a descendant of the prophet. "I know them very well." As if to make his point, the sound of Israeli shells blasting the surrounding hills shakes the door and shutters every few minutes. Ali does know the Israelis. He started fighting them at the age of 17 when they invaded Lebanon in 1982. Three years later he was arrested with two of his comrades and spent a few months in an Israeli prison. Within weeks of his release he was fighting them again. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1832931,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
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Editor - 11:20:00 07-29-06
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| NATO sets sights on Afghan drug barons |
NATO's expansion into southern Afghanistan will target drug warlords who are the root cause of growing violence, the force's commander said on Saturday. NATO will embark on the biggest mission in its history on Monday when it takes over security from the U.S.-led coalition in six southern provinces, extending its authority to almost all of the country. British Lieutenant-General David Richards said he hoped to see improvements in the south within three to six months, which would allow the 26-nation alliance to proceed with the final phase of its deployment into the east by the end of the year. Afghanistan is going through the bloodiest phase of violence since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, with most attacks occurring in the south. ...
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