 Gunmen dressed in military fatigues swooped down on the offices of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and a nearby mobile phone company Monday, seizing 29 people.Also Monday, at least 27 people were killed or found dead in political or sectarian violence across the country, police said. They included four Iraqi soldiers who died in a suicide bombing in northern Iraq -- the first such attack in the Kurdish-ruled province of Dahuk.The kidnappings occurred around noon when armed, uniformed men arrived in 15 four-wheel drive vehicles in the main shopping area of Karradah, an upscale residential district where several prominent Shiite politicians live.One group entered a mobile phone shop and the other went to the next door office of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce,...
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 Britain, Calif. to work together on global warming |
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, accusing Washington of lacking leadership on the environment, committed his state on Monday to work with Britain to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming. British Prime Minister Tony Blair joined Schwarzenegger and leading businessmen to announce the agreement under which Britain and California will collaborate on research into clean energy technologies and California will study the British experience of greenhouse gas emissions trading. Most scientists link greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emitted from the burning of fossil fuels to global warming that could lead to heat waves, stronger storms, and flooding from rising sea levels...
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| Trapped Lebanese Flee Town During Break Trapped residents of shattered Bint Jbail flee during break in bombings |
The elderly man stumbled over the rubble, his crumpled suit hanging off his shrunken frame, his loose pants held together by a pin after eating only a piece of candy a day."I haven't seen the sun for 20 days," said 73-year-old Mehdi al-Halim. Next to him, his wife balanced a bag of clothes on her head as she tried to pick her way over the wreckage of bombed-out buildings.Some 200 Lebanese, many elderly, struggled to safety Monday, ravaged by days in hiding with little food as battling Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah guerrillas brought the town of Bint Jbail down around them.The siege lifted, they emerged from their shelters, dehydrated, starving _ some in their 70s or 80s _ and some started to walk out of devastated Bint Jbail. Two died on the road, one of malnutrition, the other of heart failure. Others waited for ambulances....
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| Hezbollah's former enemy now its public face |
At 68, Lebanese politician Nabih Berri has worn many hats: corporate lawyer, Shiite warlord, Syrian puppet, speaker of parliament — even, in the 1970s, unemployed Michigan father.In the 3-week-old Middle East crisis, he has a new role. He acts as the public face of Hezbollah, the radical Shiite movement that has been both his rival and partner.Most of Hezbollah's top leaders have been in hiding since July 12, when their fighters captured two Israeli soldiers and began firing rockets into northern Israel. As Israel retaliated with daily air, sea and artillery strikes, Lebanon's Christian president and Sunni prime minister signaled that Berri, the top-ranking Shiite in a delicately balanced political system, was their pipeline to Hezbollah....
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| Graphic 9/11 Trial Exhibits Released Photos Of Carnage Among Moussaoui Trial Exhibits Posted Online By Court |
Photographs of the carnage of Sept. 11 and tape-recorded final phone calls from victims in the World Trade Center were posted Monday by a federal court, a total of 1,202 exhibits from the Zacarias Moussaoui trial. The videos, photographs and taped phone calls on the court's website were graphic in some cases, leading the court to mark 18 of the exhibits "discretion advised." The U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., said it is the first criminal case for which a federal court has provided access to all exhibits online. Other trial exhibits range from motel receipts for the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers to photographs of the U.S. flight schools where some of the terrorists learned to pilot commercial jets....
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| Two Koreas exchange gunfire along fortified border |
North and South Korean troops exchanged gunfire across their heavily fortified border for the first time in about a year, a military official said on Tuesday, with the incident coming as once warming ties turn chilly. North Korean troops fired two shots at a South Korean guard post near the Demilitarized Zone late on Monday and South Korean troops returned six shots, an official said by telephone."No one was injured in the incident," the Joint Chiefs of Staff official said, referring to South Korean troops. There was no word if any North Korean soldiers were hurt.The Joint Chiefs issued a statement saying the U.N. Command Military Armistice Commission -- monitoring a truce that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War and has left the two countries technically at war since then -- will look into the skirmish....
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