 Helicopter evacuations from Lebanon of U.S. citizens continued Tuesday, a few dozen at a time, while a chartered Greek cruise ship headed toward Beirut to pick up more. Israel was allowing evacuation ships through its blockade of the country. France and Italy moved hundreds of nationals and other Europeans out Monday on a Greek cruise liner. An Italian ship left earlier with 350 people and other governments were organizing pullouts by land to Syria. A British warship docked at Beirut port Tuesday to help in the evacuation of British nationals. The destroyer HMS Gloucester was expected to carry between 100 to 250 British and depart in the evening for Cyprus, the British military said. ...
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 Progress made in Calif. fires Air operations reduced, crews hope forecasted rain will help, not hinder |
Firefighters hoped to begin reducing their air operations Tuesday as they made progress against the group of wildfires that had blackened some 131 square miles east of Los Angeles and destroyed nearly 60 homes.They also kept watch on thunderstorms that could bring either helpful rain or dangerous lightning, wind, mudslides and floods.Firefighters using hand tools on steep terrain were warned to be careful not to lose their footing on muddy hillsides. “It makes an already treacherous situation more so,” Craig Vanderzwaag, a fire information officer, said early Tuesday.There was a 70 percent chance of rain Tuesday, after light rain in some areas on Monday, the National Weather Service said....
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| U.N. Estimates Nearly 6,000 Iraqi Civilians Died in 2 Months |
The United Nations released a report today estimating that nearly 6,000 civilians were killed in May and June as sectarian violence surged across Iraq, an announcement that was underscored by a suicide bombing that killed 53 people and wounded more than 100 in the Shiite city of Kufa today. Combined with the killing of 48 people in a mostly Shiite market area of Mahmudiya on Monday by gunmen suspected of being Sunni Arabs, today’s blast brings the death toll in large incidents to 150 over the last three days. But the report released today by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq estimates that the death toll day in and day out for the last two months has averaged about 100. Many of the dead were found individually or in small groups, often bound and showing signs of torture before execution. ...
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| Olmert Says Lebanon Operation Will End When Hezbollah Disarms |
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the United Nations he will press the military operation in Lebanon until captured soldiers are returned and Hezbollah is disarmed. Israel ``will continue to hit Hezbollah targets until the captured soldiers are returned and the security of Israeli civilians is guaranteed,'' Olmert said, according to a statement posted on the Web site of the Prime Minister's Office. Olmert made his statement after fighting in Lebanon entered a seventh day and Israel's deputy chief of staff, Major General Moshe Kaplinsky, pledged to destroy Hezbollah rockets in ``a few weeks.'' Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni said Israel may agree to UN peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon. ``We shall examine what solutions are suitable for us,'' Livni said at a press conference in Jerusalem after meeting with UN officials. These would include implementation of a UN resolution calling for militias to be disarmed and Lebanese army deployment in the south, she said. ...
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| Lesbians Sue, Say Cancer Treatments Damaged Sexual Relationship |
A lesbian couple filed a medical malpractice lawsuit Tuesday claiming cancer treatments damaged their sexual relationship. Their attorneys say it is the first lawsuit of its kind under Connecticut's civil unions law. Margaret Mueller and Charlotte Stacey are suing two doctors, accusing them of treating Mueller for ovarian cancer when she actually had cancer of the appendix. They contend Mueller underwent years of devastating chemotherapy treatments while the real cancer spread."I think it's any patient's worst fear that everything they're doing to treat themselves is for naught," said Joshua Koskoff, an attorney for the couple....
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| South Korea rains leave 50 dead, missing |
Monsoon rains that pounded South Korea for a fifth straight day Tuesday have left 19 people dead and 31 missing, the country's disaster agency announced in the latest death toll.Most victims came from the eastern mountainous province of Gangwon where 17 were killed in landslides or flash floods, said the National Emergency Management Agency.More than 22 inches of rain have fallen there since Friday.The agency warned there could be more flood victims with casualty reports still coming. Relief continued as more than 3,700 people remained homeless as of early Tuesday, it added.Heavy rain was expected to last another few days.The downpour has flooded homes, swept away roads and inundated farmland and villages. Tens of thousands of residents were also left without power....
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