US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to meet Israeli and Lebanese leaders after returning to the region for the second time in a week. She says "there will have to be give and take" as both sides will be forced to make "hard and emotional decisions". The Hezbollah militia has dismissed Ms Rice's visit and warned of more missile attacks reaching deeper inside Israel. At least 20 casualties are reported in an Israeli air strike on a building in the southern Lebanese town of Qana. The Lebanese Shia militia's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said Ms Rice had returned to serve the interests of the US and Israel. The UN says some 600 people - about a third of them children - have been killed by Israeli action in Lebanon. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk censor News |
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Audit Finds U.S. Hid Cost of Iraq Projects |
| The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on s.. full News |
Editor - 23:58:00 07-29-06 |
Rice pressing for deal to end war. Could it be because the world is getting pissed off with the Bull Shit excuses they keep mouthing? |
| U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press Israel and Lebanon on Sunday to strike a deal on an international force to end a 19-day-old war, after Hizbollah threatened to strike deeper into Israel. R.. full News |
Editor - 21:54:00 07-29-06 |
Humanitarian aid piles up in Beirut without safe passage south |
| Medicine, food and other humanitarian relief piled up in Beirut on Saturday, with only a trickle making it to the tens of thousands of Lebanese trapped in the war zone in the south.The help has been slowed by t.. full News |
Editor - 21:34:00 07-29-06 |
France offers new UN resolution on Mideast crisis |
| France has drawn up a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Israel and Lebanon and prepare for the deployment of an international force. The documen.. full News |
Editor - 21:31:00 07-29-06 |
The truth of Blair's 'urgent diplomacy' |
| I dropped by the hospital in Marjayoun this week to find a young girl lying in a hospital bed, swathed in bandages, her beauty scarred for ever by some familiar wounds; the telltale dark-red holes in her skin m.. full News |
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