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  • Not all factions support cause of fighters

    A young Russian boy grabs his Lebanese father's hand as he is evacuated from Beirut with his mother yesterday. The current turmoil may cause old sectarian tensions between Christians and Muslims to resurface and force people to take sides. MIDDLE EAST: While most anger is reserved for the Israelis, some feel that Hizbullah may be hijacking Lebanon to bolster its own ideological fight, writes Mary Fitzgerald , in Beirut p
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  • Enhanced Hizbullah status worries Arab leaders

    MIDDLE EAST: Arab leaders are uneasy at the popularity that Hizbullah has acquired during the conflict, writes Michael Jansen p

  • Irish citizens begin to return from Beirut

    MIDDLE EAST: A second evacuation of Irish citizens from Beirut is being planned today as the first group is due to arrive at Dublin airport. p

  • Israeli bombardment includes Arabic leaflets from the sky

    MIDDLE EAST/Propaganda war: Israeli leaflets are raining down on Lebanon - some are cartoons mocking Hizbullah, others are warnings to stay away from the group's stronghold. p

  • Olmert cautious on peacekeeping force

    MIDDLE EAST: Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday it was "too early" to discuss the idea of an international peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. p

  • Blair reinforces his defence of Israel

    BRITAIN: British prime minister Tony Blair hardened his defence of Israel's actions yesterday in the face of allegations from the Liberal Democrats, and some Labour backbenchers, that Israel was involved in an unacceptable and systematic destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure. p

  • Conflict could develop into world war - Ahern

    Foreign Affairs Committee: The current conflict in the Middle East could develop into a third world war if the international community did not apply enough pressure on the various forces involved to bring them back from the brink, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, warned yesterday. p

  • Irish troops may join Lebanon mission, says President

    President McAleese: A request for Irish participation in a new United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission to ease the crisis in Lebanon would be given "the most profound consideration", President Mary McAleese said yesterday. While stressing that she did not wish to "pre-empt" the outcome over the issue, she felt it would be very seriously considered. p

  • 59 Shia labourers lured into van killed by Iraqi suicide bomber

    IRAQ: A suicide bomber killed 59 people in a crowded Iraqi market yesterday after luring Shia day labourers aboard his mini-van with an offer of casual work. p

  • Sudan resists pressure for UN mission

    SUDAN: Sudan resisted world powers' pressure yesterday to accept a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur to replace an African Union force which has been unable to stem violence that Washington calls genocide. p

  • Choir director on trial for sex abuse

    CZECH REPUBLIC: An internationally renowned Czech children's choir has been rocked by accusations that for 20 years its director sexually abused dozens of young singers. p

  • 'Macho' crime writer Mickey Spillane dies

    US: Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, has died. He was 88. p

  • Party for Mandela to mark 88th birthday

    SOUTH AFRICA: Anniversaries tend to be contentious in South Africa. Even Freedom Day - commemorating the country's first fully-democratic elections - can be marred by poor participation. p

  • Digging for the past in a Greek time capsule

    Letter from Cyprus: We wake before the birds, snatch breakfast, and scramble into jeeps for the short ride to the port. Stationed at the bow of the fishing boat, Yiannis reaches out and pulls each of us on to the deck, where we deploy on canvas baskets filled with nets. Captain Andreas steers the boat into the open sea towards the sacred island, a great stone loaf lying off the Cypriot hamlet of Ayios Georgios. p

  • In Short

    A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p
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