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  • Only ruin and rubble left in Hizbullah heartland

    Smoke rises from a Hizbullah stronghold in southern Beirut after an Israeli air strike yesterday. Israel's attacks have targeted and destroyed the militant group's headquarters, the home of its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, and its TV station, as well as overpasses and roads. MIDDLE EAST: There are no cars on the road to Haret Hreik. The shelling stopped only hours ago and plumes of black smoke still hang in an otherwise flawless blue sky, writes Mary Fitzgerald in Beirut. p

  • Bush blocks federal funds for embryonic stem cell research

    US: Casting his first veto since taking office more than five years ago, US president George Bush has blocked a bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cells. Mr Bush said research on stem cells drawn from new embryos was morally wrong, regardless of its putative medical potential. p

  • Polish leader outlines nationalist, conservative agenda

    Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski addressing the parliament in Warsaw yesterday, where he said the EU needed to be "more practical" in its approach to governing. POLAND: Poland's controversial new prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has faced down critics in western Europe, saying that he accepts the rights and responsibilities of EU membership but will defend Poland's right to be "different" on social affairs. p
Middle East Crisis

  • US not willing to back calls for ceasefire

    The United States dug in its heels yesterday against UN calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, saying that such a measure made little sense between a state and a "terrorist group" like Hizbullah. p

  • Irish leave Lebanon with regrets and a desire to return

    The Murphy sisters, Ciara (8) Emily (3) and Shauna (5), at Dublin airport after returning home from Lebanon with their mother Colette. Almost 100 Irish citizens arrived safely in Dublin airport yesterday morning after being evacuated from Lebanon early on Monday. But for most, the return to Ireland was bittersweet. p

  • Back home: rugby coach's war zone ordeal

    Leinster rugby head coach Michael Cheika was stranded in Lebanon last week as hostilities between Israel and Hizbullah transformed the country into a war zone. p

  • Lebanese government brought to its knees by great divide

    The split in Lebanon's cabinet has exacerbated the crisis, and made the government's survival unlikely, writes Mary Fitzgerald p

  • Israeli defiance and fear at Hizbullah rockets

    Chana Belan was at home alone when she heard the blast. "It was incredibly loud. The house vibrated," she recalls. At first, she was too frightened to venture out onto the balcony of her home in the northern Israeli city of Haifa to check what had happened. p

  • Foreign citizens evacuated byships, buses and helicopters

    The United States and other nations evacuated their citizens from Lebanon by helicopter, ship and bus yesterday as thousands of foreigners fled Israeli strikes pummelling the country for the past eight days. p

  • Eight days of war

    July 12th: Hizbollah guerrillas capture two Israeli soldiers and kill up to eight. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calls it an "act of war" by Lebanon. p

  • Israeli troops kill 12 in Gaza and West Bank

    Israeli troops killed 12 Palestinians in clashes in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank yesterday, medics said, including four gunmen and two civilians as tanks pushed into a central Gaza refugee camp. p
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  • Death squads claim more victims in Iraq

    IRAQ: While world attention focuses on events in Lebanon and Israel, violence in Iraq continues to escalate. Twenty employees of the religious trust which cares for Sunni mosques, schools and shrines were kidnapped yesterday and at least 22 people were killed in a series of bombings and shootings in the capital and at other flashpoints. p

  • EU response team for migrants proposed

    EU: The EU should create a rapid-response force of border guards who can be sent to member states to help cope with sudden influxes of illegal migrants, the European Commission said yesterday. p

  • President says Serbia will take part in talks on future status of Kosovo

    SERBIA: Serbia will take part in talks next week in Vienna on the future status of Kosovo after all, Serbian president Boris Tadic said yesterday. p

  • Amnesty takes on Great Firewall of China over censorship

    CHINA: Amnesty International took on the Great Firewall of China yesterday when the human rights group launched a campaign urging the world's top internet service providers - Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google - to stop kow-towing to the world's most stringent internet censor, the Chinese government. p

  • God made us debate same-sex marriage bill, say Republicans

    US: The US House of Representatives could not have been any more obvious if the sergeant-at-arms had wheeled an equine carcass into the well and the speaker had pummelled it with his gavel. p

  • Polish workers freed from 'concentration camp' farm

    ITALY: Police in southern Italy have freed 113 Poles from forced labour on a farm investigators compared to a concentration camp. p

  • Britain has hottest July day while heat kills 9 in France

    BRITAIN: Temperatures in Britain hit an all-time high for July yesterday, touching 36.3 degrees south of London to edge out the previous record set in 1911, Britain's met office said. p

  • Arkansas pardon for Keith Richards

    US: Rolling Stones lead guitarist Keith Richards has been promised a pardon for an old traffic offence - courtesy of a fan, Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. p

  • Japanese settlers leave their mark on S?o Paulo society

    Letter from Brazil: Despite it being one of the world's biggest cities, most visitors have little idea of what to expect from a first visit to São Paulo, other than it will be immense. p

  • In Short

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