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  • Hizbullah gets $150m rebuilding effort under way

    Zahra Khechen (front right), with her children and relatives, yesterday mourns for her husband, who was killed during an Israeli air strike in the southern village of Malkiya on the outskirts of the port city of Tyre. MIDDLE EAST: For 34 days they doggedly fought off the mighty Israeli army but, as a three-day-old ceasefire gathers momentum, Hizbullah's hardened fighters are swapping their missile launchers for spades, brooms and briefcases of cash. p

  • West is in global war with terrorists - UK survey

    BRITAIN:  Nearly three-quarters of the British people believe the West is in a global war with Islamic terrorists who threaten their way of life, while fewer than a quarter suspect politicians of exaggerating the terrorist threat. p

  • Ireland to attend critical UN meeting today

    UN: Plans to establish a peacekeeping force of up to 15,000 soldiers in Lebanon will be discussed at a potentially critical meeting between UN officials and representatives of member states, including Ireland, at UN headquarters in New York today. p
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  • Zimbabwe revalues to dampen 1,000% inflation

    ZIMBABWE: Highways are clogged by roadblocks as police conduct lengthy searches of travellers for currency prior to a revaluation of Zimbabwe dollar aimed at reining in the country's hyperinflation. Mourners say they have been forced to open coffins and some women say they have had to submit to body searches. p

  • Panic attack on aircraft causes major security alert

    US: A woman panicking from claustrophobia forced a Washington-bound flight from London to make an emergency landing in Boston yesterday, sparking a major security alert. p

  • Mexican fishermen lost at sea found 8,000km away

    MEXICO: Lost at sea since last October, the three fishermen from a hamlet outside San Blas were given up for dead long ago. p

  • Teachers under threat in Thailand's restive south

    THAILAND: Almost 1,400 people have been killed since January 2004 in unrest blamed on Islamic separatists, writes Rory Byrne in southern Thailand p

  • Former Paraguayan dictator Stroessner dies aged 93

    PARAGUAY: Former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, a strongly anti-communist general who epitomised an era of authoritarian rule in Latin America, died yesterday in exile in Brasilia. p

  • White House accused over war on terror

    US: President Bush claims he has made the US safer, but warns that it remains threatened by terrorists, accelerating an election-year debate over his leadership in the global fight against Islamic extremists five years after the attacks of September 11th. p

  • Israel's literary and artistic leaders pay respects to noted writer's soldier son

    MIDDLE EAST: The last rays of late summer sunlight filtered through the pine trees of Israel's national cemetery as David Grossman, one of the country's greatest novelists and a powerful voice for the cause of peace, intoned the Jewish prayer of mourning for his son. p

  • Breakthrough in race to develop anti-H5N1 drug

    BRITAIN: Scientists said they had made a breakthrough in the race to develop a drug for the H5N1 virus should it mutate into a form that can jump from human to human. p

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