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Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

British anti-Taliban push going well: London (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 7:53 pm

AFP - Britain said a military operation to clear out Taliban fighters from a stronghold in southern Afghanistan was going "very well", as the push entered its third day Sunday.

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Gaza militants fire new rocket on southern Israel (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 6:54 pm

AFP - A rocket fired by Gaza militants slammed into southern Israel on Saturday night for the second time in less than 36 hours, causing damages but no casualties, the military said.

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

Informant says WikiLeaks suspect had civilian help (AP)
Sat Jul 31st at 6:11 pm

AP - An Army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks had civilian help, a key figure in the case said Saturday.

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Brazil offers asylum to Iranian woman facing stoning (Reuters)
Sat Jul 31st at 5:46 pm

Reuters - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported.

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Brazil offers haven to Iran woman in adultery case (AP)
Sat Jul 31st at 4:47 pm

AP - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva offered on Saturday to provide refuge to a woman who has been sentenced to death in Iran following her conviction for committing adultery.

Yahoo! News: Mideast Conflict

PLO official says Obama sent warning to Abbas (AP)
Sat Jul 31st at 4:38 pm

AP - President Barack Obama warned Mahmoud Abbas in a letter that U.S.-Palestinian relations might suffer if the Palestinian leader refuses to resume direct peace talks with Israel, a senior PLO official said Saturday.

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq death toll in July highest in more than two years (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 4:18 pm

AFP - July was the deadliest month in Iraq since May 2008 with a total of 535 people killed across the country as a result of violence, according to government figures released on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Brazil offers asylum to Iranian woman sentenced to death (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 3:54 pm

AFP - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula on Saturday offered to give asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, according to news reports.

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

Afghan official: 3 die in Kunduz suicide bombing (AP)
Sat Jul 31st at 2:39 pm

AP - A former militia commander who supported the Afghan government and two others were killed Saturday night by a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a football game in northern Afghanistan, officials said.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

US hikers 'spy' case not linked to scientist: Iran (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 2:32 pm

AFP - The case of three US hikers held in Tehran is not linked to that of an Iranian nuclear scientist who returned from the United States, an Iranian official said Saturday on the one-year anniversary of their detention.

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Italian group says executions on the rise in Iraq (AP)
Sat Jul 31st at 1:54 pm

AP - Iraq is now among the world's top executioners for the first time since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, an Italian anti-death penalty group said Saturday, reporting that the number of the country's executions rose dramati...

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Roadside bomb kills 3 Iraqi soldiers, bystander (AP)
Sat Jul 31st at 1:05 pm

AP - A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers responding to an earlier blast Saturday in an area south of Baghdad, officials said. One bystander was also killed.

Yahoo! News: Mideast Conflict

US money transfer sites used in Dubai assassination: report (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 12:55 pm

AFP - US websites that allow employers to transfer money to far-flung employees may have been used to secretly finance the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai, a US newspaper reported Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Iran filmmaker accuses FBI of using 'pressure' in US custody (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 12:50 pm

AFP - An Iranian documentary filmmaker who returned home after reportedly spending two months in US custody has said the FBI held him in solitary confinement and put "pressure" on him, state media reported Saturday.

Yahoo! News: Mideast Conflict

Obama warns Abbas against failure to resume direct talks (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 12:38 pm

AFP - US President Barack Obama has warned Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas that failure to resume direct peace talks with Israel could undermine US-Palestinian ties, Palestinian officials said on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: Mideast Conflict

Israeli air strike kills Hamas commander in Gaza (Reuters)
Sat Jul 31st at 12:28 pm

Reuters - An Israeli air strike has killed a Hamas military commander and rocket-maker in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist group that rules the Palestinian territory said on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

Military keeps distressed soldiers at combat site (AP)
Sat Jul 31st at 12:00 pm

AP - Sgt. Thomas Riordan didn't want to return to Afghanistan after home leave. He had just fought through a battle that killed eight soldiers, and when he arrived home his wife said she was leaving. He almost killed himself th...

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq arrests two over deadly Baghdad attacks (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 10:19 am

AFP - Iraqi soldiers arrested two suspected insurgents behind a brazen series of attacks in Baghdad this week that killed 16 people and wounded 14 others, a security official said on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

2 strong earthquakes hit Iran, injuring hundreds (AP)
Sat Jul 31st at 10:06 am

AP - Two strong earthquakes shook different parts of Iran in less than 24 hours, injuring more than 200 people and damaging hundreds of homes, Iranian media reported Saturday.

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Qatar's emir visits south Lebanon (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 10:00 am

AFP - Qatar's emir on Saturday made a high-profile visit to south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold destroyed in a 2006 war with Israel and whose rebuilding the emirate is helping finance.

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GAZA: Rocket attack from Gaza sparks Israeli airstrike
Sat Jul 31st at 9:54 am
News Wires

Israeli aircraft struck several targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing a Hamas militant and wounding eight people. A rocket had been fired from Gaza earlier on Friday, hitting an Israeli city.

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

'Flash floods kill at least 65 in Afghanistan' (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 9:49 am

AFP - Flash floods in Afghanistan have killed at least 65 people and affected more than 1,000 families, the national disaster authority chief told AFP Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Quake strikes Iran for second day: reports (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 9:23 am

AFP - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Iran on Saturday, reports said without providing details on any casualties, a day after a weaker quake injured over 270 people in the country's northeast.

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

Dozens killed and stranded by Afghanistan floods (Reuters)
Sat Jul 31st at 7:57 am

Reuters - Dozens of people were killed and thousands had to be rescued after flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains that struck Afghanistan's northeast, officials said on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Iran quake injures 274 (Reuters)
Sat Jul 31st at 5:11 am

Reuters - An earthquake in northeastern Iran injured 274 people on Friday, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported, and a slightly stronger tremor struck central Iran on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Iran hangs rapist, three drug traffickers: reports (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 4:26 am

AFP - Iran has hanged a convicted rapist and three drug traffickers, the hardline Kayhan newspaper reported on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

China invests $40 bln in Iran oil, gas: minister (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 3:20 am

AFP - Iran's main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic's oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Iran mother facing stoning pleads to see children (AFP)
Sat Jul 31st at 2:54 am

AFP - An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Iran pleaded to be allowed to hug her children, in a letter attributed to her released by human rights activists in London on Saturday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Moms work full-time for hikers' release from Iran (AP)
Fri Jul 30th at 6:48 pm

AP - Cindy Hickey was sitting in her home office last summer, preparing a receipt for a client of her animal physical therapy business when the phone rang. She picked up, then nearly hung up, thinking it was a sales call.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Obama urges Iran to release three U.S. hikers (Reuters)
Fri Jul 30th at 6:44 pm

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday called on Iran to immediately release three Americans who were detained a year ago after straying across the border while hiking in the mountains of northern Iraq.

Yahoo! News: Mideast Conflict

Israel launches air strikes in Gaza after rocket fire (Reuters)
Fri Jul 30th at 5:58 pm

Reuters - Israel carried out air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in the city of Ashkelon, witnesses said.

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Syrian, Saudi leaders tackle tension in Lebanon (Reuters)
Fri Jul 30th at 5:41 pm

Reuters - Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Lebanon's rival leaders on Friday to stave off a crisis over a tribunal that may indict Hezbollah members in the killing of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri.

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DIPLOMACY: Syrian, Saudi leaders meet to avert factional crisis in Lebanon
Fri Jul 30th at 4:23 pm
News Wires

The leaders of Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia urged Lebanon's rival political factions to avoid violence over the possible involvement of Hezbollah in the murder of a former Lebanese premier as they met in Beirut on Friday.

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US court allows suit against contractor in Abu Ghraib (AFP)
Fri Jul 30th at 4:08 pm

AFP - A US court has given approval for a lawsuit to proceed from 72 Iraqi nationals against a private contractor accused of complicity in the alleged abuse of detainees at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Activist: Iranian with stoning sentence tormented (AP)
Fri Jul 30th at 3:42 pm

AP - An Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning was lifted earlier this month says she's grateful for the international support she's received, but remains heartbroken at the separation from her children and tormented ...

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ON THE OBSERVERS: Lebanon: Foreign maids not allowed in Beirut swimming pools
Fri Jul 30th at 2:42 pm
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A candid camera video shot by a Lebanese anti-racism association shows that coloured people aren’t authorised in several of the city’s private pools

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

U.N. sanctions dropped against 5 senior Taliban (Reuters)
Fri Jul 30th at 2:41 pm

Reuters - Five Taliban have been struck off a U.N. Security Council list of militants subject to sanctions -- a move sought by Kabul to ease reconciliation talks with insurgents, the United Nations said on Friday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

Families mark 1 year of US hikers' Iran detention (AP)
Fri Jul 30th at 2:22 pm

AP - The families of three Americans jailed in Iran rallied in New York City on Friday to mark the anniversary of their detainment.

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

UN removes 5 Taliban from sanctions blacklist (AP)
Fri Jul 30th at 1:41 pm

AP - The U.N. Security Council on Friday removed five Taliban members from its sanctions blacklist, a move sought by the Afghan government to promote reconciliation.

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

Five Taliban taken off UN sanctions list: Austria (AFP)
Fri Jul 30th at 1:10 pm

AFP - Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, Austria's UN mission said Friday.

Yahoo! News: Mideast Conflict

Rare Arab summit to forestall possible Hezbollah unrest in Lebanon (The Christian Science Monitor)
Fri Jul 30th at 12:58 pm

The Christian Science Monitor - The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Syria arrived in Beirut Friday for an unprecedented summit with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman. The visit comes amid rising regional concern over the potential...

Yahoo! News: Afghanistan

July is deadliest month for US forces in Afghanistan (AFP)
Fri Jul 30th at 12:28 pm

AFP - Six US soldiers were killed in bombing and insurgent attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, making July the deadliest month of the war for American forces, officers said Friday.

Yahoo! News: World - Iran

China says it disapproves of EU sanctions against Iran (AFP)
Fri Jul 30th at 12:08 pm

AFP - China said Friday it opposed tough new sanctions imposed by the European Union on Iran over its contested nuclear programme, again calling for more talks to resolve the standoff.

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Conditions for Baghdad, IZ at 3:00 am AST
Sun Aug 1st at 3:00 am

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Fair, 88 F

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Mon - Sunny. High: 115 Low: 95

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Conditions for Dubai, AE at 5:00 am GST
Sat Jul 31st at 3:00 pm

Current Conditions:
Fair, 95 F

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Sun - Sunny. High: 103 Low: 93
Mon - Sunny. High: 104 Low: 93

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