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July 19, 2006 Wednesday Jumadi-ul-Sani 22, 1427 US rejects Egypt’s call for prompt action: Israel blames Iran for capture JERUSALEM, July 18: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit publicly disagreed Tuesday on the timing of a proposed ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.... US presses Iran, Syria to ‘rein in’ Hezbollah WASHINGTON, July 18: The United States pressed Iran and Syria on Tuesday to exert their influence over Hezbollah guerillas to halt rocket fire into Israel and return two captured soldiers to help end a week-old crisis.... 500,000 displaced: Unicef BEIRUT, July 18: The humanitarian situation in Lebanon is ‘catastrophic’ with 500,000 people displaced by the Israeli onslaught, the Beirut representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), Roberto Laurenti, said on Tuesday.... Heat wave scorches Europe, US: Hottest day forecast for Britain PARIS, July 18: Much of Europe on Tuesday baked in tropical temperatures that climbed as high as 40 degrees Celsius, in an increasingly dangerous heat wave blamed for four deaths since Sunday.... Baby named after rocket BEIRUT, July 18: Raad is born — not the long-range missile which Hezbollah is firing at Israel but a Lebanese baby boy whose mother wants to honour the militant group’s showdown with the Jewish state.... ‘Apartheid’ helped Anglo-Saxons gain upper hand: study PARIS, July 18: The Anglo-Saxons who conquered England in the fifth century set up a system of apartheid that enabled them to master and outbreed the native British majority, according to gene research published on Wednesday.... Activist keen to meet parents’ killer COLOMBO, July 18: Lalitha Peiris, a Sinhalese peace activist and meditation teacher whose parents were shot dead by an LTTE cadre 20 years ago, says she wants to meet the assassin again ‘to be his friend’.... Heavy rains kill 130 in two Koreas SEOUL, July 18: About 130 people were feared dead in North and South Korea in flooding and landslides over the last few days, according to officials and a leading international relief agency.... Delhi denies access to websites NEW DELHI, July 18: Internet users in India have been denied access to India’s most popular blogging sites since the deadly train bombing attacks in Mumbai a week ago, local media said on Tuesday.... Congress to vote on N-deal next week WASHINGTON, July 18: Full chambers of the US House of Representatives and Senate will vote on the US-India nuclear deal next week, perhaps as early as Monday, officials said.... President blocked US wiretap review: AG WASHINGTON, July 18: US President George W. Bush prevented a review earlier this year by Justice Department lawyers of his warrantless domestic spying programme, Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales testified on Tuesday.... Couple makes false body claim for cash MUMBAI, July 18: An Indian couple falsely claimed and cremated the body of a victim of the Mumbai train blasts to collect more than 2,000 dollars in compensation, according to newspaper reports.... UN revises aid appeal UNITED NATIONS, July 18: Citing an ‘extremely bleak’ and worsening humanitarian outlook for the occupied Palestinian territory, the United Nations and select non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have taken what officials called an... If Israel has the right to use force, so do its neighbours MUCH has been said in recent days — at the G8 summit and elsewhere — of Israel’s right to retaliate against the ‘capture’ of its soldiers, or attacks on its troops on its own sovereign territory.... Bush’s lack of policy has led to string of disasters PRESIDENT Bush was against diplomacy before he was for it. But with the collapse of US foreign policy from the Middle East to North Korea he has claimed to have become a born-again realist.... Tsunami turns holiday into a nightmare BANJAR (Indonesia): Saudi national Hamed Abukhamiss struggled to understand how his holiday at a picturesque Indonesian resort turned into a nightmare — with his wife and three-year-old son dead.... Iraqi army tries to keep sectarian strife at bay BAQUBA (Iraq): An Iraqi army commander tells his men that he might forgive them if they were to place a bomb outside his door, but never if they succumbed to the sectarian divisions ripping the country apart.... ‘My sons are under the ashes,’ cries Lebanese widow BEIRUT: “Are my sons under the ashes? Only Allah knows,” says a veiled Oum Hassan, weeping as she rests in a public garden after fleeing Beirut’s southern suburbs where her home was turned to rubble by Israeli air strikes.... Quake too weak for oceanwide tsunami SYDNEY: A tsunami that hit Indonesia’s Java island on Monday people remained localised because the earthquake that caused it was dramatically smaller than the 2004 quake that generated an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami.... Lebanon’s economy in tatters BEIRUT: Israel’s incessant attacks on Lebanon have done more than wreak a terrible human toll — they have also wrecked the country’s fragile economy just when it was on the road to recovery....

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