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| August 06, 2006 | Sunday | Rajab 10, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Lebanon rejects initial text of UN ceasefire draft BEIRUT, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) The Lebanese government has rejected a draft UN Security Council resolution on the Lebanese conflict, saying it would not end hostilities and asking for the text to be amended. "The Lebanese government is opposed to the Franco-American draft and has sent Lebanon's representative to the UN, Acting Foreign Minister Tarek Mitri, an amended text which includes Lebanon's demands," a government source said. He said Lebanon wanted the resolution to be based on a seven-point plan put forward by the government at the end of July at a conference in Rome. That plan called for an immediate and global ceasefire, an exchange of prisoners between Hezbollah and Israel, and sending the Lebanese army into south Lebanon. Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said in comments to CNN television the draft was "not adequate." Siniora said it "does not really achieve the objective that they have set for themselves." (Posted @ 09:50 PST)
Suicide bomber killed in Pakistan when his explosives belt explodes prematurely QUETTA, Pakistan, Aug 6 (AP) A suicide bomber was killed early Sunday in Hub, an industrial town in Baluchistan province, after the explosives belt he was wearing exploded prematurely, police said. No one else was injured in the blast, local police official Munir Hussain said. ``This man was riding a cycle. He had strapped explosives to his body for a suicide attack and they exploded,'' Hussain said of the blast in Hub's Zehri Street neighborhood. Hub is about 35 kms northwest of Karachi. (Posted @ 10:25 PST)
Suicide bomber kills at least 15 in Tikrit TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug 6, (AFP) - At least 15 people were killed Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Tikrit, the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein, police said. At least 30 others were wounded in the attack, police said. (Posted @ 23:48 PST)
Eight killed in China bus blast BEIJING, Aug 7, (AFP) - An explosion on a bus in central China's Hunan province on Sunday evening has left eight people dead and another 19 injured, state media said. Eight people died at the scene of the blast in Guiyang County and at least seven of the 19 injured were in a critical condition, emergency workers said, according to China's official Xinhua news agency. (Posted @ 23:34 PST)
Indian troops martyr two more kashmiris SRINAGAR, August 06 (PPI) In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops martyred two more Kashmiri youth, at Halmatpora in Kupwara district. The deaths occurred during a violent military crackdown, reports Kashmir Media Service. (Posted @ 23:30 PST)
More than 20 wounded in rocket fire on Haifa JERUSALEM, Aug 6, (AFP) - More than 20 people were wounded in heavy rocket fire from Lebanon on Israel's third largest city of Haifa Sunday, the emergency services reported. "There are more than 20 wounded, some of them in serious condition," Yeroham Mandola, said. "One building hit in the bombardment collapsed," he said. (Posted @ 23:10 PST)
12 Israeli soldiers killed in Kfar Giladi attack: Israel army KFAR GILADI, Israel, Aug 6, (AFP) - 12 Israeli soldiers killed in a rocket attack near the town of Kfar Giladi close to the Lebanese border Sunday, the military confirmed. (Posted @ 23:04 PST)
Floods kill 150 people in eastern Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Floods killed about 150 people in eastern Ethiopia when heavy rains caused a river to burst its banks, sending a wall of water into a town that killed most of the victims as they slept, police said on Sunday. "Floods from the overflowing Dechatu river hit Dire Dawa town in the middle of Saturday night while residents were sleeping," police inspector Benyam Fikru told Reuters. "The death toll has now reached 150." (First Posted @ 17:10 PST Updated @ 22:58 PST)
Islamic Jihad militant killed in Israeli West Bank raid JENIN, West Bank, Aug 6, (AFP) - A Palestinian militant from the radical Islamic Jihad movement was killed by Israeli forces near the West Bank town of Jenin on Sunday, Palestinian security sources said. Rashid al-Omari, 24, was killed after his home was surrounded by Israeli troops, the sources said. After he refused to surrender, the force stormed the house and killed him. (Posted @ 22:52 PST)
Thousands take to Brussels streets to call for peace in Lebanon BRUSSELS, Aug 6, (AFP) - Thousands of people marched through Brussels for the second consecutive week on Sunday to call for peace in Lebanon, police and organisers said. (Posted @ 22:42 PST)
15 local aid workers found dead in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Aug 6, (AFP) - Fifteen local employees of a French aid agency have been found dead in a town in northeastern Sri Lanka at the centre of heavy fighting betweeen Tamil rebels and government forces, an aid group said Sunday. The bodies of 11 men and four women all wearing Action Against Hunger (ACF) t-shirts were found face down in their office in Muttur, Jeevan Thiagarajah, the head of the main umbrella group for aid agencies in the country, said. "We don't know how they died or even when it happend," Thiagarajah, from the Consortium for Humanitarian Agencies, told AFP. (Posted @ 21:54 PST)
Israel hits civilian vehicle near UN Lebanon convoy TYRE, Lebanon, Aug 6 (Reuters) - An Israeli aircraft fired on a vehicle traveling just ahead of a United Nations humanitarian convoy on Sunday, killing at least one civilian, U.N. and Lebanese security sources said. The strike drew a swift reaction from the U.N., which has complained along with other aid groups that Israeli bombing and a naval blockade are preventing them from helping many of the 800,000 to 1 million people displaced by the war. "A truck on the opposite side of the road of the U.N. convoy was heading to Beirut. When it was about 40 meters away from the convoy, it was hit, apparently by a rocket," said U.N. spokesman for Lebanon Khaled Mansour. (Posted @ 21:22 PST)
Syrian FM says ready to join Hizbollah ranks BEIRUT, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem said on Sunday he was willing to join Hizbollah and reiterated that Syria would retaliate if attacked by Israel. "If you wish, I'm ready to be a soldier at the disposal of (Hizbollah chief) Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah," Mouallem told reporters upon arrival in Lebanon in a symbolic gesture. (Posted @ 21:04 PST)
Afghan forces kill 17 insurgents in south: police KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 6, (AFP) - Afghan troops and police killed 17 rebels and wounded another five in two separate clashes in the southern province of Helmand, police said on Sunday, Three insurgents were killed and one was wounded in a firefight with police in Garmser district Saturday afternoon, district police chief Ghulam Rasoul Aka told AFP. Following the incident Afghan soldiers and police launched a joint search in the district overnight. This sparked a battle lasting several hours with the Taliban in which 14 insurgents were killed, he said. "At least 14 Taliban bodies are still at the site of the clash from the overnight battle. Four Taliban were also wounded," said Aka. No soldiers or police were hurt in either encounter, he said. (Posted @ 20:22 PST)
Syria FM says UN Lebanon resolution 'recipe for war' BEIRUT, Aug 6, (AFP) - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem condemned on Sunday a UN draft resolution on the conflict in Lebanon as a "recipe for the continuation of the (current) war" and also "civil war" in Lebanon. (Posted @ 20:10 PST)
Mideast violence 'for some time to come': Rice CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 6, (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Sunday that there would be violence in the Middle East "for some time to come" even after the adoption of a UN resolution aimed at ending the conflict. Rice said she expected the UN Security Council to take up the resolution on Monday or Tuesday, but added: "I want to emphasize it's the first step, not the only step" to halting clashes between Israel and Hezbollah. "We're trying to deal with a problem that has been festering and brewing in Lebanon now for years and years and years, and so it's not going to be solved by one resolution in the Security Council," she said. (Posted @ 20:02 PST)
25 workers feared dead in flooded India mine KOLKATA, India, Aug 6 (AFP) At least 25 people trapped for five days underground in a flooded coal mine were feared dead in eastern India as rescue efforts halted because of continued rains, officials said Sunday. "There is remote hope that anyone is still alive," Basudeb Acharya, the region's federal legislator, said after rescue teams failed to reach the workers in the Purlia district of West Bengal which has been lashed by heavy rains. (Posted @ 13:20 PST)
Indonesian Muslims protest Israel offensive JAKARTA, Aug 6 (AFP) Thousands of Indonesians, including in Jakarta, held street rallies Sunday to condemn Israel's offensive in the Middle East. Leaders from various religions -- Islam, Roman Catholicism, Christian Protestants, and Buddhist -- led the protest on the two kilometers route which went via the United Nations mission. (Posted @ 13:10 PST)
Eight civilians killed in Israeli raids on Lebanon SIDON, Lebanon, Aug 6 (AFP) Eight civilians were killed and five wounded in Israeli bombardments on southern Lebanon early Sunday, police said. An air-to-ground missile destroyed a house in Ansar, a village east of the port of Sidon, killing five of its occupants and wounding four others, the police in the main town of south Lebanon said. Three other civilians were killed and one more wounded when a missile slammed on a house in the coastal town of Naqura, close to the borders with Israel, they said. A militant belonging to a pro-Syrian Palestinian faction was also killed and four others were wounded in Israeli air raids on their bases in Lebanon early Sunday, the group's spokesman said. The jets bombarded four bases of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in the coastal village of Naameh as well as Qussaya, Kfar Zabad and Sultan Yaacub in the eastern Bekaa valley. (First Posted @ 09:35 PST Updated @ 13:05 PST)
Iran says it will not suspend uranium enrichment TEHRAN, Aug 6 (AFP) Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Sunday that his country will not suspend uranium enrichment despite a UN resolution calling for a freeze of the sensitive nuclear work. Our activities respect the Non-Proliferation Treaty... so we will not accept the suspension (of uranium enrichment)," he told a news conference, in the first formal reaction to the July 31 resolution. "They should know that such resolutions will not affect our determination. We will pursue the nuclear rights of Iranians which are enshrined in the NPT." (Posted @ 13:05 PST)
Insurgents kill 2 border policemen in western Afghanistan KABUL, Aug 6 (AP) Insurgents attacked a border police post in western Afghanistan on Sunday, killing two officers, a police official said. The four suspected Taliban used rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns during the attack in Murghab district of Badghis province before fleeing in the direction of neighboring Heart province, said Abdull Amid, deputy police chief for the province. (Posted @ 12:25 PST)
First reserve Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon fighting JERUSALEM, Aug 6 (AP) Two reserve soldiers were killed in fighting in south Lebanon, the Israeli military said Sunday. One was killed in a battle in the border town of Aita al-Shaab where 21 other Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, the military said. Also, an officer in the reserves was killed in south Lebanon, the military said, but gave no further details. Israel called up about 30,000 reservists over the past week. (First Posted @ 09:55 PST Updated @ 10:25 PST)
Zawahiri says Egyptian group's leaders have joined al-Qaeda DUBAI, Aug 6 (AFP) Al-Qaeda second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri on Saturday announced that a string of key players from Egypt's Jamaa Islamiya militant group were joining the global terror network. "Among them are Omar Abdel Rahman, Abu Khalil al-Hakayma, Mohammed al-Islambuli, Refaa Taha et Mohammed Mustafa al-Mokri," said Zawahiri in a taped message aired by Arabic television Al-Jazeera. They have decided to "merge with al-Qaeda to unite the forces of the (Muslim) nation into one, to face its enemies which are launching the most ferocious campaign ever seen against Islam," he said. (Posted @ 10:05 PST)
Israel arrests Palestinian parliament speaker RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 6 (AFP) Israeli troops arrested the speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Aziz Dweik, at his home in Ramallah on Saturday night, his office said. An Israeli army spokesman said: "We arrested him because he is a leader of Hamas" and referred to the detention of 64 other leading Hamas figures, including eight ministers and 26 lawmakers, on June 29. (Posted @ 10:00 PST)
Hiroshima commemorates 61st anniversary of atomic attack HIROSHIMA, Japan, Aug 6 (AFP) Hiroshima marked the 61st anniversary of the world's first atomic attack on Sunday as its mayor renewed calls for a nuclear-free world and further support for aging survivors. Some 45,000 people recited silent prayers at 8:15 am (2315 GMT), the exact moment in 1945 when a single US bomb killed more than 140,000 people and fatally injured tens of thousands of others with radiation or horrific burns. (Posted @ 09:45 PST)
Israel bombs roads in the Bekaa and bridges north of Beirut BAALBEK, Lebanon, Aug 6 (AFP) Israeli warplanes early Sunday carried out a series of air raids bombing two roads linking Lebanon's eastern Bekaa plain with Beirut and north Lebanon, as well as two bridges in Akkar province north of the capital, Lebanese police said. Six more raids were carried out early Sunday against positions of the pro-Syrian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) at Qussaya-Kfar Zabad in the eastern Bekaa valley. (Posted @ 09:35 PST)
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