Egyptian mediator to try to break deadlock - Israel rejects demand to free prisoners
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Jul. 1, 2006

Israel swiftly rejected a new demand to release 1,000 prisoners by groups claiming to hold a captured soldier. Cpl. Gilad Shalit must be set free without conditions, said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev.

Egyptian mediator to try to break deadlock - Israel rejects demand to free prisoners
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Israel swiftly rejected a new demand to release 1,000 prisoners by groups claiming to hold a captured soldier.
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Osama bin Laden in a tape posted on the Web encourages Sunnis to retaliate against Shiites in Iraq
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Osama bin Laden in a tape posted on the Web encourages Sunnis to retaliate against Shiites in Iraq, deviating from al Qaeda's stand of not promoting sectarian violence. The message came on a 19-minute audiotape.
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US will intercept Iranian missiles right on Europe
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urged President Bush on Friday to intensify efforts to put interceptor missiles at a site in Europe to protect against potential attacks from Iran.
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U.S. Army probes into Iraq killing and rape
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U.S. Army has ordered an investigation into the deaths of an Iraqi family of four at their home in Mahmoudiya, a town south of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said Friday.
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9/11 police chief took tens of thousands of dollars in illicit gifts
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A year and a half after his Homeland Security nomination sank over ethics questions, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty Friday ...
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Man behind anti-Clinton ad found guilty of child molestation
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A political consultant whose company was behind a television ad accusing the Clinton-Gore administration of giving away nuclear technology was convicted of child molestation charges.
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Mogadishu's Islamist leaders said on Thursday they were expanding the authority of their sharia courts across the whole of Somalia
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Mogadishu's Islamist leaders said on Thursday they were expanding the authority of their sharia courts across the whole of Somalia in a move likely to create further tensions with the weak interim government.
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Kuwaitis voted in parliamentary elections on Thursday with women running for office and casting ballots for the first time
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Kuwaitis voted in parliamentary elections on Thursday with women running for office and casting ballots for the first time in a national poll in the oil-producing Gulf Arab country.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today strongly limited the power of the Bush administration to conduct military tribunals for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay
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President Bush said he would work with Congress to determine whether or not the military tribunals will be an avenue in which to give people their day in court.
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