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US News Archive for August 2006:
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Attacks rise ahead of cease-fire
IDF: More than 250 rockets hit northern IsraelIsrael conducts more than 100 aerial attacksLebanese postpone Cabinet cease-fire meetingU.N: End of Israel-Hezbollah hostilities at 0500 GMT...
CNN - August 13, 2006
Missiles fly in final hours
Israel and Hezbollah pounded targets with heavy missile barrages Sunday in the hours leading up to a scheduled cease-fire. Both Israel and Lebanon have signed the agreement, but the Lebanese Cabinet on Sunday postponed a planned meeting to discuss implementing the plan...
CNN - August 13, 2006
Chertoff: No sign plotters targeted U.S.
"Current evidence" does not show the suspects in an alleged UK terror plot planned to conduct operations in the United States, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Sunday. The Transportation Security Administration, meanwhile, altered the list of items passengers are not allowed to take onto planes...
CNN - August 13, 2006
News Analysis: In Wake of News, a Plan: Uniting Party and President
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman’s defeat and the foiled terror plot in Britain eased the picture of Republican disunity...
New York Times - August 13, 2006
Gates’s Charity Races to Spend Buffett Billions
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is facing an unparalleled challenge: how to give away more money than it ever has before...
New York Times - August 13, 2006
Tennis: Federer digs deep to win
Roger Federer is made to work hard for his 2-6 6-3 6-2 Toronto Masters win over Richard Gasquet...
BBC News - August 13, 2006
Maskaev wins heavywight title
Oleg Maskaev stops Hasim Rahman in the last round to win the WBC world heavyweight title...
BBC News - August 13, 2006
Golf: Lehman misses out on win
Tom Lehman lost a play-off to Dean Wilson at the International, missing out on the chance to climb into seventh place in America's Ryder Cup race...
BBC News - August 13, 2006
Brazil TV airs kidnap video
A Brazilian TV station shows a video from a major gang who kidnapped one of its journalists at gunpoint...
BBC News - August 13, 2006
Prosecutors raise Enron boss fine
US prosecutors want ex-Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling to pay a higher fine, to include a fine owed by the late Ken Lay...
BBC News - August 13, 2006
Cuba media show 'improving' Fidel
Cuban media publish the first photos of Fidel Castro since his surgery last month as he marks his 80th birthday...
BBC News - August 13, 2006
House fire kills 4 in Indiana
Fire swept through a two-story house in Michigan City, Indiana, early Sunday, killing at least four people, the state fire marshal said. An unknown number of others were missing...
CNN - August 13, 2006
Heavy violence on cease-fire eve
IDF: More than 230 rockets hit northern IsraelIsrael conducts more than 100 aerial attacksLebanese postpones Cabinet cease-fire meetingU.N: End of Israel-Hezbollah hostilities at 0500 GMT...
CNN - August 13, 2006
Israeli Cabinet approves cease-fire resolution
The Israeli Cabinet Sunday approved a U.N. cease-fire resolution aimed at stopping the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has raged for more than a month, according to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office...
CNN - August 13, 2006
Planned Medicaid Cuts Cause Rift With States
Lawmakers are protesting a plan to cut payments to hospitals and nursing homes that care for millions of low-income people...
New York Times - August 13, 2006
Walking on the City’s Wild Side
The fastest growing county in New York State, Staten Island remains, in pockets, and in its peculiar way, the Alaska of New York City...
New York Times - August 13, 2006
Polygamist's daughter on 'most wanted' list
Houston's FBI office has placed the fugitive daughter of a deceased Utah polygamist on the agency's "most wanted" list after getting a tip about the woman from a relative in prison. Jacqueline Tarsa LeBaron is wanted in connection with four 1988 murders in Texas...
CNN - August 13, 2006
Fighting despite cease-fire pact
U.N: End of Israel-Hezbollah hostilities at 0500 GMTIsraeli Cabinet convenes to consider resolutionStrikes Sunday kill Lebanese, Israeli civiliansHezbollah leader, Lebanese Cabinet back truce...
CNN - August 13, 2006
Ideas & Trends: Waiter, There’s a Celebrity in My Shark Fin Soup
How can Yao Ming — an adored star in China who once played for the Shanghai Sharks, of all teams — campaign against a national treasure?...
New York Times - August 13, 2006
Agreement on U.N. truce timing
The U.N.-brokered cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel will begin at 8 a.m. (1 a.m. ET) Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a taped statement Saturday...
CNN - August 13, 2006
U.N.: Cease-fire begins Monday
A U.N.-brokered cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel will begin at 8 a.m. (1 a.m. ET) Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Saturday in a taped statement...
CNN - August 13, 2006
New Attacks by a Heavily Armed Gang Rattle Brazil
The gang is a prison-based network that has demanded better conditions for its estimated 10,000 members behind bars...
New York Times - August 13, 2006
Toronto hosts HIV/Aids conference
Some 24,000 delegates are gathering in Toronto for an international conference on HIV/Aids...
BBC News - August 13, 2006
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