| | Death toll in Egypt rock slide at 47
5:48AM CT
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The death toll from a devastating rock slide that buried a shanty town rose to 47 on Monday, a security official said as recovery efforts switched to high gear after days of delay. | | |
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,155
Sep 7 2008 9:08PM CT
(AP) - As of Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. | | |
Iraqi parliament faces urgent national issues
Sep 7 2008 1:06PM CT
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi lawmakers end their summer break this week facing urgent tasks of approving a new election law and signing off on a still-unfinished security pact with the U.S. — key steps in laying the foundation for a lasting peace. | | |
Health chiefs battle to bring back Iraqi doctors
Sep 7 2008 11:54AM CT
BAGHDAD (AP) - A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital — one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer. | | |
 Israel's government puts off evacuation discussion
Sep 7 2008 8:49AM CT
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's government on Sunday postponed discussion of landmark legislation that would pay Jewish settlers to leave their homes in the West Bank, but said it would take up the matter next week. | | |
Protests greet Turkish president in Armenia
Sep 6 2008 4:17PM CT
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) - Thousands of Armenians lined the streets of the capital Saturday to protest the first-ever visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War I massacres of Armenian civilians as genocide. | | |
In Israel, era of mass immigration ends
Sep 6 2008 11:43AM CT
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Melissa Schwab is no Zionist zealot. She's not an Orthodox Jew seeking to be nearer to God. She didn't flee anti-Semitism. | | |
Official: 6 killed in Iraq bomb; Chalabi uninjured
Sep 6 2008 5:59AM CT
BAGHDAD (AP) - Ex-Iraqi deputy prime minister and former Pentagon favorite, Ahmad Chalabi, escaped a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy in Baghdad, an official in his office said Saturday. | | |
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