July 30, 2006

State Department hid costs of Iraqi projects: paper (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

An Iraqi woman cries moments after a bomb attack in central Baghdad July 27, 2006. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)Reuters - The State Department agency in
charge of $1.4 billion for reconstruction projects in Iraq used
an accounting shell game to hide cost overruns and failed to
tell Congress about schedule delays, The New York Times
reported on Sunday.


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Afghan Taliban threaten to kill kidnapped Lebanese man (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

An Afghan girl holds her brother as they take a break from searching for items to recycle in Kabul July 29, 2006. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)Reuters - Taliban insurgents
threatened on Sunday to kill a Lebanese engineer captured in
southern Afghanistan, a day before NATO takes over security in
the south.


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51 killed in Israeli blitz on Lebanon village (AFP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

A man cries next to dead bodies after Israeli air strikes on the southern Lebanese village of Qana. At least 51 people have been killed, many of them children, in an Israeli air blitz on the Lebanese village of Qana, triggering outrage across the region and warnings of retribution for Israel's "war crime."(AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - At least 51 people have been killed, many of them children, in an Israeli air blitz on the Lebanese village of Qana, triggering outrage across the region and warnings of retribution for Israel’s "war crime."


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Voters stream to the polls in DR Congo’s watershed vote (AFP)

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A Congolese woman casts her vote at a polling station in Mugunga village near Goma. Millions of voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have gone happily to the polls in an historic election meant to turn the page after four decades of misrule and a war that drew in much of central Africa.(AFP/Jose Cendon)AFP - Millions of war-weary Congolese have streamed to the polls on Sunday in a historic election they hope will put a final end to decades of misrule and a conflict that drew in all of central Africa.


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Atomic incentives dead if UN passes resolution: Iran (Reuters)

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Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, delivers a speech at a conference on peace and disarmament hosted by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin June 26, 2006. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)Reuters - Iran said on Sunday it would stop
considering international incentives aimed at ending its
uranium enrichment program if the U.N. Security Council passes
a resolution against its atomic work.


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Seattle security raised after Jewish center shooting (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Naveed Afzal Haq appears in the King County Jail Courtroom in Seattle, July 29, 2006. He was booked into the jail for homicide and attempted homicide investigations in the shootings of six people at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle on Friday. (Robert Sorbo/Reuters)Reuters - Police stepped up security at Seattle
synagogues and mosques on Saturday, a day after a Muslim man
who said he was angry at Israel shot dead one woman and wounded
five others at a Jewish center.


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War-weary Congolese flock to polls (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Congolese women wait in line to cast their votes at a polling station in the eastern Congo town of Goma, July 30, 2006. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)Reuters - Millions of Congolese turned out
enthusiastically to vote in their first free elections in 40
years on Sunday, protected by the world’s biggest U.N.
peacekeeping force and hoping to end years of war and chaos.


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Bush agrees to 6-year deal with Saints (AP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush appears at a news conference at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006. Bush agreed to a six-year deal with the New Orleans Saints on Saturday night, July 29, 2006, and the Heisman Trophy winner will report to training camp Sunday, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon,file)AP - Reggie Bush agreed to a six-year deal with the New Orleans Saints on Saturday night and the Heisman Trophy winner will report to training camp Sunday, The Associated Press has learned.


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Israel air strike kills 54 civilians (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

A Lebanese Hizbollah supporter carrying a party's flag inspects a damaged building that was hit by an Israeli air strike in Jibaa village in the east of port city of Sidon, in south Lebanon July 29,2006. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)Reuters - An Israeli air strike killed 54
Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, on Sunday, prompting
Lebanon to tell U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice she
was unwelcome in Beirut before a ceasefire.


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Rice cancels Beirut trip (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gestures at the start of her meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz in Jerusalem July 30, 2006. (David Silverman/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Her diplomatic mission in jeopardy
after Israel’s bombing of a Lebanese village, U.S. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice canceled a visit to Beirut on Sunday,
saying she had work to do in Israel to get a truce.


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