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Associated Press: World: Middle East

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(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.The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,375 died as a result of hostile action, ...

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,155

6 hours, 43 minutes ago

Egypt rock slide toll rises to 32

12 hours, 37 minutes ago

(AP) Hopes diminished Sunday for finding survivors among hundreds of people believed trapped beneath massive boulders that destroyed an impoverished neighborhood on Cairo's outskirts, killing at least 32 people, including whole extended families.Anger and resentment mounted as authorities failed for a second day to get heavy machinery into the devastated shantytown ...

Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31

14 hours, 19 minutes ago

(AP) Hopes diminished Sunday for finding survivors among hundreds of people believed trapped beneath massive boulders that destroyed an impoverished neighborhood on Cairo's outskirts, killing at least 31 people, including whole extended families.Anger and resentment mounted as authorities failed for a second day to get heavy machinery into the devastated shantytown ...

Iraqi parliament faces urgent national issues

14 hours, 37 minutes ago

(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.The 275-member legislature failed last month to approve a law providing for ...

Israel police: Indict Olmert on corruption charges

14 hours, 37 minutes ago

(AP) Israel's police recommended Sunday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should be indicted in a string of corruption cases, according to an official document.The police statement said they want to indict Olmert in affairs that include receiving tens of thousands of dollars from a U.S. businessman and double-billing Jewish groups for ...

Health chiefs battle to bring back Iraqi doctors

15 hours, 58 minutes ago

(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.Doctors are just a tiny group among Iraq's more than 4 million refugees and displaced, but ...

Iraqi police: Roadside bombs wound 14 in Baghdad

18 hours, 31 minutes ago

(AP) A series of roadside bombs wounded at least 14 people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital.The first blast occurred at 9:10 a.m. Sunday along Palestine Street near Beirut Square, injuring five people, ...

Israel's government puts off evacuation discussion

19 hours, 19 minutes ago

(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.At the opening of the meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet that Israel would likely have to ...

Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31, others buried

20 hours, 34 minutes ago

(AP) Egyptian police on Sunday moved shanty town residents from the site of a rock slide that killed at least 31 and left countless more buried, after concerns that more rocks could tumble from the unstable cliffs overhead.Journalists also were forced to leave the area by police. Heavy machinery had yet ...

Official: Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31

23 hours, 1 minute ago

(AP) Egyptian authorities say they have pulled 31 bodies out of the rubble of a Cairo shanty town crushed by massive boulders.An Egyptian security official says hospitals have also treated 46 wounded people, but there are still many people believed to be buried under the hundreds of tons of rock that ...

Israel's government discusses evacuation bill

23 hours, 55 minutes ago

(AP) Israel's government is holding its first discussion of legislation that would pay Jewish settlers to leave their homes in the West Bank even before a peace deal is signed with the Palestinians.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says ahead of a Cabinet meeting Sunday that a peace agreement would require evacuating ...

Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24

1 day, 2 hours ago

(AP) Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said.Frantic residents in the sprawling Manshiyet Nasr slum were digging by hand and trying to lift huge rocks to reach any survivors, ...

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,155

1 day, 9 hours ago

(AP) As of Saturday, Sept. 6, 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.The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,375 died as a result of hostile action, ...