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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
34 youths among 56 dead in Israeli attack — QANA, Lebanon - An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said. It was the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 dead.
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Chris Link / NEWS.com.au:
Photos that damn Hezbollah — THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia. — The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas …
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BBC:
Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid — More than 54 civilians, at least 34 of them children, have been killed in a town in south Lebanon in the deadliest Israeli strike of the conflict so far. — Displaced families had been sheltering in the basement of a house in Qana, which was crushed after a direct hit.
Chris Tinkler / NEWS.com.au:
These are the pictures that damn Hezbollah — Graphic images smuggled out from Lebanon show how Hezbollah is waging war amid suburban homes. — A stream of images, obtained exclusively by the News Ltd, depicts how the extremists are using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy calibre weapons.
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
60 killed in IAF strike on Qana in southern Lebanon — At least 60 civilians were killed on Sunday after the IAF fired missiles at buildings in the southern Lebanse twon of Qana. — Some 35 bodies have been recovered from a building that collapsed, but more were still stuck under the rubble, Lebanon's official news agency reported.
Haaretz:
Rice says time for cease-fire after IAF strike kills 54 people in Qana — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking after the Israel Air Force strike bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana, said it was time for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Israeli air strike kills 54 — An Israeli air strike killed at least 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, in the southern village of Qana today, police said. It was the bloodiest single attack during Israel's 19-day-old war on Hezbollah. — The attack prompted the Lebanese government …
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Rice Abandons Middle East Negotiations — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was forced to cancel a trip to Beirut Sunday after an Israeli airstrike killed more than 50 people, mostly women and children, in the southern Lebanese town of Qana in the bloodiest attack since …
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New York Times:
A Senate Race in Connecticut — Earlier this year, Senator Joseph Lieberman's seat seemed so secure that — legend has it — some people at the Republican nominating convention in Connecticut started making bleating noises when the party picked a presumed sacrificial lamb to run …
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Washington Post:
Mr. Lieberman's Strength — IN HIS BATTLE to win Democratic renomination to the U.S. Senate, Joseph I. Lieberman seems to be getting blamed in Connecticut for something that in Washington is an asset — and ought to be understood as such by Democratic voters back home.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
'A Terrible Tug' for Democrats
'A Terrible Tug' for Democrats
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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Israel Pulls Out of Hezbollah Stronghold — TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli troops pulled back from a key Lebanese border town Saturday where it battled Hezbollah for a week, claiming to have finished its mission after the bloodiest ground fight of the 18-day war.
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Times of London:
Hezbollah: we've planned this for 6 years
Hezbollah: we've planned this for 6 years
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Curt Woodward / Associated Press:
Seattle suspect allegedly ambushed girl — SEATTLE - The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity's foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl's head, the police chief said Saturday.
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William Yardley / New York Times:
Police Describe Seattle Shooting as a Hate Crime
Police Describe Seattle Shooting as a Hate Crime
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock — MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — Like most pastors who lead thriving evangelical megachurches, the Rev. Gregory A. Boyd was asked frequently to give his blessing — and the church's — to conservative political candidates and causes.
MSNBC:
Slacker Friday — I've got a new "Think Again" column here called "Bush Bounced, Reporters Follow." — Does Jerusalem Have a Plan For What Comes Afterward? Here. — In "Degrading Behavior," Tom Engelhardt takes up the Israeli air campaign against Lebanon and puts it into the context …
New York Times:
Partisan Divide on Iraq Exceeds Split on Vietnam — Steve Hart for The New York Times, left; Rod Sanford/Lansing State Journal, via Associated Press — Left, supporters of the Iraq war sang "God Bless America" at a Brooklyn rally in April 2003. A poll shows attitudes dividing starkly on party lines.