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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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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.
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.
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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New York Times:
Israeli Strike Is Deadliest in Fighting So Far — A series of Israeli airstrikes in this small mountain town today killed dozens of people in the deadliest single attack in the war here so far, prompting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to postpone a trip to Lebanon …
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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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Times of London:
Hezbollah: we've planned this for 6 years
Hezbollah: we've planned this for 6 years
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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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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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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.
Washington Post:
Atlas Group Strives to Map Out Success for Democrats — Three of the Democratic Party's top field organizers have formed a group to provide their party's 2008 presidential nominee with road maps to victory in the dozen or so battleground states. — The effort is known as the Atlas Project …