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• Security tightened as Lebanon probes anti-US attack

  - 2008-01-16

  BEIRUT AFP — The US embassy in Lebanon restricted the movement of its staff on Wednesday a day after a car bomb targeting one of its vehicles killed three people and further rattled the troubled country. The bombing was the first such attack against American interests in Lebanon since...

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• Israeli strike kills three Gaza civilians 'in error'

  - 2008-01-15

  GAZA CITY AFP — An Israeli air strike killed three members of the same family, including a teenager, in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what the army called an error, one day after the deadliest day of violence in the territory for more than a year. The victims...

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• Al-Qaeda urges attacks on Bush during Mideast tour: website

  - 2008-01-06

  DUBAI AFP — An American member of Al-Qaeda urged Islamist militants to target US President George W. Bush "with bombs" during his trip to the Middle East next week, in a message posted online on Sunday. Bush should be welcomed "not with flowers and applause, but with bombs and...

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• Bhutto party says Musharraf admission shows need for UN probe

  - 2008-01-05

  ISLAMABAD AFP — The party of murdered Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Sunday that President Pervez Musharraf's admission she may have been killed by a gunman underscored the need for a UN probe. In an interview with the US television network CBS, Musharraf admitted for the first time...

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• Top general assassinated in crisis-hit Lebanon

  - 2007-12-11

  BEIRUT AFP — A top Lebanese army officer and his bodyguard were killed on Wednesday in a powerful car bomb that further destabilised the country as it grapples with a presidential vacuum. A military spokesman told AFP that Brigadier General Francois El-Hajj, head of army operations, and his bodyguard...

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• Fuel-economy rules could kill US auto industry: union chief

  - 2007-09-06

  DETROIT, United States AFP — Tough new fuel-economy standards now pending in Congress could lead to the dismantling of what remains of the US domestic car industry, the president of the United Auto Workers union warned Thursday. "We're being told that we must choose between protecting our environment versus...

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• Battling Barthez may not return - Nantes president

  - 2007-04-29

  NANTES AFP — France's World Cup winning goalkeeper Fabien Barthez may not return to help save Nantes' stricken season following a violent run-in with a group of disgruntled supporters. Basement side Nantes succumbed to a 2-0 home defeat to Rennes on Saturday, and their hopes of top flight survival...

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• Bush calls for energy legislation by June 1

  - 2007-03-20

  CLAYCOMO, United States AFP — US President George W. Bush urged Americans Tuesday to drive hybrid automobiles that use less gasoline and said Congress should pass his energy plan by the May 31 start of summer driving. "See, I believe that when you're dependent on oil from parts of...

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• Gunmen fire on Hamas minister's car

  - 2007-03-10

  NABLUS, West Bank AFP — Gunmen opened fire on the convoy of a Hamas government minister on Saturday, threatening to complicate talks on a Palestinian national unity government a day after prime minister-designate Ismail Haniya was given another fortnight to form it. The incident sparked a roadside firefight in...

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• US auto giants safe under Bush energy plan: critics

  - 2007-01-23

  CHICAGO AFP — President George W. Bush has trumpeted new proposals to cut US gasoline consumption and so ease the country's dependence on foreign oil. But critics saw little dramatic in the changes, and nothing to worry the Detroit auto industry. The bulk of the reductions targeted by Bush in...

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