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A Palestinian man carries an injured child to a hospital in Gaza City. A Q&A; on the worldwide effects of the latest Mideast fighting
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Lebanese family uprooted by Israeli air strikes still back Hezbollah
Hussein Dakroub woke up this Thursday at four in the morning to the sound of Israeli warplanes attacking his Shiite Muslim village in southern Lebanon. At noontime Saturday, he and his wife, their five children, his mother and father, and his sister and her child were some 80 miles away at his sister's house in Beit Mery. "We had to flee without having the time to pack," he explained. / Additionally: Who is Hezbollah? / A region in conflict / A Q&A; on the Mideast Conflict
Hussein Dakroub woke up this Thursday at four in the morning to the sound of Israeli warplanes attacking his Shiite Muslim village in southern Lebanon. At noontime Saturday, he and his wife, their five children, his mother and father, and his sister and her child were some 80 miles away at his sister's house in Beit Mery. "We had to flee without having the time to pack," he explained. / Additionally: Who is Hezbollah? / A region in conflict / A Q&A; on the Mideast Conflict
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Israel blames Iran for helping Hezbollah attack warship
The crisis sparked by the abduction of two Israeli soldiers deepened Saturday as Israel bombed new sites across Lebanon, killing at least 30 civilians, and Hezbollah rockets struck their deepest targets yet inside Israel. Three days after the soldiers were captured in a Hezbollah ambush, Israel attacked the militant group's Beirut headquarters, all but demolishing it, hit Lebanese ports and accused Iran of playing a direct role in an attack on one of its warships off the Lebanese coast.
The crisis sparked by the abduction of two Israeli soldiers deepened Saturday as Israel bombed new sites across Lebanon, killing at least 30 civilians, and Hezbollah rockets struck their deepest targets yet inside Israel. Three days after the soldiers were captured in a Hezbollah ambush, Israel attacked the militant group's Beirut headquarters, all but demolishing it, hit Lebanese ports and accused Iran of playing a direct role in an attack on one of its warships off the Lebanese coast.
Senate poised for vote to expand stem-cell research
Congress is poised to give final approval next week to legislation that would broadly expand embryonic stem-cell research, which would mark a turning point in the futuristic struggle between science and religious morality that's divided the Republican Party.
Congress is poised to give final approval next week to legislation that would broadly expand embryonic stem-cell research, which would mark a turning point in the futuristic struggle between science and religious morality that's divided the Republican Party.
Internet `tubes' speech turns spotlight, ridicule onto Sen. Stevens
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is enduring no end of ridicule in the blogosphere for his recent explanation, in a Commerce Committee debate, of how the Internet works. Snorting loudest are bloggers who are angry at Stevens for not adding a nondiscrimination provision - known as "net neutrality" - to the communications bill that he wants Congress to pass this year.
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is enduring no end of ridicule in the blogosphere for his recent explanation, in a Commerce Committee debate, of how the Internet works. Snorting loudest are bloggers who are angry at Stevens for not adding a nondiscrimination provision - known as "net neutrality" - to the communications bill that he wants Congress to pass this year.
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