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Hezbollah 'seizes west Beirut'

Hezbollah gunmen are reported to have taken control of large areas of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, in a third day of fighting, while fierce gun battles are raging in other mixed Sunni-Shia-Christian neighbourhoods.

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Anger over Myanmar aid block

Mark Canning, Britain's ambassador to Myanmar, has said that the relief operation for Myanmar is likely to be twice the size needed in Aceh province in Indonesia, after the 2004 tsunami.

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Russia parades tanks and missiles

Russia's has paraded heavy weaponry including missiles and tanks in its annual Victory Day celebrations for the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union.

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Olmert facing calls to quit

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, is facing calls to resign following new allegations he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a US businessman.

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The US believes al-Muhajir is an explosives expert specialising  in the construction of car bombs [AFP]

Held man 'not al-Qaeda's Iraq boss'

The US military has denied that a man arrested in Iraq is Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Al-Qaeda chief in Iraq, who carries a US bounty of five million dollars.

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Bolivia to vote on president's rule

Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, has agreed to hold a vote of confidence on his rule amid a power struggle between his government and wealthy provinces.

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Child virus kills two more in China

A deadly strain of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed two more children in China, bringing the death toll in recent weeks to 32, state media has reported.

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Apartheid Israel’s 60 Years of War
By Gideon Polya   

Theft & Palestinian Genocide

This week the US-UK-backed Zionist colony called the State of Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of its declaration of Independence as a race-based, ethnocratic state (14th May 1948) – but when will the Indigenous Palestinians have Their Independence from violent, racist colonial occupation and genocidal abuse? FULL STORY...

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Pakistan's Constitutional Shenanigans
By Liaquat Ali Khan   

Pakistan's constitutional shenanigans permit the fox to eat the lion. 
 
Invoking the non-existent powers of the Army Chief last November under a declaration of emergency rule, Pervez Musharraf dismissed sixty high court judges and implanted the dismissal order in the Constitution as an amendment. FULL STORY...

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Freedoms, use them or lose them!
By Ben Tanosborn   

Captivity of Impression,Imagenot Freedom of Expression

In my mind you don't trot around the world creating havoc and taking peoples' lives to defend your "envied freedoms."  For all the shame we may rightly accumulate as we send young people to die for our elite's lust for power and greed,.. FULL STORY...

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