MIDEAST: Israel blockades Lebanon
BEIRUT,(Reuters): ISRAEL BLOCKADED Lebanese ports and struck Beirut airport and two military airbases yesterday, expanding reprisals that have killed 55 civilians in Lebanon since Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers a day earlier.
IRAN: Government is defiant
TEHRAN, (REUTERS): IRAN SAID yesterday it would not abandon its right to nuclear technology in a defiant statement after Tehran's case was sent back to the U.N. Security Council over its atomic dispute with the West.
THE VATICAN: Archbishop to promote marriage for Catholic priests
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters): EMMANUEL MILINGO, the African Catholic archbishop and faith healer who married in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in 2001 but later returned to the fold, has scandalised the Vatican yet again.
UNITED STATES: Huge desert fire rages
YUCCA VALLEY, California (AP): A 40,000-acre (16000-hectare) fire chewed through desert wilderness yesterday after destroying 100 homes and buildings and was on course to possibly merge with a blaze in the San Bernardino National Forest...
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