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Thursday, August 24, 2006

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 24, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Hussein Dakroub b Beirut israeli foreign minister Tripi Livni called the situation in Lebanon explosive and pressed the International Community to work quickly to deploy peacekeeping troops As the shaky ceasefire Between Israel and Hezbollah was further tested yesterday. Meanwhile lebanese prime minister Fuad Maniora urged the u. S. To help end israelis sea and air blockade saying his country was making every Effort to secure its Borders. The United states can support us in putting real pressure on Israel to lift the siege the Western backed Maniora told reporters. His government has called the blockade a violation of the in brokered ceasefire and has asked the International Community to intervene. The mounting diplomatic pressure came As several incidents erupted along the Border with three lebanese and one israeli Soldier killed by exploding ordnance. In other violence two lebanese men were seized in an israeli army raid and israeli forces resuming sporadic shelling in a disputed area. Time is working against those who would like to see this Resolution applied the israeli foreign minister told reporters after talks in Paris with her French counterpart Philippe Douste Blazy. We Are now in the most sensitive and explosive position Livni said. But the european Union which is expected to Lead a in peacekeeping Mission to enforce the ceasefire appeared wary of committing soldiers without safeguards to ensure they dont get sucked into the Middle East conflict. The commander of in peacekeepers in Lebanon described the ceasefire Between Israel and Hezbollah As very fragile and dangerous and said an expanded International Force would not disarm Hezbollah. The israelis cannot ask uni Fil to disarm Hezbollah. This is not written in our mandate French maj. Gen. Alain Pellegrini commander of the 2,000 member in interim Force in Lebanon known As uni Fil told reporters at uni Fil Headquarters in the coastal town of a Agoura. The latest rounds of artillery fired by Israel were reported near the disputed Che Baa farms area where the Borders of Lebanon Syria and Israel meet. Israel said it fired artillery Only into its own territory along the Border As a Means of deterrence. But lebanese Security officials said israeli troops stationed in Che Baa farms fired across the Border into the lebanese Village of Che Baa. Intermittent shelling lasted three hours and hit near lebanese army positions there they said. No casualties were reported. Lebanese troops entered the Village last week for the first time in nearly four decades As part of a larger army deployment in South Lebanon under the in brokered ceasefire. Associated press around the world a8 Canada Winnipeg repress. 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Karr said in Thailand last week he was present when Jon Benet died and her death was an Accident. He did not specifically say he killed her and Boulder prosecutors have not disclosed their evidence against him. His family has insisted Karr was in Georgia during the Christmas week Jon Benet was killed. Georgia lawyer Gary Harris who had represented Karrys father and brother in recent Days has said the family found a photo from Christmas 1996 showing Karrys three sons at a dinner in Atlanta. Karr is not in the photo but the family insists if the boys were there Karr would have been too. Associated press kurd remember horrors Baghdad kurd yesterday told of entire families killed in chemical weapons attacks against their villages in the 1980s, saying survivors plunged their faces into milk to end the pain from the blinding Gas or fled into the Hills on mules As military helicopters fired on them. After hours of grim testimony in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein chief judge Abdullah Al Amiri adjourned until sept. 11 to consider defence appeals Over the legitimacy of the tribunal. Answers sought in crash Sukha Balka Ukraine investigators yesterday combed through the wreckage of a russian passenger Jet that crashed into a ukrainian Field during a severe thunderstorm killing All 170 people aboard. The flight recorders of the pulk ovo airlines to 154 have not been found. The recorders could help explain the cause of the third fatal crash this year of a russian passenger Airliner. Long missing girl found Vienna Austria a girl who vanished in Austria without a Trace More than eight years ago May have been found Northeast of the capital yesterday news reports said. Natascha Pampusch was identified by relatives said Herwig Haidinger head of austrians Federal Bureau of investigation according to the Austria press Agency. The Young woman told police she was kidnapped and kept in a House by a Man for years the broadcaster said. Oral contraceptive for Roos Canberra Australia scientists Are hoping to develop an Oral contraceptive for female kangaroos that will keep pouches empty As they hop around the National capitals Grassy fringes. Government ecologist Don Fletcher said yesterday the Oral contraceptive method promised to be More efficient than existing technology for curbing Roo numbers around Canberra because the Fleet footed marsupials would not need to be captured. Couple faked Sext plets Independence to. A Missouri couple pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing from their Community by faking the birth of Sext plets in order to tap their Neighbours generosity. Sarah and Kris Everson were sentenced to four years on probation after their pleas to charges of felony stealing by deceit. They also must repay about $ 3,700 to their victims and perform 40 hours of Community service. Bystanders snatch cocaine Bogota Colombia bystanders made off with hundreds of packets of cocaine after a truck transporting the drug crashed on a Caribbean Island colombian authorities said yesterday. The truck supposedly carrying Ceramic tiles crashed on the Island of san Andres a popular tourist destination that belongs to Colombia in the Caribbean East of Nicaragua. From the news service Vancouver the liberals sustained their second casualty Over the Middle East conflict when the part yes Deputy foreign affairs critic resigned yesterday after saying Hezbollah should be taken off Canadas list of terrorist organizations. Borys Wrzek Newskyj originally denied he made the comments but yesterday he offered his resignation to interim Leader Bill Graham and admitted to reporters his statement was an error. I consider that matter closed Graham said in an Effort to put behind the bruising matter that has dominated the part yes three Day caucus Retreat. Wrzek Newskyj created a backlash within his own party when he said during a visit to Lebanon at the beginning of the week that Canada should negotiate directly with Lebanon is Hezbollah. I went to Lebanon without preconceived conclusions and my comments in South Lebanon were tempered by the overwhelming Power of what i witnessed he said yesterday following his resignation. Canadian press my quits Over comments Karr family offers rights to film and Book Nasser Nasser / associated press Indian unit patrols a Road near Southern Border in Lebanon. Middle East crisis situation in Lebanon explosive Israel presses for peacekeepers ;