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...cannot continue in this area unless people will be held accountable for the execution of 17 of our colleagues." JAN EGELAND,U.N. emergency-relief coordinator, threatening to suspend humanitarian operations in Sri Lanka following accusations that government troops slaughtered a group of aid workers in the Northeastern town of Muttur...
...Israeli decision to suspend air operations for 48 hours to allow civilians to leave the stricken towns and villages along the border has given the few remaining residents of this besieged town a brief window to escape the horrors of the battle that engulfed them. The old, frail and sick left their basement shelters, some crawling through the collapsed ruins of the bombed houses above them to pick their way carefully over a field of foot-thick debris that littered the streets. Barely a building remained standing. Some had been reduced to deep craters when struck by massive aerial bombs...
...Meanwhile, Welch and NSC staffer Abrams were trying to salvage something positive out of the disaster. Using the Qana crisis as leverage, they exacted a commitment from Israeli officials to a U.S. proposal, which had been the table for some weeks, to suspend aerial bombing sorties over south Lebanon for 48 hours, give residents 24 hours safe passage to get out of the areas of intensive bombardment and allow humanitarian aid convoys to enter and distribute food, water and medical supplies. Israeli agreement to the limited suspension came late in the evening. Rice spokesman Adam Ereli, not the Israelis, made...
...Louis - where the undercover investigation began when a Western Union office reported to the feds that customers were sending large sums of cash to offshore gambling services - accused BETonSPORTS founder Gary Kaplan, 47, of tax evasion, and issued a warrant for his arrest. The firm was also ordered to suspend sports betting from the U.S., and return money held by its U.S. account holders. The company said it was reviewing the indictment, and has since shut down its website, BETonSPORTS.com...
Hitting North Korea The U.N. takes on Pyongyang The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution condemning North Korea's missile tests and demanding that it suspend its ballistic-missile program. Undeterred, North Korea vowed to continue its program...