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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/721 World News en-us Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:36:25 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/ http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050712/ts_nm/lebanon_dc nm/20050712/lebanon_dc Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:13:21 GMT Reuters - A powerful car bomb blast wounded Lebanon's pro-Syrian caretaker Defense Minister Elias Al-Murr and killed two people north of Beirut on Tuesday, security officials said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050711/wl_nm/bosnia_srebrenica_dc nm/20050711/bosnia_srebrenica_dc Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:12:22 GMT Reuters - Families buried the remains of Srebrenica victims on Monday on the 10th anniversary of the massacre and the West acknowledged its failure to prevent Europe's worst atrocity in 50 years. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050712/wl_nm/korea_north_dc nm/20050712/korea_north_dc Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:48:31 GMT Reuters - Japan and the United States agreed on Tuesday on the need for concrete progress at talks this month on ending North Korea's nuclear arms program, while China sent an envoy to Pyongyang to pave the way for a long-elusive deal. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050712/wl_nm/mideast_assault_dc nm/20050712/mideast_assault_dc Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:34:02 GMT Reuters - A senior Palestinian Interior Ministry official was seriously injured in a beating by masked assailants on Tuesday in the latest episode of lawlessness challenging President Mahmoud Abbas. Ibrahim Salame was driving to work in the West Bank city of Ramallah when three gunmen fired toward his car to force him to stop, a ministry statement said. The gunmen then severely beat Salame with "sharp objects," it said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050712/wl_nm/mideast_israel_withdrawal_dc nm/20050712/mideast_israel_withdrawal_dc Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:06:15 GMT Reuters - Israeli security forces will be allowed to shoot at Jewish settlers resisting next month's withdrawal from Gaza if the lives of soldiers and police are endangered, the Haaretz daily reported on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050712/ap_on_bi_ge/britain_royal_dutch_shell ap/20050712/britain_royal_dutch_shell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:32:01 GMT AP - The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos. said Tuesday that it has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a U.S. lawsuit related to its writedown of its oil and gas reserves last year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050712/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_explosion ap/20050712/lebanon_explosion Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:22:14 GMT AP - A car bomb hit the motorcade of Lebanon's outgoing deputy prime minister Tuesday, wounding him and killing at least one other person, officials said. A string of bombings has hit Lebanon this year, but this was the first aimed at a pro-Syrian politician. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050712/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_presidential_candidate ap/20050712/venezuela_presidential_candidate Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:20:32 GMT AP - Venezuela's only opposition leader to enter a bid so far for next year's presidential vote faces a Herculean task: defeating a wily politician who remains popular after seven years in office. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050712/ap_on_re_af/south_africa_aids ap/20050712/south_africa_aids Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:23:46 GMT AP - More than 6.5 million of South Africa's 47 million people could be infected with HIV, according to a government report released Monday, a sharp increase from previous estimates. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050712/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_markets ap/20050712/japan_markets Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:36:25 GMT AP - Japanese stocks rose Tuesday to a fresh 13-week high as traders bought semiconductor-related and other blue-chip issues, helped by solid gains overnight on Wall Street. The dollar was lower against the yen. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20050712/ca_pr_on_na/health_cancer_drug cpress/20050712/health_cancer_drug Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:55:00 GMT Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - British Columbia became the first province on Monday to cover the cost of a promising drug therapy to fight an aggressive form of breast cancer in its early stages. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050712/wl_sthasia_afp/australiaafghanistaniraqmilitary afp/20050712/australiaafghanistaniraqmilitary Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:53:04 GMT AFP - Australia's government made a decision on a new troop deployment to Afghanistan but refused to immediately announce whether its military will join US-led coalition forces bracing for a rebel offensive ahead of parliamentary elections.