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Morning News


Aug.25   Paris     Chirac doubts Lebanon force size
  French President has said sending 15,000 peacekeeping troops to southern Lebanon is 'excessive'


  Beijing     Chavez rips U.S., Israel during China visit  Venezuelan President slammed Washington for opposing his bid for a U.N. Security Council seat and condemned Israel

  Austria   Girl 'describes kidnap'  Natascha Kampusch held prisoner for 8 years says her captor made her call him 'master' for the first year

  Australia   ICC reveals Hair 'quit' proposal  Darrell Hair offered to resign in exchange for $500,000

  East Africa Floods bring disaster to Horn of Africa  A disastrous cycle of drought and flood is bringing misery and death to some of the poorest regions

Day News


  UN     Annan: EU living up to Lebanon promise
  Secretary-General: European countries will provide the backbone of a peacekeeping force in Lebanon


  San Francisco Bay Area Former Ukraine PM is jailed  A US court has sentenced Pavlo Lazarenko to 9 years for extortion, money-laundering through U.S. banks and fraud

  UN UN agrees disability treaty text  An international treaty will give greater rights and freedoms to disabled people around the world

  Southern Iraq Base looted after British turn it to Iraqis  Hours after troops handed over a military base to Iraqi forces, hundreds of Iraqis, some with their faces covered, looted it

  Washington U.S.: U.N. force to stop Sudan 'genocide'  State Department's top diplomat on Africa is accusing Sudan of committing genocide in Darfur

Evening News


  Jerusalem Most Israelis say PM should quit  63% want Ehud Olmert to resign in a sharp rebuke over his handling of the war in Lebanon against Hezbollah

  Pakistan Hair offer 'vindicates' Pakistan  Pakistan say Darrell Hair's e-mail, in which he offered to resign for $500,000, represents a moral victory for them
San Francisco Bay Area , August 25, 2006 Timeline