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Top Stories January 19, 2007Rice pushes Mid-East stability over democracyUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrapped up a Middle East tour this week, in which she garnered regional diplomatic support for the US strategy to stabilize Iraq and renewed a push for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, starting with three-way talks she is to host soon between the main stakeholders. In a bid to isolate Iran and militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, Rice has classed the governments of the region as either extremist or "mainstream" states. The policy signals an apparent change from previous Middle East trips, when Rice championed democracy and the rule of law. - CF Footage screened in London bomb-plot caseSix men involved in an alleged bomb plot went to trial this week in London, charged with conspiracy to murder and to cause explosions. Two weeks after the July 7, 2005, terrorist bombings that killed 52 London transit-riders, four Muslim men reportedly carried explosives-laden backpacks onto Tube trains and a city bus. CCTV security-camera footage, screened to jurors on Tuesday, showed one of the accused fleeing the train station after failing to successfully detonate his backpack. Prosecutors have noted that the abandoned bag on the Northern Line train contained hydrogen peroxide — an unconventional ingredient also found in the bombs used in the first July attack. - JS Israeli chief of staff resigns after Lebanon war probeLieutenant-General Dan Halutz resigned from the helm of the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday, following an investigation into the military leadership of last summer's bloody conflict with the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. The IDF failed to carry out its stated aims — to rescue two kidnapped soldiers and render Hezbollah unable to launch an attack on Israel — while causing widespread civilian casualties and infrastructure damage. Calls resounded for Israel's scandal-prone political leadership to also step down following Halutz's resignation, which came the same day that the Israeli attorney general launched a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's role in a 2005 bank privatization. - CF |
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