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The Israeli Air Force says it has attacked 3 bridges in central Gaza to prevent Palestinian militants moving an Israeli soldier captured in a raid on Israel on Sunday. There is no word so far of any casualties. Palestinian security officials say the main power station in Gaza has also been hit by missiles, cutting electricity to much of Gaza City. From Gaza, Allen Johnston reports.
For hours Israeli fighter jets went roaring through the night circling over Gaza then close to midnight came a report that they had struck the main high way that runs down the center of the territory. Israeli military sources confirmed that the air force had hit a bridge. They said that the aim was to try to prevent anyone who may be holding the captured soldier from moving him up or down the road. Later the jets hit two more bridges. This comes after days of extraordinary tension here with Israel massing its armor on the edge of Gaza.
The United States Congress has taken a crucial step towards approving a controversial nuclear cooperation agreement with India. The House of Representative's International Relations Committee endorsed the deal which would give India access to US nuclear fuel and reactors, depite it helping to develop its atomic weapon program outside the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Jonathan Beale reports from Washington.
Under the deal India will open up most of its nuclear facilities to international inspections for the first time. In return, the United States will cooperate with India's civilian nuclear programme. The US believes that the agreement will help bring in safeguards to prevent proliferation. The deal is also seen by the White House as essential to building a strategic partnership with India. However, critics of the deal have warned that it would send a wrong signal to Iran and North Korea at a critical time. India has never signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and it secretly developed nuclear weapons.
The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged Pakistan to work better with Afghanistan in the campaign against Afghanistan's Taliban fighters. Speaking at a news conference after talks with president Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad, Doctor Rice praised Pakistan and Afghanistan as great allies of the United States and said they and America need to unify their efforts to eliminate the threat to the region posed by Taliban militants of al-Qaeda.
A leader of Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka has expressed regret of the assassination 15 years ago of the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Anton Balasingham, the rebel's chief negotiator, said the killing was a monumental tragedy and called on the people of India to put the past behind them. But an Indian spokesman said the country could not forget the Tiger's crime. With more here is Sanger Discripter.
Mr. Balasingham exacts words for shout of an outright apology. This is the first time that any senior figure among the Tamil Tiger rebels has made a public expression of remorse on the former Indian prime minister's assassination. As Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has sended Indian troops to fight the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. He was assassinated in the small last of a summer morning in 1991 near Scriperumbudur in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu . He was campaigning for a reelection. India's ruling congress party now headed by late Mr. Ghndi widow Sonia has said that they can't forgive, or forget the killing of their former prime minister.
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The convicted murderer , a Marxist militant, widely known as Carlos the Jackal, has filed a legal complaint in Paris, charging the retired French intelligence official who detained him with kidnapping and illegal restraint. Carlos the Jackal was captured in Sudan in 1994 after the then head of the France's Foreign Intelligent Agency General Philip Longdos spotted him by accident. Carlos the Jackal is serving a life sentence for the murder of 3 French policemen.
At the football World Cup in Germany, France have beaten Spain by 3 goals to one and become the last team to qualify for the quarter finals then they are going to play with Brazil. Harry Peart reports from Berlin.
Spain have never beaten France in a competitive match and that record remains unbroken even though they took the lead through a penalty after 25 minutes. France recovered through Frank Ribery and late into the match, Patrick Vieira headed the ball home in a pack goal for the seconds. The goal made virtually certain that the intended retirement of their talesman Zinedine Zidane was put off at least another match. He celebrated with an injury time goal that recalled his commanding performance to win the World Cup 8 years ago against the team they will now face at the weekend Brazil.
The head of world wide Anglican communion has suggested that member churches may have to choose between full membership and associate status, the Archbishop of Canterbury , doctor Rome Williams , made the suggestion in a response to the refusal by American Episcopal church to rule out appointing any more homosexual bishops.
words and expressions
remorse: Moral anguish arising from repentance for past misdeeds; bitter regret
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