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By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel bombed mobile telephone and television masts in Lebanon on Saturday and pledged to pursue its war on Hizbollah with more military incursions, but said it plans no full-scale invasion for now. Thousands of Lebanese civilians have fled north fearing Israel will invade and expand an 11-day-old bombardment of Lebanon which has killed 348 people, mostly civilians. Resisting international pressure for a cease-fire, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said ...

By Talal Malik LONDON (Reuters) - The family of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes lay a wreath and bunches of flowers on Saturday at the London underground station where he was mistakenly gunned down by police last year. In front of a small crowd of supporters a short tribute was paid to the 27-year-old electrician who was shot seven times in the head on an underground train at Stockwell station by police who thought he was a suicide bomber. "This is a day of remembrance, a day of great sorro ...

By Matthew Jones LONDON (Reuters) - British Minister Gerry Sutcliffe, sent to find out if the controversial U.S. Megan's Law that lets Americans know where sex offenders live could be adapted for use in Britain, meets Megan's parents on Saturday. Megan's murder in 1994 led to the passing of legislation that allows parents in most U.S. states to be told where known sex offenders live. Home Secretary John Reid has sent Sutcliffe to the United States on a fact-finding mission to see whether such ...

The mother of a missing schoolgirl, thought to have met a man she contacted on the internet, has appealed to her to phone her family. Hannah Rodrigues, 15, was last seen at a bus stop close to her home in St Albans on Wednesday afternoon. She is believed to have caught a bus to Regent Street in central London. Her mother Fiona has made a plea in a statement for Hannah to phone home. She said: "Hannah, we want you to come home and to know you're all right." A spokeswoman for Hertfordshire Po ...

The number of people killed in a storm that hit southern China last week has risen to more than 500 - more than double the original estimate. Tropical Storm Bilis hit on 14 July, causing massive flooding and forcing three million people from their homes. The government of Hunan province has accused local officials of deliberately playing down the death toll. Meanwhile, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake has hit Yunan province, in the south-west, killing at least 18 people. Some of the victims were c ...

Pop band Babyshambles have pulled out of a concert in Ibiza to allow singer Pete Doherty to be treated for his drug addiction, the event promoter has said. Andy McKay, promoter of the Ibiza Rocks event in San Antonio on Wednesday, said Doherty was due to enter a rehabilitation clinic on Monday. The 27-year-old told a court earlier this month that he was to have an implant fitted to help him kick drugs. He is on a treatment programme after admitting drug possession charges. "We were all real ...

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- Another day of severe storms knocked out electricity for tens of thousands of additional residents, but brought along a cold front that was welcome relief for those waiting for power to be restored. A strong thunderstorm rolled through the region Friday, two days after one of the worst storms in recent memory caused more than 500,000 Ameren Corp. customers to lose power. Utility crews had trimmed that number significantly by Friday morning, but the total rose again a ...

LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) -- The Cypriot foreign minister on Saturday appealed for help in handling the thousands of people fleeing violence in Lebanon, saying as many as 25,000 evacuees had already arrived on the island and that the number would likely triple. The foreign minister, George Lillikas, asked for financial help from European countries to help the island cope with the influx. The European Union said Saturday it was sending a team to Cyprus to help speed up the transport of foreign evacu ...

By Michele Kambas and David Clark LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) - Ships and aircraft toiled through the night into Saturday whisking more shell-shocked fugitives from the fighting in Lebanon to safety in Cyprus in a mass evacuation now exceeding 25,000 people. Cypriot Foreign Minister Georgios Lillikas, inspecting a French-chartered boat in Larnaca port that had just brought in 1,200 people, said he expected many more evacuees to arrive on the tiny holiday island, straining its limited resources.  ...

Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning US actor Jack Warden has died, aged 85. He died in a New York hospital after several weeks of poor health, including heart and kidney problems, said the actor's business manager Sidney Pazoff. Warden was nominated for Oscars for Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait, and won an Emmy for the 1971 TV film Brian's Song. He was twice Emmy-nominated for the 1980s television series Crazy Like a Fox. His other films included 12 Angry Men and All The President's Men. Warden wa ...