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12:20 PM ET, July 30, 2006

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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
34 youths among 56 dead in Israeli attack  —  QANA, Lebanon - An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said.  It was the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting.  Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 dead.
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Chris Link / NEWS.com.au:
Photos that damn Hezbollah  —  THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah.  It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.  —  The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas …
BBC:
Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid  —  More than 54 civilians, at least 34 of them children, have been killed in a town in south Lebanon in the deadliest Israeli strike of the conflict so far.  —  Displaced families had been sheltering in the basement of a house in Qana, which was crushed after a direct hit.
Chris Tinkler / NEWS.com.au:
These are the pictures that damn Hezbollah  —  Graphic images smuggled out from Lebanon show how Hezbollah is waging war amid suburban homes.  —  A stream of images, obtained exclusively by the News Ltd, depicts how the extremists are using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy calibre weapons.
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
60 killed in IAF strike on Qana in southern Lebanon  —  At least 60 civilians were killed on Sunday after the IAF fired missiles at buildings in the southern Lebanse twon of Qana.  —  Some 35 bodies have been recovered from a building that collapsed, but more were still stuck under the rubble, Lebanon's official news agency reported.
Haaretz:
Rice says time for cease-fire after IAF strike kills 54 people in Qana  —  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking after the Israel Air Force strike bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana, said it was time for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Israeli air strike kills 54  —  An Israeli air strike killed at least 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, in the southern village of Qana today, police said.  It was the bloodiest single attack during Israel's 19-day-old war on Hezbollah.  —  The attack prompted the Lebanese government …
Discussion: Winds of Change.NET
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Rice Abandons Middle East Negotiations  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was forced to cancel a trip to Beirut Sunday after an Israeli airstrike killed more than 50 people, mostly women and children, in the southern Lebanese town of Qana in the bloodiest attack since …
Discussion: War and Piece
Haaretz:   WORLD REACTIONS: U.K. brands Qana deaths 'quite appalling'
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
Olmert, Halutz and Peretz apologize for Qana deaths
New York Times:
A Senate Race in Connecticut  —  Earlier this year, Senator Joseph Lieberman's seat seemed so secure that — legend has it — some people at the Republican nominating convention in Connecticut started making bleating noises when the party picked a presumed sacrificial lamb to run …
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Washington Post:
Mr. Lieberman's Strength  —  IN HIS BATTLE to win Democratic renomination to the U.S. Senate, Joseph I. Lieberman seems to be getting blamed in Connecticut for something that in Washington is an asset — and ought to be understood as such by Democratic voters back home.
Discussion: Decision '08
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Lieberman's Eroding Base
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Israel Pulls Out of Hezbollah Stronghold  —  TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli troops pulled back from a key Lebanese border town Saturday where it battled Hezbollah for a week, claiming to have finished its mission after the bloodiest ground fight of the 18-day war.
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Curt Woodward / Associated Press:
Seattle suspect allegedly ambushed girl  —  SEATTLE - The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity's foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl's head, the police chief said Saturday.
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock  —  MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — Like most pastors who lead thriving evangelical megachurches, the Rev. Gregory A. Boyd was asked frequently to give his blessing — and the church's — to conservative political candidates and causes.
MSNBC:
Slacker Friday  —  I've got a new "Think Again" column here called "Bush Bounced, Reporters Follow."  —  Does Jerusalem Have a Plan For What Comes Afterward?  Here.  —  In "Degrading Behavior," Tom Engelhardt takes up the Israeli air campaign against Lebanon and puts it into the context …
New York Times:
Partisan Divide on Iraq Exceeds Split on Vietnam  —  Steve Hart for The New York Times, left; Rod Sanford/Lansing State Journal, via Associated Press  —  Left, supporters of the Iraq war sang "God Bless America" at a Brooklyn rally in April 2003.  A poll shows attitudes dividing starkly on party lines.
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