Has the Hizbullah admitted to murdering Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri?

The Arab newspaper A-Sharq al-Awsat quoted senior Hizbullah official and Lebanese MP Walid Sakaria as saying on Wednesday, "Even if the organization did murder Hariri, that's no reason to destroy Lebanon."

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Terrorists opened fire on an IDF force near Alumim.

No one was hurt in the incident.

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Egyptian police shot and killed one Christian and wounded dozens of others Wednesday morning in a new escalation of violence with Coptics trying to build a church near the pyramids. A senior police officer and 12 soldiers also were wounded.

Police fired tear gas and arrested more than two dozen protesters after they hurled stones and firebombs in a demonstration of 200 Christians against the government’s ban on the Coptics’ attempt to complete the building of a church.

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Overnight the Israel Defense Forces arrested three wanted terrorist suspect in the Jericho area. The suspects were detained and questioned by security officials.

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Following a deadly artillery strike from North Korea on Tuesday, South Korea banned its nationals from entering the communist state, indefinitely postponed their scheduled Red Cross talks and began looking at ways to push the United Nations to condemn Pyongyang.

North Korea fired a barrage of about 100 artillery shots toward the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong in the Yellow Sea Tuesday afternoon, killing at least two marines. The South's countermeasures, announced hours later by unification and foreign ministry officials, will likely evolve into tougher actions.

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