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Financial Times
A suicide bomber killed an Israeli soldier and two Palestinians at an army roadblock on Thursday as conflict in the Gaza Strip spilled over into the West Bank.
Israeli officials, blaming the attack on Islamic Jihad, said the bomber was on his way to attack a civilian target in Israel when his taxi was stopped by soldiers at a temporary checkpoint near the West Bank town of Tulkarem.
The army said the bomber detonated his explosives when he was challenged, killing an accomplice and the taxi driver as well as an Israeli officer.
Islamic Jihad has been responsible for most recent rocket fire directed at Israel from the Gaza Strip, a barrage that prompted Israel this week to establish a no-go buffer zone in the north of the territory. The rocket strikes appeared to be a response to Israeli threats to eradicate the militant organisation.
Today in St. Petersburg, Russia attacks using gas IEDs were launched against several hardware stores. Fox News is reporting that the Russians suspect that a rival hardware chain store may have launched the attack as part of a dispute the two businesses were having.
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Cybercast News Service
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which slammed the Bush administration for its allegedly slow and racially insensitive response to Hurricane Katrina, has yet to spend any of the estimated $400,000 that it raised for the victims of the Aug. 29 storm.
"We are collecting all the way up through the very end of the year and then our board has set aside a committee who is going to administer the funds," Patty Rice, spokeswoman for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), told Cybercast News Service on Wednesday. The Foundation is an offshoot of the Congressional Black Caucus and was founded in 1976.
In the days immediately following the hurricane, with parts of the Louisiana and Mississippi coastline demolished and the city of New Orleans under water as a result of broken levees, members of the Congressional Black Caucus condemned the Bush administration's handling of storm relief efforts.
Washington Post
A group of religious protesters demonstrated outside a Wal-Mart superstore Saturday, hoping to turn away customers by calling attention to the retailer's decision to use "happy holidays" rather than "merry Christmas" in its seasonal advertising.
But even shoppers who agreed with the protesters weren't willing to interrupt their quest for holiday deals.
"I believe in Christ, and I don't like the use of 'xmas' or the use of 'happy holidays,'" said Steven Van Noy, 39, as he left the store loaded down with packages. "The bottom line is that they had what I needed at Wal-Mart, so I went to Wal-Mart to buy it."
Controversy over the secularization of Christmas is nothing new, but this year religious groups are publicly taking on retailers who have decided to tone down the religious aspects of the holiday in their store decorations and promotional material.
The first three things I would do to restore liberty in America are: