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English Service News July 22nd 2006, 19:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Foreign Governments Issue Final Evacuation Orders in Lebanon Foreign governments stepped up efforts to evacuate their remaining nationals from Lebanon on Saturday amid mounting talk of an Israeli ground offensive against its northern neighbor. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlm3qIfcha79I0&req=l%3D1hlm3pIfcha79I0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Need a good laugh? Then check out DW-WORLD.DE'S From the Fringe Special, which regularly brings you quirky stories from and about Germany. To find out more, go to http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlm3qIfcha79I1&req=l%3D1hlm3pIfcha79I1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Israel targets Lebanese border towns Israeli troops have launched further operations in southern Lebanon, attacking Hezbollah strongholds in the border regions. With thousands of soldiers now massed along the Israeli-Lebanese border, fears are growing of a possible full-scale ground invasion. Israeli military warned villagers to flee southern Lebanon. Meanwhile Israeli aircraft have launched a series of air strikes in Lebanon, targetting transmission towers. Hezbollah continued to fire a barrage of rockets into northern Israel. Earlier Israeli armoured vehicles crushed a border frence and entered Lebanon, surrounding an UN observation post. After eleven days of conflict, more than 350 Lebanese have been killed, most of them civilians. Hezbollah attacks have killed 15 Israeli civilians, and 11 soldiers. German foreign minister visits Cairo On the diplomatic front, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has departed for the Middle East with the goal of creating the possibility for diplomatic efforts to calm the situation. Steinmeier's first stop was Cairo, where he met his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Abul Gheit. At a joint news conference Steinmeier said we cannot allow extremist forces to define the agenda of the Middle East. The German minister is scheduled to travel to Israel, where he plans to meet Sunday with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert before meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas before returning to Germany. British transport injured Germans Four members of a German-Lebanese family, injured during Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon, have been flown out of Lebanon to Cyprus by a British helicopter. A German foreign ministry spokesman in Berlin told Deutsche Welle that the wounded are being treated by a German doctor at a hospital in Cyprus. They will be flown back to Germany when their condition improves, she said. Ships and aircraft continue to pluck more shell-shocked evacuees from the fighting in Lebanon to safety in Cyprus in a mass evacuation now exceeding 25,000 people. Cypriot Foreign Minister Georgios Lillikas said he expected the number of evacuees arriving on the tiny holiday island to triple, putting a strain on his nation's limited resources. 2 suicide car bombing hit Afghan city Two suicide attacks have struck Afghanistan's main southern city of Kandahar, killing two coalition soldiers and six Afghan civilians. Afghan government officials and the US-led coalition said 27 Afghan civilians and eight coalition soldiers were also wounded in the blasts which occured 100 metres from each other. The Taliban movement claimed responsibility for both attack. Nearly 60 foreign troops have been killed in hostile action in Afghanistan this year. Indonesian tsunami death toll rises to 659 The death toll from the tsunami that smashed into the south coast of Indonesia's Java island this week has risen to just under 660. Close to one-thousand people were injured after Monday's tsunami. According to the National Disaster Coordinating Agency as many as 330 people were still missing while more than 100,000 people have been displaced. Among the victims are five foreigners: one Dutch, a Swede, a Pakistani and two Saudis. The agency said that a French national was also among those still missing. Serbian PM warns against new Kosovo state Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has warned against any idea of creating a new state within Serbian territory, ahead of talks in Vienna next week on the future status of Kosovo. The UN-sponsored talks set for Monday will be the first between the Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders since the 1998-1999 Kosovo war. The one-day meeting is expected to cover the core issue of Kosovo's future status and the ethnic Albanians' demands for full independence. Talks on the future of Kosovo were launched in February under the auspices of the UN, but have thus far failed to produce any concrete result. Somali Islamists clash with government forces Gunmen loyal to Somalia's Islamists have fought government forces in a brief clash some 120 km from the interim government's base. There are increasing fears that the fighting could lead to an all-out war after Islamists walked out of talks with the government. There was no word on any casualties in the first fighting between the two sides since Islamists took Mogadishu from US-backed warlords on June 5, challenging the authority of President Abdullahi Yusuf's Western-backed government. Iraq holds reconciliation talks amid scepticism Iraqi leaders have met in Baghdad in a show of sectarian and ethnic solidarity prior to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's visit to Washington on Tuesday for a meeting with President Bush. They are expected to discuss ways of improving security in Baghdad, which is gripped by mounting violence between Shi'ites and Arab Sunnis, raising fears of an all-out civil war. So far, Maliki's 24-point reconciliation plan has failed to stem the violence. A senior US official said that one option is to bring more US and Iraqi forces into the capital. Officials now believe sectarian militias pose a greater security threat than the insurgency. Germany to restrict smoking from 2007 Germany is likely to introduce a ban on smoking in public buildings beginning next year. Consumer affairs minister Horst Seehofer said in an interview on Saturday that the grand coalition would draft a law after the summer break. The proposed ban, which has met with resistance in tolerant Germany, would initially apply to public buildings, such as government offices, convalescent homes and hospitals. But the coalition also plans to discuss whether it should be extended to restaurants and cafes. Landis regains yellow jersey Now Sports News: American cyclist Floyd Landis is poised to follow in the footsteps of Lance Armstrong as champion after regaining the overall lead in the Tour de France. Landis came third in the final time trial, which was won by Ukraine's Serhiy Honchar from the T-Mobile. Spaniard Oscar Pereiro is in second place followed by Andreas Kloeden from T-Mobile. 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