Hezbollah fighters take over Beirut

Hi on this Friday, May 9, 2008. I'm Rebecca Field in for Kristin Volk with your UPI top news update.

Hezbollah fighters are taking control over Beirut today after a long-standing fight with pro-government gunmen. Security sources say 11 are dead and 44 are wounded following 3 days of battles between the U.S. backed government and Lebanon's Iranian backed Hezbollah. The fighting reportedly started when the government targeted Hezbollah's communications network. The violence is apparently the worst internal fighting since Lebanon's civil war which ended in 1990.

Oil prices hit another new high today. U.S. Crude oil delivery for June jumped to more than $125 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange this morning. This comes as a result of a weakening U.S. dollar and also a prediction from a Goldman Sachs analyst that oil prices could rise as high as $200 a barrel in the next two years.

Israel celebrated its 60 birthday yesterday. Israeli air force jets flew over the old city of Jerusalem to honor their Independence day. Israeli children toured a military exhibition and got to try on combat gear and warfare paint. The military festivities show after 60 years, a strong security force is still on top of the country's agenda.




Cycling star and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is calling on Congress to get tough on the war against cancer. The seven time Tour de France winner was on Capital hill yesterday to urge lawmakers to re-launch efforts to fight the disease in the U.S. Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996. The athlete was joined on a senate panel by the John Edward's wife Elizabeth, who's cancer returned last year. The two encouraged money for more research, prevention and treatment.

That's all for now. For more on those stories and all of today's news go to upi.com.

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[aznikoo2]

There's no country called Israel ! Fuck war !

[hanhan2100]

During the Hezbollah-Israel war a couple of years ago, when dining out in America (US and Canada), I asked a few Lebanese working in the restaurants about their attitude towards Hezbollah and "government". Their answer was similar: they support Hezbella. One guy even told me, "We have no government". Seeing I was shocked, he added, "if a government only stands for the interest of a few guys among millions, is that really a 'government'?".

[IWANTADINNERJACKET]

@PurPuzzle u idiot they were empty unlike what you lot do strap homocide belts to children what a sick race of people....

[spizi2008]

@FREELEBNEN lol ur words sound like there up ur arse... and what ur name is freelebanon, lol wata fukn FAKE

[FREELEBNEN]

fuck iranian hesbolah , fuck all terrorist muslim ,

love usa and israel

[PurPuzzle]

Israel?!!!!!!! and you are showing Al Aksa mosque????

children holding guns!!! what a celebration!!!!

if Palestinian children were doing though, the world wide media would slam them as muslim terrorists... unfortunately, there is no credibility in the western media, they remain silent and blind when it comes to such pictures!

[baabaa33]

fk israell

israell is motherfuker

[issareign]

lol you gotta love how the israeli festivities were based around military gear, war paint, and allowing kids to try on military equipment, and this was for their "independence day." LOL independence from what?! there was no ashkenazi WHITE jewish population in palestine before the zionists came is, it was just arab, and other middle eastern jews, and a minority at that. it should be called "genocide of indigenous palestinians day" gotta love the ZIONAZI's.

[alidabaja180]

You shoul dhave talked about how hizballah took over the north in two hours.