Orphaned Lebanese pets getting new homes
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They endured a summer of war, but now relief is coming for Lebanon's little known victims &#151; cats and dogs abandoned when their owners fled the country during the early days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The Lebanese army has started evacuating families of the Islamist militants who have been fighting troops at a Palestinian refugee camp, a military source said on Friday.
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The Lebanese Embassy in Baghdad is working with Iraqis to secure the release of a 7-year-old Lebanese boy taken by kidnappers demanding $150,000, Foreign Ministry officials said Monday.
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A mother choked up as she thought of her children stuck in south Lebanon, where Israeli bombing is fiercest. A restaurateur railed against Hezbollah for sparking the conflict. A refugee pledged her life to the militant group.
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Purdueâs School of Veterinary Medicine will provide refuge to a group of veterinary students who lost their homes and classrooms when Hurricane Ivan destroyed their facilities on the Caribbean island of Grenada.
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Twenty-two of the 47 surviving pit bulls seized from suspended NFL star Michael Vick 's dogfighting operation head for a new home in Utah.
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A dog welfare charity offers aid to women who stay in violent relationships for the sake of their pets.
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Growing up, Peter Neesley was an animal-lover who always took in strays around his Michigan home. So when his family heard that the Army sergeant was taking care of two dogs outside his Baghdad military base, no one was surprised.
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A massive herd of animals thought to have been wiped out by decades of civil war in Southern Sudan has survived against the odds and could be one of the largest migrations of large mammals on the planet.
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JOUNIEH, Lebanon -- It was his wife's miscarriage that finally drove Ali Abdulrazak Lafta to flee Iraq's war for the life of a refugee in Lebanon -- another war zone, but one much more manageable for his family.
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The Lebanese people have made remarkable progress rebuilding their small, war-shattered country over the past decade. The economy has grown past the $40 billion mark and Beirut, once known as the Paris of
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Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion &#151; so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them inside a fenced garden.
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A neglected Romanian lion has been rescued and shipped to the Born Free Center at Shamwari Game Reserve in South Africa.
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The Best Friends Animal Society sanctuary,  the new home for 22 of Michael Vickâs former dogs, received about $389,000 from Mr. Vick to care for and rehabilitate the animals.
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A U.S. military dog whose handler and best friend was killed in Iraq got a new assignment today -- retirement with the late Marine's family. Lex was beside Cpl. Dustin Lee when Lee was killed in a mortar attack in Falluja. It took months of lobbying by the family to get the dog's adoption approved by the military.
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A new Web site is seeking to tug more forcefully on the heart strings of people who might adopt abandoned dogs by publicizing how much time is left before an animal is killed if a home has not been found.
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The tale of seven Houston children abandoned in squalor in Nigeria has touched the hearts of many who are reaching out with offers of assistance.