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Paris conference pledges aid to struggling Lebanon
By Crispian Balmer
PARIS (Reuters) - Promises of aid topped $4 billion at a donors' conference on Thursday after Lebanon appealed for funds to help it recover from the war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
A Saudi Arabian pledge of $1.1 billion, on top of grants and loans from France, the EU, the United States, the Arab Monetary Fund and World Bank, brought the total to around $4.6 billion.
Group says Al-Qaida No. 2 mocks Bush
 By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's deputy leader mocked President Bush's plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, challenging him to send "the entire army," according to a new al-Qaida videotape released Monday by a U.S. group that tracks terror messages.
Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq
 Story from BBC NEWS:
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). A representative of the prime minister and a Sunni Muslim cleric were present.
Footage of him being led to the gallows was later shown on Iraqi state TV.
Two co-defendants, Saddam Hussein's half-brother and a former chief judge, are to be executed at a later date.
 MSNBC staff and news service reports
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three years after he was hauled from a hole in the ground by pursuing U.S. forces, Saddam Hussein was hanged Saturday under a sentence imposed by an Iraqi court, state-run Iraqiya television reported.
The deposed president was found guilty over the killing of 148 members of the Shiite population of the town of Dujail after militants tried to assassinate him there in 1982, during Iraqs war with Shiite Iran.
Iraq's deputy prime minister told BBC News of the execution. Multiple TV outlets, including U.S.-backed al-Hurra TV, al-Arabiya and Sky News TV had already reported the news.
At Vatican Mass, pope urges global goodwill
 VATICAN CITY - The leader of Roman Catholics urged people everywhere Sunday to welcome Christmas by overcoming prejudices, while Christians in some countries faced heightened security at their churches amid worries about the threat of terror attacks during the holidays.
Shoppers rushed to buy last-minute gifts and food for Christmas meals, but some in poor nations faced a bleak holiday.
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