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  • Israel OKs to funnel millions of dollars to settlements

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet on Sunday approved millions of dollars of extra state funding in aid to Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank after extremist settlers attacked a mosque there. The decision comes as a gang of Jewish assailants vandalized a West Bank mosque on Friday, torching its library and spraying hate.. More

  • Berlusconi injured in attack

    Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has suffered a broken nose and lost two of his teeth after being attacked at a rally in Milan. The injuries came after a man struck Berlusconi in the face with a souvenir statue of the Italian city's gothic cathedral Duomo as he left the main square on Sunday evening. With blood splattered across his.. More

  • Sudan parties agree on referendum

    The two main political parties in Sudan's north and south have agreed to hold a key referendum promised over four years ago. The deal on Sunday resolves issues that had threatened to undermine the 2005 peace accord - signed after decades of civil war and millions of deaths. The south's dominant Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) will now remain.. More

  • Banned Turkey party vows boycott

    Turkey's pro-Kurdish political party banned by the constitutional court for having links to armed separatist fighters has said its legislators will boycott parliamentary sessions. Ahmet Turk, the chairman of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and one of two pro-Kurdish legislators who were expelled from parliament, said on Saturday the entire group.. More

  • Hundreds arrested in Copenhagen

    More than 900 people have been arrested after tens of thousands of protesters marched in the Danish capital of Copenhagen to call on governments at the UN global climate change summit to commit to a deal. Police made the arrests amid demonstrations on Saturday urging negotiators at the Climate Change conference to take urgent action on global warming. Most.. More

  • Muslims to protest ban as Switzerland blocks German imam

    Swiss Muslims are preparing for a big protest against minaret ban as authorities blocked a Germam imam's entry to the much-criticized European country. Swiss authorities stopped a Muslim preacher at the German border late on Friday to prevent him speaking at a rally against Switzerland's ban on building new minarets, local press reported. Pierre Vogel,.. More

  • NATO admits Afghan civilians could have died in attack

    A senior NATO commander in Afghanistan conceded on Wednesday for the first time that civilians may have been killed during a military attack in the east of the country this week. NATO denied the killings the Afghan government says NATO forces killed 12 Afghans in Tuesday's pre-dawn strike. "It looks like all of them may have been civilians, including.. More

  • Israeli MPs pass referendum bill

    The Israeli parliament has passed the first reading of a bill requiring a referendum to approve a pullout from annexed east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. At least 31 members of parliament were absent from the voting on Wednesday, 68 were in favor of the bill, 22 were against and one abstained. The bill requires that any peace agreement reached.. More

  • Turkey's FM denounces Israeli, EU's mistakes

    Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Israel had made a big mistake during Gaza offensive early this year. "More than that, Israel committed crime as it used phosphorus bombs," he said. Davutoglu spoke on Turkey's active role in the Middle East at a conference on Turkey's foreign policy held in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. Davutoglu.. More

  • China attacks rich states at summit

    China has lashed out at the developed world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases for setting themselves what it called unremarkable - and even deceptive -targets for cuts. After weeks of low-key diplomacy, with China pushing hard for a strong commitment from developed countries at the international climate talks in Copenhagen, Su Wei, the head of.. More

  • EU backs Jerusalem as joint capital

    European Union foreign ministers have agreed that Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state following two days of talks in Brussels. The ministers dropped an earlier proposal by the Swedish EU presidency to explicitly support the idea of East Jerusalem as the eventual capital of Palestine. The meeting adopted a.. More

  • Scores dead in Iraq bomb blasts

    At least 77 people have been killed and more than 100 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, police say. Two car bombs exploded near the labor and interior ministries, two more struck in central Baghdad, and one attack happened at a police patrol in Dora, in the south of the city. The first explosion in central.. More

  • Viva Palestina convoy heads to Gaza from Britain

    Viva Palestina, a British-based registered charity, embarked on its third humanitarian aid convoy to the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of volunteers took part in preparing the humanitarian aid convoy for Gaza, which includes 12 ambulances, medical equipment, blankets, shoes and presents for kids. It has been one year since Israel's attacks over Gaza. Israel.. More

  • Dozens killed in Pakistan attacks

    Two attacks in Pakistan have left at least 48 people dead and more than 100 injured. In the eastern city of Lahore, two bomb explosions 30 seconds apart at a busy market ignited a massive fire on Monday night that killed 38 people. The blasts came just a few hours after a bomber struck outside a courthouse in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing.. More

  • Iran moves to block protests

    Iranian riot police and Revolutionary Guard members armed with tear gas, batons and firearms have surrounded Tehran University, witnesses have said. The move comes amid fears that the anti-government movement would use the occasion of Student Day on Monday to stage mass protests. "There are hundreds of riot police, everywhere around Tehran University.. More