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  • Palestinian fighter killed in raid

    Israeli soldiers have killed a Palestinian fighter belonging to the Islamic Jihad group near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, witnesses say. Saleh Karkur, 22, was killed on Wednesday in an exchange of gunfire with troops who had surrounded a house in the village of Saida, close to Tulkarem. An Islamic Jihad official said Karkur belonged to the.. More

  • Study finds no Saddam-al-Qaeda link

    An exhaustive Pentagon-backed study of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents seized after the 2003 US-led invasion has found no direct link between Saddam Hussein's government and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. The alleged link was one of the main reasons given by the US for going to war with Iraq and the then defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld,.. More

  • Iraq hit by further violence

    A roadside blast in southern Iraq has blown apart a civil passenger bus leaving at least 16 people dead and 22 more injured. The bus was traveling from Basra to Nasiriyah, when the blast took place just 80 km south from the town of Nasiriyah. According to the Iraqi police, five women and three children were among those killed. Tuesday's blast comes.. More

  • US military chief quits 'over Iran'

    Admiral William Fallon, the top US military commander for the Middle East, has resigned from his post amid reports he disagreed with the US president, George Bush, over his policies towards Iran. Robert Gates, the US defense secretary, said Fallon had asked for permission to retire and he had agreed. An article in Esquire magazine last week said.. More

  • Uganda rebels meet war crimes court

    Lawyers for the Lord's Resistance Army, the Ugandan rebel group, have met with International Criminal Court (ICC) officials in The Hague to press them to drop war crimes' charges against their leader. The charges against Joseph Kony and two of his deputies have become the main sticking point in talks to end Uganda's 21-year conflict. Despite rapid.. More

  • China 'falsified' terror plots

    An exiled leader of China's minority Uighur community has accused Chinese officials of fabricating "terror plots" against the Beijing Olympics so it can use them as an excuse to crack down on her community. "It's completely untrue. All these allegations are falsified," Rebiya Kadeer, now living in the US, told the AFP news agency on Monday. "It seems.. More

  • Storm batters France and UK

    A powerful storm has wreaked havoc in southern Britain and northern France, killing at least two people. Trees were uprooted, power cut and transportation services disrupted. The storm struck late on Sunday with a force that sank a trawler in the Channel and blew a cargo vessel aground on the French coast. A 26-year-old man fell into the sea after.. More

  • Blasts kill 20 in Pakistan's Lahore

    Explosions hit a federal police building and a residential area of the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least20 people, police said. One blast devastated the downtown police office, killing at least a dozen people, said Mohammed Afzal, a city police official. A second blast wounded several people in an upscale residential district,.. More

  • Hamas and Israel in truce mediation

    Israeli and Hamas officials are discussing a possible ceasefire through Egyptian mediators after Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, ordered a halt to raids on the Gaza Strip. The order was issued on Monday in response to a significant drop in the number of rockets and mortars being fired from the territory, officials said. "We certainly appear.. More

  • Deadly cyclone batters Mozambique

    A powerful cyclone has hit parts of Mozambique, killing at least seven people and forcing thousands families from their homes. The state-controlled national broadcaster said on Monday that four districts in the northern Nampula province were being battered by heavy downpours and strong winds of up to 200km per hour. Government officials said the.. More

  • Five US soldiers killed in Iraq

    Five US soldiers have been killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in central Baghdad in the worst single attack on US forces in Baghdad in months. The US military said four soldiers were killed in Monday’s blast and one died later of wounds. Iraqi police said the soldiers had been walking in Mansour district when a suicide bomber wearing.. More

  • Israel ends closure of West Bank

    The Israeli army on Monday lifted the blockade of the occupied West Bank that was imposed after a Palestinian attack at a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem that killed eight teens. "The strict closure was lifted overnight Sunday," a military spokesman told AFP. The Israeli army had sealed off the area on Friday night. The lifting of the closure.. More

  • Abdullah sworn in as Malaysia PM

    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Malaysian prime minister, has been sworn in for a second five-year term, rejecting calls to resign after the ruling coalition's worst-ever election performance. "I pledge to carry out my duties honestly and with all my abilities," he said, reading out the oath on Monday as he was sworn in by Malaysia's king. "I pledge to.. More

  • Spain's Socialists win election

    Spain's ruling Socialist party has claimed victory in the country's general elections. The conservative opposition conceded defeat on Sunday, saying the Socialist Workers party appeared to have won. But while the party led by Jose Luis Zapatero, the prime minister, picked up seats in the lower house, it fell short of a majority and will have to form.. More

  • Sharif to join Pakistan coalition

    Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's former prime minister, has agreed to join the late Benazir Bhutto's party in a coalition government. Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won the most seats in a February 18 general election, but not enough to rule alone. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) won the second-most seats. "It was also agreed that the PML.. More