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  • Israel declares 'interval' to raids

    Israel has pulled back its troops from the Gaza Strip before a visit by the US secretary of state. But Gaza's residents remain wary of further attacks after a senior Israeli official said that the pull-back would only be a "two-day interval" during Condoleezza Rice's visit. Israeli air raids continued late on Monday as troops and tanks left the territory.. More

  • Russia crushes election protest

    At least 17 opposition protesters have been arrested as riot police put down a banned rally in Turgenevskaya Square in central Moscow. The protesters from the Other Russia coalition of opposition parties - who were heavily outnumbered by the hundreds of police - were grabbed and forced on to buses to cries of "no police power". The police, some wearing.. More

  • Dozens arrested in Saudi Arabia

    Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested 28 people they accuse of seeking to regroup al-Qaeda's network in the country. A ministry of interior statement said the detainees had used a recording from Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's second-in command, to help raise money from Saudi citizens. Al-Zawahri is quoted in the recording as saying: "The bearer of.. More

  • UN approves new Iran sanctions

    The UN Security Council has voted to impose a third set of sanctions on Iran over its refusal to suspend its nuclear power program. A resolution sponsored by Britain, France and Germany won the backing of 14 of the council's 15 members. Indonesia abstained. International powers have said Iran is seeking to use the program to develop nuclear weapons,.. More

  • Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza

    Israel has pulled back its troops from the Gaza Strip with an army spokesman saying that military operations in the territory were "winding down". The move came after an intense Israeli assault that killed eight more Palestinians overnight on Monday, adding to the more than 110 people killed in the past six days. The Israeli army spokesman said: "Almost.. More

  • Car bomb kills 15 in Baghdad: security official

    A car bomb killed at least 15 people and wounded 45 in central Baghdad on Monday, an Iraqi security official said. The bomb detonated near a labour ministry building in a commercial area of the Bab al-Muazam neighbourhood. The wounded included ministry employees and students from the nearby Baghdad University, the official said. The attack came as.. More

  • Somali elders say four civilians killed by US bombs

    US military planes bombed an Islamist-held town in Somalia near the Kenyan border overnight killing at least four civilians, local elders said Monday. "It was later in the night -- around 3.00 am -- when a US aircraft dropped three bombs into the Dhoble town. They fired at three targets, including two houses and four civilians were killed," said elder.. More

  • Israel continues Gaza attacks

    Israeli aircraft struck new targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing two fighters, after the government vowed to press home an offensive despite international appeals for an end to Israeli massacres. More than 110 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed since Israel launched offensives on Wednesday. Among these have been women and.. More

  • Dozens killed in Sudan clashes

    Dozens of armed nomads have been killed in clashes with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), a former rebel group now part of the political process, in Sudan's north-south border area. Both sides announced the deaths on Sunday, a day after the fighting in the village of Wut-Majak, though reports of the number of casualties differed. Hassan.. More

  • Russia votes for Putin's successor

    Russians are voting in a presidential election that will produce a successor to Vladimir Putin and almost certainly open a path for him to take a new and influential role after eight years in power. Nationwide turnout for Sunday's elections appeared to be above 60 per cent, with only two hours to go before polls closed. As the day progressed, the.. More

  • Israel keeps up deadly Gaza assaults

    Israel kept up its deadly assault onGaza Strip on Sunday, as Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas halted all contacts with the Jewish state. Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to continue the ground and air operation against Palestinian targets. "It must be clear that Israel has no intention to stop for one moment the fight against terror organization.. More

  • Suicide bomber kills 30 in Pakistan, scores hurt

    At least 30 people were killed and up to 40 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a traditional tribal meeting in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said. Pakistan is in the middle of a wave of violence blamed on al Qaeda-linked militants based in tribal lands on the Afghan border and there have been three suicide attacks in as many days. Over.. More

  • Ahmadinejad in historic Iraq visit

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has arrived in Iraq. He is the first Iranian president to visit Iraq since the two neighbours fought a war in the 1980s that killed more than a million people. Ahmadinejad is expected to go straight into talks on Sunday with Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, and Nuri al-Maliki, the prime minister. His.. More

  • Armenia opposition ends protest after violence

    Almost 2,000 opposition supporters locked in a standoff with police in Armenia's capital have ended their protest over rigged elections in February, after a call by Levon Ter-Petrosian, the opposition leader, to leave. A group of around 60 people refused to move from a square in Yerevan on Saturday and set fire to abandoned police vehicles. In the.. More

  • Pakistan bomb victims mourned

    Mourners in northwest Pakistan have buried scores of their relatives and friends killed in a suicide bomb attack. Grief-stricken relatives wept on Saturday as they lifted coffins and said funeral prayers for at least 40 people who were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a funeral in the Swat valley region the day before. Sixty people were.. More