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  • Renewed Israeli attacks strike Gaza

    Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in separate attacks in the Gaza Strip, medics say. News agencies reported conflicting accounts of the attacks, recording a combination of land incursions and an air strike on Wednesday. The Israeli army denied carrying out an air assault, but confirmed land offensives. An Israeli army spokesman.. More

  • Protests at Iran fuel rationing

    At least one petrol station has been set on fire in the Iranian capital, Tehran, after the government announced fuel rationing for private motorists. Iranians were given only two hours' notice of the move that limits private drivers to 100 litres of fuel a month. Despite its huge energy reserves Iran lacks refining capacity, forcing it to import.. More

  • Brown to become prime minister

    Gordon Brown is set to become prime minister, bringing to an end Tony Blair's 10 years in power. Mr Brown is expected to meet the Queen, who will formally offer him the role, at about 1400 BST. Mr Blair will leave office after his final prime minister's questions session. It is thought he will also announce he is standing down as an MP. Mr Brown.. More

  • Gaddafi urges pan-African state

    Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi has described the African Union as a failure and vowed to press ahead with plans for a single African government. Speaking in Guinea's capital, Conakry, Mr Gaddafi said there was no future for individual African nation states. He urged leaders attending next month's African Union summit in Ghana to decide to create.. More

  • Mid-East group debates Blair role

    The Quartet of Middle East mediators is considering naming Tony Blair for a top peacemaking post, diplomats say. Mr Blair steps down on Wednesday as UK prime minister and officials from the EU, Russia, the UN and US are working to define a possible new role for him. It is the Quartet's first meeting since Hamas militants took control of security.. More

  • Hamas is 'ready to talk' to Fatah

    The former Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas says his group is ready to talk to its Fatah rivals. He was reacting to a call from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for a resumption of dialogue between the two Palestinian factions. Mr Mubarak was speaking at a summit in Egypt of four Middle Eastern leaders. Earlier at the summit,.. More

  • Summit in show of support for Abbas

    Israel's prime minister has held talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, ahead of an Egyptian summit attended by other Arab delegates. Ehud Olmert and Jordan's King Abdullah are attending the summit, at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on the invitation of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president. The meeting on Monday has been seen.. More

  • Egyptian convicted of spying

    A nuclear engineer at Egypt's atomic energy agency has been convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to life in prison. Mohamed Sayed Saber Ali was accused of taking documents from Inshas, the site of one of Egypt's small nuclear reactors, and handing them for $17,000 to foreign contacts said to be working for Israeli intelligence. The court.. More

  • Al-Qaeda deputy backs Hamas

    Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has expressed his support for Hamas, and warned of an offensive that would be launched by others to wrest control of Gaza from the group. In an audio extract posted on the internet on Monday, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called on Muslims around the world to back Hamas with money and weapons. "We tell our mujahidin brothers in.. More

  • Hamas releases Shalit tape

    Hamas has released an audio message believed to be from Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured exactly a year ago. Shalit was heard saying his health was deteriorating and that he needed hospital treatment. The audio clip was posted on the website of Hamas's armed wing on Monday. "I am Gilad Shalit. I've been arrested by Ezzedine.. More

  • Iraq suicide blasts kill dozens

    At least 33 people have been killed in three suicide attacks in Iraq, while US troops in Baquba say they have discovered an "execution house" used by al-Qaeda. A suicide bomber in the northern oil city of Baiji drove a fuel tanker to a police headquarters and exploded himself, killing 18 people and wounding 10 others, police said. Ghazwan al-Janabi,.. More

  • BBC captive in 'bomb vest' video

    The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston have released a new video of him in which he is wearing what he says is an explosives vest. In the tape, Mr Johnston says his captors have said they will detonate the vest if force is used to try to free him. It is the second such video released since Mr Johnston was abducted in Gaza on 12 March... More

  • Lebanon blast kills UN soldiers

    Six soldiers serving with the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (Unifil) have died after their vehicle was hit by an explosive device. Three were Colombians in the Spanish army, and three were from Spain, its defense minister said. They were the first Spanish casualties in Lebanon. Two other Spaniards were injured in the incident near Israel's border... More

  • Storms in Karachi kill 200 people

    Torrential rains and gale-force winds have led to the deaths of more than 200 people in the coastal city of Karachi in southern Pakistan. Some 43 people were killed by the storms on Saturday afternoon, while the other bodies were recovered on Sunday. Dozens more were injured as heavy winds uprooted trees and brought down power lines, electrocuting.. More

  • Haniya decries Israel 'blackmail'

    Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has attacked Israel's decision to release frozen tax funds to the new Palestinian government as "blackmail". Mr Haniya, sacked as Palestinian PM after Hamas took control of Gaza, said the money belonged to all Palestinians. He also rejected a summit beginning in Egypt on Monday, saying only resistance would give Palestinians.. More