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  • Sarkozy rejects Turkish EU place

    New French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he will stand firm in his opposition to Turkey being allowed to join the European Union. "I couldn't have been a candidate for the presidency with one view and then changed it having become president," he said after a European Commission visit. He said the issue should be debated once the EU reformed.. More

  • Israel continues to pound Gaza

    Israel has launched new attacks in Gaza on buildings it said held Hamas weapons caches. Israeli jets carried attacked four suspected arms caches and three other Hamas facilities across Gaza in the early hours of Wednesday, and an Israeli helicopter strafed a rocket launch site with machine-gun fire. Palestinian officials said a total of 16 people.. More

  • Palestinian refugees flee Lebanon camp

    Thousands of Palestinians are leaving a refugee camp in northern Lebanon after three days of fighting between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army. "Nahr al-Bared residents have taken advantage of the truce in the fighting to escape the besieged and heavily bombarded camp," Hajj Rifaat, an official from the mainstream Fatah faction, said. "Thousands.. More

  • Body of missing U.S. soldier found in river: Iraqi police

    The half-naked body of one of three missing U.S. soldiers was found on Wednesday in the Euphrates River in the town of Mussayab south of Baghdad, police said. The U.S. military said it was investigating reports that a body had been found in a canal in the area. Hilla police spokesman Captain Muthanna al-Maamouri said there were bullet wounds to the.. More

  • Kabul bomber kills two

    A suicide bomber has killed two people and injured at least four others in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say. The bomber, who was riding a motorbike, blew himself up next to highway police guarding a road construction project. Nato said a separate bomb blast in the north-west killed a civilian and a Finnish soldier. Two Norwegian troops patrolling.. More

  • Israel threatens Hamas leaders

    Israel has launched more attacks in Gaza after a woman was killed by a rocket in Sderot - the first Israeli fatality from a Palestinian missile in six months. On Tuesday Israel threatened to kill Hamas leaders and launch a ground offensive in Gaza unless international pressure was brought on Hamas to halt cross-border rocket attacks.Asked if Ismail.. More

  • Aid convoy under fire in Lebanon

    A UN aid convoy which entered the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon has been forced to leave after shells exploded near its vehicles. Fighting has resumed between Islamist militants besieged by the Lebanese army in the Palestinian refugee camp despite a ceasefire declared by the militants. Six lorries went into the camp during a lull, carrying.. More

  • Explosion rocks Turkish capital

    Four people have been killed and at least 50 hurt in an explosion in the Turkish capital, Ankara, officials say. The cause was not immediately clear but the city's Mayor Melih Gokcek said police believed a bomb was to blame. The blast occurred during evening rush hour at the entrance to a shopping centre in the busy district of Ulus. The scene.. More

  • Dozens killed in Baghdad car bomb attack

    A parked car bomb has ripped through a packed outdoor market in southwestern Baghdad, killing 25 people and injuring 60 others, police say. The blast occurred about 10am local time on Tuesday in the Shia-dominated neighbourhood of Amil, damaging a nearby medical centre and other buildings and setting cars on fire, police said. The neighbourhood has.. More

  • Pakistani forces raid training camp near Afghan border

    Pakistani security forces have clashed with an al-Qaeda-linked group running a training camp near the Afghan border, and killed at least three suspects, officials say. Pakistani security officials said at least three suspects were killed in Tuesday's shootout. Major-General Waheed Arshad, the army spokesman, said that after receiving reports about.. More

  • Egypt arrests Brotherhood members

    The Egyptian authorities have detained 25 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, bringing to 39 the number arrested in 24 hours. A security official said on Monday that 11 members of the group were arrested late on Sunday in the southern province of Beni Sueif, 120km south of Cairo, on charges of holding "a secret meeting". Fourteen others.. More

  • Italy row over Church abuse film

    An Italian politician has sparked a furore by urging state broadcaster Rai to block the transmission of a controversial BBC documentary. The programme, aired in the UK in October, investigates the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church. Italian journalist Michele Santoro has asked to purchase the rights to the film to broadcast it on his.. More

  • Britain: Lugovoi murdered Soviet spy

    British officials said Tuesday that they will seek the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi from Russia to face a charge of murder in the poisoning death of former Soviet agent Alexander Litvinenko. "I have today concluded that the evidence sent to us by the police is sufficient to charge Andrei Lugovoi with the murder of Mr. Litvinenko by deliberate poisoning,".. More

  • Fighting rages in Lebanese camp

    Intense fighting is raging between troops and Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. At least nine civilians have died in the clashes at Nahr al-Bared camp, near Tripoli, officials there said. Thick plumes of smoke are choking the sky over the camp as soldiers attack the militants with tanks and artillery. Fatah al-Islam,.. More

  • Israeli dies in Gaza rocket raid

    An Israeli woman has died of her wounds shortly after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit her car in the border town of Sderot, medics say. The woman was the first Israeli killed in a rocket attack since November. The attack came after Israel carried out an air strike on a refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Islamic Jihad militant group said four.. More