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  • Clashes follow new Gaza operation

    Clashes in the Gaza Strip have left six Palestinians wounded, a day after a major security operation began aimed at try to curb violence and lawlessness. Hundreds of troops, some loyal to rival factions Hamas and Fatah, fanned out on the streets of Gaza on Thursday. Up to 400 people have died in clashes between Palestinian factions since the Islamist.. More

  • Iraq leader says troops must stay

    US and British troops will need to stay another one or two years in Iraq, the Iraqi president has said. Jalal Talabani was addressing students during a visit to Cambridge University. Asked when the UK and US should leave, he said: "I think in one or two years we will be able to recruit our own army forces and say goodbye to our friends." He added.. More

  • Blair to announce departure date

    Tony Blair is preparing to make his long awaited announcement setting out his plans to step down as Labour leader and UK prime minister. Blair will tell Cabinet colleagues first, before outlining his plans in a speech in his Sedgefield constituency. His spokesman said Blair would be "focused" on being prime minister until Labour has chosen his.. More

  • Attack deepens Pakistan judge row

    Unidentified assailants have fired shots at the home of a lawyer representing Pakistan's suspended chief justice. No one was injured in Thursday's attack, but the incident has added to the tension over Iftikhar Chaudhry's controversial dismissal by General Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president. Chaudhry has drawn popular support for his opposition.. More

  • Court cuts jail term for Srebrenica army commander

    A former Bosnian Serb army commander - jailed for 18 years in connection with the infamous Srebrenica massacre in 1995 - has had his sentence cut by three years. Vidoje Blagojevic had appealed against his 2005 conviction for complicity in genocide, aiding and abetting murder, persecution and inhumane acts. The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague threw.. More

  • German police in G8 protest raids

    German police have launched a series of raids against alleged left-wing militants suspected of planning to disrupt a G8 summit next month. About 900 police swooped on 40 sites across six northern states. Prosecutors said the militants were suspected of planning fire bombings and other violent attacks. About 100,000 protesters are expected for.. More

  • Somali forces ban women's veils

    Somali security forces have begun seizing and even burning Muslim women's veils in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, official sources and witnesses have said.The Western-backed government's crackdown on veils is an attempt to stop Islamic Courts fighters disguising themselves in order to carry out attacks, officials said on Wednesday.When the city.. More

  • Many Afghan civilians killed in fresh air raid

    An air raid by foreign forces has killed 21 civilians in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor has said. Assadullah Wafa said a village in Sangin district of Helmand province was bombed late on Tuesday. "Twenty-one civilians, including women and children, were killed," the governor said. It was not clear whether the.. More

  • Cheney in Baghdad as bomb kills 12 in Arbil

    U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney met Iraqi leaders on Wednesday during an unannounced visit to Baghdad, and was expected to press for more progress in meeting political benchmarks aimed at ending sectarian violence. In Iraq's relatively peaceful Kurdistan, a truck bomb killed 12 people and wounded 53 in the northern city of Arbil, police said. It was.. More

  • Afghan Senate urges Taleban talks

    The Afghan Senate has called on the government in Kabul to open direct talks with native Taleban militants, and for Nato to stop attacking them. The Senate passed a bill which will now go before the lower house and, if passed, to President Hamid Karzai. The draft law distinguishes between Afghan members of the Taleban, and Pakistani and al-Qaeda.. More

  • Troubled East Timor votes in landmark election

    Long queues formed in the early sunshine as East Timorese voted Wednesday in a presidential election they hope will end a cycle of violence that has derailed efforts to rebuild the impoverished nation. The poll in the former Portuguese colony is a run-off between Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta and the ruling Fretilin party's candidate Francisco.. More

  • Car bomb explodes in Iraqi city

    At least 16 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the southern Iraqi town of Kufa, officials said. The explosion destroyed a restaurant and severely damaged shops in an open-air market, about 400m from the town's main mosque. Kufa, a centre of Shia Muslim pilgrimage, is a large town 170km (110 miles) south of.. More

  • Court rejects Brotherhood trial

    A court in Egypt has declared invalid a presidential order that a group of Muslim Brotherhood members stand trial in a military court. One of the group, who went on trial last month, is a senior Brotherhood figure, Khayrat al-Shatir. They are believed to be charged with membership of a banned organization, money-laundering and backing terrorism... More

  • World Bank panel finds Wolfowitz broke rules

    A World Bank panel has found that bank President Paul Wolfowitz's handling of a promotion and pay increase for his companion represented a conflict of interest and broke rules, but made no recommendation on how he should be reprimanded, board sources said on Monday. The former U.S. deputy defense secretary, a key architect of the Iraq war, has been.. More

  • Somalia clashes fuel refugee crisis

    Somalia now has the worst refugee crisis in the world, the UN says, with nearly half a million refugees who have fled Mogadishu lacking food, medicine and shelter. The refugees fleeing fighting between pro-government forces and Union of Islamic Courts fighters have ended up in the country's impoverished border regions. The UN estimates 400,000 people.. More