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  • Israeli soldiers kill two in Gaza

    Two Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza, Palestinian ambulance workers have said.The Israeli army said that its soldiers opened fire in the early hours of Monday morning after they saw two armed men approaching the fence that divides Israel from Palestinian-ruled Gaza."A unit operating near the border, in an area adjacent to the.. More

  • Malaysia flood evacuees top 100,000

    More than 104,000 people have been evacuated in Malaysia's southern Johor state after torrential rain caused massive flooding and left relief centres short on space and food. The latest round of floods come weeks after people had returned home from what Abdullah Badawi, the prime minister, described as Malaysia’s worst flooding in a century. At.. More

  • Saddam half brother, ex-official hanged

    Saddam Hussein's half brother and the former head of Iraq's revolutionary court have both been hanged in Baghdad. Barzan Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti, also Iraq's former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, had been found guilty along with Saddam in the killing of 148 Iraqis. "The two convicts have been hanged to death," Ali al-Dabbagh, an Iraqi.. More

  • Egypt detains Brotherhood members

    Egyptian security forces have detained five members of the banned opposition Muslim Brotherhood, security sources said, in the latest round-up of Islamist critics of the government. The outlawed group accused Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, who said the group posed a national security threat, of stirring fears in the Egyptian public. Security.. More

  • Abbas rejects temporary border plan

    Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has told Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, that he opposes the establishment of a provisional Palestinian state within temporary borders. Abbas made the announcement after meeting Rice in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Rice visited Abbas as part of a fact-finding tour of the Middle East. "We told.. More

  • Sarkozy set for 2007 election

    Nicolas Sarkozy, the French interior minister, has become the nominated Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) 2007 presidential candidate. In a bid to discard his hardline image that, opinion polls say, worries voters, and embrace his inclusive vision for France, Sarkozy praised workers, women, minorities, and youngsters in a party speech. "I love with.. More

  • Fatal floods strike south Malaysia

    At least 17 people have been killed in Malaysia and 90,000 have fled their homes after a second bout of flooding in a month hit the south of the country. Health officials were on alert on Sunday for outbreaks of disease after two people died from leptospirosis - caused by exposure to water contaminated with the urine of animals such as rats. The latest.. More

  • Abbas and Meshaal to meet in Syria

    Envoys of the Palestinian president have been holding secret meetings with the top leader of the Hamas group in Syria. Officials from both Fatah and Hamas said that significant progress had been made in secret talks over the past two weeks. The talks aimed at ending Palestinian clashes and preparing new coalition talks. Moussa Abu Marzouk, the deputy.. More

  • Iran demands release of citizens

    Iran has demanded the immediate release of five of its citizens held in a US military raid in northern Iraq, who it says are diplomats. The US says the detainees arrested on Thursday in Irbil are linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards which they say trains and arms Shiite insurgents in Iraq. But Iran's foreign ministry says they were "involved.. More

  • NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan

    A Nato soldier has been killed in a clash with fighters in southern Afghanistan, the 37-nation Nato-led international security assistance force said. The soldier was the first foreign soldier to die in Afghanistan this year after about 170 were killed in 2006. The soldier was killed when fighters engaged members of the international security assistance.. More

  • Rice denies US 'escalating Iraq'

    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has denied that the US intends to escalate the war in Iraq by confronting Iranian groups operating there. Ms Rice backed a pledge by President Bush to run search and destroy missions against groups suspected of building bombs for use within Iraq. "That's not an escalation, that's good policy," Ms Rice told.. More

  • Israel names first Arab minister

    Israel's Labor party leader has appointed Raleb Majadele as science and technology minister - making him the first Arab Muslim in Israel's cabinet. Amir Peretz said the "historic" appointment would improve relationships among different groups in Israel. Mr Majadele replaces Ophir Pines-Paz who quit last October in protest at the addition of ultra-national.. More

  • Ahmadinejad on Latin America tour

    The Iranian president has left on a Latin American tour of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua, countries whose governments are critical of Washington.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will hold talks with his ideological "brother" Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, on the start of his tour.In Caracas, the two leaders were expected to sign a series of.. More

  • US senators attack Bush Iraq plan

    Senior US legislators from both parties have attacked President George W Bush's plans to send more than 20,000 extra troops to Iraq. Democratic Senator Joseph Biden called the move a "tragic mistake"; while Republican Senator Chuck Hagel said Mr Bush had committed a dangerous blunder. The announcement was part of Mr Bush's new strategy for tackling.. More

  • Peace activists target Guantanamo

    Anti-war activists have demonstrated near to the US prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to demand its closure. The 12 activists include an ex-detainee and relatives of another prisoner. The protest marks the fifth anniversary of the first "war on terror" detentions. The facility was set up at a US base in Cuba after the invasion of Afghanistan, to.. More