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  • Two Palestinians killed in Gaza

    Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in continuing military operation in the Gaza Strip. A member of the armed wing of the ruling Palestinian movement Hamas was shot dead in Beit Hanoun on Sunday. Also on the day,a member of the security forces close to President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party was killed in nearby Beit Lahiya, medics said. Israeli.. More

  • Iranians protest against the US

    Thousands of Iranians chanted "death to America" outside the former US embassy to mark the anniversary of the day it was stormed. The US embassy was stormed in 1979 by radical students who held dozens of diplomats hostage for 444 days. Demonstrators burnt US and Israeli flags as well as effigies of Uncle Sam and George Bush, the US president, outside.. More

  • Saddam Hussein sentenced to death

    A Baghdad court has sentenced Saddam Hussein to death afterbeing found guilty of crimes against humanity. The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday found Saddam guilty of ordering the killing of 178 Iraqis in the town of Dujail in 1982. The court said that Saddam and his fellow defendantshad ordered the villagers'murderaftermembersofShiite Dawa party tried.. More

  • Israeli troops continue Gaza killing

    Israeli snipers killed two Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, one of them a 12-year-oldgirl, Palestinian sources said. Six others, including at least four fighters, were killed in air strikes and clashes. Israeli soldiers briefly eased their grip on the northern town of Beit Hanoun, but as darkness fell soldiers began house-to-house searches, local.. More

  • Australian rape victim defends besieged cleric

    The backing yesterday of a woman who described herself as a rape victim took some of the heat off Australia’s embattled top Muslim cleric, under pressure for saying scantily-clad women invited sexual attack. Cindy Taylor said Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali had not intended to justify rape by comparing immodestly-dressed women to “uncovered meat”,.. More

  • Hamas fighter killed in air strike

    A member of the armed wing of Hamas and a Palestinian civilianhave been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources say. Luaye al-Burnu, a local official in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades responsible for manufacturing weapons, died in the attack early on Saturday morning, a medical official told AFP news agency. Two other.. More

  • Italian journalist freed in Afghanistan

    AnItalian photographer kidnapped in Afghanistanhas been freed after three weeks in captivity. Gabriele Torsello, who is also known as Kash,was freed at 1.30pmlocal time on the road to Kandahar. The photographer said he had not seen daylight during his confinement and spent much of the time in chains. "It has been quite an intense 22 days," he said... More

  • Scores of bodies found in Iraq

    Iraqi police have found more than 80 bodies of torture victims in Baghdad since Thursday,the latest victims ofviolence in the city. The deaths come as the Iraqi government has cancelled leave for all military officers two days before an expected verdict - and possible death sentence - in the trial of Saddam Hussein, theformer Iraqi president. The.. More

  • US spy chief on secret Iraq mission

    John Negroponte, the US national intelligence director, has made an unannounced visit to Baghdad for talks with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister. Yassin Majid, the prime minister's spokesman, said on Friday that the two men were in meetings in the Iraqi leader's office in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.He gave no other details and.. More

  • Thailand drops Muslim protest cases

    Thailand has dropped charges against 92 Muslims involved in a 2004 protest in the rebellious far south that led to 78 Muslims dying in army custody, according to the attorney-general's office. The order came a day after Surayud Chulanont, the Thai prime minister, apologized for past government policies now blamed for stoking unrest in the region,.. More

  • Israel kills women at mosque siege

    Two Palestinian women have been killed during a stand-off near a Gaza mosque while they were trying to rescue about 60 Palestinian men besieged inside. The dramatic events came on the third day of an Israeli assault on the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the largest operation Israel has conducted in the Gaza Strip in months. On Friday, about 200 Palestinian.. More

  • Bush renews US sanctions on Sudan

    US president George W. Bush renewed US economic sanctions on Sudan for one year and left open the door to imposing new ones linked to Darfur issue, the White House said. Bush cited actions and policies that "are hostile to US interests and pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United.. More

  • Somali peace talks put off

    Talks aimed at averting all-out war between Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts and the weak interim government have been postponed, heightening fears of a conflict that could engulf the whole region. After an intense last-ditch intervention by diplomats attempting to convince the government to accept a postponement in negotiations proposed by the Islamic.. More

  • Kerry 'botched' Iraq joke hits Democrats

    John Kerry, the Democratic US senator, is facing widespread criticism after suggesting American college students could end up as soldiersin Iraq if they do not study hard. With the Iraq war a dominant issue inAmerica'smid-term congressional elections on November 7, Kerry's comment has been seen as a gaffethat has given Republicans a boost in the.. More

  • Hezbollah in talks over prisoner swap

    Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader ofHezbollah, has said that "serious negotiations" are under way over the fate of two Israeli soldiers captured by the Shia militia group in July. Nasrallahsaid in an interview with the Hezbollah television station, Al-Manar,thata negotiator appointed by Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary-general,has been.. More