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  • Children die in Iraq wedding bombing

    Severalchildren were amongthosekilled whena car bomb exploded duringa wedding party in Iraq. Thebomb explodedoutside a family home hosting awedding reception in the north Baghdad district of Ur, just as thebridegroom's party was arriving in a convoy of cars late on Tuesday. Qasim Modalal, director of the Imam Ali hospital, told AFP that 23 people.. More

  • Many Palestinians killed in Israeli’s Gaza raid

    Six Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed and 35 other Palestinianswounded after the Israeli army launched a massive operation inthe northern Gaza Strip. Infantry units backed by tanks stormed into Beit Hanun town overnight, surrounding and blocking access to the hospital and establishing control over the town, medical officials and.. More

  • UK presence in Iraq unpopular with most Britons

    Year after year, Tony Blair has seen his popularity undermined by his position on Iraq. Surveys in two major British newspapers last week showed nearly two thirds of people want the UK's troops to leave, either immediately or by the end of the year. And that is regardless of whether their mission is completed or whether Washington wants them to stay. One.. More

  • Egypt jails Sadat's nephew

    A military court in Egypt has sentenced the nephew of the country's late president Anwar Sadat to one year in prison for defamation. In an unusually rapid prosecution, Talaat Sadat, 52, was convicted on Tuesday of defaming the Egyptian armed forces for saying in a television interview earlier this month that unnamed generals had masterminded his uncle's.. More

  • British parliament to vote on Iraq inquiry

    Tony Blair, the British prime minister, faces a possible defeat in a vote on whether he should order an inquiry into how Britain joined the war in Iraq. A parliamentary motion calling for an immediate investigation of the war by a committee of seniorministers was proposed by the minority Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties and will be debated.. More

  • US forces lift Sadr city 'siege'

    US forces have begun lifting checkpoints set up along the southern edge of the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. The move follows a request from Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, a military spokesman said on Tuesday. Iraqi and US troops have for the past week been manning checkpoints and mounting raids in Sadr City, a strongholdof the Mahdi ArmyofShia.. More

  • Pakistanis rally after air raid on school

    PervezMusharraf, Pakistan's president, has said that the 80 people killed in an air raid on areligious school near the Afghan border were all undergoing military training. "They were militants doing military training. We were watchingthem for the last six or seven days - we knew exactly who they are,what they are doing," Musharraf told a security.. More

  • Palestinian killed by Israeli tank fire

    A Palestinian man has been killed and two wounded by Israeli tank fire in northern Gaza Strip, medical officials said. Mazen Abu Odeh, 21, was killed when a tank shell hit his house in Beit Hanoun, witnesses and medical officials said. One of the two wounded was in a serious condition. Odeh's father, brother and sister were killed by Israeli fire.. More

  • Israeli cabinet more radical with Lieberman

    Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's ultra-nationalist party leader has been sworn into government, marking a sharp shift to the right in the Jewish state's leadership. The 48-year-old leader of the Yisrael Beitenuparty was sworn in on Monday after theparliament voted 61 to 38 to approve him joining the governingcoalition as the nation's first-ever minister.. More

  • Bombings target Algerian police

    At least one person was killed and 14 wounded when vehicles packed with explosives blew up outside two police stations in Algeria. The simultaneous explosions occurred overnight in the town of Reghaia, 30km east of the capital Algiers, and the eastern Algiers suburb of Dergana. They were the first large bomb blasts around Algiers since the summer.. More

  • Saddam lawyer walks out of trial

    Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer has walked out of court after the judge rejected a list ofdemandsfrom the defense team. Khalil al-Dulaimi, who has been boycotting the genocide trial since the previous judge was sacked by the government in September, made a brief appearance in the Baghdad courtroom on Monday to present a list of 12 requests. The lawyer.. More

  • Dozens of Iraqis Die in Blast

    A bomb among a crowd of laborers waiting for work in Baghdad's Sadr City has killed at least 29 people and wounded 59. Brigadier-General Abdel-Karim Khalaf, anIraqi interior ministry spokesman, said the toll was provisional and the number is expected to rise. The bomb, hidden in a roadside rubbish bin, was triggered at about 7.30am (0430 GMT) as workers.. More

  • Arabs in Israel remember massacre

    Several thousand demonstrators have attended a rally in an Arab village in central Israel to remember the massacre of 49 Arab civilians 50 years ago. Demonstrators waved black flags and vowed not to forget the killings by the village of Kfar Kassem, northeast of Tel Aviv, half a century ago, said YNet, the online version of Israel's Yediot Aharonot.. More

  • Scores killed in Pakistan air assault

    The Pakistan armyhas carried out an attack on a compound thought to be usedby al-Qaeda, claiming that up to 80 people were killed in the strike. Attack helicopters destroyed theschool compound in the village of Chingai before dawn on Monday, according to the Pakistani military. The military said the site was away from other buildings in the North.. More

  • Livni cancels Qatar trip over Hamas

    Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, has cancelled plans to attend a UN meeting in Qatar because of the expected presence of Palestinians from the ruling Hamas group. Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, said on Sunday that Livni had never finalized details for her trip, but stopped making plans after learning that two legislators.. More