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  • Egypt ups security at Gaza border

    Egypt has moved an extra 5,000 securitypersonnelto its border with the Gaza Strip after an Israelinewspaper said that Israel might bomb tunnels used for smuggling weapons into the Palestinian territories. Security officialssaidthemembers ofcentral security force joined a similar number of border guards already deployed along the area known as the Philadelphi.. More

  • Nato forces inflict heavy Afghan losses

    Afghan and Nato-led troops say they have killed up to 55 fighters in southern Afghanistan. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced on Sunday that its forces battled between 100 and 150 fighters in two incidents in the province of Uruzgan after coming under attack on Saturday. ISAF, which is drawn from Nato countries, was.. More

  • Iraq war continues to dog Bush

    Democrats have accused the US president of living in a 'fantasy world' over the unpopular war in Iraq that could cost his Republican party control of the US Congress. Before leaving Washington on a midterm election campaign tour, George Bush held a 50-minute videoconference with Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraq prime minister. In the video on Saturday,.. More

  • Mullah Omar rejects peace talks offer

    Mullah Omar, Taliban’s spiritual leader, has rejected the latest offer of talks by Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, while "foreign forces" are still present in Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesperson said. Instead, the Taliban chief, who has a $10 million US bounty on his head, has repeated his threat to prosecute Karzai in an Islamic court for.. More

  • Anglican leader backs wearing of veils

    Rowan Williams,the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans, has said he is opposed to any government interference in a Muslim woman's right to wear a veil or a Christian's right to wear a cross. Jack Straw,aBritish government minister, provoked heated debate earlier this month by saying Muslim women who wore full veils.. More

  • Iraqi police, fighters in deadly clash

    Intense house-to-house fighting betweenfighters and Iraqi police north of Baghdad has killed 43 people, including 24 officers, the US military said. Iraqi officials, however, said 12 Iraqi officers were killed. USsoldiers later joined the fight, aiding in a counter-attack that left 18fighters dead, the US military said on Friday. Police.. More

  • Three Palestinians killed in West Bank

    Three Palestinians have been killedduring Israeli army raids in the northern West Bank. Medics and relatives said that Saadi Subuh, 23, and Mustafa Abu Zalat, 17, were shot and killed in the refugee camp of Al Faraa on Friday. The circumstances of shooting were not clear, but Abu Zalat's uncle said his nephewmay have been throwing stones at.. More

  • Fourteen killed in Afghan blast

    A bomb blast has struck a minibus in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan, killing 14 passengers, mostly children andelderly people. Qayoom Qayoomi, a provincial government spokesman, said the bus was traveling to the provincial capital of Tirin Kot on Friday when it hit a bomb planted in the road. "Fourteen civilians, mostly elders.. More

  • Dozens of Afghans killed in Nato raids

    At least 50 civilians were killed in Nato bombings in southern Afghanistan earlier this week, according to local government officials and witnesses. Nato admitted that it had received credible reports that several civilians were killed in Panjwai but insisted that 48 Taliban fighters had died during the heavy fighting. The operation had targeted Taliban.. More

  • Israel prisoner treatment condemned

    An Israeli human rights group has accused the government of violating international law by moving Palestinian prisoners out of the occupied territories. B'Tselem, a body that monitors human rights in the West Bank and Gaza, said in a report released on Thursday that most of the 9,000 Palestinians being held by Israel were illegally imprisoned inside.. More

  • Danish court rejects cartoons lawsuit

    A Danish court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Muslim groups against the newspaper that first published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that triggered protests across the world this year. The City Court in Aarhus said on Thursday it could not be ruled out that some Muslims had been offended by the 12 drawings printed in Jyllands-Posten, but said.. More

  • Khalilzad: Success in Iraq still possible

    The US ambassador to Iraq has urged Iraqi leaders to work harder to achieve political and security goals, saying a struggle was going on between moderate and extremist forces. Zalmay Khalilzad said on Tuesday in a joint media interview with General George Casey from Baghdad that success in Iraq was still possible and could be achieved in on a "realistic.. More

  • Labour threatens to quit Israel coalition

    Senior members of Israel's Labor party have called for it to leave the government after the prime minister struck a deal to include an far-right party in his coalition. Labour, with 19 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, is the main partner in Ehud Olmert's 67-member coalition. Its departure could bring down the government. On Monday, Olmert's shaky six-month-ol.. More

  • Iran tests second batch of centrifuges

    Iranhas launched a second batch of centrifuges at its pilot nuclear-fuel plantamid efforts bythe US and its Western allies to finalize UN sanctions againstcountryfor itsnuclear stand. Diplomats said on Monday that Iranfired up the new cascade of 164 interconnected centrifuges, which can enrich uranium for either power-plant or nuclear-bomb fuel,.. More

  • Market mortar attack kills 18 in Iraq

    At least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a mortar attack on a crowded outdoor market in the Iraqi city of Mahmoudiyah. A minimum of 12 mortar rounds rained down soon after a bomb attached to a bicycle ripped through the market at about 1430 GMT on Saturday. Three dead and 40 of the most seriously injured were taken to a hospital in.. More