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  • Palestinian Fatah official shot dead

    A senior Fatah member has been killed by masked men in a Gaza Strip refugee camp after the Palestinian president appointed a security commander for the West Bank. Mohammed Shahadeh, commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the Bureij camp, was shot dead at the door to his home, neighbors and Fatah officials said. Camp residents said that Fatah.. More

  • Egypt: Hezbollah 'provoked Lebanon war'

    Egypt has accused Hezbollah of provoking conflict with Israel in order to justify the Shia militia group's continued existence in Lebanon. Ahmed Abul Gheit, Egypt's foreign minister, said that Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, sought war with Israel to foil plans by the Lebanese government to disarm the group. "There had been an agreement, through.. More

  • Buddhist monks hurt in Thai bombing

    One soldier has been killed and 11 people wounded after a group of Buddhist monks was attacked by bombers in southern Thailand. Several monks were among those injured when a remote-controlled device in a rubbish bin was detonated by mobile phone asfive Buddhists collected alms in a street in the city of Narathiwat, police said. The attack is believed.. More

  • Heavy fighting erupts in Somali town

    Heavy fighting between pro-Islamic militia and government troops backed by Ethiopian forces have eruptednear a government base in south central Somalia, residents and militia commanders said. They said heavily-armed government troops attacked the town of Burahakaba, about 60km southeast of Baidoa, sparking clashes with the local militia loyal to al-Bayan.. More

  • Four killed at Baghdad mosque

    Four peoplewere killed when a bomber blew himself up outside Baghdad's Baratha mosque, one of the city's most important Shia sites and a frequent target of attacks. The bomber was driving a minibus when it exploded near the mosque on Saturday, also wounding 15 people. The blast came after a quiet day in the capital on Friday that saw no news of.. More

  • British troops may re-enter al-Amara

    Escalating violence in Iraq is forcing British troops to reconsider their withdrawalfrom al-Amara and the US military to review its overall tactics. British military officials said they would return to al-Amara if Iraqi troopsdo notmaintain security against attacks byarmed groups. British forces, who withdrew two months ago because of daily.. More

  • Sudan: UN envoy persona non grata

    The Sudanese military has declared the UN special envoy to the country persona non grata, accusing him of "waging war against the armed forces". The general command accused Jan Pronk, UN chief Kofi Annan's personal representative in Sudan, of "openly intruding in the armed forces' affair". The decision is the latest escalation in a war of words between.. More

  • Hamas and Fatah agree to end clashes

    Fatah and Hamas officials have agreed to take steps to end violence between the two rival Palestinian movements which has raised fears of civil war. Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said on Friday an Egyptian security delegation had brokered the talks, which took place in the coastal strip. "These efforts have been crowned by an agreement.. More

  • Bush rejects Iraq troop withdrawal

    The US president has insisted that he would not pull troops out of Iraq before "the terrorists are defeated". George Bush'scomments, coming less than three weeks before crucialUS domesticelections, follow his acknowledgement on Wednesday that the current steep spike in violence in Iraq "could be" compared to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. "Our goal.. More

  • Unifil calls for action on Israeli flights

    The commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanonhas said force may have to be used to stop repeated Israeli violations of Lebanese air space. General Alain Pellegrini, the French commander of the Unifil force in Lebanon, said on Thursday thatthe UN was relying on diplomacy to try to end the violations. "If the diplomatic means should not be enough,.. More

  • Opec cuts oil output by 1.2m barrels

    Opec ministers have agreed to cut oil output by 1.2 million barrels per day to arrest a fall in oil prices,after a meeting in the Qatari capital Doha. Oil prices jumped in Asian trade on Friday after the decision was taken. After the announcement, a barrel of light sweet crude rose 54 cents to $59.04 on the New York Mercantile Exchange from its close.. More

  • Court martial in Iraq rape case

    Four US soldiers are to face court martial over the alleged rape of an Iraqi girl and murder of her and her family, the US military has said. Two of the soldiers could face the death penalty if found guilty. Seven other personnel are to face court martial over deaths in two separate cases, in north Iraq and in Hamdaniya. Separately, President.. More

  • Two Palestinians killed by Israeli troops

    Two Palestinian fightershavedied ina secondIsraeli army raid overnight, this time focusing on southern Gaza, Palestinian medical and police sources say. Thetwo men were killed early on Wednesday morning during clashes following an Israeli raid on the southern town of Rafah near Gaza's border with Egypt. Israeli soldiers killed the pair as they approached.. More

  • US seeks to monopolise space

    George Bush, the US president, has approved a new national space policy which seeks to deny adversaries the use of space technologies deemed hostile to the US. The new document replaces a 1996 space policy. It was approved by Bush on August 31 and was published quietly by the White House on October 6. "United States national security is critically.. More

  • Iraq reconciliation conference date set

    A much-anticipated conference aimed at stemming the cycle of sectarian violence in Iraq will take place on November 4, the government has said. The meeting was originally scheduled to start on Friday, but had been indefinitely postponed for unspecified "emergency reasons," a statement said. The postponement reflected the effect the worsening violence.. More