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  • EU Gives Iran Time to Clarify Position

    European Union foreign ministers have agreed to give Iran two more weeks to clarify its stance on halting sensitive nuclear work after Tehran ignored a UN deadline to suspend uranium enrichment. Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, will meet Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, next week to try to clear up ambiguities in Tehran's 21-page.. More

  • Italian Troops Reach Lebanon

    Italian troops have started to land in southern Lebanon as a United Nations peacekeeping mission to the region finally takes shape after weeks of wrangling. Italian troops came ashore at Tyre in the first major reinforcement to the United Nations mission monitoring a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Five inflatable dinghies each transporting.. More

  • Palestinians Killed in Gaza Attack

    Two Palestinians have been killed in an exchange of gunfire between Israeli forces raiding a north Gaza town and Palestinian fighters. According to witnesses, several other peoplewere wounded by an Israeli air strike, also early on Saturday morning. The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the reports. Witnesses said the forces, backed by helicopters.. More

  • Kurds to Fly Own Flag in Kurdistan

    Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq, has ordered the Iraqi national flag to be replaced with the Kurdishflagin Kurdishareas,in a move that could further inflame ethnictensions in Iraq. According to Azad Jundiyani, a member of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Suleymaniyah, Barzani.. More

  • UK Police Arrest 14 Terror Suspects

    Police in London have arrested 14 people in another round of anti-terrorism raids, saying they suspected the men of being involved in training and recruiting for terrorism. The arrests late on Friday and early Saturday were not linked to the alleged plot to bomb transatlantic airliners or to the July 2005 bomb attacks on London's transport network... More

  • Bush Warns Iran in Nuclear Dispute

    George Bush, the US president, has warned Iran of "consequences" after the United Nations nuclear watchdog said it hadresumed enriching uraniumin defiance of a UN deadline. A leaked report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that Iran had resumed the enrichment despite an August 31 deadline imposed by the UN Security Council to halt.. More

  • UN Approves Darfur Force

    The UN Security Council has approved a resolution authorizing the deployment of up to 17,000 peacekeepers to the Darfur region of Sudan. The resolution, agreed on Thursday, says the deployment would only takeplace with the agreement of the Sudanese government, which remains opposed to UN intervention. Twelve of the Security Council's 15 members approved.. More

  • UN: Israeli Custer Bombs Immoral

    The UN's humanitarian chief has described Israel's use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict there as "shocking" and "immoral". Jan Egeland said on Wednesday that thousands of Lebanese civilians remain at risk from unexploded cluster bombs dropped there. "What's shocking and I would say completely immoral.. More

  • Israeli Troops Begin Gaza Pullout

    Israeli soldiers have begun withdrawing from the outskirts of Gaza City, following a five-day operation to uncover tunnels and explosives in which 18 Palestinians were killed. The Israeli army said on Thursday that the soldiers were withdrawing from Shijaya district, which it first raided late on Saturday. Palestinian emergency officials said the.. More

  • Annan to Israel: End Lebanon Blockade

    The UN secretary general has called on Israel to end its air and sea blockade of Lebanon at the earliest. Arriving in Israel on Tuesday afternoon after visiting UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, Kofi Annan also blamed Israel for most of the violations of the fragile two-week-old truce that ended the war in Lebanon. Annan described the Israeli blockade.. More

  • Sudan under Pressure on UN Force

    The United States and Britain plan to push for a UN vote on sending peacekeeping troops to Darfur despite opposition from Sudan. The US- and British-sponsored resolution would authorize the deployment of 20,000 UN troops and police in Darfur to take over from 7,000 African Union troops in the western Sudanese region. Although the resolution, likely.. More

  • Explosions Kill More than 40 Iraqis

    More than 40 people have been killed in bomb attacks in Iraq, including 24 at a busy market in Baghdad. Police said that at least 24 people were killed and 35 wounded in a roadside bomb attack at the popular central Baghdad market of Shorja on Wednesday. A bomb in the nearby Karrada district killed two people and wounded 21 around the same time... More

  • Ahmadinejad Offers Bush TV Debate

    The Iranian president has challenged his US counterpart to a live television debate. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the offer to George Bush on Tuesday. Thursday is the deadline set by the UN Security Council for Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities,and Iran faces possible sanctions if it fails to comply. Ahmadinejad said:.. More

  • Algeria Urged to Lift Ban on Islamists

    An Islamist leader has urged the Algerian government to lift a 14-year-old ban on an Islamist party to shut "the doors of violence" and definitively end a lingering armed revolt. Madani Mezrag, former chief of the armed wing of the now-defunct Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), said on Tuesday that the country would achieve stability only if a partial.. More

  • Annan Tours Lebanon Destruction

    Kofi Annan is in southern Lebanon to view the devastation in a region where up to 13,000 extra UN peacekeepers are mandated to bolster a two-week-old truce between Israel and Hezbollah. The UN secretary-general arrived on Tuesday in the southern town of Naqoura, where a 2,000 strong UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) contingentis based, and laid a wreath.. More