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  • Israelis Turn against Olmert

    A majority of Israelis think Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, should resign, according to a poll in the country's leading newspaper. The Yedioth Aronoth said on Fridaythat 63% of the respondents favored Olmert stepping down. The paper described the poll as a political "earthquake". Olmert was not the only politician to fare badly, with 74% of those.. More

  • Sudan Rejects UN Darfur Plan

    Sudan's ruling party has rejected a draft UN resolution to deploy a 20,000-strong force to stem the violence in its western Darfur region, state media have reported. Britain has drafted a Security Council resolution to send 17,000 soldiers and 3,000 police to the vast region, and said it hoped that the resolution would be adopted by the end of August. But.. More

  • More French Troops Arrive in Lebanon

    More French troops arrived in Lebanon on Friday to help police a fragile ceasefire, as EU foreign ministers prepared to meet with UN chief Kofi Annan in Brussels to hammer out details of an enlarged peacekeeping force. France announced it was committing 1,600 more troops to theforce, and the United Nations said a French general would keep command.. More

  • Syria Threat to Shut Lebanon Border

    Syria has told Finland's foreign ministerthatit will close its border with Lebanon if UN peacekeeping troops aredeployed there. "They indeed do not want this and they announced they will close their borders if this takes place," Finland's Erkki Tuomioja said after meetingWalid Al-Moualem, Syria's foreign minister, in Helsinki on Wednesday. Israel.. More

  • US: Iran's Response Falls Short

    The US has said that Iran's offer to hold negotiations over its nuclear program but not halt uranium enrichment falls short of UN demands. The US State Department said it would "review" Iran's response to a package of incentives to encourage it to suspend enrichment added that it "falls short of the conditions set by the Security Council". The statement.. More

  • Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in Gaza

    Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian and detained a senior member of the governing Hamas movement in asouthern Gaza raid, witnesses and the army said. An Israeli army spokesman said Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian fighters during the raid on a house in the southern Gaza village of Abasan near the town of Khan Yunus on Thursday. Witnesses.. More

  • New Iraq Violence Leaves 17 Dead

    A new wave ofviolencehas killed at least 17 people around Iraq, while the US army has pressed ahead with its plan to restore order to Baghdad. Most of theviolence on Wednesday occuredin Diyala province just north of the capital around the city of Baquba, where 10 people were killed and three more bodies found, according topolice sources. In the.. More

  • World Powers Study Iran's Reply

    Six world powersare studying Iran's offer of more talks to resolve a nuclear dispute, but it is not clear whether Tehran's responsegoes far enough to avert the threat of UN sanctions. Iran said its reply to the powers' nuclear incentives offer contained ideas that would allow serious talks about its standoff to start straightaway. But there was.. More

  • Anfal Survivor Tells of Gas Attack

    A Kurdish woman has testified at the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein and spoken of hiding in a cave during a gas attack on her village. For a second day, survivors took the stand in the Iraqi court, in whichthe former presidentand six co-defendants are charged over the 1987-1988 Anfal campaign, a military sweep against Kurdish rebels in northern.. More

  • Olmert Pressed to Investigate War

    Israel's attorney general has presentedEhud Olmert with a list of options for investigating the conduct of the recent war in Lebanon,as theprime ministerfaced mounting calls for a sweeping probe into the conduct of the conflict. Amongthe alternativespresented to the prime ministeris an independent commission of inquiry, with the power to sack top.. More

  • North Korea Warned over Nuke Test

    A nuclear weapons test by North Korea would undermine non-proliferation efforts and further isolate the secretive communist state, South Korea has warned. The warningcomes amidspeculation that North Korea is preparing to conduct such a test to prove it has working nuclear weapons. Ban Ki-moon, the South Korean foreign minister, told reporters in.. More

  • Rabbi Leads Unofficial Peace Initiative

    A boldpeace initiative by an Israeli rabbi to free the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and renew the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is close to achieving a breakthrough, but is being obstructed by Israel's ongoing reoccupation of the Gaza Strip. Aljazeera.net has seen documents aimed at achieving a prisoner exchange, ceasefire and ongoing.. More

  • Russian Airliner Crashes in Ukraine

    A Russian airliner carrying at least 170 people has crashed in eastern Ukraine. Russia's emergency situations ministry said that initial information was that everyone on the aeroplane was dead. The airliner was flying from the Black Sea resort of Anapa to Saint Petersburg when it disappeared from radar screens after issuing an SOS, the emergency ministry.. More

  • Israeli Troops Open Fire in Lebanon

    The Israeli army says it has shot three Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon as the ceasefire between Israel and the Shia group extends into its second week. An Israeli army spokesman said on Monday evening: "A force identified armed gunmen coming toward them in a threatening way. The soldiers fired at them and identified three hits." It is unclear if.. More

  • Saddam Genocide Trial Hears First Witness

    The genocide trial against Saddam Hussein and six other co-defendants has resumed with the first witness giving testimony on the impact ofOperation Anfal in northern Iraq. The first witness on Tuesday morning told how his village of Balisan was bombed by chemical weapons. "I saw eight to 12 jets ... There was greenish smoke from the bombs," Ali.. More