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  • Four US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

    Four US soldiers have been killed and another wounded in clashes with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the US military says. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Afghanistan this year, the worst violence since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban. Violence has surged as NATO prepares to take over security duties from US-led forces in the south. The.. More

  • Abbas and Olmert to Hold Formal Talks

    The Palestinian president and the Israeli prime minister have agreed to hold a formal summit within three weeks. Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert decided this during informal talks hosted by King Abdullah of Jordan in the ancient town of Petra on Thursday. The meeting was the first between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a year. "I am ready to.. More

  • Marines Face Iraq Murder Charges

    The US marine corps has charged seven marines and a navy sailor with murder over the death of a disabled Iraqi man. All eight also faced kidnapping and conspiracy charges, a spokesman told reporters at the Californian camp where the defendants were being held. They are accused of shooting a disabled man in Hamandiya in April, and covering up the.. More

  • Al-Zawahiri Urges Afghans to Fight

    Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, hasurged Afghans to fight foreign troops in their country. The three-minute internet video, which was posted on Thursday on a website often used by pro-al-Qaeda groups, showed Osama bin Laden's right-hand man speaking directly to the camera with an automatic rifle propped up behind him. There was.. More

  • Saddam Hussein 'on Hunger Strike'

    Saddam Hussein has begun a hunger strike in protest at the killing of a senior defense lawyer at his trial, members of his legal team say. Khamis al-Obeidi's body was found dumped in the Iraqi capital hours after he was abducted from his home. Saddam Hussein and his seven co-accused have vowed not to eat until their defense team received "international.. More

  • Israel Missile Kills Two in Gaza

    Two Palestinians, a woman and a man, have been killed in the Gaza Strip in a blast blamed on an Israeli air strike. Sources quoted by Reuters news agency said seven others, including a number children, were wounded in the blast which hit a house in Khan Younis. Israel has killed at least 11 Palestinian civilians in air strikes in recent days, many.. More

  • Iran Nuclear Response 'in August'

    Iran has said it will respond by mid-August to a package of incentives on its nuclear program offered by UN Security Council nations plus Germany. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the announcement on state TV. After an EU-US summit in Vienna, US President George W Bush said it was a "long time" to answer a "reasonable deal" that was.. More

  • Child Toll Rises in Israeli Air Attack

    An Israeli air strike on a car in the northern Gaza Strip has killedthree Palestinian children and wounded 10 other people. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the strike on Tuesday, saying the car was carryingarmedmenfrom the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with the Fatah movement ofMahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. She had.. More

  • US Soldiers' Bodies Found in Iraq

    Two US soldiers missing in Iraq since Friday have been found dead south of Baghdad, the US military has said. The bodies were found in the Yusifiya area on Monday. An Iraqi defense ministry spokesman said the bodies had shown signs of torture. A resistance group linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq, which claimed it abducted the men, has now said that it.. More

  • Prosecutor Seeks Death for Saddam

    The chief prosecutor in the trial of Saddam Hussein on Monday demanded the death penalty for the ousted Iraqi president and two other defendants. "We demand the maximum punishment for Saddam, (his half-brother) Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and (former vice president) Taha Yassin Ramadan," Jaafar al-Mussawi said in court as he rested the prosecution.. More

  • UN Consults on N Korea Missile

    The US ambassador to the United Nations has said that his country is consulting with fellow members of the UN Security Council on possible steps if North Korea tests a missile. "Right now we are in consultation with various members of the council on what steps might be taken because it obviously would be very serious," John Bolton told reporters at.. More

  • Egypt Rounds up Brotherhood Men

    Egyptian police have arrested 31 members of the banned opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, in the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matruh. Police said the men were distributing leaflets and books for the group. But a Brotherhood spokesman said those detained were holidaymakers from Alexandria and were not recruiting. Hundreds of the group's members.. More

  • Somali Islamists Warn Ethiopia

    The Islamist alliance that has taken control of key areas of Somalia has said new fighting may occur if Ethiopia refuses to withdraw its troops from the country. However the Somalian government accused the Islamists of lying about an Ethiopian troop incursion as a pretext for attacking the government's headquarters in the town of Baidoa. Sheikh Shariff.. More

  • Bakery Workers Kidnapped in Baghdad

    Gunmen have seized 10 workers from a bakery in a mostly Shia neighbourhood in Baghdad, police said. The gunmen arrived in two cars, broke into the bakery in the northern suburb of Kazimiyah and abducted the workers on Sunday, police Lieutenant Mohammed Khayoun said. The kidnappings came a day after a mortar shell hit a well-known market in the area,.. More

  • Egypt Tourist Attack Trial Opens

    Fourteen Egyptians have gone on trial in Cairo in connection with two bomb attacks last year which killed three tourists and wounded 19 people. The defendants face various charges including aiding the bombers and forming an illegal group. They deny all the allegations. Some defendants said they had been tortured to obtain false confessions. The.. More