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  • Iraq Announces Initial Election Results

    The Shiite-backed United Iraqi Alliance has won some 58 percent of the vote in Thursday's general elections in the province of Baghdad, Adel Lamy, the head of the electoral commission, said, citing the first partial results. With nearly 90 percent of ballots counted, the Alliance won 1,403,901 votes in Baghdad, he told a televised news conference.. More

  • Egyptian President Talks of Reform

    Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has outlined his government's programme for economic reform and cutting unemployment in a speech devoid of detail and dismissed bysome observers as more empty sloganising. Mubarak, speaking at the inauguration of the 23rd session of parliament, said: "I am committed to working with the parliament to continue constitutio.. More

  • Iraq Captors Free German Hostage

    German archeologist Susanne Osthoff, who was kidnapped in Iraq last month, is free, Foreign Minister Steinmeier confirmed Sunday evening. Her driver, Shalid al-Shimani, was also released according to a statement Monday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier confirmed in an evening press conference that Susanne Osthoff had been freed. Since Sunday she had been.. More

  • Policemen, Taliban Killed in Clashes as Afghan parliament Sworn

    Four policemen and three suspected Taliban fighters were killed in two separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, police and a provincial official said on Sunday. About a dozen suspected insurgents stormed a police checkpost on a main highway late on Saturday, sparking a fierce gun battle in which three policemen and an attacker were killed, Highway.. More

  • Chad Accuses Sudan after Clashes

    Chad has accused Sudan of being behind a rebel raid on a border town that reportedly ended in 100 deaths. A Chadian minister said Sudan was "wholly responsible" for an attack allegedly launched from Sudan on the eastern town of Adre. Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor said the raid was repulsed by the Chadian army. Several new rebel groups have begun operating.. More

  • Bangladeshi Politician Killed in Blast

    Unidentified assailants hurled three bombs at a tea shop in western Bangladesh, killing a ruling party politician and wounding three of his friends, a police official said. Kajal Mahmud, a local leader of the governing Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was killed instantly in the attack late on Sunday in Meherpur district, said Awlad Husain, the local.. More

  • EU to Cut Aid if Hamas Wins Elections

    The European Union has joined the United States in threats to withhold aid if Hamas participates in a Palestinian government. Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, has saidtens of millions of dollars of aid to the Palestinian Authority could be halted ifHamas wins elections next month and fails to renounce violence. Hamas has swept municipal.. More

  • Violence Continues in Iraq

    Four Iraqis have been killed overnight in separate attacks across the country. Dhiab Hamad al-Hamdani and his son, Munah, were shot in the oil city of Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, police Colonel Shirzad Mofari said.They were the uncle and nephew of Khidr Hasan al-Hamdani, a leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of two main Kurdish parties.. More

  • UN Probe Chief Blames Syria

    Syria was behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, according to the chief UN investigator leading the assassination probe in remarks published yesterday. It was the first time that Detlev Mehlis has unequivocally accused Syria of responsibility for Hariri's assassination since opening the probe in June. Asked by Asharq.. More

  • WTO Deal Fades In and Out of View

    There has been a last-minute hitch in a deal to end farm export subsidies. Brazil has refused to agree to a cut-off date of 2013 offered by the European Union at the World Trade Organisation summit in Hong Kong. EU spokesman Peter Power said: "We have made a major effort to save these talks. We have proposed an end date for the elimination of export.. More

  • At Least 28 Killed in South India Stampede

    At least 28 homeless people were trampled to death on Sunday and many others injured in a stampede during the distribution of food coupons at a flood relief centre in southern India, television news channels said. The early morning incident occurred in Chennai, formerly known as Madras, when thousands of people had lined up for the coupons, Aaj Tak.. More

  • Palestinian Killed in Israeli Air Strike

    A Palestinian resistance fighter has been killed in an Israeli air attack on a car in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources and witnesses say. Khaled Abu Sitta, 25, a senior leader from the Abu al-Rish Brigades, was killed on Saturday when an Israeli missile hit the car that he was driving near the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunus,.. More

  • Sunni Chief Offers to Form Iraq Alliance

    A leading Sunni Arab politician in Iraq has said his party will be open to an alliance with secular Shia and Kurds to form a coalition government to run the country once the results are in from parliamentary elections. Adnan al-Dulaimi, the headof a Sunni Arab bloc, said on Friday: "We will not accept the exclusion of any segment of the Iraqi people.. More

  • Australian Beaches Monitored by Police

    Australian police have set up road blocks and searched cars heading for beaches in Sydneyto prevent a second weekend of racial violencebetween ethnic Lebanese youths and local surfers. Australians have been told to stay away from beaches in three cities this weekend, especially in Sydney where the checkpoints created traffic jams and left some of the.. More

  • Poisoned River Flows into Russia

    Pollution has reached Russia from the poisoned Amur river, which suffered a massive Benzene spill a month ago in China. It prompted the Chinese authorities to cut off drinking water to people downstream; now the Russian city of Khaborovsk lies on its path. The slick is now 180 kilometres long, and moving at 30 kilometres an hour."We're ready of course",.. More