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  • Christian Lebanese Warlord Released from Jail

    Former militia chief Samir Geagea has been released after 11 years in jail for crimes committed during the Lebanese 1975-1990 civil war. Geagea, anti-Syrian leader of the now-disbanded Christian Lebanese Forces militia, was the only militia chief jailed after the conflict. Parliament, now dominated by opponents of Damascus, passed a bill granting.. More

  • France Waits on Pedophile Verdict

    The whole of France was still waiting for a verdict Monday in the biggest ever criminal trial in recent history in which 65 men and women are accused of the rape and sexual abuse of children as young as a few months old. A week after retiring, the jury in France's biggest ever child sex trial was still considering its verdict. Sources close to the.. More

  • Niger Neighbours also Face Hunger

    The food crisis in Niger also threatens three other countries in the region - Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, the United Nations has warned. At least 2.5m people in the three countries need food aid and like Niger they were hit by drought and a plague of locusts last year. Niger's president is due to visit the worst hit south of his country,.. More

  • Iraq Sunnis Rejoin Constitution Talks

    Sunni Arabs have saidthey will rejoin talks to hammer out a new constitution for Iraq, in the hope of rescuing a political process that has been severely strained by unrelenting bloodshed. The Sunnis had walked out of the talks last week after one of their committee members was gunned down in front of a restaurant. At crisis talks on Monday they.. More

  • Egypt Police Open Fire in Hunt for Suspects

    Egyptian police have exchanged fire with armed men as they search for six Pakistanis suspected of involvement in deadly bombings in the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Shaikh. The Monday firefight with Bedouinmenerupted in the mountainous interior of the Sinai peninsula about 30 km from the scene of Saturday's attacks on the coast, security officials said... More

  • Bombers May still Be in UK

    Four suspects who fled after attempted bombings last week in London are probably still in Britain and the police anxiously await public sightings of them, London's police chief Sir Ian Blair said yesterday. Blair said he was confident of a breakthrough in the "incredibly fast-moving" investigation - the biggest in British history - into the bombings.. More

  • Twin Car Blasts Shatter Baghdad Dawn as US Accepts Polish Plans to Exit Iraq

    Two car bombings in Baghdad have left at least eight people dead and 17 injured. The first bombing, at 6.15am (0215 GMT) on Monday, targeted the Sadir hotel in central Baghdad, which is used by foreign security personnel. A bomber blew up a minivan packed with explosives at a checkpoint at the gates to the hotel -which has been bombed in the past.. More

  • Israel Has Threatened a Harsh Military Action

    Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met with Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef and Sunday and demanded that he finds the persons involved in the murder of an Israeli couple near Kissufim on Saturday night. "If the Palestinian Authority fails to do so, Israel will," Mofaz said. "You must take steps against Hamas." Israeli Prime Minister.. More

  • Third Suspect Arrested by British Police

    Police have arrested a third man in south London as part of their investigation into the attempted bombings of three subway cars and a bus on 21 July, an official said. The man was arrested late on Saturday in the same area as two other men and in the same neighborhood where a Brazilian electrician, mistakenly killed by police, had lived. The man.. More

  • Dozens Killed in New Iraq Bombing

    A bomber in a flatbed truck laden with 500 lbsof explosives haskilled up at least 29 people and wounded 30 othersoutside a Baghdad police station, Iraqi police said. But the US military said more than 40 civilians were killed in the explosion in the Mashtal area of eastern Baghdad. Twenty-two cars and a building were set on fire, and firefighters.. More

  • Palestinians Killed after Border Ambush

    Two Palestinians have been killed after the deadly shooting of an Israeli couple in the Gaza Strip overnight. One of the Palestinians was shot dead by guards protecting Israeli settlements, while the other was killed by soldiers during a search operation, Israeli military sources said. Earlier, two Palestinians opened fire near the Kissufim checkpoint.. More

  • Arrests after Egyptian Bombings

    Egyptian security forces have arrested 35 people following Saturday's bomb attacks in Sharm al-Sheikh, which killed at least 88 people. The arrests came after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak vowed to hunt down those behind the bombings. In the worst attacks in decades in Egypt, three explosions - including two apparent car bombings - devastated.. More

  • Kidnapped Afghan Poll Workers found Unharmed

    Three Afghan election workers, who were kidnapped by suspected Taliban or al-Qaida members, have been found unharmed in the northeastern province of Nooristan, an official said. Mohammad Yusouf, secretary for the governor of Nooristan, said the men were found in a house on Saturday after a search by security officials in the Kamdesh district where.. More

  • Shot Man Not Connected to London Bombing

    Aman shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday's London attacks was unconnected to the incidents, police have confirmed. The man was killed in Stockwell Tube station in an incident described by Scotland Yard as a "tragedy". Two other men have been arrested and are being questioned after bombers targeted three Tube trains and a bus... More

  • Dozens Killed in Egypt blasts

    An Egyptian emergency services official has put the death toll from a series of bombs in Sharm al-Shaikh at 75. The tollcontinued to rise throughout Saturday after a cafe and two luxury hotels in the Red Sea resort were attacked in the early hours. Medical sources in the resort have anticipated that the number of people killed in the explosions may.. More