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  • Lebanon Enters Second Phase of Voting

    Lebanese voters have been heading to polling booths in the second phase of parliamentary elections in the south. With 23 seats up for grabs in the south of the country, political analysts are predicting an alliance between former rival Shia groups Hizb Allah and Amal will sweepSunday's polls. The alliance betwen Hizb Allah, which spearheaded a.. More

  • Hamas Rejects Poll Delay Decision

    Islamic group Hamas has rejected Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas's decision to postpone the legislative elections, originally scheduled for17 July, Aljazeera reports. Speaking to Aljazeera from Ram Allah, Hamas leader in the West Bank, Shaikh Hasan Yusuf, said Abbas's decision would be contrary to what was agreed upon during the Cairo dialogue. Earlier.. More

  • Sudan Urges Arab Support for AU

    Sudan has called on Arab countries to support African Union efforts and stabilise the situation in the war-ravaged western region of Darfur. Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said on Sunday that Khartoum was grateful to the Arab League for its positive contribution in addressing the crisis. "And we are looking forward to a direct Arab.. More

  • Chirac, Schroeder support EU constitution

    German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and France's President Jacques Chirac have both affirmed their commitment to the EU's proposed constitution despite decisive rejections by French and Dutch voters. Schroeder's spokesman, Bela Anda, also underlined on Sunday a new willingness to show flexibility with the EU's future budget and said that "everyone.. More

  • Pentagon Confirms Quran Desecration

    The Pentagon confirmed for the first time on Friday that a US soldier deliberately kicked a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's Muslim holy book in violation of the military's rules for handling the Quran. In other confirmed incidents, prison guards threw water balloons into a cell block to cause an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guard's urine splashed.. More

  • Palestinian Leader Delays Vote

    In an official announcement,Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbashas postponed the date for legislative elections. In a public decree on Saturday, Abbas said he decided to postpone the 17 July poll to allow time to resolve a dispute over proposed reforms to the voting law. He said a new date for the election would be given in a future announcement. Media.. More

  • Rumsfeld Blames Aljazeera over Iraq

    US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has alleged that Aljazeera is encouraging armed Islamist groups by broadcasting beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq. Speaking at a security conference in Singapore on Saturday, Rumsfeld said that "if anyone lived in the Middle East and watched a network like the Aljazeera day after day after day, even if he.. More

  • Lahoud should Resign Says Opposition

    Lebanon's opposition has called for the resignation of President Emile Lahoud, an ally of Damascus, after the killing of a prominentjournalist. The opposition "demands by democratic means the resignation of the president as he is the effective leader of the security intelligence regime", Elias Atallah, a senior official in the Democratic Left movement,.. More

  • Srebrenica Execution Video Sobers Serbia

    A sickening video of Serb paramilitary soldiers in the act of murdering six Bosnian Muslim youths from Srebrenica in 1995 sobered Serbia on Thursday and led to the immediate arrest of eight suspects. Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said the arrests were ordered after the country was shown a "brutal, callous and disgraceful crime against civilians,".. More

  • Israel to Build more West Bank Settlement

    Israel has announced plans to build 22 more homes in its largest West Bank settlement, a week after US President George Bush urged Tel Aviv to stop expanding Jewish enclaves on occupied land. The Israel Lands Administration, a government agency, published a tender on Thursday inviting bids for the purchase of 22 plots for the construction of single-family.. More

  • Villepin Unveils New Line-Up

    The new French Prime Minister Dominque de Villepin has unveiled his new cabinet, designed to win back confidence in a government shaken by the EU referendum defeat. Villepin and President Jacques Chirac have come up with the new cabinet sooner than expected. The prime minister has given himself 100 days to restore belief in the government. He was.. More

  • Dead Austrian Babies Found in Freezer

    Three new-born babies have been found dead in the basement of a block of flats in the Austrian city of Graz. Two were in a communal freezer and the other was in a bucket that had been cemented over, police said. A woman aged 32 - believed to be their mother - and her 38-year-old partner are being questioned by police. The Graz newspaper Kleine.. More

  • Many Iraqis Killed in Car Bombs

    Three car bombings have killed 16 people in northern Iraq, including an Iraqi child, a municipal council leader and a bodyguard of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister, police said. At least 10 people were killed and 40 wounded in a massive explosion targeting a restaurant at 8am (0400GMT) on Thursdayin Tuz Khurmatu, 88km south of the northern oil.. More

  • Israel Frees 405 Palestinian Prisoners

    The first of 405 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel have climbed off buses from their prison camp and arrived in the West Bank city of Tulkarim. Earlier on Thursdaythe prisoners boarded buses at a prison in southern Israel on their way to freedom, the last phase of an Israeli pledge to release 900 prisoners as part of a ceasefire deal. As the.. More

  • Annan Fires Official in UN Scandal

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has carried out the first sacking of one of his top officials over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, a UN spokesman said. Joseph Stephanides was dismissed on Wednesday for "serious misconduct" over the handling of contracts in the oil-for-food programme, which has plunged the world body into one of its most embarrassing.. More