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  • Iran and EU Assign more Time for Deal

    The European Union and Iran havedeclared a deal onthe Iraniannuclear programme for another two months, deferring any immediate referral of Tehran to the United Nations Security Council by the West. After some three hours of talks with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany on Wednesday, Iran's chief negotiator Hassan Rohani told journalists.. More

  • FBI Memo Tells of Quran Incident

    An FBI agent wrote in a document that a detainee held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had accused American jailers there of flushing the Quran down a toilet. The newly released document, dated 1 August2002, contained a summary of statements made days earlier by a detainee, whose name was redacted, in two interviews with an FBI special.. More

  • Hamas to Continue Talks on Re-Vote

    Hamas has said it will meet again a visiting Egyptian security delegation in Gaza to discuss a partial re-election ordered in some areas won by the movement. Hamas leader Mahmud al-Zahar said on Wednesday that the Egyptian envoys in a previous meeting did not present solutions to the Islamist group's concerns after a special election court ordered.. More

  • Egyptians Vote on Election Law Change

    As Egyptians begin voting on a referendum for a constitutional amendment, opposition parties are calling the polls a farce. The referendum on Wednesday asks voters to decide whether a government proposal to allow multi-party presidential elections should be incorporated into the constitution. Official results are expected on Thursday afternoon. "Egypt.. More

  • UN's Annan Names Refugee Chief

    Secretary-General Kofi Annan has chosen former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres as the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees, responsible for 17 million homeless people around the world. Guterres, 56, president of the Socialist International since 1999, replaces former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, who was pressured to resign in February.. More

  • Crucial EU-Iran Nuclear Talks to Start

    The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany will hold a meeting in Geneva on Wednesday with Iran's top negotiator Hassan Rowhani. The talks, considered crucial, are aimed at avoiding an escalation of Tehran's standoff with the West on its nuclear programme after Iran warned there was a high risk of deadlock. "The talks between (Iranian and.. More

  • Al-Zarqawi Injured?

    An al-Qaida-linked group in Iraq has said its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been wounded and urged Muslims to pray for him, according to a Web posting. "O nation of Islam... Pray for the healing of our Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi from an injury he suffered in the path of God," said a statement on Tuesday from the al-Qaida-linked Organisation for.. More

  • Human Rights Watch: Uzbekistan Arrests Activists

    Uzbekistan has arrested a human rights activist who gave reporters first-hand testimony about a bloody government crackdown on protesters, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. HRW said on Tuesday Saidjahon Zainabitdinov was held as part of a government effort to suppress details of the 13 May bloodshed in the city of Andijan when troops.. More

  • New Blasts Rock Baghdad

    Attacks in Iraqincluding acar bomb explosion near a girls' school have killed eight people and injured at least11 others. The car bomb explodednear eastern Baghdad's well-known Withaq Square, near the Alwiya residential area, on Tuesday, destroying at least three cars and damaging several buildings, the Associated Press reported. Residents had notified.. More

  • Sudan Troops Surround Refugee Camp

    Hundreds of armed police and army soldiers have surrounded a Sudanese refugee camp south of Khartoum, where violent clasheskilled at least 17 policemen and residents last week. Muhammad Ahmad Abd al-Qadir Arbab, a lawyer and spokesman for the people of Soba Aradi, said the armed forces sealed off the entire area, about 30km south of the Sudanese capital.. More

  • Iran Makes U-Turn over Reformists

    Iran's political watchdog, the Guardians Council, has agreed to allow reformists Mostafa Moin and Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh to stand in next month's presidential election. Tuesday's U-turn was made in response to a demand from supreme leader Ayat Allah Ali Khamenei amid fears that the disqualification of reformers would prompt voters to boycott the poll.. More

  • Arab Maghreb Union Summit Postponed

    The North African heads of state summit due to be held this week in the Libyan capital has been indefinitely postponed after Morocco's King Mohammed VI decided to skip the meeting. The monarch of Morocco decided against attending the summit over what the kindgdom called neighbouring Algeria's "surprising official positions" on Western Sahara that have.. More

  • Iraqi Resistance Picks out Targets across Iraq

    Attacks across Iraq have targetedtwo US bases,a leading political aideand a Kurdish leader, leaving several people dead and many moreinjured. The deadliest incident took place south of Kirkuk, when a car bomb exploded near the convoy of a Kurdish official inTuz Khurmatu, killing at least five people and wounding 18 others, police said. Muhammed Mahmoud.. More

  • US Jews Mar Sharon's New York Trip

    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was heckled during a speech to US Jewish leaders in Manhattan,while as many as 1500 demonstrators staged a noisy street protest outside againsthis Gaza disengagement plan. As Sharon spoke on Sunday, several protesters scattered throughout the crowd at Baruch College stood up, with one shouting, "Jews don't expel.. More

  • Egypt Carries out more Political Arrests

    Egyptian security authorities have arrested 11 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including the group's Secretary-General Mahmud Izzat. Aljazeera's correspondent in Cairo said on Sunday that 11 further members of the group were also arrested, including six from the al-Jiza governorate, three from Cairo, and one each from Alexandria andal-Gharbiya. The Associated.. More