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  • Palestinians Clash with Israeli Police

    Several Palestinian protesters and an Israeli police officer have been injured during a protest against a Greek Orthodox patriarch neara Christian site in Jerusalem. The police and clergy said about 500 Palestinians approached the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to protest against Patriarch Irineos I, who has been accused in media reports of selling Greek.. More

  • Somali PM Seeks Tribal Cooperation

    Somali Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi appealed to the tribal chiefs controlling the country's capital to cooperate with his government, currently exiled in Kenya, to pave the way for its safe relocation home. "It is time to work together for the wellbeing of Somalia," Gedi told thousands of Somalis in northern Mogadishu during his first visit to.. More

  • Time Running out for Nuclear Talks

    The time for negotiating over Iran's nuclear programme is fast running out, Iranian negotiator Cyrus Nasseri has said, ahead of fresh talks with the European Union (EU). The EU -along with the United States-has engaged Tehranover itsdetermination to enrich uranium, the fuelit wants to use for itsnuclear power plants,but which Washington and Brusselssay.. More

  • Many Iraqis Killed in Car Bomb Attacks

    Astring of at least seven car bomb attacks targeting security forces in and around Baghdad, have killed at least 20 people and injured more than 65, an interior ministry official said. Thirteen people died and 50 were wounded in four apparently coordinated car bomb attacks in two districts of the capital at about 8am (0400 GMT), the official said... More

  • AU Agrees to Enlarge Darfur Force

    The African Union has agreed to more than double the size of its peacekeeping force in Sudan's western Darfur region. AU spokesman Aasane Ba said the group's Peace and Security Council on Thursday approved boosting the force from 2200 to more than 7700, including 5500 troops, 1600 civilian police and some 700 military observers. AU Peace and Security.. More

  • China - Taiwan Historic Meeting

    The heads of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang Party and China's ruling Communist Party met for the first time in nearly 60 years in an effort to reduce tensions across the Taiwan Strait. Kuomintang chairman Lien Chan and Chinese President Hu Jintao shook hands warmly as they met in the Great Hall of the People in the Chinese capital amid increasing.. More

  • Iraq Government Formed

    Iraq's parliament has approved a partial cabinet of ministers, forming Iraq's first democratically elected government in more than 50 years. On Thursday, the 275-seat National Assembly approved, with 180 votes, the list of names put forward by Shia Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari. However, several of the 36 ministries will be occupied by acting.. More

  • Abbas Pledges to Enforce Ceasefire

    Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has threatened to use force against anyone who violates a ceasefire with Israel, his toughest warning against resistance groups since taking office in January. In a speech to Palestinian police, Abbas pledged to maintain quiet during the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip this summer. "We have to give them.. More

  • Hundreds Rally for Change in Egypt

    Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters have rallied in 15 Egyptian cities and towns, despite a government crackdown. Spokesmen for the organisers, Kifaya (Enough), said the police arrested 125 protesters but all except two had been released by nightfall. Witnesses in some cities, including Suez in the east and Benha in the Nile Delta, reported that.. More

  • Blair Faces Close Race

    British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party had a bad case of the pre-election jitters yesterday as new opinion polls showed next week's vote could be uncomfortably close, rather than the long-predicted re-election stroll. With the May 5 election just eight days away, a pair of polls - one conducted privately for Labour - appeared to indicate.. More

  • Lebanon Cabinet Wins Trust Vote

    Lebanon's general elections will start on 29 May, the parliament speaker says, and parliament has given the new cabinet an overwhelming vote of confidence. "I can confirm to the Lebanese that the elections will happen, beginning on 29 May," Parliament Speaker Nabih Birri said on Wednesday. Aljazeera reports that the Lebanese Interior Ministry has.. More

  • Iraqi Parliament to Vote on Cabinet

    Iraq's parliament is expected tohold a final vote on a cabinet put forward by Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim al-Jafari. After nearly three months of protracted political haggling, the vote is expected to come on Wednesday, a senior member of the ruling alliance said. "Parliament will be asked to vote today, and if the list is approved the government.. More

  • Afghan Police Killed in Ambush

    Suspected Taliban fighters have ambushed a police convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing four officers and abducting two more. The attack occurred on Tuesday as the police chief of Dishu district in Helmand province was travelling with two police vehicles and a group of bodyguards, Dishu mayor Muhammed Rahim said. The police chief was unhurt. Police.. More

  • Toll in Japan Train Crash Looks Set to Hit 100

    The death toll in Japan's worst rail accident in four decades looked set to rise to more than 100 on Wednesday as hopes faded that more survivors would be found in the wreckage 48 hours after a packed commuter train jumped the tracks and crashed into an apartment complex. The official death toll stood at 91 after rescue crews extracted 18 bodies from.. More

  • Dozens Dead as Sri Lanka Train Hits Bus

    More than 50 bus passengers were feared killed and about 40 injured when a train rammed into the crowded vehicle at a level-crossing in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, crushing it and setting it on fire, officials said. None of the passengers and crew on the morning train were hurt, a railway official said, but it was one of the island's worst accidents in.. More