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  • NATO Members Turn Down Iraq Mission

    In an unprecedented departure from Nato practice, several alliance members will not allow their own officers assigned to Nato's two command centres to participate in its first collective post-war mission in Iraq, a senior US official said. The Bush administration has hailed Nato's new plan to train about 1000 Iraqi army officers annually as an important.. More

  • Christian Lebanese Rally against Syria

    Some 3,000 Lebanese students and activists defied the government yesterday and demonstrated peacefully against Syria's domination of their country. Shouting "Syrians out," students from several universities and right-wing Christian activists converged on a central Beirut intersection. Hundreds of security forces watched, but did not intervene. Soldiers.. More

  • Sudan, Rebels Sign Peace Pledge

    The Sudanese government and its southern rebel opponents have signed a pledge to complete an agreement to end a 21-year-old civil war by 31 December. With UN Security Council ambassadors bearing witness, a Sudanese government official and a representative of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed on Friday a document pledging to.. More

  • Israel Releases Senior Hamas Member

    A senior member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas has been released from an Israeli prison after completing a two-year sentence. Completing 28 months of solitary confinement on Thursday, Hasan Yusuf walked out of Israel's Ofar prison just west of Ramallah and immediately headed towards Yasir Arafat's grave to pay his respects. Later, Yusuf.. More

  • Reuters Blames US for Journalists' Deaths

    The global managing editor of British news provider Reuters has said the US military is entirely to blame for the deaths of three of its employees in Iraq. "All of them were killed by the American army," Reuters chief David Schlesinger told reporters on Thursday on the sidelines of a media conference in the southern Portuguese resort of Vilamoura,.. More

  • Falluja Fighters Resist as Clashes Spread

    Fighters in Falluja are continuing to hold out in the face of massive firepower US forces are unleashing to try and seize overall control of the city. "Fierce resistance is still raging with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and machine guns against the US forces stationed on the outskirts of Falluja," an Iraqi journalist in the city, Fadil al-Badrani,.. More

  • Egyptian Soldiers Killed by Israeli Tank

    Three Egyptian soldiers have been killed by an Israeli tank crew on the border between occupied Gaza and Egypt. Aljazeera's correspondent in Ramallah reported on Thursday that all three soldiers had been on their side of the border near the Rafah border crossing. Walid al-Umari also reported that Tel Aviv had accepted the possibility that an Israeli.. More

  • UN Probes Darfur in Extraordinary Meeting

    The United Nations Security Council is meeting outside its New York headquarters in Nairobi to focus on peace in Sudan. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived on Thursday and immediately went into private closed door talks with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki. The 15 members of the UN Security Council, as well as rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army.. More

  • Putin Announces Plans for New 'Unique' Nuclear Missiles

    President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will put into service unique nuclear missile systems in the next few years. The claim came in a speech to armed forces chiefs, where defence minister Sergei Ivanov admitted growing rates of suicide and crime among the military. Putin said: "We are conducting research on and successfully testing new nuclear.. More

  • India Reduces Troops in Kashmir

    India is pulling out its first batch of troops from its side of Kashmir coinciding with the arrival of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a two-day visit to Srinagar. The pullout, announced by Singh, is part of India's plan to reduce the number of troops fighting the 16-year-old rebellion by Muslim separatists. A senior army officer said the troops.. More

  • Aid Convoy Barred from Falluja as US Troops Beat Hospital Staff

    An aid convoy has been forced to turn back from the beleaguered city of Falluja as more evidence emerged of a mounting humanitarian crisis on the eighth day of a US offensive to crush resistance forces. The convoy from Iraq's Red Crescent withdrew from a hospital on the edge of Falluja on Monday after failing to get permission to deliver supplies to.. More

  • Two Killed at Arafat Tent

    Yasser Arafat's interim successor last night escaped injury in a Gaza gunfight triggered by hostile militants as Palestinian officials set January 9 for elections to replace the late president and avert a feared power vacuum. The clash at a mourning tent set up for Arafat was the latest sign of factional anarchy challenging would-be moderate heirs.. More

  • Iran to Halt Uranium Enrichment

    Iran has agreed to a European Union proposal for a full suspension of uranium enrichment - sparing itself from possible UN sanctions. In Tehran on Sunday, nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani said Iran had agreed to suspend "nearly all" of its uranium enrichment-related activities. A close aide to Rowhani, Hossein Moussavian, said Iran had accepted demands.. More

  • Dutch PM Stresses Communal Harmony

    Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has visited a mosque to underline the importance of dialogue between the various communities in the Netherlands. The prime minister's visit to the mosque in Eindhoven on Sunday came as tensions ran high in the Netherlands over the 2 November murder of controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Balkenende was presented.. More

  • Madrid Brushes off Basque Peace Talks Offer

    Spain's political establishment has dismissed a call by Basque separatists for peace talks. At a rally in San Sebastian, Batasuna leaders said dialogue between all sides was needed to end decades of armed conflict, and called for a referendum on the future of the Basque country. Batasuna is banned because it is seen as linked to the guerrilla group.. More