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  • Twelve Dead in Iraq Resistance Attacks

    Five US occupation soldiers and seven Iraqis were killed in a series of bombings and shootings in Iraq on Saturday. The US occupation soldiers were killed in two attacks near the western city of Fallujah. A car laden with explosives ploughed into a military checkpoint west of Baghdad and exploded, killing three US soldiers and wounding six, the US.. More

  • Israel, Hizb Allah Agree on Prisoners Swap

    Israel has agreed on a prisoner exchange with the Lebanese Shia armed group Hizb Allah for the return of an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers. Zvi Rish, the Israeli lawyer that represents two Lebanese armed fighters, told the Associated Press on Saturday his clients and other prisoners from Arab countries would be freed.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed in Gaza

    Israeli troops have shot and killed two members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the east of the occupied Gaza Strip. The men were gunned down near a border fence separating the densely populated sliver of land from the state of Israel. The Israeli army said the pair had been shot in an unauthorised zone they had entered near the barrier. Neither.. More

  • Eight Iraqis, Three US Soldiers Killed in Separate Attacks

    Iraqi police were attacked on Thursday west of the capital and three officers were killed and five injured. Gunmen in a passing car used AK-47 assault rifles and tossed a grenade at a police checkpoint near Fallujah, according to a top police officer. Elsewhere, a Major in the paramilitary Spanish civil guard was shot in the forehead and very seriously.. More

  • Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Child in Gaza

    A Palestinian child has been shot dead by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip near the border fence with Israel, Palestinian medics have said. The boy, named Muhsin al-Daur, 12, was killed on Thursday when soldiers opened fire at a group of youths hunting birds near the border, Palestinian security sources said. An Israeli military spokesman said.. More

  • Iraqi Women Killed in Attack

    Four Iraqi laundresses working at a US military base west of Baghdad were killed and five others wounded when gunmen raked a minibus they were travelling in. According to a survivor, the attack occurred late on Wednesday on the road linking the flashpoint town of Falluja, 50 kilometres west of Baghdad to the US base of Habbaniya further west. "We.. More

  • Bush Chided for Ignoring Peace Process

    Palestinian representatives have criticised US President George Bush's push for democracy in the Middle-East in his state of the union address, while at the same time ignoring the Palestinian, Israeli conflict. "If he wants democracy in the Middle-East, the most ready area for elections in all forms, both regional and local, is Palestine", Palestinian.. More

  • French Anti-Religion Law May Ban Beards

    France's education minister has said beards could be outlawed under a proposed new law barring religious symbols from French schools. Luc Ferry said on Wednesday the new law would not simply cover Islamic headscarves, Christian crosses and Jewish skullcaps, but would also apply to other religious symbols. When asked by French parliamentarians if.. More

  • Social Forum Closes with Call for US Withdrawal from Iraq

    International forces should withdraw from Iraq and let the Iraqi people govern themselves - that was the rallying call at the close of the World Social Forum in the Indian city of Bombay. An estimated 100,000 activists took part in the six-day gathering - an opportunity to exchange ideas and draw mutual inspiration. "It's amazing how much creativity.. More

  • Israel's Sharon May Face Bribery Charges

    Israeli prosecutors are considering whether to indict Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after a court charged a businessman with trying to bribe him in the 1990s. Prosecutors will decide within months whether to charge Sharon, said a justice ministry source on Wednesday. A charge against the premier would almost certainly force him from office. Sharon's.. More

  • Bush Defends Iraq War in State of Union Address

    George W Bush has made a robust defence of his administration's record in his third State of the Union address since becoming US president. He insisted that his foreign policies, including the invasion of Iraq, had made Americans - and the world - safer. He also emphasised his domestic agenda, with an upbeat assessment of the strength of the US.. More

  • Reformists Regain Ground in Iran

    Iran's Guardian Council is allowing 200 reformist candidates of more than 3,500 blacklisted a week ago to stand in next month's elections. Abbas Kadkodaye of the conservative legal body said it was speeding up the review process after an appeal by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Council's decision has plunged Iran into crisis provoking.. More

  • Egypt, Jordan Condemn Apartheid Wall

    Egyptian President Husni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abd Allah II have stated their "firm" opposition to the separation wall Israel is building through parts of Palestinian territory. Egyptian Information Minister Safwat Sherif also dismissed on Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's warning on Monday that Jordan would damage its ties with Israel.. More

  • 18 Presumed Dead in Norwegian Ship Disaster

    Eighteen crewmen, including 16 Filipinos, were presumed dead as rescue workers abandoned the search for survivors after a cargo ship capsized in icy waters off the southwest coast of Norway. Just over 24 hours after the accident, three people were confirmed dead and 12 others rescued after the recently-built Norwegian-operated ship Rocknes rapidly.. More

  • Israeli Jets Raid South Lebanon

    Israel has carried out air attacks in south Lebanon, a day after an Israeli soldier died in the region. Lebanese army and well-informed security sources said the planes attacked areas around Zibqin and Mazrat Aalman villages in the south of the country on Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Israeli military officials, speaking.. More