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Deal Eludes Hamas and Fatah
Hamas and the other parliamentary blocs in the Palestinian Legislative Council have failed at the end of a meeting in Gaza toagree on acommon programme for a Palestinian government, Aljazeera reports. Rudwan al-Akhras, the Fatah representative in the dialogue, said on Wednesday- the fourth day of inconclusive coalition talks in Gaza- that the gap with.. More -
Iraqi Family Wiped Out
Eleven members of an Iraqi family, including women and children, were killed when the US forces flattened a house during a raid north of Baghdad yesterday. In other attacks, at least five Iraqis and a US soldier were killed. The American military confirmed the attack but said only four people died - a man, two women and a child. Police said the attack.. More -
American Ambassador to the UN Compares Iran Threat to 9/11
TheAmerican ambassador to the United Nations has compared the threat from Iran's nuclear programmes to the September 11 attacks on the United States. "Just like September 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat,"John Boltontold ABC News's Nightline programme on Wednesday. "I think it's just facing reality... More -
Saddam Court Gags Media
The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial has closed off the court to journalists after the former president called on Iraqis "to resist the invaders". "I call on the people to start resisting the invaders instead of killing each other," Saddam told the court on Wednesday. But he urged Iraqis to avoid civil war, otherwise "you will live in darkness.. More -
Spanish Ship Recovers Migrants' Bodies
A Spanish ship has picked up the bodies of 18 would-be immigrants south of the Canary Islands. The hospital ship Esperanza del Mar retrieved the bodies, at least some of whom were wearing life jackets, 720km from the Spanish archipelago on Wednesday, a regional government source said. At least 67 Africans are now known to have drowned since the end.. More -
Mideast on Edge after Israeli Jail Raid
The PalestinianAuthority is on heightened alert after a day-longIsraeli siege of a West Bank jail prompted an unprecedented wave ofabductions and threats of revenge against the Jewish state. Three foreign captives - two French and a Korean - were beingheld by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli raidon the Jericho jail, which succeeded.. More -
Sudan Opposes AU Terms on Darfur
Sudan will reject the proposed deployment of UN forces to Darfur after the African Union's peacekeeping mandate expires in September, according to Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, the vice-president. Taha's comment on Tuesday conflicts with the agreement announced in Addis Ababa on Friday, when Sudan and the African Union agreed to extend the mandate of the.. More -
UN Panel to Meet Syrian Leaders
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, and his vice president have agreed for the first time to talk to a UN inquiry into the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime, according to a UN report. The UN investigators, in their third report to the Security Council, said on Tuesday they were closer to a detailed understanding of how the plot.. More -
Israel captures jailed Palestinians
Six Palestinian fighters insidea West Bank prison in Jericho have surrendered to Israeli forces, almost 10 hours after Israeli troops laid siege to the compound. Among those who surrendered was Ahmed Saadat, leader of a PLO faction and mastermind of the 2001 assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister, the Israeli military announced on Tuesday. The.. More -
More Bodies Found in Iraq
In the past 24 hours, Iraqi police have found the bodies of at least 85 men killed by gunfire, execution style, in a gruesome wave of apparent sectarian killing. They include at least 27 bodies stacked in a mass grave in an eastern Shia neighbourhood. Much of the bloodshed - the second wave of mass killings in Iraq since bombers destroyed an important.. More -
Milosevic Died after "Making Himself Ill," Claims Dutch Doctor
Former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic may have died after deliberately taking harmful medicines to make him look more ill, its claimed. A toxicology expert at Groningen University has been analyising a blood sample taken from Milosevic two weeks ago. Analysis showed he had taken Rifampicin, an anti TB drug . 64 year old Milosevic was already.. More -
Lebanon Talks Focus on Shebaa Farms
Leaders of Lebanon's rival factions resumed on Mondaytalks seeking consensus on the biggest issues dividing the country - the status of Shebaa Farms, the fate of the pro-Syrian president and the UN call for Hizb Allah's disarmament. Aljazeera reported that the national dialogue conference resumed in Beirut after a six-day interruption caused mainly.. More -
Israel Shuts Karni Crossing
Israel has sealed off the vital Karni cargo crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel less than a week after reopening it, citing unspecified security warnings. Movement of goods from Gaza to Israel had been stopped earlier because of fear of Palestinian attacks, but shipments from Israel into Gaza were renewed last Thursday on what Israel said were.. More -
UK to Pull 800 Soldiers out of Iraq
John Reid, the British defence secretary, has said the country's forces in Iraq are to bereduced by 800 toabout 7000 personnel in the next few months. Reid told the lower House of Commons on Monday that the forces could be withdrawn in May because more Iraqi forces were ready to carry out duties performed until now by British troops. Nearly 235,000.. More -
Iran Rules out Backing down
Iran yesterday vowed to press on with its controversial nuclear activities and played down the threat of economic sanctions ahead of a key UN Security Council meeting on the country's atomic programme. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that Iran's government is taking the country in the wrong direction, repressing its own people and pursuing.. More
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