TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the tyranny and corruption dominating the world is a result of the performance of the faithless powers.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Addressing a huge congregation of the people in Hendijan, Khuzestan province, Iranian president Ahmadinejad said that the progress of Iran has triggered the wrath and anger of the enemies of our nation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- In reaction to the Egyptian Foreign Minister’s inclination for the normalization of relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Egypt, spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry said

RAMALLAH (AP) — Israeli undercover troops burst into a West Bank vegetable market Thursday afternoon, seized four men and exchanged heavy fire with Palestinian fighers in the first major raid since the Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to try to ease tensions between the sides.

SHARM EL SHEIKH (AP) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak firmly condemned Israel’s raid into the West Bank on Thursday as he met with Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert in a summit aimed reviving the long-stalled peace process.

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq postponed executing two of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen Thursday amid international pressure following the ousted leader’s bungled and much criticised hanging.

Speaker of the House-elect Nancy Pelosi blows a kiss Thursday while receiving applause after being nominated for the post  at a swearing in ceremony for the 110th Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC

MOGADISHU (Reuters) — Somali gunmen attacked an oil tanker truck near Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding three people and raising fears of a return to the clan violence that had largely stopped during six months of Islamist rule.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A year after Ariel Sharon’s stroke abruptly propelled him into the prime minister’s seat, Ehud Olmert finds himself badly out of favour and under a darkening cloud of scandal.

RIYADH — Saddam Hussein’s unruly execution on the feast of Eid Al Adha by masked Shiite hangmen taunting him on the gallows has revived Sunni Arab fears that the Iraqi government is run by vengeful sectarian Shiites backed by Iran.