JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Hamas and Fatah carried out tit-for-tat arrests of each other’s followers on Sunday after deadly Gaza bomb attacks fuelled tension between the Palestinian factions.
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Abbas condemns Gaza violence, favors dialogue
CAIRO (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected accusations by Gaza’s Islamist Hamas rulers that his Fatah movement was behind a deadly bomb attack that killed five Hamas gunmen and a girl in Gaza two days ago.
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(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 1045 GMT on Sunday. FALLUJA – A bomb wounded Zeki al-Mohammedi, a member of the Anbar provincial council and head of the Falluja branch of the Iraqi Islamic Party, and killed two of his bodyguards in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) …
Read More »NATO air raid kills dozens of Taliban: governor
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) – NATO killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in an air strike on Sunday in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Khost, the provincial governor said.
Read More »FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan
(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 4:30 a.m. EDT on Sunday: KHOST – NATO killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in an air strike on Sunday following an attack by the militants on a government building in southeastern Khost province near the border with Pakistan, the provincial governor …
Read More »Bosnia threatened with break-up, Ashdown says
LONDON (Reuters) – Bosnia is closer to breaking up than at any time since its 1992-95 war and the European Union must do more to prevent its division, former international peace overseer Paddy Ashdown said.
Read More »Hamas, militant group clash in Gaza Strip violence
GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas security forces clashed with gunmen from the Army of Islam, an al Qaeda-inspired group, in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, part of a security crackdown following a surge in internal violence.
Read More »Afghan family devastated by suicide blast
KABUL (Reuters) – Abdul Wahid was asleep in England when he received a panicked phone call. “Buy a plane ticket and hurry to Kabul!” his brother’s voice said.
Read More »Blasts at Gaza cafe, politician’s house: Hamas
GAZA (Reuters) – Bomb blasts rocked a cafe and a Hamas politician’s home in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian in one of the biggest flare-ups in internal violence since Islamists seized the enclave a year ago.
Read More »Italy returns antiquities looted from Iraq
ROME (Reuters) – Italy on Thursday returned 13 ancient Iraqi artifacts that had been smuggled out of the country after the U.S.-led invasion.
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