GAZA (Reuters) – Sleeping in their cars outside petrol stations, Palestinians are feeling the pinch of a fuel crisis in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, where black market gasoline sells for about $30 a gallon.

KABUL (Reuters) – Seventeen Afghan road workers were killed in an attack in the southern Afghan province of Zabul on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 10:05 a.m. on Tuesday. * denotes new or updated items. * BAGHDAD – 10 people died and 61 were wounded in fighting in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, on Tuesday, an Iraqi health official said.

The U.S. military said that four of its soldiers were killed on Monday in separate incidents in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.Following are the latest figures for soldiers and civilians killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March, 2003:

AMMAN (Reuters) – Iraq’s humanitarian crisis has worsened, and decades of conflict and deteriorating basic services are reducing people’s ability to cope with the hardships they face, a senior U.N. aid official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- There is perhaps no leader in the world more important to current world affairs but less known and understood than the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel urged Muslims to boycott Dutch goods in response to a film by a far-right Dutch politician that insults Islamic values and links the holy Koran to violence.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slated to visit Natanz nuclear facility on the occasion of the National Day of Nuclear Technology.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received the new Thai ambassador to Tehran, Suwit Saicheua, in a meeting here on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Young Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr will be sidelined from politics unless he disbands his militia, Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki warned on Monday as fresh fighting erupted in Baghdad.