GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian factions clashed in Gaza on Saturday, wounding five people in fierce gunfire near two universities ahead of talks to patch up a shattered ceasefire.

ANALIZE LUMEA „Gaullismul era penetrat“ Franta celei de a IV-a Republici (1946 – 1958) a constituit un teren de exceptie în ce priveste infiltrarile KGB-ului în sanul comunitatii de informatii franceze si al clasei politice. ÃŽn 1954, 30% din rapoartele Directiei Principale I a KGB se bazau pe date furnizate …

Tata Steel (Q, N,C,F)* has received an approval from the Iranian government to set up a three million tons steel project with an investment of over Rs 60 billion, reports Business Standard.  

U.S. intelligence officials have told President George W. Bush conditions in Iraq are getting worse, the Washington Post reported.

VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has refused to let U.N. inspectors set up cameras at an underground plant where it is set to begin installing 3,000 centrifuges for full-scale enrichment of nuclear fuel, diplomats said on Friday.

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) — A South Korean delegation of parliamentarians and businessmen arrived in Amman, Jordan, on Thursday to meet with Iraqi provincial government officials about joint oil development and other economic development projects for the war-torn country, Seoul officials said Thursday.

VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has refused to let U.N. inspectors set up cameras at an underground plant where it is set to begin installing 3,000 centrifuges for full-scale enrichment of nuclear fuel, diplomats said on Friday.

The most recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, which has left many dead, confirms that the internal strife plaguing the Palestinian occupied territories since the rise of Hamas to power in January 2006

Local authorities clamped a total curfew on the Shiite holy city of Najaf in central Iraq on Friday to thwart attacks a day after 73 people died from twin suicide bombings in nearby Hilla.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched anniversary celebrations for Iran’s Islamic Revolution with a defiant promise to push ahead with the country’s controversial nuclear programme.