BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Violence in Baghdad has declined in the past two weeks and all but ended in some formerly deadly neighbourhoods, the US military said in a cautiously upbeat report on Tuesday on a major security clampdown in the city.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Breaking down in tears, a Kurdish woman testified Tuesday in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein, describing how foul smoke billowed across her village, blinding residents, in a 1987 poison gas attack and how her male relatives disappeared at a prison camp.

TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran handed over its formal response on Tuesday to a nuclear incentives offer from major powers and said it contained ideas that would allow serious talks about its standoff with the West to start immediately.

BEIRUT (AFP) — Food, bedding and other emergency supplies are pouring into war-battered Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect more than a week ago, United Nations relief officials say.

SRIFA — When not fighting under the Hizbollah banner, Abu Hadi is a farmer whose faith in the movement appears unshaken by the destruction of his village and the deaths of his relatives.

GENEVA (AFP) —Lebanon’s 15-year economic and social recovery from civil war was wiped out in the recent Israeli offensive against Hizbollah, the UN development agency said Tuesday.

BEIRUT (AFP) — Cleanup of a massive oil spill caused by Israeli air strikes on a fuel depot could take up to one year, the environmental group Greenpeace Mediterranean said Tuesday.

Conflictul în care este implicată platforma petrolieră românească Orizont este departe de a se fi încheiat. Un oficial al companiei Petro Iran Development a declarat agenţiei Reuters că platforma nu a fost atacată militar. Dimpotrivă, oficialul a adus acuzaţii companiei române GSP, despre care susţine că a lansat informaţii false.

Celulă de criză la MApN ÅŸi măsurile MAE Ministrul Apărării, Teodor Atanasiu, a declarat, marÅ£i, pentru agenÅ£ia NewsIn, că a constituit o celulă de criză la nivelul ministerului său cu scopul de a colecta toate datele despre atacul militar iranian asupra platformei româneÅŸti “Orizont”.

Teheranul, pregătit pentru noi negocieri Negociatorul-ÅŸef iranian în dosarul nuclear, Ali Larijani, a declarat, marÅ£i, că Teheranul este dispus să înceapă de miercuri discuÅ£ii “serioase” cu cele ÅŸase mari puteri în legătură cu oferta prezentată.