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Indoctrination at an end of the year kindergarten party 1. On May 31, 2007, Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV satellite channel broadcast the end of the year party held for the 29 th class of kindergartens belonging to the Al-Mujamma’ al-Islami Islamic society, a part of Hamas’ social infrastructure ( da’wah ) …

NAHR BARED (AFP) — Lebanon laid terror charges against Al Qaeda inspired gunmen Wednesday as sporadic gunbattles flared between the Islamists and the army on the 18th day of a deadly standoff.

TEHRAN (AFP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that it was too late to stop Iran’s nuclear programme despite new efforts by Western powers to impose more UN sanctions against the Islamic republic.

MUSCAT (AP) — Thousands of people fled low-lying areas Tuesday as the strongest cyclone to threaten the Arabian Peninsula in 60 years barrelled towards the oil-rich Persian Gulf — with southern Iran next in its path.

Palestinians have gathered in the West Bank on the anniversary of the start of the 1967 Middle East war to demand an immediate end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land. And in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, zionist police shut down a Palestinian conference marking 40 years since zionist occupants captured …

TEHRAN (AFP) — Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday warned that Iran was prepared “to pay a price” and “resist” to realise the aims of its contested nuclear programme amid an intensifying standoff with the West.

KHARTOUM — Business leaders managing Sudan’s economic boom predict the new US sanctions imposed because of Darfur will have little impact on this country’s oil-based economy, mostly because they avoid targeting key Chinese interests here.

MOGADISHU (AFP) — Violent attacks and retaliation by security forces led to the deaths of two police officers and five civilians in Mogadishu Monday, a day after Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammad Gedi escaped a suicide car bomb attack.

ISTANBUL — Turkish women are on the street protesting as never before as the fight to preserve Turkey’s secular status gives them a louder political voice that could translate into parliamentary seats in this summer’s elections.

An Iraqi insurgent group says it has killed two missing American soldiers who they said had been captured alive.