Middle Orient

RAI reports that soil samples from the bomb crater contained twenty times as much radioactivity as samples from the surrounding area.

A high-explosive Iraqi Mujahideen bomb went off Friday evening by a US Humvee near head of the Barwanah Bridge in the Bani Dahir area of southern al-Hadithah, about 236km northwest of Baghdad. The bomb had been planted at the base of the bridge and exploded just as a US Humvee …

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Impactul termenului astăzi “Religiile au pătruns atât de mult în ţesătura evenimentelor contemporane încât răspunderile celor ce le reprezintă sunt fără precedent “1 iar dacă religia nu devine astăzi soluÅ£ia, sau parte a soluÅ£iei, ea va fi în mod sigur o problemă. Fundamentalismul religios este un termen cu care astăzi suntem familiarizaÅ£i. Nu trece …

TOKYO (AP) — The departure of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cheered critics around the world who saw him as a symbol of a failed war in Iraq, while supporters of the military mission pledged to work closely with his successor.

CAIRO (Reuters) — The Sudanese government is willing to start unconditional talks with the National Redemption Front rebel group to stop the violence in Darfur but sees no need for a new peace deal, a senior presidential adviser said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — An expected phased reduction in US troops in Iraq after the resignation of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld left Iraqis split on Thursday whether a withdrawal would be in their best interest.

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned against carrying out the death sentence on Saddam Hussein, saying that hanging the former leader would lead to more sectarian strife in Iraq.

BAGHDAD — US soldiers strolled through neighbourhoods in troubled north Baghdad on Thursday, poking their heads into storefronts and delivering the same message all day: Donald Rumsfeld’s departure does not mean American forces will abandon efforts to stabilise the capital.

BEIRUT (Reuters) — Rival Lebanese leaders made some progress in talks on Thursday on a Hizbollah demand for more say in the Western-backed Cabinet that would give the pro-Syrian party effective veto power over the government.