LONDON (Petra) — King Abdullah on Saturday urged the international community to shoulder responsibility for “this critical” stage of the Palestinian cause.

RAMALLAH (AP) — Embattled Mahmoud Abbas got a major boost in his increasingly bellicose showdown with Hamas on Saturday, with a US diplomat saying he expects a crippling 15-month-old foreign aid embargo to be lifted once the Palestinian president appoints an emergency government without the Islamic fighters.

‘If the Islamic Courts came back, not just this area but the whole of Somalia will be safer’