TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran’s judiciary confirmed on Tuesday the detention of an Iranian-American social scientist on charges of spying, one of a number that US officials and think tanks had reported held.

WASHINGTON — Confronted with strong opposition to his Iraq policies, President George W. Bush decides to interpret public opinion his own way. Actually, he says, people agree with him.

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.

RAMALLAH (AFP) — Palestinians and peace activists rallied on Tuesday against four decades of Israeli occupation on the anniversary of the 1967 war that reshaped the Middle East in just six days.

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber drove a pickup packed with explosives into a group of anti-Al Qaeda tribal chiefs Tuesday in a market area near Fallujah on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, officials said, in the latest example of the difficulties facing Sunni leaders trying to gain control …

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.

NAHR BARED (AFP) — Sporadic fighting continued on Tuesday in the Lebanese army’s battle to crush gunmen holed up in a refugee camp, amid reports the radicals’ resolve was weakening and that some were surrendering.

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 …

After spending five “hellish” years in the notorious American detention center of Guantanamo, a young Moroccan plans to turn a new leaf. “I’m delighted to be back with my family and friends,” a visibly relieved Mohamed Benmoujane remarked. “I will go back to school which I quit years ago to …

Former world chess champion and Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov spoke today to a group of journalists at the Democracy and Security Conference in Prague. Kasparov is the leader of the opposition umbrella group Other Russia.