King visits Talabani at hospital, doctor says president suffers from extreme exhaustion, dehydration BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Shiite vice president narrowly escaped assassination Monday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by US teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were …

Mishaal in Moscow to enlist Russian help to end sanctions RAMALLAH — One Palestinian was killed yesterday in an ongoing Israeli military incursion into Nablus that started Sunday and which the Israeli army has described as “open-ended”. It is the largest Israeli incursion into the West Bank in months, with …

KING ABDULLAH AND Saudi King Abdullah on Monday held talks on developments in the Palestinian territories and Iraq, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. During talks in Riyadh, the two leaders stressed the importance of unifying Palestinian ranks and working with the international community to end the suffering of the …

JABAL AMEL, Lebanon: Al-Allamah Sayyed Ali Al-Amin, the senior religious scholar in Tyre and the Jabal Amel region, said he has been receiving threatening e-mails, in addition to a number of letters that he earlier forwarded to Lebanese judicial authorities.

An about sixty Comorian dignitaries sunnites called Thursday with Moroni with the prohibition of the religious practices Shiites in the archipelago of the Comoros, noted a correspondent of AFP. Gathered in a Koranic school of the Comorian capital, these monks, with at their head large the cadi of Moroni, Said …

I am from France and Pakistani national. I want to inform all the Shias about some TODAYS YAZEEDI. Here in UK some Masajids of DEOBANDI/WAHABIS are preparing young uneducated persons with YAZEEDI BLOOD all over the World. Yesterday I here their MAJLIS which was adress by late AZAM TARIQ/DOG. and …

Motivele” invadarii Irakului se razbuna acum, cand Administratia Bush incearca sa pregateasca terenul pentru o interventie impotriva Iranului * Mecanismul dezinformarii a fost demontat de celebrul Zbigniew Brzezinski si de o ancheta a Pentagonului Campania de dezinformare care a oferit Administratiei Bush justificarea atacarii Irakului a fost pregatita la Pentagon, …

Syria denied a published report that it is building up its troops along the Israeli border.Israeli Radio reported that Syrian Parliament member Mohammed Habash told Al Arabiya television that the country has not changed its troops along the border, denying a report from the Haaretz news service.

MP Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the Federation Council (upper house of the Russian parliament) International Affairs Committee, met with the Iranian chairman of the Iran-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group, MP Kazem Jalali, here on Tuesday.

Labor leadership candidate Ophir Paz-Pines launched his campaign on Wednesday by accusing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of being corrupt, Defense Minister Amir Peretz of causing damage and his party of being “addicted to power.”