OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) — The UN Middle East envoy warned Tuesday that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip had become “dangerous” since Israel launched a massive operation to win the release of an abducted soldier.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Gunmen pulled the deputy electricity minister from his car in a busy Baghdad street on Tuesday, briefly kidnapping him and 19 bodyguards in an attack that underlined the vulnerability of Iraq’s new government.

BAGHDAD — No sooner had US authorities filed rape and murder charges against ex-soldier Steven D. Green than an account of the incident appeared on an Islamist website in the name of an insurgent group, the Mujahedeen Army. It promised “harsh punishment” for the alleged crime.

BERLIN — The West has no choice but to wait as Tehran plays for time and considers an offer of incentives from six major powers aimed at resolving its nuclear standoff, Western diplomats and analysts said.

CITE ETTADAMUN, Tunisia — North African slum dweller Salema breaks down and sobs as she recalls the price her family paid for her sons’ dream of a better life.

FROM THEIR TENTS outside a service station, evacuees from the former Jewish settlement of Elei Sinai in Gaza watch in dismay as Israeli troops reenter territory that was once home.

“Kill him, dammit, that’s your entire order. Get him over there, shoot him.”   Fatima Bazorkina was watching the evening news when she heard a Russian general give this order. The general was ordering the execution of a young man just detained by the Russian forces.

La patru zile de la propunerea de retragere a trupelor româneÅŸti din Irak, preÅŸedintele Traian Băsescu reia tirul îndreptat asupra liberalilor. Joi seara, ÅŸeful statului cataloga iniÅ£iativa, la postul public, drept un atentat grosolan la interesul naÅ£ional. Luni, la Radio România Actualităţi, preÅŸedintele a continuat mai dur. A fost de …

Fostul şef al statului, Ion Iliescu, a apreciat că, încă din momentul deciziei dislocării trupelor în Irak, România s-a implicat într-o acţiune „limitată în timp”. Din acest punct de vedere,

Este prima oară când în România se pune problema retragerii celor 800 de militari aflaţi în coaliţia internaţională din Irak, o decizie care nu le-a picat bine principalilor aliaţi ai ţării noastre.