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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – At least seven car bombings rattled the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing four civilians and wounding 37 others across the oil-rich city, police sources said.
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Mideast quartet backs U.S. effort to revive talks
The quartet of Middle East peace brokers backed a U.S. push to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks on Friday but voiced deep concern about violence among Palestinians that threatens to undermine the effort.
Read More »Bin Laden’s ‘bodyguard’ jailed
Rabat – A Moroccan ex-Guantanamo detainee accused of briefly being a member of Osama bin Laden’s personal bodyguard was given a 10-year jail sentence by a Moroccan anti-terrorism court on Friday.
Read More »Iraq deployment greatest foreign policy failure since Vietnam: Rudd
Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says the Howard Government’s engagement in Iraq has proven to be Australia’s greatest foreign policy failure since the Vietnam War.
Read More »Gunbattles rage as Hamas, Fatah ignore truce
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Fatah and Hamas clashed at Cabinet ministries, universities and security headquarters Saturday in defiance of a truce that was to have calmed the seething Gaza Strip.
Read More »Vietnam Vets to Vote on Iraq Troop Surge
WASHINGTON (AP) – Four of the senators who will vote next week on putting more troops in Iraq bear the scars of another war in another time, in a place called Vietnam. Three will vote against sending more troops. One will vote the other way.
Read More »Envoy: Iran’s nuclear site advances
VIENNA, Austria – Technical crews have hauled centrifuges into Iran’s vast underground Natanz complex and were on the threshold of launching a program that could be used to create nuclear arms, diplomats said yesterday.
Read More »U.S., Russia Clash Over Syria in Middle East
WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia clashed on Friday over Moscow’s suggestion that Syria should be included in efforts to advance an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement.
Read More »Hamas, Fatah Ignore Truce Deal in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Fatah and Hamas clashed at Cabinet ministries, universities and security headquarters Saturday in defiance of a truce that was to have calmed the seething Gaza Strip.
Read More »As Democrats stake out Iraq stands, Clinton says she’d end war if elected
WASHINGTON – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday that she would not have attacked Iraq had she been president, and would end the war if elected, as she tried to blunt rivals such as John Edwards who are stoking antiwar passions in the Democratic Party.
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