GENEVA (AFP) — An international conference was mired Wednesday, as efforts continued to break a deadlock after a Muslim challenge to moves to facilitate Israeli membership of the global Red Cross movement.

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia will review its troop deployment to Iraq by the end of this year, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said Wednesday — the first time the Australian government has signalled a possible timeline for withdrawing its troops.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — One of Saddam Hussein’s main lawyers was shot dead on Wednesday after men in police uniform took him from his home, relatives said, the third defence attorney to be killed since the trial opened in October.

PETRA — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said there were “indications” that Hamas may recognise the two-state solution adopted in the roadmap to the Mideast peace.

RAMALLAH — Two Palestinains were killed and 13 people injured when an Israeli missile missed its intended target yesterday and slammed into a house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.

In The name Of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful! In connection with the death of the President of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI), Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, in accordance with Article 75 of CRI Constitution, Vice President of CRI Dokka Umarov is fulfilling the responsibilities of the President of CRI since 17 …

According to information of invaders’ sources, a Russian military convoy has been attacked in CRI’s Nojay-Yurt district. According to same sources, Mujahideen blew up a remote-controlled mine first and then attacked the convoy automatic weapons. UAZ army jeep and BTR armored troop-carrier have been blown up to destroy. According to …

The death of Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, President of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, is a great and very sad loss for the whole Chechen land. May I express my sincere condolences to his relatives, friends, and comrades-in-arms. He was the youngest Chechen president in history.

First of all, I want to express sincere condolences about the death of Abdu-Halim Sadulayev, President of Chechen Republic. His assassination is yet another crime of Russian imperialism against the Chechen nation.

According to information of a representative of Chechen Command, Russian military convoys and outposts had come under attack in country’s southern parts of Vedeno and Nojay-Yurt districts on June 19, during the combat operations of Mujahideen. According to the sources, mobile squads of Mujahideen attacked invaders in Shirdi-Mohk, Beti-Mohk, Janni-Vedeno, …