TWO SISTERS AND one man were wounded early Monday morning when Israel launched a second air strike in as many weeks in the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian hospital sources, the three bystanders were wounded by shrapnel from three missile strikes in what the Israeli army said was an operation …

BAGHDAD (AFP) — A double suicide attack killed at least 27 people in Iraq on Monday, while in an embarrassing turnaround US forces released a moderate Sunni political leader they admitted had been detained “by mistake.” In the eastern province of Diyala, an Iraqi air force aircraft crashed with four …

FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES Chirac tried on Monday to limit the damage from his people’s rejection of the European Union constitution while the leaders of the 25-nation bloc battled to keep the new charter alive. Chirac spoke to several EU partners to reassure them that France, for decades one of the …