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Britain opens long-awaited Iraq war probe

An anti-war protester takes part in a demonstration in Brighton, southern England. A long-awaited public inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war will open with former civil servants first to appear in hearings set to climax with Tony Blair taking the stand.
AFP - 1 hour 36 minutes ago

LONDON (AFP) - - A long-awaited public inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war opens on Tuesday, with former civil servants first to appear in hearings set to climax with Tony Blair taking the stand. More »

  • Iran said ready for uranium exchange on its soil

    AP - 1 hour 56 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's Foreign Ministry says the country is ready to exchange its low-enriched uranium with a higher enriched one, but only on its own soil.

  • Google documents Iraqi treasures

    AP - 1 hour 57 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - Google is documenting the treasures of Iraq's national museum.

  • Yemen conflict inflaming Saudi-Iranian rivalry

    AP - 2 hours 46 minutes ago

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - For years just an obscure fight raging in remote desert mountains, Yemen's war with Shiite rebels has been dragged up to a new level, inflaming the rivalry between the Middle East's two powerhouses Saudi Arabia and Iran.

  • Israeli aircraft strike arms operations in Gaza

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    JERUSALEM - Israel's military says it has carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels.

  • Brazil's president urges West to work with Iran

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    BRASILIA, Brazil - Iran's leader got a welcoming bear hug from the Brazilian president, who urged Western nations to drop threats of punishment over the Iranian nuclear program and instead negotiate a fair solution.

  • Belgian pleads guilty in U.S. jet parts sale to Iran

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 24

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Belgian man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of conspiring to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the United States to Iran, the Justice Department said.

  • Peacekeepers should prepare to leave Darfur - Sudan

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 24

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  • Israel says no deal yet on Shalit prisoner swap

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Israel said on Monday there was no deal yet on a prisoner swap with Hamas, as efforts appeared to gather pace on an accord that could see a Gaza-held soldier exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians.

  • Netanyahu: Prisoner swap not a done deal

    AP - 40 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister is trying to temper expectations that a deal to free a long-held Israeli soldier is imminent.

  • Member of Parliament Usama al-Nejaifi speaks to the press following an agreed proposal on the electoral law in Baghdad. Iraq's upcoming general election will be delayed, a top MP warned, because an amended electoral law agreed on Monday is likely to be vetoed for a second time by the country's Sunni vice president.

    Iraq vote in fresh doubt as new bill faces veto

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    BAGHDAD (AFP) - - Iraq's upcoming general election will be delayed, a top MP warned, because an amended electoral law agreed on Monday is likely to be vetoed for a second time by the country's Sunni vice president.

  • Demonstrators protest in Brasilia against the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian president has begun a controversial visit to Brazil -- the key leg of a tour to sympathetic Latin American and African countries he sees backing Tehran's vision of

    Iran's Ahmadinejad on controversial trip to Brazil

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    BRASILIA (AFP) - - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday began a controversial visit to Brazil, the key leg of a tour to sympathetic Latin American and African countries he sees backing Tehran's vision of "a new world order."

  • Inability to compromise may delay Iraqi election

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament failed Monday to produce an election law that pleased minority Sunni Arabs, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to say that nationwide balloting scheduled for January "might slip" to a later date.

  • Israel has history of uneven prisoner swap deals

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    Palestinians said Monday that negotiators were close to exchanging an Israeli soldier held by Gaza militants for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

  • Iranian official in fake degree scandal dies

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    TEHRAN, Iran - Former Iranian Interior Minister Ali Kordan, who was dismissed after being accused of faking a law degree from the University of Oxford, has died, reports said Monday.

  • No deal yet on Shalit prisoner swap: Israeli PM

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Israel has not yet reached a prisoner-swap deal with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday as efforts for the release of soldier Gilad Shalit appeared to gather pace.

  • Iranian security forces stand guard in central Tehran during a religious event. The country's moral authorities have arrested a dozen couples for engaging in illicit sexual acts, including the swapping of partners, the conservative Jomhuri Eslami reported on Monday.

    Iran police arrest 12 couples for partner swapping

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    TEHRAN (AFP) - - Iran's moral police have arrested a dozen couples for engaging in illicit sexual acts, including swapping of partners, the conservative Jomhuri Eslami reported on Monday.

  • Smoke billows following a blast close to the Justice Ministry in central Baghdad on October 25, 2009. Iraq on Sunday for the first time said that the bombers who killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on October 25 came from neighbouring Syria, but steered well clear of accusing Damascus of collusion.

    Iraq says October 25 bombers came from Syria: spokesman

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    BAGHDAD (AFP) - - Iraq on Sunday for the first time said that the bombers who killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on October 25 came from neighbouring Syria, but steered well clear of accusing Damascus of collusion.

  • Iranian technicians remove a container of radioactive uranium at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities in 2005. Iran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog said that Tehran wants a guaranteed supply of fuel for a research reactor as a military chief warned that any attack on its nuclear sites would be crushed.

    Iran wants nuclear fuel guarantees, warns against air attack

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    TEHRAN (AFP) - - Iran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog said on Sunday that Tehran wants a guaranteed supply of fuel for a research reactor as a military chief warned that any attack on its nuclear sites would be crushed.

  • Sudan delays elections by six days

    Reuters - Monday, November 23

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan on Sunday announced a six-day delay to long-awaited elections to make up for hold-ups in registering millions of voters in the oil-producing country.

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