Monthly Archives: September 2010

Tajikistan said on Monday foreign Islamist militants were responsible for killing at least 25 troops in an ambush near the Central Asian republic's border with Afghanistan.

Selling land to Israel or Israelis is a capital offense, a Palestinian Authority court in the Jerusalem area ruled Thursday. The verdict overturned a lower court's ruling that such a sale was a "minor crime."

Helen Thomas, the veteran White House correspondent who resigned from Hearst newspapers in June after a row over her anti-Jewish comments, will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Unidentified gunmen set fire to "Crazy Water" park closed for allowing mixed bathing; witnesses say at least 25 assailants took part.

Former Israeli premier Ehud Olmert said on Sunday the United States had agreed to accept some 100,000 Palestinian refugees within the framework of an eventual Middle East peace deal, media reported.

Two near-simultaneous car bombs rocked the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 31people and wounding at least 80 in the city's deadliest day in a month.

The man was from Liverpool, travellling via Schiphol, en route to Entebbe in Uganda. The Somali Briton was already on the plane when he was arrested by military police.

Hamas appears to be developing a phobia of Israel's security forces, and is worried that Israeli intelligence operatives are attempting to collect intelligence on it through the telephone system, after issuing earlier warnings regarding the Facebook internet social network.

Egypt went on emergency alert after reports of a possible imminent Hamas attack on Israel from the Sinai, where terrorists are suspected of either planning to smuggle missiles or fire those that already have been hidden there.

Egyptian bloggers and activists said the picture was an example of the regime's deception of its own people. Critics also said the photo was an attempt to distract attention from Egypt's waning role in the Middle East peace process.