IRAQI police said today the death toll from coordinated bombings blamed on al-Qaeda in a central Baghdad shopping area had risen to 68, making it the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in almost a year
ISRAEL went on alert today after a Palestinian gunmen killed eight teens at a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem before being gunned down, threatening efforts to mend faltering peace talks
EGYPT has started building a concrete wall along its border with the Gaza Strip in a bid to prevent a repetition of a January breach which saw Palestinians flood into Egypt, a security official told AFP
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