A LITTLE-KNOWN group calling itself the Imad Mughnieh unit of the Brigades of the Liberators of the Galilee claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in Jerusalem today in a phone call to AFP
AL Jazeera television has appointed a cameraman held for six years without charge at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay as producer at its new freedoms and human rights programs department
A PALESTINIAN killed three people and wounded 45 more as he rammed a bulldozer into buses and cars in Jerusalem before being shot dead by Israeli police who branded it a terrorist attack
A PALESTINIAN construction worker rampaged in a bulldozer along one of west Jerusalem`s busiest streets, killing three Israelis as he crushed cars and overturned a bus before being shot dead
THE Israeli parliament has passed a law banning any citizen who has visited an "enemy" country in the previous seven years from standing for election, triggering the anger of Israeli Arab MPs
THE Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre has accused a German judge of blocking the search for the world`s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, Aribert Heim, also known as "Dr Death"
THE commander of the US navy`s Fifth Fleet has warned the United States will not allow Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf sea lane through which much of the world`s oil is supplied
FOUR Iraqi men are suing US military contractors who they say tortured them while they were detained in Abu Ghraib prison, according to lawsuits being filed at US federal courts today
IRAQ opened its giant oilfields to foreign firms today, putting British and US companies in pole position five years after US-led troops invaded the country to oust Saddam Hussein
THE number of Iraqis killed in political violence in June fell to 509, a nearly 10 per cent fall compared to the previous month, security officials said today
