Iranian protesters called for a US withdrawal of Iraq

Huge Iranian demos against US, UK
Demonstrators angry about the US-led occupation of Iraq have been protesting in front of the British embassy in Tehran.

 Several hundred young Iranians had gathered outside the embassy on Wednesday as about 100,000 people gathered in the vast Enghelab (Revolution) square.

Bremer eulogizes slain Iraqi council chief

BERG MET WITH SHADY IRAQI

Car bomb kills Iraqi Governing Council leader

The current president of the Iraqi Governing Council was among those killed today by a car bomb near coalition headquarters in Baghdad, council officials said. The blast that killed Izzedine Salim killed four to six Iraqis. 

US tanks briefly re-entered Karbala on Sunday

. Clashes intensify across Iraq
Twenty people have been wounded by an exploding shell in a Nasiriyah market, while four members of an Iraqi family have died in a mortar attack in Basra.

Supporters of the Congress Pary celebrate Gandhi's win

  India's Congress party ousts BJP

Mr Kadyrov died of his injuries in the blast

 Chechen president killed by bomb

. Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed that pro-Moscow Chechen President Ahmad Kadyrov has been killed in a bomb attack in Grozny. Mr Putin described the Chechen leader as a true hero and said he had proved there was no equality between bandits, terrorists and the people.

US names Najaf governor amid fighting

 The US occupation authority in Iraq has named a new governor for the city of Najaf, as its soldiers reportedly kill dozens of Shia militiamen in renewed clashes.

Arab anger at Iraq torture photos

On the Arabic satellite channels, it's "all torture, all the time" - wall-to-wall coverage of the photographs, the graphic images flooding into homes across the region.

CBS/AP- Militiamen barraged a U.S. base Monday in the most intense attacks yet on U.S. troops in the holy Shiite city on Najaf, where the Americans have been holding back their full firepower to avoid enflaming the anger of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority.

. UN staffers could face prosecution over Iraq oil probe: UN chief

Tomas Hamill

US hostage in Iraq gains freedom

An American hostage has been found by US forces in Iraq, the military says.

Thomas Hamill was found south of Tikrit after he apparently escaped from his captors, US Army spokesman Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt told reporters.

Shaul Mofaz is urging the Likud to accept the Gaza pullout

Gaza pullout vote hangs in the balance

Sunday 02 May 2004
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan is facing the possibility of rejection by his own party as Likud members vote on the proposal

 

Shock new details of torture by US troops New Iraq torture allegations Chilling new evidence of the torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers emerged last night in a secret report accusing the US army leadership of failings at the highest levels