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Twin car bomb attacks have rocked the justice ministry and a provincial office in Iraqi capital of Baghdad, leaving at least 132 people dead and 600 others wounded. The car bombs, which the government said had al-Qaeda's 'signature', exploded simultaneously at around 10:30 am (0730 GMT) in Baghdad. The explosions destroyed dozens of cars and smashed water pipes in the city, AFP reported. One of the blasts occurred at a busy intersection near the justice and municipalities ministries while ...

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Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited Iran's newly constructed Fordo nuclear facility, some 160 kilometers southwest of Tehran. "Inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog who arrived in Iran late Saturday visited Fordo facility on Sunday," the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. "They are expected to carry out several inspections of the Fordo site," it added. The IAEA team will stay in Tehran until Tuesday. This is the first IAEA visit to Iran since ...

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Israeli police have invaded the al-Aqsa mosque for the second time in recent weeks, which has prompted clashes with Arab worshippers, Israeli and Palestinian officials have said. Hundreds of Israeli forces have been deployed to seal off the compound confining hundreds of worshippers inside the holy mosque. Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said 12 arrests were made in and around the compound. Reports say police threw stun grenades and canisters at worshippers, injuring at least ...

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Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have killed a top army commander in northern Sa'ada province, where the fighters inflicted heavy losses on government forces. Brigadier General Amr Ali Mousa Al-Uuzali was killed in an ambush on Sunday, the office of the Houthis' leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, said in a statement. The body of the commander was taken from Sa'ada to Safa', Yemeni media reported. Fierce clashes were underway in the area of Razih, where the fighters along with the local ...

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After more than 40 people, including senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps were killed in a terrorist attack in southeastern Iran, one of the country's senior army officials talks of the involvement of the US, UK, an Arab country and an eastern neighbor in the deadly bombing. Speaking to Mehr news agency on Sunday, Deputy Head of Iran's armed forces headquarters Brigadier-General Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri said such attempts carried out by the enemy were aimed at causing ...

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By Anoush Maleki President George W. Bush, backed by a well-known neo-con crew as well as the gang in Tel Aviv, did all he could to formulate his war-loving foreign policy to force his successor manage a third military conflict in the Middle East. Iran has been on the White House agenda for many years; recently, the potent excuse that has driven the drive has been the country's nuclear program, which is being conducted under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog. Under the allegation ...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly voiced the Israeli government's plans to expel indigenous Palestinian Arabs from their occupied lands. Netanyahu stressed that Palestinians should recognize Israel as a Jewish state in order to end their conflict. "That's right," Netanyahu told The Washington Post when asked if such recognition was needed. "Israel is not a bi-national state," AFP quoted Netanyahu as saying on Saturday. "It has non-Jews who live here with full, equal rights ...

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Following growing indications that Pyongyang is willing to resolve its nuclear standoff with the world through negotiations, a senior North Korean nuclear official meets with a US counterpart in New York. During a rare visit by a North Korean diplomat to the US, the communist state's deputy negotiator in stalled six-nation talks held face-to-face talks with Washington's special envoy for North Korean nuclear disarmament, Sung Kim, in New York on Saturday. The US state department has denied ...

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Iraq's prime minister has warned that the government and parliament may lose their "legitimacy" as a result of a deadlock over stalled election law. "If it is postponed from the current date, the government will lose its legitimacy and parliament will have lost its legitimacy," Maliki said in a speech Saturday. "We will be forced to go back to square one, returning to sectarianism. ... Therefore, our voices must unite to hold the election at its present date," AFP quoted Maliki as saying ...

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In the wake of the bloody attack in southeastern Iran carried out by the Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist group, Tehran and Islamabad have agreed to adopt joint measures to fight terrorism. "A golden era will open in strategic cooperation between the two countries through the eradication of terrorism," Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said in a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday. At least 41 people, including seven senior commanders of the ...

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