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BRITISH NUCLEAR SUBMARINE REFLOATED AFTER RUNNING AGROUND
AFP - 39 mins agoLONDON (AFP) - Britain's newest nuclear submarine was towed out to sea after spending Friday stuck on a shingle bank after running aground off a Scottish island.More »
JAZEERA: WIKILEAKS PAPERS SHOW IRAQ TORTURE, US KILLINGS
AFP - 15 mins agoDUBAI (AFP) - Al-Jazeera on Friday released "startling new information" from US documents obtained by WikiLeaks, alleging state-sanctioned Iraqi torture and the killing of hundreds of civilians at US military checkpoints. More »
PALESTINIANS URGE WATER STRATEGY
AFP - 1 hour 13 mins agoVOULIAGMENI, Greece (AFP) - Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayaad on Friday called on the international community to help find a solution to the difficult access to water in the occupied territories. More »
SETTLERS VANDALISE WEST BANK MUSLIM CEMETERY: WITNESS
AFP - 1 hour 17 mins agoKAFR QADDUM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Several Muslim graves at a cemetery in the West Bank were vandalised by Jewish settlers early on Friday, a witness said as Israel opened a probe into the case. More »
ISRAEL VANQUISHES IRAN... ON THE CHESS BOARD
AFP - 2 hours 2 mins agoTEL AVIV (AFP) - An Israeli chess grandmaster took the Guinness record for simultaneous chess games from the Jewish state's arch-foe Iran on Friday after a marathon 19-hour match against 523 players. More »
SPANISH POLICE ARREST 14 SUSPECTED ETA ALLIES
AFP - 2 hours 7 mins agoMADRID (AFP) - Spanish police arrested 14 suspected members of an outlawed organization of youths linked with armed Basque separatists ETA in pre-dawn raids Friday, the government said. More »
ISRAEL SETTLEMENTS BLOCK PALESTINIAN STATE: UN ENVOY
AFP - 2 hours 14 mins agoUNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Israel's settlement construction in the occupied territories has become an almost insurmountable obstacle to creating an independent Palestinian state, a UN envoy said Friday. More »
IRAQ CITY WITH SOARING CHILD CANCER GETS NEW HOSPITAL
AFP - 2 hours 44 mins agoBASRA, Iraq (AFP) - Iraq's first specialist cancer hospital for children could not have opened in a needier location -- since 1993, Basra province has seen a sharp rise in the incidence of childhood cancer. More »
ITALIAN-GREEK GROUP TO BUILD SYRIAN POWER PLANT
AFP - 2 hours 53 mins agoDAMASCUS (AFP) - Ansaldo Energia, a unit of Italy's Finmecannica, and Greece's Metka, part of Mytilineos Holdings, are to build a gas-powered electricity generating plant in Syria, the press reported on Friday. More »
WIKILEAKS PROMISES 'MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT' SATURDAY IN EUROPE
AFP - 2 hours 57 mins agoLONDON (AFP) - The WikiLeaks website has promised a "major announcement" in Europe on Saturday, in a message on its Twitter feed, amid speculation it will release thousands of secret documents about the Iraq war. More »
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- Israel attacks Iran - on the chess boardAFP -Yesterday, 06:36 pm
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