Hamas members detained in West Bank

Loyal to Mahmoud Abbas (photo), the Palestinian president, security forces have detained 35 members of the rival Hamas movement, in the West Bank.
They were arrested on Sunday, in Jenin and Tulkarm, after a crackdown in the Gaza Strip, controll

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Istanbul hit by deadly blasts

Two explosions on a busy shopping street in Istanbul killed at least 13 people and injured about 70 others, according to the city governor. On Sunday evening, the first device exploded by a telephone booth in a residential Gungoren district, and about 10 minutes later, a second bomb went off a few metres away.

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29 executed in Iranian jail

As they were convicted of being guilty of murder, rape, armed robbery or drug trafficking, 29 people have been executed on Sunday morning, in Tehran’s Evin prison, reported state television IRIB on its website.

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Obama cancelled visit to ‘injured American heroes’

John McCain, the Republican presidential hopeful, has criticised his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, because he cancelled a visit to injured US soldiers this week, when he went to Germany.

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