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U.S. and British planes attacked three Iraqi air defense sites Friday, including part of a fiber-optic network that Iraq has been using to link its radars to track allied planes, Pentagon officials told CNN.

The final swearing-in of Mohammad Khatami, Iran's resoundingly re-elected president, was put on hold Saturday because of a constitutional crisis that pitted conservative leaders against the country's reform-minded parliament.

Egypt's top foreign policy official on Thursday criticized what he called the Bush administration's lack of involvement in the Mideast conflict, warning that further inaction runs the risk of unleashing extremist forces within weeks.

Thursday's explosion at a pizzeria in Jerusalem is just the latest attack being attributed to a Palestinian suicide bomber. Ten such blasts since last October have claimed about 32 Israeli lives, including 21 killed outside a Tel Aviv disco in June.

Three Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon last October may have died from injuries they suffered during the abduction, a United Nations report said Friday.

The United States on Tuesday bombed an Iraqi multiple rocket launcher in northern Iraq in what Pentagon officials said was an immediate response to a provocation.

A large exposive device went off in a pizza restaurant around noon in central Jerusalem Thursday and a number of people were killed, Israeli police said.

A best-selling novel believed to have been written by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is set to be transformed into a stage play.

A second day of protest outside the Orient House in East Jerusalem ended in scuffles on Saturday between Palestinian demonstrators, their supporters and Israeli police.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem, aides said Sunday.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says he has agreed to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in Berlin.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said on Tuesday he had agreed to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and that the meeting could take place at any moment.

Israeli troops pulled out of Beit Jala before dawn on Thursday, leaving the Palestinian town quiet amid reports of fresh violence in other West Bank towns.

Saudi television has shown footage of three Britons confessing to three bombings in the oil-rich kingdom.

Burying Palestinian suicide bombers with pig skin or pig blood could deter potential attackers, an Israeli official says.

Three Palestinians died late Sunday in the Gaza town of Rafah. Palestinian security sources said they were killed by an Israeli missile; Israelis said they died from a wayward Palestinian mortar shell.

Four people died and at least 15 others were injured Sunday in a string of violent incidents between Israelis and Palestinians.

Three Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians have been killed in a gunbattle at an Israeli military outpost in Gaza.

A gunman shooting from a car wounded at least 9 people on a busy street near Israel's Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israeli authorities said.

Hezbollah, the radical Shiite group based in Lebanon, says it has fired anti-aircraft artillery at Israeli warplanes that flew into Lebanese airspace Thursday morning.

Israeli forces shelled a Palestinian police station south of the West Bank town of Tulkarem on Thursday in response to the shooting of an Israeli soldier, Israeli military sources said.

A head-on collision between a bus and a truck in southern Iran has killed 30 people, the official IRNA news agency said.

A top Iranian state council will meet in emergency session Monday to resolve a crisis delaying President Mohammad Khatami's inauguration.

The Iranian parliament was suspended for an hour after women politicians protested at the jailing of a colleague by the conservative judiciary.

The Iraqi military says it may have hit a U.S. or British warplane over northern Iraq on Wednesday.

Israeli helicopters have attacked Palestinian targets following the killing of a Jewish settler in the West Bank.

Israeli army officials said Friday the army has no intention of reoccupying Palestinian-controlled towns in the West Bank after troops briefly entered Palestinian-controlled parts of Hebron late Thursday.