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Three Palestinians and one Israeli were killed Tuesday in a clash south of here near the village of Tel Bourin.

France is threatening to scupper a World Trade Organization agreement on phasing out farm export subsidies.

An Qatari man has been shot dead by security guards after opening fire at an airbase in Qatar, which this week hosts a meeting of the World Trade Organisation, the Arabic language TV network al Jazeera reported on Wednesday.

The militant group Hamas has vowed to avenge the death of the leader of its military wing.

Israel's defense minister says an inquiry is being held into reports that a bomb planted by Israeli forces killed five Palestinian children in Gaza.

Saying that innocent women, men and children are being subjected to blind wrath, misnamed as a holy war, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Friday delivered indirect criticism of the the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Iran's foreign minister sharply criticized the U.S.-led military operation in Afghanistan on Saturday but said his nation backed a broad-based, representative government in its troubled neighbor.

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Sunday expressed his sorrow again to the United States for the thousands killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks, but said the root causes of terrorism must be examined before it can be stopped.

(CNN) - The U.S.-led war against terrorism is being carried out across the border from Iran, in Afghanistan.

Iraq has withdrawn its ambassador to Turkey, a former intelligence official who may have met with suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998, diplomatic sources said Thursday.

Anchor Bill Hemmer was host Monday to two men with key roles in an international issue: Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and Saeb Arakat, the chief Palestinian negotiator.

The Israel Defense Forces said Monday the device that exploded last Thursday and killed five Palestinian boys in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza was placed there by Israeli soldiers to thwart Palestinian attackers.

Israeli helicopters attacked three Palestinian targets in northern Gaza early Sunday in response to the firing of mortar bombs in the area over the weekend and last week, the Israel Defence Forces said.

Israeli tanks and troops completed their withdrawal from areas of the West Bank town of Ramallah Wednesday morning, Israeli military sources told CNN.

Israel Defense Forces seized a Hamas official Monday after the IDF said its soldiers killed two armed Palestinians the night before trying to invade the Israeli settlement of Dugit.

An Israeli helicopter attack on a taxi killed three people, including two members of the militant Islamic group Hamas, on Friday.

The chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces has officially pronounced that three soldiers abducted by Hezbollah guerrillas last year are dead.

Israeli troops, tanks and bulldozers Thursday entered the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza and destroyed structures suspected as firing bases for mortars, Israel Defense Forces said.

The Israeli army launched helicopter attacks early Sunday on Palestinian targets in Gaza in what it said was a response to the killing of an Israeli soldier and repeated mortar attacks on Israeli civilians in the area.

Israeli forces have completed a pullout of troops and equipment from the Palestinian West Bank town of Qalqilya, the Israel Defense Forces told CNN.

Israel has announced steps to ease restrictions on Palestinians during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins Friday or Saturday.

Jordan played a key role in thwarting terrorist attacks on two hotels in the Jordanian resort town of Petra, allegedly timed to coincide with the September assaults on the United States, sources said.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, that both sides know what the outcome of the Middle East peace process has to be and the two parties should find a way back to talks as soon as possible.

Iraq says it will not comply with a U.S. demand that weapons inspectors be allowed to enter the country, until U.N. sanctions have been lifted.

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a crowded market in the northern Israeli town of Afula on Tuesday, killing at least two Israelis and injuring dozens. The shooting occurred as two U.S. envoys are touring the region and meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an attempt to forge an Israeli-Palestinian truce.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has held talks in the Iranian capital Tehran on an unpublicized stopover on his way to the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Israel has said it has ordered the halt to the construction of a mosque at a site near the Christian Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, a project that has angered the Vatican.

U.S. Navy rescuers scoured the Persian Gulf on Sunday for two sailors missing after a ship allegedly smuggling Iraqi oil sank with them aboard, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said.

A Palestinian man wanted in the shooting of a settler died Wednesday after he was shot as Israeli border police attempted to arrest him near the West Bank town of Hebron, Israeli authorities said.

Palestinian gunmen opened fire Tuesday on a crowded market in the northern town of Afula. One Israeli was killed at the scene, and another died at a local hospital.

A Palestinian man wanted in the shooting of a settler died Wednesday after he was shot as Israeli border police attempted to arrest him near the West Bank town of Hebron, Israeli authorities said.

Israeli troops killed a man in a raid on a West Bank village Monday, Palestinian sources said.

Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that the United States stands ready to help reignite the Middle East peace process, but said both sides must make solid, good faith efforts to end violence before the process moves forward.

Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have pledged to cooperate with the special envoy he is sending to the Middle East.

Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Monday he is sending retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni to the Middle East to work with Israel and the Palestinians on reaching a true cease-fire.

U.N. Security Council members are to vote on a U.S.-Russian compromise that pledges to revise sanctions against Iraq within six months, and extends the existing U.N. oil-for-food programme until then. CNN's Jane Arraf and Ronni Berke explain the background.

The Islamic faith has been contaminated by political extremists bent on violence, and maligned by some Westerners who unfairly blame the religion for recent terrorist attacks, Queen Rania of Jordan said Friday.

Jordan played a key role in thwarting terrorist attacks on two hotels in the Jordanian resort of Petra that allegedly were timed to amplify the September assaults on the United States, CNN has learned.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon late Thursday blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a suicide bombing of a bus that killed three Israelis earlier in the day, but said he would still visit the United States early next week.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has appointed a tough former general -- instead of his foreign minister -- to head a negotiating team for talks with U.S. envoys on a Middle East peace.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is on a two-day trip to Iran and Pakistan as part of negotiations over the future of Afghanistan.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has arrived in the Pakistan capital of Islamabad where he will meet top U.N. and Pakistani officials to discuss putting together a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

Two Israeli border police were wounded Monday when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez Border Crossing checkpoint between Israel and Gaza, Israel Defense Forces told CNN.

A boy and a girl were killed and several dozen people injured when at least one Palestinian gunman wielding an M-16 rifle opened fire on a bus Sunday.

Two Israeli elite anti-terrorist soldiers were injured when they tried to arrest wanted Palestinians in the West Bank.

Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a car killing two Palestinians the Israelis said were Hamas militants on their way to carry out a suicide attack in Israel.

The United Nations is expected to vote soon on a U.S.-Russian compromise that pledges to revise sanctions against Iraq within six months.

Two U.S. peace envoys are meeting Palestinian president Yasser Arafat hours after getting a birds-eye view of the latest Middle East bloodshed.

Two U.S. envoys met Israel's prime minister Tuesday at the start of a mission to try to end 14 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

As the United States and Britain try to introduce so-called smart sanctions on Iraq, CNN's Jane Arraf, who is in the Iraqi capital, explains why Baghdad is in no mood to compromise, and what consequences that could have.