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Baghdad’s morgues received scores of bullet-riddled bodies on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met the U.S. President George W. Bush in the Jordanian capital, Amman in an effort to stem the growing violence in Iraq.

Iraq’s security officials said they found at least 58 bodies in Baghdad over the past 24 hours, while a mass grave containing 28 corpses was discovered north of the city.

A U.S. soldier was also killed “during combat operations” in Baghdad on Wednesday, the army said, raising the number of the U.S.’s military death toll since the 2003 invasion to 2,881.

The violence came as Bush and Maliki met in Amman, where the American president said that U.S. forces would stay in Iraq as long as the Iraqi government wanted them.

In a joint new conference, Bush also hailed Maliki as a “strong leader”, saying that “he’s the right guy for Iraq.”

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Facing growing pressure from Arab and European allies to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice launched a new initiative to revive the Middle East peace process.

Rice arrived in the occupied West Bank on Thursday afternoon to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after attending President Bush’s meeting with Iraq’s PM Nouri al-Maliki in Amman.

The U.S. Secretary of State is also due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni later Thursday.

After their meeting in Jericho, Rice expressed support for President Abbas, and said she hoped a ceasefire agreed between the Israelis and the Palestinians last weekend in Gaza could be extended into a comprehensive truce.

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– Hezbollah and its allies called for mass protests in Beirut Friday in an effort to bring down Lebanon’s Western-backed government, which the militant group’s leader called incompetent.

Hassan Nasrallah said Prime Minister Fuad Saniora’s administration “has failed to fulfill its promises and achieve anything significant.” Peaceful protests should force it to resign, he said.

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The court trying Saddam Hussein has heard graphic accounts of how hundreds of Kurdish women and children were killed and buried in mass graves.

US forensics expert Michael Trimble said three graves containing corpses of victims killed in the so-called Anfal campaign in 1988 had been uncovered.

Mr Trimble said the victims had been killed in a “highly organised programme of execution”.

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يقول موظفو الاغاثة في جنوب السودان إن الصدامات التي وقعت في وقت سابق من الاسبوع الحالي بين الجيش السوداني وقوات الجيش الشعبي لتحرير السودان قد اودت بحياة 300 شخصا على الاقل.

ويقول المراسلون إن معظم القتلى كانوا من العسكريين، ولكنه من المرجح ان يكون عدد من المدنيين قد قتلوا ايضا نظرا لأن القتال دار في بلدة مالاكال الآهلة بالسكان.

ويقول مراسل بي بي سي في السودان إن هذه الصدامات تعتبر اخطر خرق لاتفاق السلام الذي وقعه الجانبان عام 2005، والذي انضم الجبش الشعبي بموجبه الى الحكومة السودانية

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Ethiopia’s parliament has authorized “any legal action” against “the clear and present danger” posed by powerful Islamists in neighboring Somalia, ratcheting up fears for war.

Lawmakers adopted a resolution Thursday that calls the Islamists, now on the brink of war with the weak Somali government, a “clear and present danger” to Ethiopia, which is supporting Somalia’s transitional administration.

The vote came just hours after the Islamists claimed a new attack on Ethiopian troops outside the seat of the government and a day after the Islamists accused Ethiopia of shelling a Muslim-held town near the border.

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record 7 million people — or one in every 32 American adults — were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday.

More than 4.1 million people were on probation and 784,208 were on parole at the end of 2005. Prison releases are increasing, but admissions are increasing more.

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قام بابا الفاتيكان بنديكتوس السادس عشر بزيارة جامع السلطان أحمد في اسطنبول وذلك في محاولة منه لإصلاح العلاقات مع العالم الإسلامي.

وخلال زيارته إلى جامع السلطان أحمد قام البابا بالاتجاه إلى جهة القبلة لدى المسلمين.

وتعتبر هذه الزيارة هي الثانية في تاريخ الزيارات البابوية إلى أماكن العبادة الإسلامية، حيث قام سلف البابا الحالي يوحنا بولس الثاني بزيارة المسجد الأموي في العاصمة السورية عام 2001، ليكون أول بابا للفاتيكان يزور مسجدا.

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The health scare triggered by the death of a former Russian spy escalated as more radioactive sites were revealed and over 30,000 BA passengers were alerted about contaminated planes.

But Home Secretary John Reid insisted that the public health risk remained low, a week after the death of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.

“The risk to public health is, we believe, low,” Reid told lawmakers, confirming that British Airways was seeking to contact some 33,000 passengers who may have come into contact with a radioactive substance.

Litvinenko, a fierce Putin critic, fell ill on November 1 and died on November 23, with unexplained large quantities of the radioactive isotope polonium-210 having been discovered in his urine.

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عادت بعثة الزمالك إلي القاهرة عقب فوزها علي الاتحاد الليبي‏1/4‏ بركلات الجزاء الترجيحية في إياب دور الـ‏16‏ لدوري أبطال العرب‏,‏ وتأهل الفريق إلي دور الثمانية كممثل مصر الوحيد في البطولة‏.‏ وقد تعرض فريق الزمالك عقب المباراة للضرب بالعصي والركلات من جانب لاعبي فريق الاتحاد‏,‏ وأصيب وليد عبداللطيف في كتفه‏,‏ كما أصيب عدد من اللاعبين بكدمات مختلفة‏.‏ وقد اعتذر وزير الشباب الليبي للبعثة المصرية‏,‏ وكان في وداعها بمطار طرابلس‏,‏ وهي السابقة الأولي من نوعها في وداع فريق‏.‏

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