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AP - An Ohio-based charity that the U.S. government says is linked to Hamas is demanding that officials unfreeze its assets.

CAIRO, Oct. 9 -- The oil-rich princes and financial titans of the Persian Gulf went into the week touting their immunity from the financial turmoil of the west, but stock markets in the region ended it posting sharp losses.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 9 -- A senior lawmaker loyal to anti-american Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was fatally wounded Thursday morning in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, raising concerns about the potential for violence ahead of provincial elections expected early next year.

San francisco, Oct 10 (IPS) - It's become popular, when talking about ongoing violence in U.S.-occupied Iraq, for officials in Washington and the media to paint the Iraqi people as savages who can't help but keep killing each other.

Extra Israeli police are deployed to Acre as a tense calm returns after two days of rioting involving Jews and Israeli Arabs.

Mourners expressed their anger towards the US ahead of the burial of a radical member of parliament killed in a roadside bombing.

Turkish jets bomb suspected Kurdish rebels inside Iraq, the army says, days after the policy is extended.

Amnesty international welcomes the release by the Libyan authorities of Libyan Prisoner of Conscience Idriss Boufayed on 8 October 2008, but stresses that it must be unconditional and that he should be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment if he wishes

Iraq: New evidence further undermines the right to fair trial

A vehicle bomb in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, kills 13 people and injures 27 others, say police.