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The Iraqi Red Crescent Society has delivered aid for the first time directly to families stranded by fighting in Falluja....

US forces are consolidating their hold over the Iraqi city of Falluja, scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters and the BBC World Service in Arabic. We are publishing his and other eyewitness accounts from the city in order to provide the fullest possible range of perspectives from those who are there:...

First it was Georgia, now it is the Ukraine. Pro-western factions ready to sell out to the Washington camp, orchestrated by their foreign masters, sweep to power on the crest of a wave of popular revolt, hooliganism and riots. The Otpor factor. However there is a difference. Eduard Shevardnazde had alienated his people against him, whereas the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich, has just over half of his electorate on his side....

In South Africa, the BBC made it clear that the platform from which it was reporting was one of abhorrence of the state crime of apartheid. No Afrikaaner was ritually rushed into a studio to explain a storming of a township. There is no such platform of the BBC's in Israel/Palestine, where the situation is as bad - apartheid, discrimination, racism, ethnic cleansing as rife as ever it was in the Cape or the Orange Free State ... Despite all this, the sheer imagery of the crisis - tank a...

Thousands of US-led troops are conducting a campaign of raids on towns and villages south of Baghdad, the US military said on Wednesday. Unlike this month's storming of Falluja, west of the capital, there has been relatively little combat since the offensive began on Tuesday, but rather a series of raids on resistance strongholds....

Gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk attacked Iraqi National Guard forces, killing one soldier and a civilian in the drive-by shooting, the US military said Wednesday. The attackers fired from their car on Iraqi forces helping a civilian with his vehicle, the military said in a statement, cited by The AP. Another Iraqi guardsman suffered injuries in the incident....

ust how evil can this occupation get? When former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer III left Baghdad after the so-called "transfer of sovereignty" in June 2004, he left behind the 100 orders he enacted as chief of the occupation authority in Iraq. Among them is Order 81 on "Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety."...

"It's a little girl. She's running defensively eastwards, a girl of about 10. She's behind the embankment, scared to death." ... Israeli soldiers continued firing at a Palestinian girl killed in Gaza last month well after she had been identified as a frightened child...the family's Israeli lawyer believes - and Palestinian witnesses said last month - that she was wounded but alive when the commander fired his first two shots, he has not been charged with manslaughter, apparently...

MPs will call for Tony Blair to be impeached for "gross misconduct" over the Iraq war on Wednesday....

Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city....