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An extraordinary meeting of the United Nations Security Council takes place on November 18-19 in Nairobi, at the request of the United States, which will focus on Darfur and the southern Sudan peace deal. It is only the fourth meeting in 50 years to take place outside of New York....

The apparent death of British aid worker Margaret Hassan sparked an outcry in the western media and was loudly condemned by foreign diplomats and politicians, but the response to the execution was rather more muted in Iraq itself. While most Iraqis expressed their sympathy for Hassan and her family immediately after her capture, there was no hint of public outcry from either the Arab media or the Iraqi people following recent reports of her death. Kidnappings and killings have become a way...

The announcement that the first elections in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime will be on 30 January was greeted yesterday with warnings that a viable poll could not take place in the continuing climate of violence. The election campaign will also coincide with the haj in mid-January, and the transit of several million pilgrims from Muslim countries such as Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan overland through Iraq to Mecca....

Voters fearful and confused...

Freedom of expression won, when the Internet provider Mikael Storsjо reopened the Chechen web site that the security police had shut down. The situation is still embarrassing as he needed to hire web hosting from Sweden. The Finnish companies, included Storsjо’s own Casa Real, are afraid of pressure from the security police and for bad publicity....

The bodies of three men killed by insurgents have been found on a street in the Iraqi city of Mosul, a day after US troops discovered the bodies of nine Iraqi soldiers who had been shot in the head....

In Ramadi today 6 civilians were killed in clashes between the resistance and military. The military sealed the city, closing all the roads while announcing over loudspeakers for residents in the city to hand over “terrorists.” A man, woman and child died when the public bus they were riding in approached a US checkpoint there when they were riddled with bullets from anxious soldiers. A military spokesman said the bus was shot because it didn’t stop when they asked it to....

After months of media reports highlighting the role of children in the Palestinian Intifada, the 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers has found that this phenomenon remains the exception rather than the rule in Palestinian areas, although one which needs to be taken seriously. The global report, issued by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers on November 20 to coincide with the UN Children's day, indicates that all groups involved in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have h...

Residents of a village neighbouring Falluja have told Aljazeera that they helped bury the bodies of 73 women and children who were burnt to death by a US bombing attack....

La radiactividad liberada por el accidente de Chernobil podría ser responsable del aumento del número de casos de cáncer registrados en Suecia....