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EXTRA: Israeli shelling kills a Palestinian in northern Gaza - Gaza - A Palestinian was killed and three other civilians were wounded on Wednesday night after an Israeli artillery shell hit Palestinian houses in northern Gaza, medics and eyewitnesses said. The attack followed a series of homemade rocket attacks ...

A-list musicians to share stage with Obama - Washington - The Queen of Soul will be among the star- studded musical talent to perform for the next US president as Barack Obama is sworn into office next month, the committee in charge of the ceremony announced Wednesday. The inaugural ceremony on...

US moves against Iranian 'front' company - Washington - The US government moved Wednesday to seize the assets of a New York firm accused of operating as a front for an Iranian bank already under sanctions. The Treasury Department said ASSA Corp in New York and its parent company ASSA Co Ltd i...

Israeli ruling party choosing list of parliamentary candidates - Tel Aviv - Members of Israel's ruling Kadima party were voting Wednesday on their centrist movement's list of parliamentary candidates, some eight weeks before the Israeli elections. Results were not expected until early Thursday morning. ...

Fossils of unknown giant flesh-eating dinosaur found in Argentina - Buenos Aires - Fossils of a 5-metre-long short-armed flesh- eating dinosaur previously unknown to scientists have been found in Argentina, the scientist who headed the excavation said Wednesday in Buenos Aires. The body of the estimated 370-kilogram ...

Jordan, Egypt sign 23 cooperation accords - Amman - Jordan and Egypt on Wednesday signed 23 agreements and memoranda of understanding to boost bilateral cooperation in commercial, investment, manpower, educational and information spheres. The signing of the accords came at the end of an annual...

Iraqi parliament speaker threatens to resign over shoe-thrower - Baghdad - Iraqi Parliamentary Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani announced his resignation on Wednesday after lawmakers engaged in a quarrel over the reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush. Al-Zaidi, who has worked for the Cairo-based ...

Yahoo places new limits on keeping user data - San Francisco - Responding to widespread concerns among users and privacy advocates, internet portal Yahoo announced on Wednesday that it would make users' internet search data anonymous within 90 days, except when there are fraud or security concern...

Belarusian leadership allows registration of opposition alliance - Minsk/Moscow - The Justice Ministry of Belarus has after four requests For Freedom democracy movement of the opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich to register as a political party, a spokesman for Milinkevich said Wednesday, according to the Itar-T...

Microsoft issues emergency patch for Internet Explorer - San Francisco - Microsoft issued an emergency patch Wednesday for its Internet Explorer browser, aiming to fix a critical flaw that allowed hackers to take over computers merely by steering them to infected websites. Microsoft took the rare step of i...

EXTRA: Olmert: Israel will respond to rocket fire - Jerusalem - Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Israel would respond to a surge in rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip Wednesday. It is clear that this fire only sharpens what we have said all the time. There cannot be a situation in ...

Youngster Parejo returns to Real Madrid, Diarra about to sign - Madrid - Troubled Spanish giants Real Madrid announced on Wednesday evening the return of Dani Parejo. Parejo, 19, had been on loan at English club Queens Park Rangers since July. ...

Cuba's dissidents ask EU for help for political prisoners - Havana - The Cuban dissident group Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) has asked the European Parliament to lobby on behalf of the freedom of political prisoners in the Caribbean nation. The Cuban people are not free. They suffer under totalitarian ...

Female ghosts in the men's room, City Hall asks church for help - Bogota - In the classic English Christmas tale by Charles Dickens, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge receives visits from ghosts from his past and future whose messages change his life. With just a week to go before the holiday celebration, ghosts have be...

Madoff under house arrest - New York - Bernard Madoff, the high-flying Wall Street investor charged with a 50-million-dollar fraud, was placed under house arrest on Wednesday. Madoff, 70, will be required to wear a tracking device and be subject to a curfew, while his wife told...

Hungarian rail strike rolls on as talks lead nowhere - Summary - Budapest - Talks between Hungarian State Railways (MAV) and the largest railworkers' union failed to break the deadlock Wednesday as a national rail strike entered its fourth day. The only good news for passengers was that the strike could be lifted ...

Turkish premier criticizes online apology to Armenia - Istanbul - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday criticized an online petition in which thousands of Turks apologized for the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks during the First World War. ...

UN investigator: Hariri murder can be solved - New York - The lead UN investigator in the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri said Tuesday that the case can be solved when an international tribunal begins prosecuting the murder in March. Daniel Bellemare requested the UN Securit...

Budapest airport strike continues - Summary - Budapest - Management at Budapest's strikebound Ferihegy International Airport presented unions with a ready to sign draft compromise agreement, for which they have given unions until 10 am (0900 GMT) on Thursday to sign. Union leaders promptly cal...

Tests negative on white powder sent to US embassies - Summary - Washington - More than a dozen US embassies in Europe have received mail containing a white powder, but tests of the substance have been negative, the US State Department said Wednesday. Deputy spokesman Robert Wood confirmed that 15 embassies have r...