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At least 25 people died Thursday when a suicide bomber strapped with explosives detonated his bomb inside a central Baghdad restaurant, Iraqi police said. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ction=cnn_world

The Palestinian Authority security forces are on the verge of collapse because of rampant corruption and growing anarchy, according to a letter sent by a large group of PA security officers to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

The rioters who have burned out neighborhoods in cities across France for a fortnight are overwhelmingly of North African and Arab ancestry, overwhelmingly young, overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly cut off culturally and economically from the larger French society -- and overwhelmingly Muslim. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...10-122503-2518r

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants to advance the election so he can return to power and decide where Israel's final borders are going to be, his advisers told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

The World Bank technical team examining the provision of a "safe crossing" between the Gaza Strip and the areas of the West Bank controlled by the Palestinian Authority has recommended that convoys carrying passengers and cargo operate on three routes connecting the Strip to the southern, central and northern West Bank several times a day, according to a report recently sent to the Palestinian Authority. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ges/643171.html

In a renewed dispute, a group of Israeli archaeologists has condemned the Wakf's planned renovation work of an ancient tower adjacent to the Temple Mount, warning that such a move is part of a long-running plan by the Islamic Trust to expand a recently-created mosque at the Jerusalem holy site. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

Labor Party leader Shimon Peres said Thursday that he suspects fraud in the party's primary and called for an internal investigation after partial results showed the elder statesman losing a race he was expected to win. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?Peres says he suspects fraud in Labor Party leadership race

Israel has stopped converting people in north-east India who say they are from a biblical "lost tribe" following complaints from the Indian government. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...sia/4422510.stm

Suicide bombers struck Wednesday night at three international hotels in the Jordanian capital of Amman, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 100 others. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...st_x.htm?csp=34

House leaders late Wednesday abandoned an attempt to push through a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling, fearing it would jeopardize approval of a sweeping budget bill Thursday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...?section=cnn_us

New science standards for Kansas' public schools, criticized for promoting creationism while treating evolution as a flawed theory, won approval Tuesday from the State Board of Education. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...,174957,00.html

In an unexpected result, Histadrut labor federation Chairman Amir Peretz was Thursday morning named the new chairman of the Labor Party, defeating the incumbent and favorite, Vice Premier Shimon Peres. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ges/643724.html

An outbreak of avian flu could attack societies with the ferocity of a global war, bringing widespread deaths and illness, and severe disruptions of the economy and social networks. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...com/id/9975412/

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to extend the mandate of the nearly 180,000-strong multinational force in Iraq for a year, a move the United States called a strong signal of the international commitment to Iraq's political transition. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...08-095819-2282r

Two Indonesian Christian girls were fighting for their lives late Tuesday, November 8, after they were shot in the head in Indonesia's tense Poso region where three other Christian girls were beheaded last week, an influential religious rights organization said. http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...-indonesia.html

Hindu extremists disrupted a large prayer gathering in the house of a Christian family in Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh state, on Sunday (November 6). http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...er-meeting.html

Pastor Cai was abducted from a bus stop and dragged into a van by three plain-clothed State Security officers on September 11 2004. According to a former fellow inmate, Pastor Cai was repeatedly tortured with electric shocks and forced to give false confessions to serious charges. http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...ina-jailed.html

Democrats scored big victories in the Virginia and New Jersey governors races Tuesday. Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine defeated Republican Jerry Kilgore in Virginia and Sen. Jon Corzine easily beat businessman Doug Forrester in New Jersey. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...com/id/9972632/

Syria accused Israel on Tuesday of seeking to exploit intense U.S.-led pressure on Damascus to reject calls for peace talks over the Golan Heights. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ges/643093.html

When Imad Abu Assad gazes at his daughter Lujain bouncing on his knee, he sees not only a gurgling four-month-old infant, but a "freedom fighter." Abu Assad, one of the few remaining senior Islamic Jihad leaders in Tulkarm, prophesies a long and bitter fight against Israel, one that has taken a bloody upsurge over recent weeks. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

Revisiting a topic that exposed Kansas to nationwide ridicule six years ago, the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...le1026220.shtml

As urban riots are spreading all over France and gaining momentum, Europen leaders are becoming increasingly concerned that France's woes may spread, particularly to neighbouring countries with large immigrant populations. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ver.com/9/20277

A dozen AIDS activists have been arrested after invading a Christian organization's Washington headquarters and chaining themselves to objects in the lobby. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...sp=irresistible

Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a lawyer for a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein's trial and wounded another attorney Tuesday in Baghdad, a member of the defense team and police said. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...aq_x.htm?csp=34

France's Cabinet authorized curfews under a state-of-emergency law Tuesday in an extraordinary measure to halt the country's worst civil unrest in decades after violence raged for a 12th night. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...le1022297.shtml