SALZBURG — The European Union will face tough choices if it has to carry out its threat to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority over the Hamas group’s refusal to recognise Israel’s right to exist. EU foreign ministers reaffirmed on Friday that Hamas, which won a landslide election victory …

RAMALLAH — Hamas yesterday set a two-day deadline for other Palestinian factions and independent members of the Palestinian Legislative Council to accept or reject positions in the future Palestinian government even as it appears the group will need the full five weeks to form a government. Palestinian prime minister-designate and …

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Islamist movement Hamas and defeated Fateh Party postponed until Thursday talks on forming a Palestinian government, amid slim prospects for success after slanging matches between the two sides in parliament. The talks between the chief of Fateh’s parliamentary bloc, Azzam Ahmed, and his Hamas counterpart, …

VIENNA (AP) — Iran threatened the United States with “harm and pain” on Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme.Washington in return warned that Tehran had enough nuclear material to make up to 10 atomic bombs,

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran Tuesday of sending Revolutionary Guard forces into Iraq to make trouble, and warned Tehran it was “an error in judgement.””They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq, and we know …

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army has increased the number of roadblocks and barriers in the West Bank by 25 per cent since last summer, tightening travel restrictions for Palestinians and making it harder for them to reach properties, markets and medical services, according to a new United Nations …

KHARTOUM (Reuters) — Shouting “Down, Down USA,” thousands of Sudanese protested in Khartoum on Wednesday against any deployment of UN troops to the western Darfur region.”Get out all foreigners, we don’t want you here,” shouted 21-year-old student Zeinab Kheir Al Sir.

KUWAIT CITY — In early March last year, women rights activist Maasuma Al Mubarak was leading a rally outside parliament to press MPs to pass a law enfranchising Kuwaiti women. Three months later, the US-educated liberal academic became Kuwait’s first woman minister, scoring the second coup in as many months …

TEHRAN, Mar. 6 (MNA) — A group of foreign journalists has been invited to spend a week touring Iran in spring, the Public Relations Office of the 1st International Conference on Tourism and Handicrafts announced on Monday. The tour is being organized by the conference headquarters and will begin on …

THERAN (Fars News Agency)- The spokesman of the anti-Zionist Jewish movement of Neturei Karta stressed that the goal pursued by the delegation’s visit to Iran is to show to the world that the West’s propaganda against Iran aimed at convincing the world that the Islamic Republic is anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic …