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The ceasefire between the Hamas and Fattah factions in the Gaza strip is under severe strain after a day of violence between gunmen loyal to the rival Palestinian groupings. Four people have been killed. The two factions are meeting for talks brokered by an Egyptian security delegation. Aleen Mikbul reports.

The trouble began when a militant leader loyal to Fattah, the party of President Mahmoud Abbas, was ambushed and shot dead in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. A civilian by-stander was also killed. Fattah immediately issued a statement saying Hammas the party of the Prime Minister Ismail Harniyeh was responsible. They threatened revenge and that came within hours. Two Hamas members were killed near the president’s office in Gaza City and nine more people were injured. Hamas has issued a statement to say that seventy of its members have been abducted. Fattah, too, now say some of its members have also disappeared.

NATO commanders in Afghanistan say the insurgency has been dealt a major blow by the killing of the Taliban’s most senior military commander Mullah Dadullah. His body was shown to journalists in the southern city of Kandahar after a joint operation by American and Afghan forces. Aleston Leethhead reports.

Mullah Dadullah is one of the most important Taliban military commanders to have been killed since the war more than five years ago. He was notoriously brutal and committed fighter. And in the last twelve months, his name has become associated with some of the worst Taliban atrocities. He was thought to have been coordinating the guerrilla war which is raging in Helmand Province and more than thirty have been killed. He's appeared on propaganda DVDs which showed the beheading of suspected spies, and did associated with scores of suicide bombers who've targeted at Afghanistan and the recent move towards kidnapping westerners.

A suicide truck bomb has exploded in Northern Iraq at the local headquarters of Kurdish Political Party. Report said at least forty five people have been killed. The blast in the town of M. was the second suicide attack in the mainly Kurdish area of Iraq in the past week. In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near a popular commercial area, the S. Market, killing at least ten people.

Iran and United States have agreed to hold new talks on the situation in Iraq. No date has yet been set. But it has been the first time in nearly three decades that the two have publicly sat across a table. Francis Harrison reports.

The many imposed revolutionary Iran engaging with United States or the great Satan has become a taboo. But now, Iran’s most hardline government appears to have agreed to talk, or be it only on the subject of Iraq. But everyone in Iran knows that if negotiations on the Iraq go well there’s a possibility the relationship could grow to encompass more controversial issues, like Iran’s nuclear program and regional security guarantees.

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The hardline nationalist speaker of the Serbian parliament has stepped down after only days in the job allaying fears that Serbia was returning to its nationalist past. His departure was a condition of coalition deal reached last week after months of stalemate between the country’s two main parties. Nick Hawton reports.

Tomislav Nikolic was only elected to the position of parliamentary speaker five days ago. In his short time of speaker, he'd suggested Serbia could become a province of Russia and hinted that a state of emergency could be introduced because of concerns over Kosovo. His resignation followed a two-day special session of the Serbian parliament. Mr. Nikolic’s hardline Serbian Radical Party is the largest group within the assembly. But now, pro-democratic parties have reached an agreement to form a coalition government. This will kick the Serbian radicals from power.

Although a million people have held a rally in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir to protest against any attempt to change the country’s secular political system. It was the fourth major protest in Turkey since the government tried to put forward a candidate for President Abdullah Gulh who was suspected of having an Islamist agenda.

United Nations envoy to Somalia Francois Fall has told the BBC that the transitional government would be prepared to hold national reconciliation talks with the Islamilists provided they took place through their dominant clan. Mr. Fall also appealed for the release of two foreign aid workers abducted last week in the northern Puntland region.

The English Premiership football season has ended with a tenth day for clubs at the bottom of the league. Relegation for Sheffield when they were beaten 2:1 at home by Wigan were also battling for survival. West Ham insured their safety with a win with Manchester United who despite their defeat were crowned Premiership champions at old trafford . Sheffield United jointed Watford and Charlton in the championship English football second year next season.


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