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Al Jazeera English - News - Many Dead In Algeria Suicide Attack : "At least 28 people have been killed and about 50 others wounded in a suicide lorry-bomb attack on a naval barracks in Algeria. Security sources said the bomb went off on Saturday in the coastal town of Dellys, about 50km from the country's capital, Algiers. The lorry bombing came two days after an explosion in Batna, a town in the east, killed at least 20 people and wounded "

IOL: Ethiopia blamed for collapse of talks Asmara - Eritrea on Saturday blamed arch-foe Ethiopia for the failure of the latest talks aimed at solving their long-running bitter border dispute, an official statement said on Saturday. Officials from the two African foes met face-to-face Thursday with a UN-appointed border panel in The Hague in a last-ditch attempt to break the frontier deadlock following their bloody 1998-2000 border war.

Ethiopia says it detained U.S. troops - CNN.com : "ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Ethiopia earlier this year briefly detained what it said were four U.S. soldiers trying to contact a rebel group that has been fighting for greater autonomy for eastern Ethiopia, government officials said Friday."

Abu Aardvark: AMS open letter to resistance : "The Association of Muslim Scholars, one of the most influential Sunni organizations in Iraq, has just released an unprecedented open letter to the 'resistance'. According to the Al-Haq Agency, this is the first time that the AMS has publicly addressed the resistance as a whole, making it a fairly significant event. Like the essay by Abd al-Rahman al-Rawashdi posted last week, the AMS argues that the time has come for the resistance to reap the fruits of its successful jihad against the occupation, but warns that if it fails to unify and put forward a political program then others will seize the rewards instead."

Abu Aardvark: Bush and Abu Risha : "It's kind of lost in the shuffle of the coming battle over the various Iraq reports, but I find myself morbidly fascinated by the photos and reports which have circulated in the Iraqi press about Bush's meeting in Anbar with the controversial head of the Anbar Salvation Council Sattar Abu Risha. The pictures themselves speak volumes: look at Bush's shit-eating grin and Abu Risha's detached contempt, and figure out which is the supplicant in this scenar"

Al Jazeera English - News - Israel Condemned Over Lebanon War : "Indiscriminate Israeli attacks were responsible for the high civilian death toll in Lebanon in last year's war against Hezbollah, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report. The report, released on Thursday, accused Israeli air raids of causing 'most of the approximately 900 civilian deaths' during the war."

US Viewed as Turkey's 'Greatest Threat' - by Jonathan Bell : "Turkey, a US NATO ally and recipient of US and NATO security guarantees, also harbors the second-most negative attitudes towards the US, with 83 percent holding an 'unfavorable' opinion of it – up 29 percent since 2002, the biggest drop in public opinion of the US in recent years."