As the Summer Games open in Beijing, actor and activist Mia Farrow is webcasting the ”Darfur Olympics” from a refugee camp on the Sudan-Chad border.
Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car in the crowded Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday, missing targeted Palestinian militants but killing a teenager, two children and wounding nine people, clouding efforts to restart peace talks.
Hamas leaders on Wednesday said they hope to open a dialogue with the European Union, aiming to prevent the bloc from cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in vital aid. The EU has threatened to scale back aid to the Palestinians once Hamas, which won the Palestinian legislative elections in January, officially takes office.
One of two main challengers to President Hosni Mubarak in next month’s elections said on Sunday that if elected, he would abolish Egypt’s emergency laws and release all political prisoners. But Noaman Gomaa, a law professor who leads the New Wafd Party, told reporters he would not let the Muslim Brotherhood stand as a party in elections.
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An Islamic website has claimed that militants killed a second American hostage in Iraq and has threatened that a Briton kidnapped with him will also die if his government does not act. A decapitated body was handed over to American authorities in Baghdad on Wednesday, the United States embassy said.
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Darfur burst into the news as a land of Arab-on-African violence, but a singer from the troubled region of Sudan says the two communities are as inextricably intertwined as the music they share, a distinctive blend of Arab tunes and African rhythms.