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Palestinian groups have been attempting to mediate after increasing violence in the Gaza stripe between supporters of the governing Palestinian movement hamaz and its rival the fatah faction of president A. Our correspondent in J S has this report.

This was a day escalating violence intension in one early incident mosque gunmen.

Of all ceasefire all over the Gaza strip now at moment. No2 to stop all the / of current arms and three until all security force support and / basis.

Despite the ceasefire effort shooting continue in the areas of Gaza city supported to faction clashed over the announcement by president A that it would call fresh election in the new year.

Gunmen in the Iraq have carried out the latest in the series mosque kidnapping this time by abducting between 25 and 30 at the office of Iraqi red crescent in Baghdad. The organization said the gunmen wearing uniforms similar to those of interior ministry commandos arrived in the convoy vehicles and took away the man after first separating from the women. P is from the international committee of the Red Cross in J.

The ICRC is calling for the immediate unconditional release of all of the Iraqi red crescent staff and all the people were abducted with them and we called for every sense of humanity here to spare the people who accounted been held.

The international red cross has held memorial service for six of his workers killed ten years ago in C. it took place in the village N south of capital G where the red cross converted the school to hospital to treat the hundreds of people effective by the previous three years conflict. Around fifty villagers and former colleagues of murder workers gathered the building to express their grief.

The long running six national talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapon's program are due to reopened in the china capital Beijing shortly. The negotiations broke down last year when P worked out in protest at the American financial sanctions. Our correspondent in Beijing is D.

The shadow over the past 12-month hands over the east talks. Their original aim was to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions and the agreement of thoughts which reached last September but by the end of year negotiation has stalled once more then just two months ago the north is exploded its first nuclear weapon leading to a wave of international protest so there will be relieved that after match intense to diplomacy the talks are back on.

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The former Iranian president A has talked to poll in the election of senior cleric to Iran’s powerful assembly expert. The assembly has the power to dismiss the country supreme leader and also chooses his successor. Mr. V is seen as a moderator and ally of Iran reformist faction reporting from T SS.

Mr. V has won comfortably with almost half a million votes more than his hard line rival / who is an ally of president A. Mr. V strong performance has exceeded his supporters expectations only about a year ago. He was humiliatingly defeated by Mr. A in presidential elections so his victory now has significant message for the hard line notes in Iran.

Two the oldest Anglican congregations in the united states have voted the break away from the Episcopal church because of his decision three years ago to consecrated gay man was bishop. T and F church in northern V were now on set to archbishop in N he is J.

The dispute for its decision three years ago to consecrate gay man JR as bishop for N that led the global battle in the worldwide Anglican Communion, which is turned bitter and highly political. Several other congregation in US have already left the national church but none so high profile of these. This decision further empowers archbishop peter A of N who has supported the government there in criminalizing homosexual activity.

Several hundred journalists held rally in central Moscow to remember colleague's murder since the fall of Soviet Union. The Russian union of the journalists organized the demonstration he says 212 journalists have been killed in the country since 1992.

And former Italian prime minister S who collapsed to the political rally three weeks ago has gone to the united states for medical tests there are reports in Italy that he maybe fitted with heart pacemaker.

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