Joining protests against US President George W. Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, two American nuns finally found themselves on the country's terrorist watch list.

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"This term terrorist is a really serious accusation," Sister Ardeth Platte told The Washington Times on Friday, October 10.

Ardeth and Sister Carol Gilbert received letters from the Maryland State Police that they are placed on the terrorist watch list.

As violence continues between Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas, Artsworld meets a Gazan cartoonist trying to make a difference through her drawings.
 

Afghan police have arrested three men alleged to have provided "wrong information" which led to the deaths of scores of civilians in a US air raid.

More than 90 people, mostly women and children, were killed in the village of Azizabad in western Herat's Shindand district on August 22, according to the Afghan government.

President Yushchenko accuses Prime Minister Tymoshenko of forging a pro-Russian alliance to curtail his powers

The shock waves from the Russian invasion of Georgia sparked a new crisis in Ukraine yesterday as the pro-Western Orange coalition fell apart in acrimony.

President Yushchenko accused his former ally, the Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, of forging a pro-Russian alliance to curtail his powers, claiming that a coup was under way a day before Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President, was due to visit Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.

An Israeli court has convicted two border guards over the unlawful killing of a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank town of Hebron in 2002.

Imran Abu Hamdieh died after the two men, Shahar Botbeka and Denis Alhazov, pushed him from the back of a military vehicle travelling at 50mph (80km/h).

Earlier this year, another member of their unit was jailed for six and a half years, but he fled the country.A fourth officer was jailed for four and a half years in a plea bargain.Mr Abu Hamdieh was seized from outside his home in Hebron on 30 December 2002.

A mentally handicapped Palestinian was shot and wounded when Israeli soldiers raided a home in the occupied West Bank on Monday, hospital officials and family members said. Israeli soldiers stormed the home of Awwad Suroor, 41, and fired rubber bullets at him after he attacked a soldier and tried to steal his gun.

EU leaders are putting the bloc's relations with Moscow under scrutiny at the summit .The European Union has said that its relations with Russia are at a crossroads and warned that they could suffer if Moscow does not uphold accords to end the Georgia conflict.

Britain on Monday called for European Union to suspend talks on a new partnership agreement with Russia in protest at Moscow's military interventio"In light of Russia's actions we should suspend negotiations on a successsor to the partnership and cooperation agreement," a spokesman for British PM Gordon Brown told reporters in London.

Agencies

A once-secret bunker designed to shield communist rulers of the former East Germany from a nuclear attack has opened to the public.

The three-storey complex, finished in 1983, was intended to house leader Erich Honecker and 400 staff.

At the time it was one of the communist world's most advanced bunkers. Now the walls are covered in mould and the decontamination chambers long-defunct.

The bunker, north of Berlin, will be open for three months.

The Berlin city authorities say they will seal it with concrete afterwards.

The USGS says the area has three times as much untapped natural gas as oil.

Drilling plans in the Arctic have been controversial, with environment groups worried about the effect on wildlife.

While oil prices have been falling in recent days to around $125 a barrel, many analysts expect oil prices to remain high, and to rise again. <!-- E SF -->

The figures from the USGS are said to be the first estimate of the petrol available north of the Arctic circle. <!-- S IBOX -->