AMMAN/ OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists detained in the Israeli raid on the Gaza aid flotilla have arrived in Jordan after being deported from neighboring Israel, which started early Wednesday in deporting about 250 people detained.

Turkey demanded today that Israel be punished for yesterday’s bungled commando raid on a flotilla of ships taking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as international condemnation of the killings reached fever pitch.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Sheikh Ra’ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands, said that the Israeli media fabrications about his death come in the context of attempts to assassinate him.

ANKARA – Shock and outrage swept the globe Monday after Israeli commandos stormed a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza, as Tel Aviv’s foes and allies closed ranks in condemning the deadly raid.

The UN Security Council has condemned acts leading to the deaths of civilians during Monday’s Israeli attack on a humanitarian aid convoy that was headed to the Gaza Strip.

DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Khaled Mishaal, the supreme Hamas leader, held a series of contacts with Arab leaders and officials to discuss the Freedom Flotilla massacre committed by Israel against the defenseless convoy.

Oil gushing out of a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico could spread and threaten two more US states, forecasters have warned.

Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza. Up to 16 people were killed and dozens injured when troops stormed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli Army Radio said.

Israel says it will not take part in a conference aimed at achieving a nuclear-arms free Middle East, proposed at a UN meeting in New York.

At least 70 people have been killed and 200 more injured after an overnight passenger train derailed in eastern India, in a suspected act of sabotage by Maoist rebels.