Volcanic ash continued to disrupt air travel across Europe Saturday. UK air traffic control has warned the situation is likely to worsen while German airspace will remain closed until at least 2 am Sunday.

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat charges that Israel has become an “apartheid regime” worse than during South Africa’s darkest hours and is doing its utmost to sabotage any two-state peace.

Israeli forces backed by bulldozers have demolished two homes in the occupied West Bank, leaving at least nine Palestinians homeless.

GAZA, (PIC)– Islamic Jihad movement has called for terminating the “futile” Oslo project and shunning the illusion of a settlement process, which only led to more concessions.

A fierce gunbattle between Israeli troops and Palestinian resistance fighters leaves one member of Islamic Jihad dead and three others wounded in the Gaza Strip.

American Muslims say following the September 11 terror attacks in the US, their rights have often been violated in the name of national security.

CAIRO, (PIC)– The steel wall built by Egypt under its borders with the Gaza Strip is entering its final stages and would soon close up all tunnels used for smuggling goods into the besieged Strip, sources working in the wall project said.

BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) – Three brothers who were members of the US-allied Sahwa “Sons of Iraq” militia that helped tame the nation’s insurgency were killed when a roadside bomb engulfed their car on Sunday, officials said.

A car bomb has exploded near the headquarters of Britain’s MI5 domestic security services in Northern Ireland, an attack the police blamed on Irish Republican Army (IRA) dissidents.

The death toll from Thailand’s worst political violence in nearly two decades has risen to 20.More than 800 people were also wounded in clashes between anti-government protesters known as the “red shirts”, and security forces.