PM: IDF stays until int'l force in place Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Israel's three-week-old offensive in Lebanon will stop only once a robust international peacekeeping force is in place in southern Lebanon.
Iran defiant on nuclear deadline Iran has asserted its right to produce nuclear energy a day after the United Nations passed a resolution demanding it suspend uranium enrichment.
Rice wants UN action by week's end US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up her drive for an end to the conflict in Lebanon Tuesday.
Iraq Shia in show of force Thousands of Shias charged with guarding neighbourhoods in Iraq have marched through Baghdad as violence continued to plague the city.
Nasrallah and the three Lebanons Many in the Arab world are blaming the Lebanese for being so disunited and for not rallying en masse behind Hezbollah and its secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah.
EU rebuffs US call to put Hezbollah on terror list The EU will not for the time being put the Islamist Hezbollah movement on its blacklist of terrorist organizations.
Palestinian anti-Rice feeling peaks Anti-American sentiment has been running high in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israel-Hizbullah war three weeks ago.
Settler reservists: Won't go to Lebanon if aim is to advance pullout PM Ehud Olmert on Wednesday predicted that the outcome of the IDF's fighting in Lebanon would create "new momentum" for Israel's plan to separate from the Palestinians by withdrawing from much of the West Bank.
EU waters down ceasefire call The European Union has called for an immediate end to hostilities in Lebanon.