LONDON, England (CNN) — The international community is willing to provide crucial aid to Palestinians if the new Hamas-led government commits to non-violence, recognizes Israel’s right to exist and accepts current Mideast peace agreements, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has said.
Annan made the statement Monday at the end of a meeting of the Mideast Quartet, composed of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
He described the session as a "very useful and constructive" meeting to discuss the rise of Hamas — long considered a terrorist organization by the West — in Palestinian politics.
(CNN) — Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared in a new video Monday, saying he is alive and well just weeks after a U.S. missile strike targeted him in Pakistan. 
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday ridiculed as "bizarre" a U.S. report that senior al Qaeda leaders were killed in a CIA attack on a home along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
(CNN) — A CIA official believes an audiotaped message threatening the United States is from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who warns that plans for terror attacks are under way — and also offers a "long-term truce."
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraq’s Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance won the December 15 parliamentary election, according to final uncertified results announced Friday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — An American journalist’s kidnappers threatened to kill her unless the United States releases all female Iraqi prisoners within 72 hours, the Arabic-language TV network Al-Jazeera said after it aired a video showing her Tuesday. 
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — An engineer was kidnapped and 10 Iraqis were killed Wednesday when gunmen attacked three vehicles in western Baghdad, police said.
LONDON, England — Fathers’ rights campaigners planned to kidnap British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s youngest son for a publicity stunt, according to reports in the British media.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — House Speaker Dennis Hastert is making moves to push fellow Republican Rep. Bob Ney from his post as chairman of the House Administration Committee, Republican sources said Friday.
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