BAGHDAD - IRAQI leaders prepared to meet on Sunday amid increased international pressure to end a deadlock over a stalled election law and growing concern that the country's January polls will have to be delayed.
JERUSALEM - ISRAELI forces stormed Jerusalem's holiest shrine on Sunday, firing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinian protesters who were pelting them with stones.
BERLIN - TRADE unions, opposition leaders and the press savaged German Chancellor Angela Merkel's new-look government on Sunday over what they called a fiscally reckless and socially unjust plan for the next term.
BAGHDAD - TWIN suicide car bombs blamed on Al-Qaeda shattered the justice ministry and a provincial office in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 90 people and sparking turmoil in the embattled Iraqi capital.
Around 600 people were wounded in the near-simultaneous attacks at around 10.30 am (3.30 pm Singapore time), which left streets littered with charred bodies and torn-off limbs, and buildings in ruins.
