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Brown: Iran will never develop nuclear bomb

Prime Minister threatens Iran with sanctions and promises alliance with Israel in first speech by a British PM to Knesset

Video: Israeli soldier held for shooting prisoner

Footage shows soldier firing a rubber bullet into the foot of a bound Palestinian being held by an IDF officer

Afghanistan's pristine jihad draws in outsiders

Analysts have monitored a surge in online recruitment of 'lions of Islam' to join the war through jihadist websites

‘It’s like Wales: a little stream, woods – and then a bomb’

This isn't like the old-style Afghan war - Improvised Explosive Devices have become the Taleban's preferred weapon

Free trade: the sticky issue of bananas

On the eve of the world trade summit, negotiators have yet to reach agreement over imports of the fruit into Europe

Afghan police killed in ‘friendly fire’

US Marine Special Forces operating with Afghan troops were involved in the nighttime firefight with local police

Brown gives Iran two weeks to back down

Gordon Brown will use speech to Knesset today - the first by a British PM - to make his strongest attack on Iranian regime

No contact with Iraq kidnappers, say officials

Officals say that they had no way of verifying claims that one of five Britons held by militants in Iraq had killed himself

PM announces extra funding for Palestinians

PM pledges $60 million extra funding for Palestinians and says he wants to help them get cheap mortgages

US gives Iran two week nuclear deadline

US and Iranian officials reach deadlock over Iran's nuclear enrichment programme leading to a two week break in talks

Iranian rebel flees into exile

A heroic Iranian dissident tells of his flight from torture in his homeland and the price he paid for his defiance

Sextet agree to hold off on new sanctions against Iran

Talks held in Geneva today have ended with no clear answer from Tehran on proposed incentives for suspending its nuclear programme