Israel’s new leader Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to seek “full peace” with the Arab and Muslim world, but refused to utter the words everyone was waiting to hear: “Palestinian state.”

ISRAELI opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has broken an official silence over Syria’s accusations that Israel bombed its territory, hinting the reported mission was of strategic significance and a success.

Carlos the Jackal, once the world’s most wanted terrorist is on a hunger strike to protest being transferred to solitary confinement at a high-security French prison.

Six people were feared dead after an aircraft en route to neighbouring Uganda crashed in rebel-held northeastern Congo in bad weather, rebel officials and the aircraft’s owners said today.