Jordan closes controversial desert jail
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Jordanian authorities on Monday closed down an isolated desert prison where U.N. investigators and rights groups alleged inmates were routinely beaten and tortured.
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Jordanian police exchanged gunfire with a small group of armed men suspected of stealing electricity and water in a town near the Israeli border, the official Petra news agency reported. One of the gunmen was killed and several were arrested.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has closed Baghdad&#39;s international airport and the country&#39;s borders with Syria and Jordan, and declared a curfew in rebel- held Fallujah
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Officials shut down a crowded, run-down county jail amid fire and safety violations including an inmate sleeping on a floor partly covered by water from leaky plumbing.
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Some 350 security prisoners at Shikma jail have ended their two-week hunger strike, Prisons Authority spokesman Ofer Lefler said Friday, as the United Nations expressed its concern
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An Iraqi judge confirms criminal charges against prominent politician Ahmed Chalabi have been dropped.
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Senior Bush administration officials are engaged in active discussions about closing the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but deep divisions remain regarding the fate of the approximately 375 foreign detainees currently held there should the prison close, according to...
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Amid reports that it will be closed, hardliners and pragmatists in the Administration continue to wrestle over the future of the detention facility
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Israel shut Palestinian voter  registration offices in Arab East Jerusalem Monday that had  been opened in advance of an as-yet unscheduled Palestinian  general election, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
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Iran closed a newspaper and detained its chief editor and cartoonist Tuesday for publishing a cartoon that sparked riots by ethnic Azeris, the first such move since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power last year.
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NAJAF: Iraqi police sealed off Najaf and Kufa on Friday, a week after Moqtada al-Sadr ended his bloody revolt against US troops, as growing friction threatened to unravel the fledgling truce.
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Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan was acquitted Tuesday of failing to control soldiers who abused detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, but he was found guilty of disobeying a general's command not to talk about the investigation.
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The United Nations top anti-torture body   told the United States on Friday that any secret jails it ran   for foreign terrorism suspects, along with the Guantanamo Bay   facility, were illegal and should be closed.
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The U.S. Capitol was shut down on   Monday after a man was arrested for racing past security into   the building, Capitol police said.
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Jordan&#39;s Hashemite royal family was thrown into turmoil last night when King Abdullah abruptly dismissed his half-brother, Prince Hamzeh, as Crown Prince and heir apparent.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to lay down their arms and leave the area as thousands of Iraqis thronged the revered Imam Ali shrine Friday after he and the Iraqi government agreed to a peace proposal by Iraq's top Shiite cleric to end three weeks of fighting in Najaf.    Al-Sadr issued the order in a statement to his Mahdi Army militia from his office in Najaf that also was broadcast through loudspeakers at the shrine, which militants have used as a stronghold and refuge throughout their standoff with a combined U.S.-Iraqi force...
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A standoff between rival Palestinian factions shut down a West Bank university on Monday, reflecting the growing state of chaos plaguing the Palestinian territories.