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Army General among 14 killed in Iraq attacks

BAGHDAD: A series of bombings around Iraq on Tuesday claimed 14 lives,including four policemen,a Baghdad provincial council official and an Iraqi Army general. The four policemen were killed when an explosives-laden car detonated next to a police patrol in the town of Beiji,said Iraqi police officials. A Brig Gen was killed when a sticky bomb attached to his car exploded in Kazimiyah.

No Palestinian state by 2012,says Israel

TEL AVIV: Israeli Foreign Minister said on Tuesday there was no chance a Palestinian state would be established in the next two years. Im an optimistic person,but there is absolutely no chance of reaching a Palestinian state by 2012, the foreign minister,Avigdor Lieberman,said.

Berlusconi attacker found unfit for trial

MILAN: The man who hurled a statuette at Premier Silvio Berlusconi,leaving the Italian leader with a broken nose and two broken teeth,is not fit to stand trial,a judge ruled on Tuesday. Judge Luisa Savoia,however,placed Massimo Tartaglia under observation for one year in a psychiatric hospital where he has been held since February.