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Most voters believe Tony Blair should resign as prime minister within a year, according to a News of the World poll. Of those polled 57% said he should go within a year while 42% want him to step down immediately. Only 21% want him to stay after the general election. Mr Blair has pledged not to lead Labour into another election but he said he expects to serve "a full third term". A third of the 1,012 UK adults surveyed think neither Mr Blair nor Chancellor Gordon Brown should run the country. ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Describing her captivity in Iraq as horrific, freed American hostage Jill Carroll disavowed critical statements she made about the United States, saying on Saturday she had been forced into making a propaganda video. "During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video," she said in a statement read by Richard Bergenheim, editor of The Christian Science Monitor, the Boston-based newspaper where she worked when she was abducted in Baghd ...

Gunmen linked to the Fatah party of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have paraded through Gaza City, defying a ban on displays of force. The Hamas-led government told militant groups to stay off the streets after three died in violence on Friday. About 300 Fatah gunmen fired into the air and called for new Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to arrest the leader of a rival group blamed for the fighting. Friday's fighting began when a car bomb killed a member of the rival group. The Popular Resista ...