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  • Libya court confirms death penalty for foreign medics

    Libya's Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed the death penalty against six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus in a case that has dragged on for eight years. The five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor were not in court for the verdict, announced the day after a compensation deal was sealed with the children's.. More

  • More Srebrenica victims to be buried at massacre anniversary

    Bosnia was to lay to rest on Wednesday the remains of more than 450 Muslims killed 12 years ago in Srebrenica, in Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Up to 30,000 Srebrenica survivors and victims' relatives were expected to attend a solemn religious ceremony and the funeral at the memorial cemetery where the remains of more than 2,400 of those.. More

  • Lebanese army poised to storm Palestinian camp

    The Lebanese army is preparing to launch a final assault against armed men holed up at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, political and security sources said on Wednesday. Troops have been battling Fatah al-Islam fighters at Nahr al-Bared for nearly eight weeks in Lebanon's worst internal violence -- which has so far killed 205 people --.. More

  • Suharto faces $1.5bn lawsuit

    Indonesian prosecutors have filed a civil suit against former Indonesian president Suharto seeking more than $1.5 billion in damages and funds allegedly stolen from the state during his 32 years in power. Court documents showed that prosecutors want Suharto to repay $441 million in stolen funds and $1.1 billion in damages. "This is not a criminal.. More

  • Pakistan's Red Mosque leader killed

    Pakistani security forces have killed Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the besieged leader of Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in Islamabad in a day-long assault on the complex, the interior ministry said. Other reports said Ghazi was killed by followers when he tried to surrender. There was no way of independently verifying the claims. The Pakistani army also said.. More

  • Children killed in Afghan blast

    Seventeen people, including 12 schoolchildren, have been killed in a suicide bombing in south Afghanistan, the country's interior ministry says. Another 30 people were injured, some seriously, in the attack on a market place in Dehrawood in Uruzgan province, where Taleban militants are active. The bomber blew himself up near a Nato-led convoy, police.. More

  • Baghdad's Green Zone 'under fire'

    A number of mortars have hit Baghdad's Green Zone, with eyewitnesses reporting smoke rising from the area around the US embassy. About 10 mortars landed in the heavily fortified district where the government and parliament are based, and which is also home to many foreign embassies. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. It comes.. More

  • Foreign soldier dies of wounds from Afghan shooting

    A soldier from the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan died of gunshot wounds he received when a suspected Taliban insurgent who had infiltrated Afghan army ranks opened fire on troops at a base in the west of the country. The U.S. military said on Tuesday the soldier died late on Monday after the incident at the Afghan army base in the western city.. More

  • Thousands flee Indonesia volcano

    Thousands of people have been evacuated from the slopes of a volcano in eastern Indonesia after authorities warned it could be on the brink of a major eruption. Mount Gamkonora, on the island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, started smoking on Saturday and has since been spewing clouds of hot ash and rocks. At one stage, volcanic ash was sent.. More

  • Iran scales down uranium enrichment

    Iran has slowed the expansion of its uranium enrichment programme, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said yesterday, after Western powers threatened to hit Tehran with harsher sanctions. The Iranian shift was detected by IAEA inspectors last week after months in which Iran accelerated the installation of centrifuge machines that.. More

  • Tamil rebel arrested in Sydney

    The Australian police have arrested a man on suspicion of raising funds for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group. Arumugam Rajeevan was charged with being a member of a terrorist organisation and produced in court. In May, Australian police arrested two other men in anti-terrorism raids in Melbourne, and charged them with similar offences. Australia.. More

  • Four guilty over 21/7 bomb plot

    Four men have been found guilty of plotting to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport network on 21 July 2005. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28, were convicted of conspiracy to murder at Woolwich Crown Court. The jury will continue to consider verdicts on Tuesday for two others, who deny.. More

  • Israel to open Gaza checkpoint

    The Palestinian emergency government on Monday agreed on the Israeli-Egyptian offer to open Karm Abu Salim instead of the Rafah checkpoint. Palestinians have been unable to cross back to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, which Israel closed after Palestinian in-fighting left Hamas in full control of the strip. The decision came a day after.. More

  • Iraq fears Turkey troop build-up

    Iraq says Turkey has 140,000 soldiers along its border, prompting fears of an incursion against Kurdish guerrillas. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari an ethnic Kurd himself, said his government was against any breach of Iraqi sovereignty. He called for talks with Ankara to solve the issue. Turkey accuses Kurdish separatists of staging attacks.. More

  • Sadr attacks Iraq PM in Shia rift

    Iraqi Shia leaders linked to the radical cleric, Moqtada Sadr, have attacked their former government ally, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. They accused Maliki of bowing to US demands and sanctioning US attacks on Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. Maliki has said the militia must purge its ranks of criminals. Dozens of people have died in recent fighting.. More