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  • Fourteen US troops killed in Iraq

    Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in the last three days in Iraq, mainly in roadside bombings, the US military has said. Four soldiers died in a single blast during search operations north-west of Baghdad on Sunday, the military said. On the same day, two US soldiers were killed and five wounded in two separate roadside blasts. In May, 127.. More

  • Riots break out at German rally

    Protesters have clashed with police at a largely peaceful anti-globalization rally in the German city of Rostock. Rocks, bottles and sticks have been hurled at riot police, who are using tear gas and batons charges to try to disperse the hundreds of rioters. However, the violence only involves a small portion of the estimated 30,000 people police.. More

  • Hunt on for NY airport 'bomb man'

    Police in the Caribbean state of Trinidad are searching for a fourth man charged with plotting to blow up New York's John F Kennedy Airport. The man, Abdel Nur, is believed to be at large on the island. Three other suspects are in custody, accused of conspiring to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines serving the airport, one of the world's busiest... More

  • Lebanon PM gives fighters warning

    Lebanon's prime minister has issued a new warning to Islamist militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp, after a day of intense fighting with troops. Fouad Siniora described Fatah al-Islam as a "terrorist gang" and called on its fighters in the Nahr al-Bared camp near Tripoli to surrender or be crushed. But members of Fatah al-Islam remained.. More

  • Rival Sunni groups clash in Iraq

    Iraqi Sunni fighters have been battling militants linked to al-Qaeda in a suburb of Baghdad, in a sign of growing rivalry among Sunni fighters. Residents of Amiriya in Baghdad have been joined by Sunni militants from nationalist groups in an effort to expel al-Qaeda fighters. US forces have offered to strike a deal with the groups less hostile to.. More

  • US attacks Somali 'militant base'

    A US Navy warship has carried out a missile attack on a Somali village where Islamist militants are reported to have set up a base. Somali officials said a remote village in the Puntland region was bombarded, days after foreign militants arrived. US reports suggest the target was an al-Qaeda operative suspected of involvement in the 1998 bombings.. More

  • Fresh clashes engulf Lebanon camp

    Fourteen people have been killed in a day of heavy fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants in northern Lebanon, reports say. The Lebanese army is trying to dislodge Fatah al-Islam militants who have been besieged in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp for 13 days. Aid agencies say they are worried for the safety of civilians.. More

  • Bush urges Iran to free Americans

    US President George W Bush has condemned the detention of four American citizens in Iran and called for their immediate release. He said they had gone to Iran "to visit their parents or to conduct humanitarian work" and posed no threat. Academic Haleh Esfandiari, social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh and journalist Parnaz Azima are accused of spying... More

  • Gaza boys 'shot dead by Israelis'

    Two Palestinian boys have been shot dead by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources say. The children were estimated to be between eight and 13 years old. They have not yet been identified. An Israeli army spokesman said the army had shot at several Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border fence. He said they were crawling.. More

  • UN approves Hariri murder court

    The UN Security Council has approved the creation of an international court to try suspects in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The resolution was adopted by 10 votes to zero, with five abstentions from Russia, China, South Africa, Indonesia and Qatar. The court's creation is the subject of intense political debate in Lebanon... More

  • Iran links Iraq and nuclear issue

    A senior Iranian official has said that direct Iran-US talks about security in Iraq will have an impact on the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. Senior nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said the talks on Iraq could not be separated from the nuclear issue. He suggested they were a chance to ease tension in the region. The US has been calling for.. More

  • Five die in Somalia convoy attack

    Ethiopian troops have opened fire, killing five civilians, after a land mine attack on their convoy in the town of Beledweyne in central Somalia. Troops fired in all directions after the mine struck a water tanker, the convoy's last vehicle, witnesses said. Ethiopian forces have been in Somalia since December at the invitation of the transitional.. More

  • Radical Shi'ite group thought to have taken Brits

    A radical Shi'ite militia group, the Mahdi Army, is thought to be behind yesterday's kidnapping of five Britains from a finance ministry building in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Embassy officials are in urgent contact with the Iraqi authorities as a search got under way. Of those abducted, four were in Iraq working for a Canadian based security company.. More

  • Robert Zoellick new World Bank president candidate

    The US president has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former US trade representative, to become the new president of the World Bank after Paul Wolfowitz steps down from the post, a senior US official says. George Bush will announce his selection on Wednesday and expects the bank's board to accept it, the administration official said on Tuesday. Zoellick's.. More

  • Turkish army build-up fuels anxiety on Iraq border

    Turkey sent more tanks to its border with Iraq on Wednesday in a military build-up that is fuelling U.S. concern about a possible incursion into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels. A group of 20 tanks loaded on trucks emerged from army barracks in Mardin near Syria and headed towards the Iraqi border in southeast Turkey, already the scene of a major.. More