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  • Lifted Water Blockade by Lanka Rebels

    Tamil Tiger rebels lifted a water blockade yesterday at the root of Sri Lanka's latest bloodshed, which has officially claimed over 440 lives, as a car bomb killed three people in the capital. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said they had opened the sluice gates freeing water to some 15,000 farmer families following a request from Norway, which.. More

  • Fires Blaze Trail of Destruction in Portugal

    Portugal remains on high alert today as forest fires continue to rage across the country. Eight blazes are reportedly out of control - the worst in Valongo near the northern city of Porto. Soaring temperatures and tinder dry conditions are partly to blame. However authorities say between 20 and 30 percent of the fires have been deliberately lit. Portuguese.. More

  • Air Strikes Hamper Aid Effort

    Aid agencies are struggling to get supplies into southern Lebanon, prompting fresh warnings from UN officials of a deteriorating humanitarian situation in the region. A shipment from Medecins Sans Frontieres was stalled after an Israeli air strike cut off access to the southern port of Tyre. Locals were drafted in to carry boxes of vital food and.. More

  • 20 Iraqis Killed in Baghdad Blasts

    At least 20 people have been killed and nearly 60 injured in a series of bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital ofBaghdad. Two roadside bombs exploded in the main Shurja market in central Baghdad within minutes of each other, killing 10 civilians and injuring 50, Iraqi police spokesman Bilal Ali Majid said. Three more bombs had exploded earlier.. More

  • Kyrgyzstan Prominent Imam Killed In Security Raid

    A prominent religious leader known for allowing the Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic members to pray alongside other worshippers at his mosque in southern Kyrgyzstan has been killed in a security raid. Muhammadrafiq Kamalov -- also known as Rafiq Qori Kamoluddin -- had defended his practice of allowing suspected members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir to worship.. More

  • 60 Die in New Israeli Raids

    At least 60 civilians were killed yesterday in a wave of Israeli bombing raids against villages in southern and eastern Lebanon, police said. Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, who had earlier accused Israel of killing more than 40 people in an attack on the Lebanese village of Hula, later said just one person had been killed in the strike, which demolished.. More

  • Indonesia Bird Flu Toll Hits 43

    Indonesia has reported its 43rd human bird flu death which - if confirmed by the World Health Organization - would give it the world's highest death toll. Local tests, which are usually accurate, show that a 16-year-old boy died of the disease on Monday night, health ministry officials said. Indonesia has registered more bird flu deaths this year.. More

  • Israeli Raids Kill Palestinian in Gaza

    Israeli raids in the Palestinian territories have left two people dead, including a 13-year-old boy killed in an air strike on Gaza. In a separate incidentsoldiers shot dead a Palestinian fighter during an arrest raid near the West Bank town of Jenin on Sunday. Israeli forcesalso detained a Palestinian parliamentarian in the West Bank, the second.. More

  • US Troops Clashes with Shia Militia in Iraq

    Fighting broke out between Shia militiamen and US and Iraqi forces during a raid to arrest alleged members of a death squad in Baghdad, the US military says. At least three people were killed and 12 wounded during heavy fighting which lasted more than an hour in the Sadr City neighbourhood. The US military said its soldiers came under fire when they.. More

  • Hezbollah in Deadly Rocket Attack

    Israel is pressing on with its bombardment and ground offensive in Lebanon as Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at itsnorthern towns. The attacks on Sunday, the 26th day of theIsraeli offensive, left13 civilians and a Palestinian fighter dead. And in Israel at least 15 people have been killed in Hezbollah's deadliest rocket attack so far since.. More

  • Bomber Kills 15 in Tikrit

    At least 15 people have been killed after a bomber blew himself up in the midst of mourners in Tikrit, the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein. At least 30 others were wounded in the attack, police said. The attack came as US reinforcements rolled into some of the most violent districts of Baghdad to quell the raging sectarian strife that.. More

  • Iran Refuses Freeze on Nuclear Work

    Iran's senior nuclear negotiator has said his country will not suspend uranium enrichment, in a clear rejection of a UN resolution calling for a freeze of the sensitive nuclear work. In the first formal reaction to the July 31 resolution, Ali Larijani said on Sunday: "Our activities respect the Non-Proliferation Treaty ... so we will not accept the.. More

  • Saudi Scholars and Intellectuals Support Hezbollah

    An old fatwa by a Saudi scholar banning Muslims from helping Lebanon’s Hezbollah because it is Shia has sparked a debate on Islamist websites and in Arab media. Issued several years ago by Sheikh Abdullah bin Jebreen, a former member of the Council of Senior Ulema, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, it describes Hezbollah as "rafidhi" - a derogatory.. More

  • Bahrainis Rally in Support of Hamas and Hezbollah

    Hundreds of people took part in a protest on Muharraq island, the northernmost island in the Bahrain archipelago, in support of Hezbollah and Hamas yesterday. The protest, which was the largest of its kind in years on the mainly Sunni island, was the first there to come out in support of Hezbollah, despite numerous earlier protests in Shia villages.. More

  • Rice Urges Cubans to Push for 'Change'

    The UShas called on Cubans to work for"positive change" in the county as Cuba's health minister said Fidel Castro was recovering well and wouldreturn to power. Castro, 79, temporarily handed over power to his younger brother Raul on Monday after he underwent surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding. On a visit to Guatemala on Friday, Jose Ramon Balaguer,.. More