There are 17999 articles

  • European Heatwave Turns Deadly

    The heat wave gripping much of Europe has claimed its first victims. French authorities have linked the deaths of an elderly man and woman in the south-western city of Bordeaux to the soaring temperatures. Four more deaths have been reported in Spain and the Netherlands. France suffered the worst loss of life in a pan-European heat wave three years.. More

  • Car Bomb in Iraq's Kufa Kills Dozens

    A car bomb hit a group of laborers after they boarded a minibus in a market in Kufa on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people and sparking clashes between protesters and police, witnesses and officials said. The blast, some 50-100 meters from a Shiite shrine in the southern city of Kufa, tore through the minibus after it had pulled out of the crowded.. More

  • Israeli Soldier Killed in Nablus

    An Israeli soldier has been killed by an explosion in Nablus in the West Bank, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. The body was lying in an alley surrounded by a group of Palestinians. An anonymous caller told AFP that the soldier had been killed by a bomb planted by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of the Fatah party led by Mahmoud.. More

  • Tsunami Kills more than 300 in Indonesia

    A tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages on Java island Monday, killing more than 300 people and leaving more than 160 missing after bulletins failed to reach the region because no warning system was in place. The Java coastal area was spared by the devastating Asian tsunami of 2004, but many residents recognized the danger when they.. More

  • Iran Pledges Support For Syria

    Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki today pledged Iran's support to Syria in the face of "any threat or aggression." The official Syrian news agency Sana reports that Mottaki handed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a letter of support from Iranian President Mahmud Ahmedinejad after arriving in Syria for talks with senior officials. Both Iran.. More

  • Taliban Take Control of Two Towns

    Taliban-led offensive flared across southern Afghanistan on Monday with fighters taking control of two southern towns while also killing a US-led coalition soldier and wounding 11 others in a fierce firefight, officials said. An unidentified bomber killed three Justice Ministry employees after blowing himself up inside their offices in Helmand, where.. More

  • Israel Kills Nine Lebanese Soldiers

    NineLebanese soldiers were amongthe 13 peoplekilledin a spate ofIsraeli raids overnight,police havesaid. Israelfired missiles at targets in all corners of Lebanon early on Monday, killing at least 13 and wounding 53 in a surge of reprisals after Hezbollah rockets hit new targets deep inside Israel. The soldiers were killed when Israeli aircraft attacked.. More

  • Israel Air Strike Bombs Palestinian Foreign Ministry

    An Israeli air strike flattened the 8-storey Palestinian Foreign Ministry building in Gaza City on Monday, part of a campaign against Palestinian government. A separate air strike gutted the offices of a Hamas-led security force in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses said. The Israeli military has since killed more than 85 Palestinians.. More

  • India Rebels Kill 18 Villagers

    Suspected Maoist rebels have killed at least 18 villagers in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, authorities say. The villagers belonged to a voluntary people's movement which resists the Maoists and is backed by the state government, reports say. Police say 15 people were wounded in the attack in Dantewada district. Thousands have died in Maoist.. More

  • Blast, Flood in China Coal Mines Kill 64

    An explosion in one mine and flooding in another killed 64 workers and left seven missing in the latest disasters to strike China's mining industry, state media reported Monday. The blast killed at least 50 workers Saturday in the Linjiazhuang Coal Mine in Jinzhong, a city in Shanxi province, China's main coal-producing region. Six escaped, and another.. More

  • Brazil Sends Mission to London for Report on Police Shooting

    High-ranking Brazilian officials are to be in London to hear the findings of a British inquiry into the 2005 shooting death of a Brazilian electrician by London police. "The mission will hear the decision to be read Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service," Brazil's foreign ministry said on Sunday in a statement. The delegation was headed by the.. More

  • Nine Dead in Hezbollah Rocket Attack in Israel

    Nine people were killed in a Hezbollah rocket strike on Israel's third largest city of Haifa in a dramatic escalation of the Israel-Lebanon conflict that has already cost scores of lives in just five days but spurred little action from the international community. The attack came after Israeli fighter jets went into action over Lebanon again before.. More

  • Israeli Tanks Return to Gaza Strip

    Israeli forces clashed withPalestinian fightersin Gaza on Sunday as tanks moved back into the north of the Strip. The Gaza offensive, which Israel says is aimed at recovering a captured soldier and stopping armed groups from firing makeshift rockets, has piled pressure on the Palestinian government led by Hamas, which demands a prisoner swap for the.. More

  • Olympic Official Abducted in Iraq

    Gunmen have kidnapped the head of Iraq's Olympic committee and more than a dozen employees after storming a meeting of sports officials in Baghdad. The gunmen, who wore camouflaged Iraqi police uniforms, used at least ten vehicles for the kidnapping on Saturday, police officials said. They entered the room where a meeting was taking place and asked.. More

  • UN Imposes Sanctions on North Korea

    The UN Security Council has imposed weapons-related sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang's missile tests earlier this month. All UN members are now obliged to prevent trade with North Korea of missiles and missile-related items. The US ambassador to the UN John Bolton urged North Korea to return to the diplomatic fold. "We hope this resolution.. More