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  • Rumsfeld Resignation not on the Agenda, says Bush

    George W Bush has strongly endorsed his defence secretary, who is under pressureto resign. The US president's expression of support comes after Donald Rumsfeld declaredin an interview that he was confident he would stay in his job. He said he thought the controversy over his leadership in Iraq would pass. "I listen to all voices, but mine is the final.. More

  • GCC Will Oppose US Blitz

    Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani yesterday said he was sure the Islamic republic's Gulf neighbours would not support any US assault on his country over its nuclear programme. "We are certain that Gulf countries will not back the US in waging an attack on Iran," Rafsanjani said on the second day of a visit to Kuwait aimed.. More

  • Passenger Ferry Sinks in Eastern Indonesia

    A ferry carrying 60 people sank in bad weather in eastern Indonesia, and nearly all were rescued or swam to shore, officials said Tuesday. The boat went down late Monday near Rote island, about 1,200 miles east of the capital Jakarta, said Piter Fina, head of the region's main port on the Indonesian side of Timor island. The captain told authorities.. More

  • Rocketing Price of Oil Fuelled by Concerns over Iran

    Crude oil prices in the US and UK have started the week by reaching record highs of more than 70 dollars a barrel. In the US, light sweet crude was 70 dollars 40 cents at close of trading; the highest settlement since trading began in 1983. In the UK, Brent crude touched a record high of 71 dollars 62 cents before settling slightly lower. Iran's.. More

  • Fifth Nepal Protester Shot Dead

    Security forces in Nepal are reported to have shot dead a fifth anti-monarchy protester as an opposition general strike enters its 12th day. Witnesses said troops opened fire on protesters in the town of Nijgadh, 200km (125 miles) south of Kathmandu. Meanwhile the army has been deployed to ensure food reaches the capital. Nepal is experiencing.. More

  • Nine Killed in Tel Aviv Bomb Attack

    At least nine people were killed by Palestinian bomber during his attack on a crowded restaurant inTel Aviv, Israeli police say. Another 50 people were injured in the blast, which occurred at The Mayor's Felafel restaurant, close to the central bus station in the crowded Neve Shaanan area on Monday afternoon. Ehud Olmert, the acting Israeli prime.. More

  • Iran to Expand Nuclear Sites

    Iran has expanded its uranium conversion facilities in Isfahan and reinforced its Natanz underground uranium enrichment plant, a US think tank said, amid growing concern over possible US military action. Talk of a US attack has topped the international news agenda since a report in New Yorker magazine said this month that Washington was mulling the.. More

  • US Troops Kill Seven Civilians in Afghanistan

    The US military has admitted killing seven civilians during a battle with Taliban in Afghanistan. The deaths occurred during a firefight between a coalition patrol and up to 10 armed men in Kunar province near the border with Pakistan, the US said. The clash erupted during a major operation launched by the US-led coalition against Taleban forces... More

  • Four Soldiers Killed in Lanka Blast

    Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels have killed four Sri Lankan soldiers in a claymore fragmentation mine ambush. "It was a claymore attached to a three-wheeler (auto-rickshaw)," an army source said from the northern town of Vavuniya, just south of rebel territory, where the attack occurred on Monday. "Four army people were killed." Another army source.. More

  • Danube Stabilizes but Balkans Remain on Alert

    The Balkans have two more days to hold out before the Danube flood waters start to subside - and so far protection measures introduced by the authorities look to have prevented the worst.The Danube has been flowing at its fastest for more than a century, but selective flooding of unpopulated farmland areas has helped spare most residential areas. One.. More

  • Several Wounded in Istanbul Blast

    At least30 people have been wounded in an explosion in Istanbul. Policesaida device had been put in a bin in front of shops in the residential district of Bakirkoy. Some reports saidthe device was a percussion grenade, a type of grenade that detonates on impact. Istanbul's police chief Celalettin Cerrah said that two civilians in a critical condition.. More

  • Iran Suicide Squads Ready to Retaliate

    Iran has trained battalions of suicide bombers to hit western targets if its nuclear plants are attacked, according to aBritish newspaper. The Sunday Times quoted Iranian officials as saying that 40,000 trained suicide bombers were ready to strike Western targets. Doctor Hassan Abbasi, head of the Centre for Doctrinal Strategic Studies in the Revolutionary.. More

  • Hamas Tells Arabs to Keep Aid Pledge

    The Palestinian foreign minister has called on Arabs to fulfill their promises of financialassistance to the Palestinian government. For their part, Arab officials, at a meeting between Mahmoud al-Zahar andthe Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Saturday,urgedthe Hamas-led Palestinian government to consider an Arab plan to end the conflict with Israel.. More

  • Car Bomb Kills Four Iraqis

    A car bomb has killed four people and wounded six others in eastern Baghdad’s Kamaliyah neighbourhood, an interior ministry official said. The car bomb went off next to a minibus on the main road in the neighbourhood on Sunday. Also on Sunday, US forces killed five suspected insurgents and detained five others in a raid on a house southwest of Baghdad... More

  • Clashes Erupt at Egypt Christian Funeral

    Clashes have erupted in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria after the funeral of a Christian killed the day before in attacks on Coptic Christian churches. Egyptian police arrested 15 people in the aftermath of the clashes in the Mediterranean port town's Sidi Bishr suburb on Saturday. Police arrested "some fanatic extremist elements who provoked.. More