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  • Israel to Continue Gaza Military Strikes

    Israel says it willcontinue its bombardment of populated Palestinian areas in retaliation for militant rocket strikesinto Israeli territory, despite the deathofa child in the latest shelling. Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister, said on Tuesday Israel would stand by its new policy of firing artillery shells into Gaza in an effort to stop rocket fire.. More

  • Blasts Kill Five US Soldiers in Iraq

    Three American soldiers were killed yesterday by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, the US command said. Two other US soldiers died in separate incidents earlier, the command said. The three who died yesterday were assigned to Multinational Division, Baghdad, but the precise location of the attack was not reported. A soldier assigned to the 2/28th.. More

  • Kostunica Pledges Mladic will Be Handed over

    On a visit to Paris, the Serbian prime minister has assured the French president that key war crimes suspects will be handed over to the UN tribunal in The Hague soon. Vojislav Kostunica told Jacques Chirac that Belgrade is in his words "very very close" to arresting former Serb commander Ratko Mladic. Last week Kostunica made a similar pledge to Carla.. More

  • Syria Urged to Free Political Prisoners

    Human rightscampaigners have written to Syria's president urging an end to a recent wave of arrests of political activists. Echoing calls made by other international human rights groups recently, Human Rights WatchaskedBashar al-Assad to release scores of political opponents detained in the past few months as he tightened his grip on power. In a.. More

  • Dozens Sunnis Killed in Karachi Blast

    A blast in Karachihas killed at least47Sunni Muslimsand wounded dozens more, Pakistan's interior minister has said. Aftab Sherpao told reporters "there are at least 47 dead" from the blast that hita crowd gathered at the city's Nishtar Park on Tuesday to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad. Officials at Karachi's Civil Hospital earlier said.. More

  • Iran 'Has Joined Nuclear Club'

    The Iranian president says his country has joined the group of countries possessing nuclear technology. In a televised address on Tuesday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said that Iran was determined to achieve industrial-scale uranium enrichment. "I am officially announcing that Iran has joined the group of those countries which have nuclear technology... More

  • Girl Dies in Israel Shelling as EU Halts Palestinian Aid

    An eight-year-old Palestinian girl was killed yesterday when an Israeli shell struck her house in the northern Gaza Strip. Seven family members were among the 15 wounded from the artillery round that killed Hadil Ghaber in the building in the Beit Lahiya area, official said. Five of them were children, who were playing. The shell set the house on fire,.. More

  • US Mass Protests for Immigrants

    Hundreds of thousands of people have protested across the US against plans to tighten the law on immigration. Rally organisers described the protest movement as "the fight for civil rights of our generation". Unions, civil rights groups, schools and churches oppose a bill in Congress, which would make illegal immigration a full criminal offence... More

  • Prodi's Centre-Left Claims Victory in Italy

    The centre-left bloc led by Romano Prodi has claimed victory in the Italian elections. The centre-right of Silvio Berlusconi has contested those claims and asked for the vote count to be checked carefully. The Italian interior ministry has provisional figures giving Prodi's alliance the lead. "Right up to the last minute we've been on a razor edge,.. More

  • Sunni Arabs and Kurds Reject Jaafari

    Iraqi Sunni Arabs and Kurdish leaders have officially rejected the possibility of Ibrahim al-Jaafari remaining as prime minister in the next governmment. Al-Jaafari's Shia party, the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), had made another attempt to save their embattled candidate by setting up a committee to talk to Sunni and Kurdish groups. But Dhafir al-Ani,.. More

  • Scores Die in India Fair Blaze

    At least 40 people have died in a huge blaze at a consumer electronics fair in the north Indian city of Meerut. Television footage showed smoke and flames billowing out of a semi-circular air-conditioned tent where home appliances and electronic goods were being sold. Police say that many more could be trapped inside. "Forty bodies have been taken.. More

  • Plot to Kill Hezbollah Chief Foiled

    Lebanese authorities have arrested nine men suspected of planning to assassinate Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah. The suspects are both Lebanese and Palestinians, said security officials on condition of anonymity on Monday. Security forces seized an unknown quantity of weapons with the suspects, the officials said. One senior security.. More

  • After 15 Palestinians Killed in Last Few Days Hamas to Hit Back

    The armed wing of the governing Palestinian movement Hamas, under huge international pressure to renounce violence, yesterday vowed to avenge a weekend of Israeli strikes which has left 15 people dead. The latest victim was a 29-year-old taxi driver, Yasser Abu Jarad, killed by a tank shell by a national security post in the Beit Hanun region of the.. More

  • Inquest into Briton's Gaza Death

    An inquest is to begin into the death of a Briton shot in the Gaza Strip. Tom Hurndall, 22, from Tufnell Park, north London, was shot in April 2003 as he accompanied children in the Palestinian town of Rafah. Last year, an Israeli court sentenced ex-soldier Taysir Hayb to eight years in jail for Mr Hurndall's manslaughter. But Mr Hurndall's parents.. More

  • Iranians Shoot Down Surveillance Plane

    Iran has shot down an unmanned surveillance plane in the south amid reports that the US is planning military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. "This plane had taken off from Iraq and was filming border areas," a report in the Jumhuri Eslami newspaper said yesterday. It added the Iranian "officials have obtained information from the plane system.. More