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  • Mauritania: 32 Migrants may Have Drowned

    A boat packed with West Africans trying to reach Europe collided with a fishing vessel, leaving 32 of the migrants missing and believed drowned, Mauritanian officials said Sunday. Mauritania, located in the northwest of Africa about 600 miles from Spain's Canary Islands, has increasingly become a jumping-off point for Africans from others countries.. More

  • Six US Soldiers Killed in Iraq

    The US military yesterday announced the deaths of six of its troops across Iraq, including two pilots of an Apache helicopter that was shot down. The announcement comes as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart Jack Straw made a surprise visit to Iraq yesterday. The US military said the bodies of two pilots of the Apache.. More

  • Iran Tests High-Speed Underwater Missile

    Iran successfully test-fired a new high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying huge warships and submarines, a top military commander announced. "Today we have successfully test-fired a high-speed underwater missile with a speed of 100 meters per second, which is able to overcome the enemy's sonar and radar," Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, the deputy.. More

  • Four Dead in Fresh Kurdish Riots in Turkey

    A molotov cocktail attack set ablaze a bus in Istanbul, resulting in three deaths, as Kurdish riots rattling southeast Turkey for six days spread to the west, the CNN Turk news channel reported. Another person was killed in clashes in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, bringing the death toll from a week of violence to 12. A group of protestors.. More

  • Severe Storms Leave 11 Dead in Midwest

    Severe storms swept across the Midwest on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois, officials said. Local emergency officials reported eight deaths in west Tennessee's Dyer County, and the number of fatalities could rise, said Kurt Pickering, spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. Details on the deaths.. More

  • Hamas Vows to End Armed Chaos

    Hamas has saidthat its government will prosecuteanyone involved in inter-faction fighting after three people were killed in clashes between rival groups. Said Siam, the Palestinian interior minister,said on Sunday: "We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos." He was speaking in reference toviolence.. More

  • Shias Call on Al-Jaafari to Quit

    Senior members of Iraq's ruling Shia Alliance bloc have for the first time openly called on Ibrahim al-Jaafari to step down as prime minister to break months of deadlock over the formation ofa national unity government. "I call on Jaafari to take a courageous step and set a fine example by stepping down," said Kasim Daoud, a senior member of the independent.. More

  • Hundreds Flee Europe Floods

    Hundreds of people fled their flood-threatened homes across Central Europe with many more on standby for evacuation as the levels of some rivers continued to rise yesterday. The floods apparently claimed a fifth victim in the Czech Republic and neighbouring Slovakia, after a 55-year-old homeless man was discovered dead near the eastern Czech town of.. More

  • Bahrain Boat Was not Licensed

    A boat which capsized off Bahrain with the loss of at least 57 lives was not licensed to sail as a pleasure cruiser, officials have said. The boat was registered as a fishing boat and had permission only for use as a floating restaurant, said interior ministry spokesman Col Tariq al-Hassan. A cruise permit had been applied for but had not yet been.. More

  • US Helicopter Downed near Baghdad

    A US military helicopter went down southwest of Baghdad on Saturday, the military said in a statement, adding that the status of the crewwas unknown. Six Iraqis were killed by armed men when their minibus was attacked northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi officials saidon Saturday, a day when a further 19 people lost their lives, many of them to drive-by shootings. T.. More

  • Violence Erupts in Gaza after Killing

    Three Palestinians have been killed in clashes in Gaza between armed men and the security forces. The violence on Friday was sparked by the death of a Palestinian resistance fighter who died in a car-bomb explosion earlierin the day. Rival Palestinian factions clashed at the funeral of Abu Youssef al-Quqa, acommander in the Popular Resistance Committees.. More

  • Egypt Arrests Brotherhood Members

    Egyptian security forces have arrested at least eight members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in the northern city of Alexandria. "Members of the brotherhood were arrested Friday in Alexandria, some of them as they were eating in a restaurant," Issam al-Aryan, a spokesman for the group, said. He said that among those rounded up was Helmi al-Gazzar,.. More

  • Iran Pledges to Maintain Oil Supply

    The Iranian foreign minister has said that Tehran will not use oil as a weapon inthe row with the West over its nuclear programme, comments that caused the price of oil to drop sharply. Manouchehr Mottaki said: "We're not going to use energy as a political leverage." However, Mottaki also said that Iran would not give up its right to develop nuclear.. More

  • Chirac Compromise over Job Law Falls on Stony Ground

    The French president will sign a contentious youth employment law despite weeks of protests by millions of people across the country. But, in attempt to mollify demonstrators, Jacques Chirac has promised to modify two of its most disputed clauses. Student and trade union leaders were unimpressed and have vowed to press ahead with another strike next.. More

  • Dozens Die in Western Iran Quakes

    At least 50 people have been killed and 800 injured after several earthquakes in western Iran, local officials said. The quakes, with magnitudes of up to six, centred on remote villages between the industrial towns of Doroud and Boroujerd in the province of Lorestan. About 330 villages have been damaged - some completely flattened, Lorestan's disaster.. More