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  • At Least 57 Dead as Bahrain Tourist Ship Sinks

    At least 57 people drowned and 13 were missing after a tourist boat taking passengers on a dinner cruise capsized off Bahrain, officials said on Friday. They said 137 people were on board the pleasure boat -- mostly foreigners including Britons, Americans, Germans, South Africans, Indians and Egyptians -- when it sank on Thursday night. Tourism sources.. More

  • Thousands Evacuated in European Flood Alerts

    Eastern Germany and other parts of central Europe are mobilising against floods as water levels in some rivers are dangerously high. The town of Passau in Bavaria has already had a foretaste of what may lie ahead for the wider region. A state of emergency has been declared with the River Elbe threatening to rise to 7.5 metres - its highest level since.. More

  • US Hostage Freed in Iraq

    US journalist Jill Carroll, released almost 12 weeks after being abducted at gunpoint in Baghdad, has appeared on Iraqi television and said she had beentreated well during her ordeal. "I am happy to be free. I just want to be with my familyquickly," a composed Carroll, wearing a headscarf, on Thursday told Baghdad Television, a local channel run by.. More

  • Israeli Police Breaks up Land Day Protest

    Police used stun grenades to break up a demonstration in annexed East Jerusalem marking the 30th anniversary of deadly protests against Israeli land confiscations. Police used stun grenades and batons to break up the demonstration on Thursday, Ben Rubi said. They detained one protester. Although Land Day is traditionally marked across Israel, Palestinians.. More

  • UN Security Council Gives Iran 30 Days to End Nuclear Activities

    The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a statement calling on Iran to fully suspend all uranium-enrichment activities.The full 15-member Security Council backed the text by consensus late on March 29, after several weeks of negotiations among the council's five permanent, veto-holding members -- Russia, the United States, China,.. More

  • Kurds Riot in Southeastern Turkey

    Kurdish riotershave clashed with police in southeastern Turkey in a second day of violence that has left at least three people dead and 250 injured. Thefighting on Wednesday was the worst street fighting in the region in a decade and began after the funerals of four Kurdishfighters who were killed infighting with Turkish soldiers. The provincial governorsai.. More

  • Hamas Cabinet Sworn In

    Hamas has formally taken power, with the Palestinian president swearing in its 24-member cabinet, including 14 ministers who served time in Israeli prisons. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president who is a moderate from the defeated Fatah Party, administered the oath to some of the cabinet ministers in a brief ceremony at Gaza City's parliament building.. More

  • Pentagon to Release more Abu Ghraib Photos

    The US defence department has agreed to release 74 photos and three videos - many that have already been published - that depict prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib. The defence department had appealed against an order byAlvin Hellerstein, a US district judge, that said the government must release photos provided by Sergeant Joseph Darby, whose photos set.. More

  • Canadian and US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

    A fierce attack on a military base in southern Afghanistan has killed two soldiers, a Canadian andan American, as a Taliban spokesman said a spring offensive had begun. "The weather is getting warmer and Taliban attacks on coalition and Afghan forces have begun," said Mullah Mohammad Hanif by telephone from an undisclosed location. Fighting traditionally.. More

  • Gunmen Kidnap 24 Workers in Iraq

    Three groups of gunmen kidnapped at least 24 Iraqis working at a currency exchange and two electronics stores in Baghdad yesterday, the interior ministry said. South of the capital, a car bomb exploded as police exchanged fire with two suicide bombers at a police station, wounding at least a dozen people. The attacks follow two days of violence in.. More

  • UN Presses Belgrade over Mladic

    UN chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte is visiting Serbia and Montenegro as a deadline looms for handing over fugitive Ratko Mladic. The European Union has said it will suspend negotiations on closer ties with Belgrade unless the former Bosnian Serb commander is apprehended. Serbia and Montenegro has been given to 5 April to produce General.. More

  • Many Stay away as Arab Summit Opens

    Arab leaders have convened for a summit focused on the chaos in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but several key leaders in the region are staying away. King Abdullah II of Jordanbecame the latest Arab leader to announce he will not attend thesummit in Sudan, raising the number of no shows to nine. A Jordanian official said on Monday: "King.. More

  • Pakistan Faction Clash Kills 25

    At least 25 people have been killed in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in clashes between supporters of rival Muslim clerics, officials say. The factions fought pitched gun battles with automatic weapons in the town of Bara town in Khyber agency, tribal areas spokesman Shah Zaman Khan said. Fighting began late on Monday after a house.. More

  • France Braces for Strikes over Youth Job Contract

    Today has been dubbed "Black Tuesday" in France because of a general strike. Commuters face chaos with rail employees now on a 36-hour stoppage. The action also targets air travel. Despite that, a reduced service is in operation. Unions and student groups says more than 130 demonstrations are planned across the country to get Prime Minister Dominique.. More

  • At Least 40 Killed in Iraqi Bomb Attack

    At least 40 people are reported killed and 20 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up among candidates waiting at an army recruitment centre in northwest Iraq. An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said the explosion occurred on Monday at an Iraqi army centre called Tamarat, near the town of Tal Afar, which is close to the restive city of.. More