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  • Al-Hariri Murder: Woman Held in Brazil

    Brazilian police have arrested a Lebanese woman wanted for bank fraud and suspected of links to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri, officials said. Acting on an anonymous tip, police arrested Rana Abdel Rahim Koleilat, 39, on Sunday at the Parthenon Accor Hotel in Brazil's Sao Paulo city, police inspector Nicanor Nogueira.. More

  • Milosevic Died of Heart Failure

    Slobodan Milosevic's death months before a verdict in his war crimes trial was the result of heart failure, the U.N. said on Sunday, but more tests were needed to decide whether it was from natural causes or suicide. A preliminary autopsy report on the body of Milosevic, branded the "Butcher of the Balkans" over the 1990s conflicts, presented the.. More

  • Mulla Orders Captives Killed

    Mulla Mohammad Omar, a Taliban leader, has ordered themurder of four foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan on Saturday. The men, said to be three Albanians and a German, were captured in southern Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman said. Mulla Omar's order was read by telephone late on Sunday to a Reuters reporter at the border town of Spin Boldak, in.. More

  • US Pushing for Iran Regime Change

    The US administration is starting to push for regime change in Iran through confrontation rather than diplomacy, according to an American newspaper. The WashingtonPost reportedon Monday that the administration of George Bush, the US president, intends to mount a campaign against Tehran's religious leaders in its efforts to build international pressure.. More

  • US Marines Killed in Afghan Bomb

    Four US marines have been killed by a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. The soldiers died after an improvised explosive device ripped through their convoy while on patrol, the US military said in a statement. It was the deadliest attack on US forces in a month. The frequency of such attacks has been growing. Local governor Assadullah.. More

  • Milosevic Found Dead in Hague Cell

    The former Yugoslav leaderhas been found dead in his prison cell in The Hague, the UN andhis lawyer have confirmed. Slobodan Milosevic had beenon trial for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes since 2002. The UN war crimes court in TheHague, where he was standing trial, said: "Today, Saturday March 11, Slobodan Milosevic was found lifelesson.. More

  • Hamas claims Saudi support

    Palestinian group Hamas says Saudi Arabia has assertedthat it will remain one of the biggest financial backers of the Palestinians, despite US and European threats to cut aid. Izzat al-Rashiq, a member of Hamas, said: "They [the Saudis] affirmed that political and financial aid to the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people would continue. "We.. More

  • 50 Injured in Dhaka Protest

    At least 50 people are reported injured in the Bangladeshi capital in clashes between police and opposition activists during a demonstration for electoral reforms. Police and witnesses said the clashes erupted in Dhaka on Sunday as hundreds of opposition workers pushed through a police barricade and marched to the election commission's office, demanding.. More

  • Four Albanians Kidnapped by Taliban

    Taliban fighters abducted four Albanians on Saturday in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the Islamic movement said. The four people whose identities were not immediately clear, were kidnapped at gun point in Maiwand district in the southern province of Kandahar, spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said. "The four Albanians were travelling in two vehicles.. More

  • Talks on Iran Nuclear Crisis at UN

    Iran's nuclear programme is being discussed by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - just days before the issue goes before the body, as a whole. The dossier has been sent there by the UN nuclear watchdog. Washington has been pressing for tougher international action to isolate Iran. But, asked if sanctions were being.. More

  • Indonesia’s Bird Flu Death toll Up to 22

    Indonesia yesterday said two more children were confirmed to have died from bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the illness to 22. A three-year-old boy died on February 28 and a 12-year-old girl the day after, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said, adding that both victims were from Central Java province and had apparently come into contact.. More

  • Paris Police Raids University

    Riot police havestormed the Sorbonne University in Paris, forcing out students who have been occupying the building since Wednesday in protest against government labour laws. About 80 helmeted police officers rushed tothe building early on Saturday to dislodge about 150 students who had holed up in a classroom and barricaded the doors with desks and.. More

  • Many Killed in Fallujah Attack

    A car bomber has killed at least 11 people, including a US marine and five Iraqi police on a military checkpointin the western town of Falluja, medics say. One report said asix-year-old girl was among the dead. The checkpoint was jointly manned by Iraqi and US security forces at the time of the attack. In other incidents acrossIraq on Friday, a.. More

  • Haniya Could Be Target, Says Tel Aviv

    Hamas's candidate for Palestinian prime minister, Ismael Haniya, could become a target for assassination if he becomes involved in "acts of terror", Israel has warned. Ehud Olmert, the acting Israeli prime minister, made the comments in an interview with the Jerusalem Post published on Friday. "Whoever is involved personally and directly in terror.. More

  • 11 Iraqis Killed in Iraq Blasts

    Explosions in Iraq have killed at least 11 people and wounded 19 others - all civilians, police said. One of the deadly blasts on Thursdaytargeted an Iraqi army patrol in al-Amariyah, a middle-class neighbourhood in west Baghdad, killing nine civilians and wounding six, according toMajor Falah al-Mohammedawi of the Interior Ministry. At Yarmouk hospital.. More