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  • Iran Rejects Nuclear Surrender

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said his country will not submit to pressure over its nuclear programme. In a defiant speech broadcast on state TV, he said Iran would never give up its right to peaceful nuclear energy. Hours earlier US President George Bush, giving his State of the Union address, said the world must not allow Iran to acquire.. More

  • Damaged Tanker Sinks in Channel

    A tanker carrying 10,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid has sunk, a day after a collision with a freighter in the English Channel. The Ece had been listing heavily after Tuesday's collision but there had been plans to tow it to Le Havre. Twenty-two crew members were rescued after it collided with the freighter General Grot-Rowecki, near Guernsey. French.. More

  • Kenya Outraged by New Zealand Dog Food Aid

    Officials in drought-stricken Kenya recoiled with outrage to a plan by a New Zealand woman to send "dog food" for starving children, even as she said the product was fit for human consumption. Describing the idea as absurd, insulting, offensive and immoral, officials vehemently rejected the donation for children threatened by famine and said they.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed by Israeli Troops

    Two Palestinians have been killed in a shootout with Israeli troops in the northern West Bank, sources on both sides say. An Israeli army spokeswoman saidthatTuesday's incident in which the two Palestinian fighters were killedalso caused an unknown number of Israeli casualties. The clashes broke out when Israeli troops moved into the village of.. More

  • Iran Nuclear File will Go to UN

    Key powers have agreed that the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, should report Iran to the Security Council over its nuclear programme. The move by the US, the EU, Russia and China was approved at talks in London. However the ministers decided the council would take no action until March, after it has received a formal report on Iran.. More

  • Iraqi Girl Died from Bird Flu

    An Iraqi girl who died on Jan. 17 in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya, had bird flu, Iraq's health minister said on Monday, despite the World Health Organisation (WHO) having initially ruled that out. "The test of Tijan's blood emphasised that she had bird flu from the kind that kills humans," Health Minister Abdul Muttalib Mohammed Ali told a news.. More

  • Second U.S. Soldier Found Guilty of Afghan Assault

    A U.S. military court found a second soldier guilty of mistreating detainees in Afghanistan in July and sentenced him to six months in detention, the U.S. military said. Sergeant Kevin D. Myricks was found guilty of conspiracy to maltreat a detainee and maltreatment of two detainees at a hearing at a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Monday. The court.. More

  • Syria to Grant 300,000 Kurds Citizenship

    Syria plans to grant citizenship to 300,000 Kurds living in the country, a Kurdish representative told the London based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.Shakib Hajou, a representative of the Kurdish Haderkan tribe from the Al-Hasakah district, said a 43-member delegation representing all the Kurdish tribes in Syria, met recently with Baath Party official Muhammad.. More

  • Hamas Calls on EU to Maintain Aid

    Hamas has appealed to the European Union not to cut aid to a Palestinian government that might include the Islamic militant group. Ismail Haniya, a Hamas leader, said in Gaza on Monday: "We call on you to understand the priorities of our Palestinian people at this stage and continue the spiritual and financial support in order to push the region towards.. More

  • Iran Makes Proposals before UN Powers Meet

    Iran outlined proposals to the European Union to calm its nuclear row with the West on Monday, but a British official said they contained nothing new. Tehran put its ideas to officials of EU powers Britain, France and Germany in Brussels just hours before the United States and its European allies were due to try to persuade Russia and China to back.. More

  • Iraqi Violence Kills Dozens

    At least 20 Iraqishave beenkilled in attacks and bombings, including six car bombs set off near churches, while a roadside bombing has wounded a US television news anchor and his cameraman. Car bombs exploded in a co-ordinated spree of attacks outside the Vatican mission and at least four churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk within 20.. More

  • Nigerian Rebels Vow further Action

    Nigerian militants have released four foreign oil workersbut threatened to resume attacks on oil facilities in the world's eighth-largest exporter. A government spokesman said the hostages, an American, Briton, Bulgarian and Honduran, were released on Monday. The spokesman for Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa said: "They have all been released... More

  • Iran Sends Blair Invitation to Holocaust Conference

    Iran on Sunday invited British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Tehran to participate in a planned conference on the Holocaust, which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has branded a myth. "It would be good for Mr. Blair to participate in the Holocaust seminar in Tehran," the Islamic republic's foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters on.. More

  • 70 Trapped After Fire in Canada Mine

    Fire broke out Sunday in a mine in central Canada, forcing some 70 miners trapped underground to retreat to emergency refuge rooms stocked with oxygen and supplies, a mine official said. Late Sunday, a rescue team reached one of the rooms, made sure everyone was safe, then closed them back inside until the air inside the mine could be cleared of toxic.. More

  • Tube Shooting Police Log 'Was Doctored'

    A police log was doctored to conceal the fact that a man shot dead as a suicide bomber had been wrongly identified, it was alleged yesterday. Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, a Brazilian electrician, was shot by police at Stockwell Tube station, south London, on July 22 last year. He had been identified by a member of a Scotland Yard Special Branch surveillance.. More