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  • Iran Takes Major Nuclear Step

    Iran has developed technology to separate uranium from its ore, reinforcing the Islamic republic's self-sufficiency in the nuclear fuel cycle, state television has reported. The technology, known as a mixer-settler, is used to separate the uranium from the mined ore to produce concentrated uranium oxide- also known as yellowcake- which can then be.. More

  • New Car Bomb Attacks Shake Iraq

    The number of car bombs reported in Iraq on Sunday has risen to 12, with at least 12 people injured and one bomber killed. The spate of bombings onthe first day of 2006, included eight in Baghdad that detonated within about a two-hour period, as resistance fighters opposed to the US presence in Iraq continued their attacks into the new year. The.. More

  • Palestinians Killed in No-Go Zone

    Israeli artillery fire killed two Palestinians in Gaza after rocket attacks were launched from the area, Palestinian security sources said, as a truce declared by armed groups drew to a close. The men's deaths on Saturday were the first in the area since the Israeli army designated it a "no-go" zone, enforced by air strikes and artillery fire to curb.. More

  • Egypt's New Government Sworn In

    Hosni Mubarak, theEgyptian president, has sworn in a new cabinet that retains major personalities of the previous government, while adding two more pro-American business figures. The first Egyptian minister to wear the Islamic headscarf was also installed on Saturday. The appointment of Aysha Abdel-Hadi Abdel-Ghani- a veteran trade unionist and senior.. More

  • Palestinian Candidates Will Boycott Parliamentary Elections

    Fifteen Palestinian candidates in east Jerusalem have said they will boycott parliamentary elections next month. The candidates added that they were withdrawing their candidacies because Israel has yet to officially commit to allowing east Jerusalem residents to participate in the voting. "Jerusalemites should be allowed to participate in the elections.. More

  • Cold Wave May Hit Quake Survivors

    The new year was set to begin with snow and rain for millions left homeless by the South Asian quake, Pakistan's meteorological department said yesterday, as the long-feared Himalayan winter threatened to hinder relief operations. Using helicopters, roads and mule tracks, aid workers helped by Pakistan's army have been delivering tents, clothes, food.. More

  • Syrian Official Says: Al-Hariri Was Threatened

    The president of Syria threatened Rafiq al-Hariri months before he was assassinated, according to Abdel Halim Khaddam, the former Syrian vice-president. "I will destroy anyone who tries to hinder our decisions," Bashar al-Assad told al-Hariri during a meeting in Damascus, Khaddam told Dubai-based television channel Al-Arabiya in an interview from Paris.. More

  • Armed Men Storm Palestinian Office as Hostages Freed in Gaza

    About 50 men, masked and armed,have occupied a Palestinian government office in the Gaza Strip to demand jobs, witnesses and a spokesman for the men said. The group, members of a political wing of the mainstream Fatah movement, occupied an Interior Ministry office in the Dair al-Balah refugee camp, forced everyone to leave and stood guard outside... More

  • Avalanche Kills 24 in Pakistan

    At least 24 people were killed in an avalanche while hunting precious stones in a remote mountain range in northwest Pakistan. The incident happened in the rugged Karakoram range in Kohistan district, local police chief Ashfaq Ahmed said. "There were around 120 people extracting gemstones when the avalanche struck, burying a number of them," Ahmed.. More

  • Castro Welcomes Bolivia's Morales

    Evo Morales, Bolivia's socialist president-elect, has won a hero's welcome and a co-operation deal in Havana. The Cuban government welcomed Morales' election as an important triumph over US influence in the region. Castro said: "I think that it has moved the world. It's something extraordinary, something historic. The map is changing." Castro, 79,.. More

  • New Deadly Attacks Shake Baghdad

    A car bomber and a mortar have killedfive people and injured10others in two separate attacks inBaghdad, Aljazeera reports. On Friday the car bomber blew himself up next to a police patrol in a commercial area on al-Kifah street, killing three Iraqi civilians and injuring two police officers, Lieutenant Ali Mitaab said. The mortar landed in Baghdad's.. More

  • Ten Sudanese Migrants Die as Camp Stormed by Egyptian Police

    Ten Sudanese migrants, including children, have died as Cairo police broke up a makeshift protest camp, Egypt's interior ministry says. Riot police fired water cannon at the Sudanese protesters, who had been refusing to leave the camp, set up in September near United Nations offices. A stampede was reported as police forced hundreds of people.. More

  • WHO Says China Still not Sharing Bird Flu Samples

    China is still not sharing virus samples from animal bird flu outbreaks, the World Health Organization said on Friday, a day after Beijing announced the country's third human death from the disease. The woman, a 41-year old factory worker from the southeastern province of Fujian, died from the deadly H5N1 form of the virus over a week ago, Xinhua.. More

  • Sri Lanka 'Risks Civil War'

    Anti-personnel mines have been found set to explode near passing military convoys in Sri Lanka and European observers say the country is in danger of slipping back into civil war. Hagrup Haukland, the chief of a group of truce monitors drawn from five Nordic countries, said in a statement on Thursday: “If this trend of violence is allowed to continue,.. More

  • Israeli Checkpoint Bombing Kills Four

    A bomber has blown himself up at a military checkpoint in the northern West Bank, killing an Israeli army officer and two Palestinian bystanders. An Israeliarmy spokesman said three other Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in the attack on Thursday at the checkpoint near Tulkarem which had been set up to prevent the bomber from crossing.. More