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  • Bomber Kills Four in Baghdad

    A bomber, wearing a police uniform, has killed at least four Iraqi policemen and wounded five at a checkpoint close to the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, police say. One police source said after the attack on Thursday: "He was wearing an explosive belt. He approached the checkpoint as police cars were entering the ministry, then he blew himself up.".. More

  • Last Indonesian Troops Leave Aceh

    Indonesia's military has pulled the last of its troop reinforcements from Aceh province, fulfilling one of the major conditions of a landmark peace agreement with separatists. The withdrawal of 2500 soldiers on Thursday comes after the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) disbanded its military wing this week. The Finnish-mediated pact ended one of Asia's longest.. More

  • Seven Dead in Russia Hospital Fire

    Seven people were killed and at least 12 suffered burns when fire broke out early on Thursday at a hospital near Moscow that treats people for nervous disorders, officials said. A spokesman for Russia's emergencies ministry said the fire started at about 4 a.m. (0100 gmt) at the two-storey hospital at the village of Dmitrovsky Pogost 150 km (93 miles).. More

  • Landslides Destroy Yemen Village, Kills at Least 30

    Some 30 Yemenis were killed in an overnight landslide which hit a village on a rocky slope near the capital Sanaa, an interior ministry official said. The landslide hit the small village of al-Dhafeer, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Sanaa, destroying 15 out the village's 27 houses, the offical said, requesting anonymity. He said 30 corpses had.. More

  • New Al-Hariri Inquiry Chief Chosen

    The UN secretary-general has nominated a Belgian prosecutor to lead the next stage of an investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. Kofi Annan, the United Nations chief, picked Serge Brammertz, a deputy prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, toreplace Detlev Mehlis,.. More

  • Afghan Blast Kills US Soldiers

    Two soldiers from the US-led foreign force in Afghanistan have been killed and three wounded in an explosion in the east of the country, a provincial governor says. The incident occurred in Kunar province, governor Asadullah Wafa told Reuters. "Two coalition soldiers were killed and three others wounded," he said. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic.. More

  • Poland Postpones Iraq Withdrawal

    Poland's government says it has taken the "very difficult decision" to extend its military deployment in Iraq until the end of 2006. The new conservative government's decision reverses the previous leftist administration's plan to pull troops out in early 2006. Poland, a staunch ally of the US, has about 1,500 troops stationed in Iraq. It is.. More

  • Israel Air Raids Target Palestinians in Lebanon, Gaza

    Israeli warplanes have bombed Palestinian targets near Beirut and in the Gaza Strip in response to a series of rocket attacks in the north and south of the Jewish state. At least two members of the PFLP-GC, a radical pro-Syrian faction headed by the veteran Ahmed Jibril, were wounded in the air strikes to the south of the Lebanese capital although.. More

  • Mass Grave Unearthed in Gujarat

    Villagers have uncovered what appeared to be a mass grave for Muslim victims of religious riots in northwestern India. Jk Bhatt, police superintendent, said officers and villagers had recovered the remains of six bodies and were trying to figure out how many more were in the grave in Lunawada, a village in the state of Gujarat. "It is still not.. More

  • 28 Colombian Soldiers Slain in Rebel Attack

    At least 28 Colombian soldiers were killed and another five remain missing after FARC rebels ambushed an army contingent in central-eastern Colombia, Defense Minister Camilo Ospina said. The soldiers were attacked while monitoring efforts to eradicate illegal crops some 280 kilometers (174 miles) southeast of Bogota by rebels of Front 45 of the Revolutionar.. More

  • Arab Parliament Meets in Cairo

    The Arab world's first regional parliament has held its inaugural meeting in Cairo but officials say it could be many years before the new institution gains enough power to influence events in the region. The 88 members, four from the parliaments or advisory councils of each Arab League member, met at the league's Cairo headquarters for a session.. More

  • Five Saudi Policemen Killed in New Shootout

    Five Saudi policemen have been killed during a shooting spree by a gunman whom security sources said was a wantedinsurgent and who was later arrested. An Interior Ministry statement, on the official Saudi Press Agency, said a man was arrested after shooting three policemen on Tuesday at a checkpoint in the ultra-conservative northern Qassim province,.. More

  • Israeli Warplanes Hit Gaza

    Israeli occupation forces have launched numerous air strikes in Gaza, saying it is in response to Palestinian rocket fire and will establish a buffer zone in the area. Aljazeera's correspondent in Gaza reported that Israeli warplanes launched five air strikesinside the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The firstattack targeted an uninhabited.. More

  • Buffer Zone Angers Palestinians

    The Ruling Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah)says it willhold Israel responsible for any consequences of its decision to establish a buffer zone in northern Gaza. Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, has ordered the army to establish a security zone in northern Gaza to prevent continued Palestinian rocket attacks, public radio reported.. More

  • News Deadly Attacks Hit Iraq, US Troops

    Iraq has returned to its violent ways after a brief lull during a fairly peaceful poll. A group of about 30 armed men attacked a police checkpoint in Buhriz, 65km northeast of Baghdad on Monday, killing five policemen and injuring four, police said. The raid, involving mortar, anti-tank and small arms fire, targeted a checkpoint in Buhriz, 60km northeast.. More