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  • Tsunami Remembered - One Year On

    Emotional ceremonies have been held to mark one of the worst disasters in history - on the anniversary of the day a wall of water claimed over 230,000 lives. In Thailand, more than 2,000 foreign tourists were among those who perished. Their grieving relatives joined local mourners to remember and reflect.A powerful undersea earthquake off Sumatra.. More

  • Train Crash Kills Four as Snowstorms Hit Japan

    An express train running behind schedule in blustery winter weather derailed in northern Japan, killing four people and injuring 32, police said on Monday, and it was unclear if others remained trapped in the wreckage. The train left the tracks and crashed into a farm building after apparently encountering high winds near a bridge over a river in.. More

  • Libyan Retrial for Bulgarian nurses in HIV case

    Libya's supreme court has overturned the death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges of infecting children with the HIV virus and ordered a retrial. The order on Sunday appeared to be an attempt to end the stand-off between Libya and the West over the prosecution of the five medics. Libya's Supreme Court sent.. More

  • Palestinian PM Will not Run for Elections

    Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Queria and other members of Fatah's old guard have decided not to run for parliament elections, according to officials who prefer to speak on condition of anonymity. According to officials Queria would fail to win a seat in his East Jerusalem district but he would be appointed as a minister in the next government. Palestinian.. More

  • Chad Declares 'State of Belligerence'

    The Chadian government has said that it is in a "state of belligerence" with neighbouring Sudan, which it blames for an attack on a border town last weekend. Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor, a government spokesman, told reporters on Friday: "Chad is today in a state of belligerence with Sudan. The friends of Chad must support it by all means possible in this.. More

  • Pakistan Won’t Support War on Iraq: Jamali

    The government has decided “not” to support any move that seeks to attack Iraq and create problems for its people. “I want to take parliament into confidence and tell the parliamentarians that Pakistan will not become a party to any decision which leads to bloodshed in Iraq”, declared Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali. Speaking in.. More

  • Gunmen Kill Sri Lankan Politician

    Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a pro-Tamil Tiger politician in Sri Lanka. Joseph Pararajasingham, 71, was shot at close range at St Michael's Church in Batticaloa, 300km east of the capital, Colombo. At least eight other people, including his wife, were injured in the shooting in the crowded church, police said. The attack comes amid escalating.. More

  • Sudanese Diplomat Captured in Iraq

    Six members of staff from the Sudanese embassy, including a diplomat, have been captured in Iraq, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry says. The six were taken after Friday prayers in the capital, Baghdad. Jamal Ibrahim, a spokesman for Sudan's Foreign Ministry, told Aljazeera: "The captured are the embassy's second secretary, Abd al-Munaim al-Toum, and.. More

  • Israel Threatens Gaza Air Strikes

    Israel threatened yesterday to stop Palestinian fighters firing rockets from the Gaza Strip by using airstrikes and shelling to enforce a buffer zone inside the territory it abandoned three months ago. The makeshift rockets rarely cause casualties, but could have big political fallout as Ariel Sharon campaigns for re-election on the strength of a pullout.. More

  • Egyptian Opposition Leader Jailed

    Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour has received a five-year jail term after being found guilty of fraud. Nour, who came second in a presidential poll in September, was first held in January this year accused of falsifying signatures to register his party, Ghad. Nour says the charges against him are politically motivated. Nour shouted slogans.. More

  • Rumsfeld: US to Cut Iraq Combat Troops

    The size of American forces in Iraq is to be reduced by two brigades, the US defence secretaryhas told troops in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Donald Rumsfeld saidPresident George Bushhad authorised thecuts in US combat troops in Iraq, below the 138,000 level that prevailed for most of 2005. Although he did not give specific numbers, Pentagon officials.. More

  • Many Sailors Killed in Sri Lanka Attack

    At least 13 sailors have been killed in a mine attack on a convoy in north-western Sri Lanka, officials say. The army said a claymore fragmentation mine was detonated as a navy bus and truck passed by in Mannar district. If confirmed the attack would be the worst breach of a 2002 truce that has come under increasing pressure due to an upsurge of.. More

  • Gunmen Attack Nigerian Oil Pipelines

    Nigeria's security forces are on high alert after gunmen attacked several major oil pipelines. A series of explosions have killed at least 11 people, and dozens more have been injured. The attacks occured about 50 kilometres from the major oil terminal in Port Harcourt. The attackers used dynamite and apparently knew what they were doing,because oil.. More

  • At Least 42 Killed in Gas Explosion in Southwest China

    A gas explosion inside a highway tunnel under construction has killed 42 people and injured 11 others in southwest China's Sichuan province. The explosion is the latest in a series of deadly industrial mishaps that critics blame on China's rapid economic growth. Two coal mine blasts and a mine flooding in the past five weeks killed nearly 300 people. The.. More

  • Iraqi Parties Threaten Boycott

    Dozens of Sunni Arab and secular Shia groups have threatened to boycott Iraq's new legislature if complaints about election fraud are not reviewed by an international body. A joint statement issued on Thursday by 35 political groups that competed in last week's elections said the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, IECI, which oversaw the ballot,.. More