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  • Israel Troops Shell Gaza after Rocket Strike

    Israeli soldiers have fired artillery shells at the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket shot by Palestinian resistance fighters that crashed near an Israeli city, Israeli military sources say. There were no reported injuries in either incident on Monday after a two-day lull in violence that followed a bombing at an Israeli shopping mall on 5 Decemberthat.. More

  • Video Shows Iraq Jail Torture

    Aljazeera has aired exclusive footage of tortured prisoners being held in a Baghdad jail run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry. Dozens of prisoners, mostly Sunni Arabs, were being kept in small rooms, reported Aljazeera's correspondent. Some have been in prison for years already. The prisoners' collapsed and cried when they saw a camera, hoping their.. More

  • Two Killed in Beirut Blast

    At least two people have beenkilled in an explosion in an industrial suburb northeast of Beirut. Aljazeera's correspondent in Lebanon reported that acar bomb mayhave caused the blast inthe al-Mukallis area on Monday. The area isan eastern Christian suburb that lies a few kilometres from the headquarters of the UN team investigating the assassination.. More

  • Iran Nuclear Offer to US

    Iran yesterday opened the door for US help in building a nuclear power plant - a move designed to ease American suspicions that Tehran is using its nuclear programme as a cover to build atomic weapons. The offer was issued as Israel said it had not ruled out a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. "America can take part in international.. More

  • Croat Suspect to Appear in Hague

    Croatian war crimes suspect General Ante Gotovina will make his first appearance at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague on Monday. He was transferred there on Saturday from Spain, where he was arrested last Wednesday, after four years on the run. He is charged with atrocities against Croatian Serbs during the Balkan wars. He is expected.. More

  • Blast at Central Athens Post Office

    An explosion rocked a central Athens post office, close to Greece's Finance Ministry, on Monday, causing some damage, a police official told Reuters. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties in the blast at the city's main Syntagma Square. A witness told state television he saw shattered glass more than 50 metres from the site of.. More

  • Two Soldiers Hurt in New Sri Lanka Attack

    Two Sri Lankan soldiers were injured on Monday, one critically, in a fourth claymore fragmentation mine attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels in just over a week. The attacks have led to fears that the island's two-decade civil war could resume after over three years of a shaky truce. The mine detonated as a foot patrol checked a section of road.. More

  • Bus Inferno Kills 40 in Pakistan

    At least 40 people have been killed after firecrackers exploded on a bus carrying guests back from a wedding in Lahore, eastern Pakistan. Police said there were about 50 people on the bus. The other passengers were taken to hospital and eight are in a serious condition. Police said many of the victims were women and children who died from suffocation.. More

  • Syria: Full Cooperation Given to UN

    Syria has fully cooperated with a UN inquiry into the murder of former Lebanese prime ministerRafiq al-Hariri, Syria's deputy foreign minister says. Walid Muallim said there was "no reason for the Security Council to take measures against Syria", despite an interim report implicating Syrian officials in al-Hariri's killing in a 14 February bomb blast. "Syri.. More

  • Palestinian Dies as Israeli Troops Raid Nablus

    A Palestinian has been killed by his own bomb in the Balata refugee camp as fierce clashes erupted between Israeli troops and Palestinians during an army raid in the northern West Bank city. Palestinian medical sources said Iyyad Hashash, a 19-year-old al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades resistance fighter, suffered critical injuries when the bomb he was trying.. More

  • Massive Explosions Hit British Fuel Depot

    Three large explosions have rocked a fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire shooting flames hundreds of feet into the sky. Police say there are casualties and emergency services are at the scene. The first blast happened at 0603 GMT at the Buncefield fuel depot, close to junction 8 of the M1 motorway, 10 miles from Luton airport. It.. More

  • Racial Tensions Spark Sydney Beach Violence

    Racial tensions erupted into violence on a Sydney beach on Sunday when some 5,000 people, some yelling racist chants, converged to defend their beach from what they believe are youth of Middle East background. Local surfers and beachgoers rallied at Cronulla Beach after two young surf lifesavers were attacked last Sunday by a group of young men from.. More

  • Nigeria Plane Crash Leaves 103 People Dead

    An investigation is underway to find out why a Nigerian plane crashed during a storm killing 103 people onboard. Dozens of the dead are school children who were on their way home for Christian holidays. Seven people survived. The aircraft was flying from the capital Abuja to Port Harcourt where it reportedly missed the runway.The crash raises major.. More

  • Afghan Police Killed in Taleban Assault

    Seven police officers and five suspected Taleban fighters have been killed during an assault on government offices in southern Afghanistan. Police said men with machine guns and rockets attacked district offices in Helmand province. Helmand has seen a major escalation in violence this year. Britain is to send troops there in the New Year as part.. More

  • No Room for Truce, Says Hamas

    Hamas will not renew its fragile truce with Israel when it expires at the end of the year, the head of its politicalbranch has said. Khaled Meshaal was speaking at a rally in the al-Yarmuk quarter in Damascus on Friday to mark 38 years since the creation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "We will not enter a new truce while our.. More