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  • UN Watchdog Warns Tehran

    The world is losing patience with Iran over its nuclear programme, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said yesterday. However, he cautioned against using military action. "After three years, the international community is losing patience with Iran," said ElBaradei, in Oslo, Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize today. The.. More

  • Poland Key Base for CIA Jails

    Poland was the heart of the CIA's secret detention network in Europe until recently, a human rights organisation has claimed. Marc Garlasco, an analyst for Human Rights Watch, interviewed in Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper, said: "Poland was the main base for CIA interrogations in Europe, while Romania played more of a role in the transfer of detained.. More

  • Ahmadinejad Wants Israel Moved to Europe

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad triggered new international outcry by saying the tumour of the state of Israel should be relocated to Europe. Ahmadinejad, who in October said arch-enemy Israel must be "wiped off the map", said that if Germany and Austria believed Jews were massacred during World War II, a state of Israel should be established.. More

  • Iraq Captors Say US Hostage Killed

    An Iraqi group “The Islamic Army” has said in an internet posting that it killed a kidnapped US security consultant. The claim's authenticity could not be immediately verified. The Islamic Army in Iraq on Thursday said it had killed "the American security consultant for the Housing Ministry," after the United States failed to respond to its.. More

  • US Bars Access to Detainees

    The US has admitted for the first time that it has not given the Red Cross access to all detainees in its custody. The state department's top legal adviser, John Bellinger, made the admission but gave no details about where such prisoners were held. Correspondents say the revelation is likely to increase suspicion that the CIA has been operating.. More

  • New H5N1 Outbreak in Ukraine

    Ukraine says it has detected the strain of bird flu potentially fatal to humans in several villages in the Crimean peninsula. A massive cull is underway in the area where some 2,500 birds reportedly died from the virus within hours. Authorities have sealed off the area and rounded up tens of thousands of domestic poultry from local farms. Bird flu.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed in Air Strike, Israeli Soldier Stabbed to Death

    Aljazeera's correspondent in Gaza reports that an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft hastargeted the Nabil Masud group, which is affiliated to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, in Jabaliya, leaving two Palestinians dead and several others wounded. AFP also said two Palestinian fighters were killed on Thursday inan Israeliair strike on a house in the Gaza Strip.. More

  • Spain Arrests Croatian Fugitive General

    Fugitive Croatian general Ante Gotovina, who is wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal, has been arrested in Spain, UN chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte in Belgrade has said. Gotovina, one of the UN war crimes tribunal's top three fugitives, is wanted for crimes committed against ethnic Serbs at the end of the 1991-1995 Serbo-Croatian war. He.. More

  • Iraq Captives' Deadline Extended

    An Iraqi group holding four Westerners has extended by 48 hours a deadline to kill them unless Iraqi detainees are freed. The captors called Suyouf al-Haq (Swords of the Truth) had threatened to kill the hostages on Thursday but extended the deadline until Saturday (10 December). Footage aired by Aljazeera on Wednesday, showed unverified images of.. More

  • Bomb Attack Kills Seven in Bangladesh

    At least seven people were killed and more than 50 wounded in Bangladesh in a bomb attack during the morning rush hour on a crowded street in a district town, police said Two bombs went off within the space of a few minutes in Netrokona, 360km north of the capital Dhaka. Police said the wounded included three policemen. Many of the victims were.. More

  • NATO to Appoint its Envoy at UN Team for Kosovo Talks

    NATO is expected to name its envoy to assist UN team on Kosovo status talks led by former-Finnish president Martti Ahtissari, following the moves made by EU and US. James Appathurai, the spokesperson of the 26 nation military alliance told reporters in Brussels that in the coming days an member of international staff of the alliance will be named,.. More

  • Rape Doctor Held in Pakistan

    Police in Pakistan yesterday arrested a doctor for allegedly raping a young woman who was injured in the giant South Asian earthquake, officials said. Maqsood Ahmed was detained after the 18-year-old Kashmiri's parents complained that he had sexually assaulted their daughter at the Mayo hospital in the eastern city of Lahore, police said. "The accused,.. More

  • Passenger Killed by Air Marshals

    U.S. air marshals on Wednesday shot and killed an American Airlines passenger who claimed to be carrying a bomb in his backpack and ran off a plane at Miami International Airport after being confronted. Federal officials said the 44-year-old American made threats and indicated he had a bomb in his bag as he was boarding a flight to Orlando in central.. More

  • Violence Overshadows Egypt Vote

    At least fourpeople have been killedin poll violence in thefinalround of month-long Egyptian parliamentary elections, with polling again plagued byviolations that have drawn US condemnation. The fourwerekilled on Wednesday during clashes that eruptedwhen police attempted to prevent voters from casting ballots inthe Damietta governorate, Aljazeera's.. More

  • Israel Kills Gaza Resistance Leader

    An Israeli airstrikehas killed a senior resistance fighter in the Gaza Strip and wounded 10 other people, Palestinian medics said. Witnesses and medics said a rocket fired from an Israeli aircraft on Wednesday struck the vehicle of a top member of the Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition of armed Palestinian groups, as it rounded a bend in the.. More