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  • Push to Keep al-Hariri Inquiry Leader

    UN Secretary - General Kofi Annan will try to convince the head of the investigation into the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri to stay on after his mandate expires next month. "During a phone call between (Prime Minister Fuad) Siniora and Annan, (Annan) told the prime minister he would use every means possible to convince the.. More

  • Israel Fires Missiles into Gaza

    Israeli warplanes fired two missiles into empty lots in the north Gaza Strip, causing loud explosions in the area, witnesses and the army said. Witnesses said there were no casualties in the attack on Saturday, but they added that ambulances raced to the scene of the explosions. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the firing came in response to earlier.. More

  • Iraqi Soldiers Ambushed in Baquba

    Fighters have ambushed an Iraqi army patrol north of Baghdad, killing 19 soldiers, a day after the Pentagon announced that 10 US Marines were killed by a bomb west of the capital. The Iraqi soldiers were travelling in a five-vehicle patrol near Baquba, 60km (40 miles) from Baghdad, when they were hit by a roadside bomb and then came under gunfire. Police.. More

  • Lebanese Find Mass Grave in Former Syrian Stronghold

    Lebanese forces unearthed on Saturday at least 20 decomposed corpses buried in a mass grave in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades, security sources said. Witnesses and security sources said the bodies, most now only skeletons in scraps of underwear, were found on an old onion farm in the town of Anjar,.. More

  • Protests in Spain against Autonomy Measure

    Tens of thousands of people have taken part in a rally in Madrid called by the opposition to protest against new autonomy proposals for the Catalonia region. The conservative Peoples' Party believe regional demands for more power are putting the 1978 constitution at risk. The demonstration was led by PP leader Mariano Rajoy, who escaped serious.. More

  • US Troops Raid Ramadi as 10 Marines Die near Fallujah

    US and Iraqi troops have entered Ramadia day after anti-US fighters staged a show of force in the western city. Operation Shank, involving300 American Marines and 200 Iraqi soldiers, beganon Friday, the latest in a series of operations in Anbar province, the heartland of anti-US fighting. A US military statement said: "The purpose of the operation.. More

  • Israeli Navy Kills Palestinian in Gaza

    An Israeli navy vessel opened fire on a Palestinian boat off the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing a 22-year-old man, Palestinian medics said. The medics said the Palestinian killed in the incident had been on a fishing trip. Israel's navy has largely blockaded Gaza's coast during much of a five-year-old Palestinian uprising, forcing Palestinian.. More

  • Jakarta Confirms Eighth Death from Bird Flu

    Indonesia has had its eighth human death due to bird flu confirmed by a Hong Kong laboratory affiliated with the World Health Organization, a senior Health Ministry official said on Saturday. Hariadi Wibisono told Reuters the results on the 25-year-old woman, who died earlier this week, made her Indonesia's eighth confirmed death from the H5N1 strain.. More

  • China Mine Flood Traps 42 Workers

    Rescuers in China are trying to reach 42 workers trapped in a flooded mine in the central province of Henan. The accident at the Sigou coal mine happened at 1540 GMT on Friday, the state safety board said, adding that 34 miners managed to escape. It comes less than a week after a blast at a mine in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang killed.. More

  • UN Investigator Says Hariri Probe Unharmed by Syria Witness

    Chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis was quoted on Thursday as saying his investigation into the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister had not been undermined by a Syrian witness who recanted his testimony. German prosecutor Mehlis, quoted by a number of Lebanese and Arab newspapers, accused Syrian authorities of using the witness, Hosam Taher.. More

  • Violence Mars Egypt Vote, Opposition Supporter Killed by Police

    Riot police restricted access to many polling stations in the final stage of Egyptian elections in what the Islamist opposition said was an attempt to cap its gains in parliament. The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) said police holding voters back at one polling station in Kafr El-Sheikh on Thursday shot dead an opposition supporter,.. More

  • Most Pakistan Quake Tents can't Withstand Winter

    Most of the tents handed out to Pakistani earthquake survivors are incapable of withstanding the winter and the focus of relief efforts is now on other ways to ensure people stay warm, aid officials said on Friday. The October 8 earthquake killed more than 73,000 people and left up to three million homeless. The worry as a brutal Himalayan winter.. More

  • Homeless Die in Central Germany

    At least nine people have died in a fire at a shelter for homeless people in central Germany. The blaze swept through the mobile homes used to house the homeless in the town of Halberstadt, about 170km (100 miles) west of Berlin. Authorities said that the fire, which has been brought under control, broke out during the early hours of Friday. Police.. More

  • Israel may Turn Fence into Border

    Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has said that the West Bank separation barrier that Israel is constructing will be a future border with the Palestinians. The Haaretz newspaper on Thursday quoted Livni as saying at a recent conference that "one does not have to be a genius to see that the fence will have implications for the future border." "This.. More

  • More Brotherhood Members Arrested in Egypt

    Egyptian police have rounded up almost 600 Muslim Brotherhood activists in the two days before the last stage of legislative elections in what the opposition Islamist group said was an attempt to disrupt its campaign. The Brotherhood, fielding independent candidates because the authorities refuse to let them form a party, has shaken up Egyptian politics.. More