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  • UN Court Acquits Two Ex-Kosovo Resistance Fighters

    The Hague war crimes tribunal acquitted two former Kosovo fighters of war crimes on Wednesday, one of them Fatmir Limaj a key figure in the Kosovo Liberation Army, but jailed a third for 13 years. The acquittals in the tribunal's first judgment on war crimes in Kosovo during the 1998-99 fighting between Serbian forces and the rebel KLA, were greeted.. More

  • China Faces Fresh Crisis

    The Chinese government yesterday urged its citizens to get tested for HIV, as activists warned the country faced another Aids crisis surrounding people who contracted the disease from blood transfusions. And a a UN International Labour Organisation study published yesterday said globalisation is a factor in the spread of Aids as it causes workers to.. More

  • Two Charged in Aljazeera Memo Leak

    Two men have appeared in a London court charged with violating the Official Secrets Act by leaking a document that reportedly detailed a private conversation between US President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Daily Mirror newspaper, citing unidentified sources, said the document revealed that Blair argued against Bush's suggestion.. More

  • Shimon Peres to Back Sharon's Party

    Shimon Peres is to leave the Labour Party and give his backingto the new party headed by prime minister Ariel Sharon, Israel's Channel 10 TV reports. According to the TV channel the move would entail Peres giving his support to Sharon's new party in next year's general election, but would not see him formally joining the party. The stationsaid Peres.. More

  • Budget Crisis Stares UN in the Face

    The United Nations could be forced to delay staff salaries or cut back some operations if a dispute over reform keeps member states from adopting a 2006-2007 budget by 31 December, a senior official has said. Warren Sach, the top UN budget official, rejected the notion of a complete UN shutdown but said on Tuesdayit was possible that salaries might.. More

  • Khartoum, Rebels in Fresh Talks

    Sudanese government officials and rebels from the country's war-wracked Darfur region have opened a new round of peace talks, with African Union mediators calling for an end to the slaying of civilians. Despite more than a year of negotiations, the government and rebel groups have continued fighting in Sudan's western Darfur region. So far, the violence.. More

  • Saddam Trial Adjourned

    Saddam Hussein has lashed out over his treatment by US guards and demanded that the chief judge stand up to what he called American occupiers and invaders as his trial for crimes against humanity resumed in a heavily guarded Baghdad court. Two of the seven other defendants also spoke out during the two-and-a-half-hour session, complaining of their.. More

  • Fatah Elections Suspended by Abu Mazen

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended primary elections of his ruling Fatah movement on Tuesday over widespread fraud in Gaza and the West Bank, a party official said. The primaries, ahead of a January parliamentary election in which the resistance group Hamas poses a strong challenge, were Fatah's first. They have been seen as a key step for.. More

  • Rice Defends Unlimited Detention of Suspects

    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the unlimited detention of suspected terrorists saying, in an interview that it benefitted the United States and the entire world. "You can't allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them, because if they commit the crime, thousands of innocent people die," she told the USA Today daily. "We.. More

  • Hariri Witness Says He Was Bribed

    A man has appeared on Syrian TV claiming he was bribed to give evidence against Syria to the UN inquiry into the killing of Rafik Hariri. The man, identifying himself as Hossam Taher Hossam, said he was bribed by former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's son Saad. A spokesman for the Hariri family dismissed Mr Hossam's statement. Mr Hossam.. More

  • Lanka Offers Peace Talks

    A Tamil Tiger deadline for a political deal in Sri Lanka eased fears of an immediate return to war in the South Asian nation and left room for the new government to manoeuvre, analysts said yesterday. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Sunday gave the new government of President Mahinda Rajapakse until year's end to come up with a "reasonable".. More

  • Four Foreigners Kidnapped in Iraq

    Four Western aid workers, two believed to be from Canada, one from Britain and one from the United States, have been kidnapped in Iraq, the organization they were working for said on Sunday. The British and U.S. embassies in Baghdad both said they were investigating reports that their nationals had gone missing. There is no Canadian representative.. More

  • Rain, Snow Halt Quake Relief Flights

    Rains and winter’s first snowfall hit the earthquake-devastated areas of Azad Kashmir and the North- West Frontier Province on Sunday, halting relief helicopter flights and bringing feared chill that could cause more deaths. Weather officials and witnesses said the entire belt hit by the October 8 quake received scattered rains since early morning.. More

  • 40 Dead, 138 Missing in China Coal Mine Blast

    Up to 40 workers were killed and another 138 were listed as missing after an explosion at a major coal mine in China's northeast Heilongjiang province, state press reported. A total of 220 miners were underground when the accident at the Dongfeng coal mine near Qitaihe in the province's far east occurred at 9:40 pm (1340 GMT) Sunday, the China News.. More

  • Nepali Police Raid Radio Station, Detain Reporters

    Armed Nepali police stormed a radio station, detained four reporters and seized equipment to block a BBC interview with Maoist chief Prachanda, the company said on Monday. The late Sunday raid on independent Radio Sagarmatha (the Nepali name for Mount Everest) is part of an ongoing crackdown on media since King Gyanendra took power in February. Radio.. More