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  • Riots Mar Americas Summit Opening

    Hundred of protesters have run riot in Argentina, throwing rocks at police just blocks away from the opening of a summit attended by 34 Americas leaders. Groups of demonstrators approached security cordons around the summit, and a bank was set on fire as police fired tear gas to disperse the rioters. US President George W Bush is one of the leaders.. More

  • US Soldier, Iraqi Commandos Killed

    Several Iraqis, including security commandos,and a US soldier have been killed in ongoing attacks in Iraq. Six Iraqi policemen were killed and 10 others wounded when unidentified fighters fired mortars at an Iraqi police checkpoint near Buhriz, a Sunni Arab stronghold 55km northeast of Baghdad. The fightersthen stormed the position firing from eight.. More

  • Damascus Allows Private Questioning by UN

    Syria will let UN investigators, trying to identify the killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, question its officials in Damascus on their own, the Syrian ambassador to London has said. Chief United Nations investigator Detlev Mehlis has complained that Syrian security figures interviewed in Damascus last month appeared to give.. More

  • 70 Killed as Pakistan Ferry Capsizes

    At least 70 people are feared drowned after an overloaded motorboat taking villagers to a funeral capsized in the Arabian Sea off southern Pakistan yesterday, government and navy officials said. Only ten survived when the vessel ferrying 80 people from Jangisar town, 100km southeast of the port city of Karachi, sank on the way to a nearby village,.. More

  • Palestinian Child Seriously Hurt by Israeli Troops in Jenin

    A 12-year-old Palestinian boy has been seriously hurt by Israeli gunfireduring clashes in the West Bank despitePalestinian President Mahmmoud Abbas's callfor calm. The boy was hit in the northern West Bank town of Jenin on Thursday, medical sources said. Gunbattles reverberated through Jenin after more than 30 army jeeps moved into the city and two.. More

  • Shots Fired as French Riots Escalate

    The French capital has experienced its worst night violence since the unrest erupted a week ago. Rioters shot at police and firefighters with live bullets and threw petrol bombs and rocks, leaving behind a trail of burnt-out shops, cars and buses. This time youths from impoverished estates in the north and east of Paris clashed with police. Some 270.. More

  • Red Cross Probes CIA Secret Jails

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called for access to all foreign terrorism suspects held by the United States after a report of a covert CIA prison system for al-Qaida captives. The Washington Post said on Wednesday the CIA had been hiding and interrogating inmates at a secret Soviet-era facility in Eastern Europe. The detention.. More

  • Kuwaitis Freed from Guantanamo Detention

    Kuwaiti authorities have received five detainees who were freed after three years of detention in Guantanamo, the state news agency has said. "The five detainees that Kuwaiti authorities received today are on their way to Kuwait on a flight," the agency, KUNA, quoted the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States as saying on Thursday. "They're expected.. More

  • Washington Pushes for New Syria Resolution

    US Ambassador John Bolton has said he wants another UN resolutionforcing Syria to withdraw any intelligence agents it keeps in Lebanon. "We certainly see a resolution that continued to push for full implementation of 1559," Bolton said, referring to the measure adopted in September 2004 demanding the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon and the.. More

  • Many Iraqis Killed in Car bomb Attack as more Marines Die

    A car bomb explosionin an outdoor market packed with shoppers has killed 23 people and woundedmore than 60, south of Baghdad. Also on Wednesday, six UStroops were killed, including two in a helicopter crash west of the Iraqi capital. Interior Ministry officials said a car bomb struck outside Musayyib city, killing at least 23 people and wounding.. More

  • Hamas Rejects Truce Renewal

    Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said it will not renew an informal nine-month-old truce with Israel after one of its leading activists was killed inan Israeli airstrike in Gaza. The truce, brokered by Egypt, is due to expire at the end of the year. The announcement from Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri follows Tuesday's killing ofa Hamasfighter.. More

  • Violence Across Ethiopian Capital

    At least 23 people have been shot dead in a second day of violence in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. Hundreds of heavily armed police and troops deployed across the city as the sounds of heavy machine guns and loud explosions reverberated. Doctors told reporters of more than 150 people coming to hospital wounded in clashes between stone-throwing.. More

  • Blair’s Ally Quits after ‘Mistakes’

    David Blunkett, a key political ally of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has resigned from the cabinet amid raging controversy over his business affairs. It was the second time in less than a year that Blunkett, 58, the works and pensions secretary, has quit Blair's cabinet, after being forced to resign last December as home secretary in a visa.. More

  • Hamas Claims Israeli Soldier's Killing

    Hamas' military winghas claimed the killing ofan Israeli soldierin the West Bank while two Palestinianactivists in Gaza have been inan Israeli air strike targetingthecar they were travelling in. On Wednesday, an Israeli soldier was killed in the West Bank during a military operation, theIsraeli army said. The soldier was killed after an Islamic Jihad.. More

  • Iraqi Soldiers Killed in Fresh Bombings

    Nine Iraqi soldiers have been killedin two separate explosionstargeting their patrol south-eastern Baghdad, Al Jazeera has learned from Iraqi police. Nine other soldiers were wounded in the blasts. In separate incidents on Wednesday theIraqi Interior Ministry says five Iraqi civilians were killedwhen a roadside bomb exploded as a police patrol passed.. More