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  • Wipe Israelis off the Map, Says Ahmedinejad

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday openly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and lashed out at Muslim nations which recognise the Jewish state, setting off a storm of protests. "The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," he told a conference in Tehran entitled "The World.. More

  • Detainees Die in Dutch Airport Blaze

    At least 11 people have died, and 15 are injured and in hospital, after a fire set buildings ablaze at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. The blaze broke out soon after midnight in a detention centre at the airport. The building houses people awaiting deportation from the Netherlands. Police say they are looking for prisoners who may have escaped. The.. More

  • Protesters Mark 2,000th U.S. Fatality in Iraq

    Protesters across the United States took part in hundreds of vigils and rallies on Wednesday to mark the 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq, hoping to increase pressure on President George W. Bush to start bringing troops home. Anti-war activists said their movement was rapidly growing in strength and they now spoke for a majority of Americans who.. More

  • China Denies Human Bird Flu as Village Girl Dies

    A girl with flu-like symptoms has died in a Chinese village where a bird flu outbreak had been reported, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Thursday, but Beijing said it had received no reports of human cases. Three people on a French island off Africa were being tested on Wednesday in what appeared to be the first suspected human cases outside Asia of.. More

  • Palestinian Bomb Attack Kills at Least Five Israelis

    A bomber has blown himself up next to a food stand in the northern Israeli town of Hadera (al-Khudaira), killing at least five people, wounding another 30 and leaving a path of destruction at an open air market, police and rescuers said. Rescue teams were treating the wounded in a nearby field. Aljazeera's Palestinian bureau chief, Walid al-Umari,.. More

  • Iraqi Sunni Parties Unite for Election

    Three mostly Sunni Arab political parties have announced that they have formed a coalition to run in Iraq's parliamentary election in December. The three - the General Conference for the People of Iraq, the Iraqi Islamic Party and the Iraqi National Dialogue - have been urging Sunnis to take part in the December 15 election. They named their coalition.. More

  • Syria Ready to Launch al-Hariri Inquiry

    Syria says it is prepared to launch its own probe into the murder of Lebanese former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri after Damascus rejected the UN's investigation as politically biased. "I will tell you that [UN chief investigator] Detlev Mehlis wants a special Syrian inquiry. We are ready to carry out this investigation," the Syrian Foreign Ministry's.. More

  • Hate Crime Trial Highlights Mounting Racism in Russia

    The trial of eight teenagers accused of murdering a young Tajik girl last year opened yesterday in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second city and the scene of frequent racially motivated crimes. The trial takes place amid fears that extremist groups are becoming more aggressive, and comes just weeks after a Peruvian student was beaten to death in a southern.. More

  • Rich World Failing on Quake Aid

    Many of the world's richest countries have so far failed to support a UN appeal for victims of the South Asian quake, a top UK-based charity has said. The charity, Oxfam, said less than 30% of the 312 million US dollar (£175m) sought by UN aid agencies had even been promised. It said the US, Japan, Germany and Italy had given less than their "fair.. More

  • Church Condemned over Abuse Scandals

    Ireland's Catholic Church has come under fire in a new government report, which says it covered up decades of sexual abuse of young people by priests. The report details the church's handling of around 100 abuse allegations against 21 priests in the southeast diocese of Ferns in County Wexford. The inquiry was set up in 2002, after the resignation.. More

  • US, France call for resolution on Syria

    TheUS and Francehave saidthey are trying to mobilise support for a UN resolution demanding Syria's full cooperation with theinvestigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. "We will certainly insist on Syrian cooperation," US Ambassador John Bolton said on Monday. "This is true confessions time now for the.. More

  • Israel Fires Missiles into Gaza

    Israeli army helicopters have firedtwo rockets into the Gaza Stripin response to a series of attacks by Palestinian resistance fighters, witnesses and security sources say. One raid on Tuesday was against a building belonging to the Fatah movement of Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas in Bait Hanun in the north of the Gaza Strip. The building was damaged but.. More

  • Future of Kosovo Up for Discussion

    The United Nations Security Council has backed recommendations to launch talks on the future of Kosovo. Negotiations will likely prove difficult as Serbs want to retain sovereignty over the province but Kosovars want independence. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said he would work to find a solution. "My country is committed to making every.. More

  • Hurricane Leaves 6 Million Without Power in Florida

    Beginning an agonizing, all-too-familiar process, Floridians lined up for generators, chain saws and other clean-up supplies only hours after Hurricane Wilma cut a costly, deadly swath across the peninsula. The storm slammed across the state in about seven hours Monday, causing billions in insured damage and leaving 6 million people without electricity... More

  • Many Killed in Baghdad Hotel Attack

    The Palestine Hotel, which houses many foreign journalists in Iraq,has beenhit in a rocket-and-car bomb attack,killing at least 11 people and causing considerable damage to the hotel, Iraqi police and journalists say. Associated Press Television News pictures on Monday showed a huge explosion on the northwest side of Firdous Square, adjacent to the.. More