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  • US Military Investigates Burning of Taliban Bodies

    The U.S. military has described as "repugnant" the alleged burning of the corpses of two Taliban fighters by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The U.S. military says it has ordered an investigation into the alleged act after the airing of an Australian television report that claims to showU.S. soldiers burning the corpses. U.S. officials have said that.. More

  • First Bird Flu Case Found in Britain

    A parrot that died in quarantine in Britain had contracted bird flu but officials do not yet know if it was the lethal strain which has sparked alarm in Europe in recent weeks, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. Traces of the highly pathogenic H5 avian flu virus were found in the parrot imported from Suriname, South America, and held with other.. More

  • Damascus Rejects UN Investigation Report

    Syria has rejected a UN investigation into the murder of a former Lebanese premier, calling it politically biased. "It is a political statement against Syria based on allegations by witnesses known for their hostility to Syria," Mehdi Dakhlallah, Syria's information minister, told Aljazeerain the first official reaction from Damascus to the report. Dakhlall.. More

  • Iraqi Police Search for Abducted Lawyer

    Iraqi police have started searching Baghdad for a kidnapped defence lawyer working for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants. "Police special forces started search operations early this morning in the suspected areas around Sadr City in eastern Baghdad," police Major Falah al-Mohammedawi of the Interior Ministry said on Friday. On Thursday evening,.. More

  • Mutinous Prisoners Kill Kyrgyz MP

    Inmates at a prison hospital in Kyrgyzstan have killed a parliamentarian and two other people after taking his entourage hostage. The deputy, Tynychbek Akmatbayev, had been visiting the tuberculosis hospital attached to Prison No 31, about 25km northwest of the capital Bishkek, when the violence erupted on Thursday. "The deputy Akmatbayev died.. More

  • Aid Worker Dies in Afghan Attacks

    Attacks by suspected Taliban fighters have killeda local aid worker and two senior provincial officials, Afghan officials say. The attacks on Thursday killed the employee of the Western-funded Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA) relief agency in the northwestern province of Faryab, provincial CHA head Khan Mohammad Sameem said. Three other.. More

  • US may Invade Venezuela, Says Chavez

    Venezuela is preparing for a possible US invasion, President Hugo Chavez has said, warning that such an aggression would send US petrol prices soaring. Chavez, a vocal critic of imperialism, capitalist excess and the administration of US President George Bush, said he was not against the American people- just the current government. "We are sure.. More

  • Australian TV Shows Footage of Taliban Burning

    Australian television broadcast on Wednesday footage of what it said was U.S. soldiers burning two dead Taliban fighters as they faced Mecca and using the charred and smoking corpses in a propaganda campaign in southern Afghanistan. The television report said U.S. soldiers burned the bodies for hygienic reasons but then a U.S. psychological operations.. More

  • 10,000 Children Could Die, Warns UNICEF

    The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) on Wednesday warned that 10,000 more children could die from hunger, cold and disease in coming weeks because aid has still not reached certain parts of quake-hit Pakistan.Unicef called for immediate steps to push through more supplies, saying that children would be the first victims in a possible “second.. More

  • Saddam’s Trial Adjourned

    Saddam Hussein's trial for alleged crimes against humanity has been adjourned to 28 November after an initial sitting inBaghdad. Appearing in a tightly secured courtroom in the former headquarters of his Baath Party on Wednesday afternoon, nearly two years after his capture, theousted president faced charges in a 1982 massacre of more than 140 Shia... More

  • Israel Plans West Bank Apartheid Roads

    Israel is considering a permanent ban on Palestinians using major roads in the occupied West Bank, security sources have said, drawing Palestinian condemnation of the idea as a form of apartheid. Israel barred private Palestinian vehicles from several West Bank highways on Monday, expanding a network of settler-only routes, a day after Palestinian.. More

  • Spain Judge Orders US Soldiers' Arrest

    A judge in Spain has issued an international arrest order for three US soldiers whose tank fired at a Baghdad hotel during the war in Iraq, killing a Spanish journalist. National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued the arrest warrant for Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp, all of the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division,a.. More

  • China: 2,600 Birds Dead of Bird Flu

    Some 2,600 birds have been found dead of bird flu in northern China's grasslands, the government said Wednesday, amid reports of new outbreaks in Europe and Russia. Preliminary tests detected the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in samples taken from a region south of Moscow where hundreds of birds died suddenly, the Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday. If.. More

  • Saddam Hussein Goes on Trial

    Two years after he was captured, Saddam Hussein goes on trial on Wednesday, but his lawyers will challenge the legitimacy of the US-backed court trying him. Saddam's lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, said the ousted leader was calm and confident of his innocence on the eve of his trial. "I saw him this afternoon and his morale is very high," Dulaimi said.. More

  • New Hurricane Strengthens to Category 5

    Hurricane Wilma strengthened into a Category 5 monster early Wednesday packing 175 mph winds, and forecasters said a key reading of the storm's pressure showed it to be the most powerful of the year. Wilma was dumping rain on Central America and Mexico, and forecasters warned of a "significant threat" to Florida by the weekend. The storm's power.. More