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  • Iraqi Poll Irregularities under Scrutiny

    Iraq's election commissionhas started checkingballot boxes for possible irregularities, while flights bringing ballot boxes to Baghdad for the count have resumed after sandstorms subsided. The ballot boxes were being taken to Baghdad on Tuesday to be checked by election officials investigating "unusually high" vote totals in areas said to be predominantly.. More

  • Abbas, Siniora Discuss Lebanon Camps

    Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora have agreedthat unrestricted movements of weapons and fighters in Palestinian refugee camps are harmful to Lebanon. In a joint statement on Tuesday issued after the 45-minute talks in Paris, the two leaders expressed "great concern" about the movements of weapons andarmed groups.. More

  • US Troops Kill Four Afghan Policeman

    US troops shot four Afghan policemen dead and wounded another after mistaking them for militants during an operation in southern Afghanistan, a senior local official said on Tuesday. Separately, on Tuesday three Afghans working for the American security firm USPI were hurt — and one was possibly killed — by a roadside bomb in Kandahar, provincial.. More

  • Quake Survivors Face New Threats

    Aid workers in Kashmir say winter weather and untreated injuries could cause another wave of deaths in the earthquake-hit region. Doctors in Pakistan-administered Kashmir say tens of thousands of people across the state are still waiting to receive treatment. As many as 54,000 people may have died in the quake, local officials now say. Many.. More

  • Iraq Poll Panel to Audit Vote

    Iraq's independent electoral commission has said it is verifying the ballot count from the country's constitutional referendum and will have to delay the announcement of a final result. Figures provided by several governorates required "re-examination, comparison and verification because they are relatively high compared with international averages.. More

  • Kashmir Education Minister Assassinated

    The education minister of Indian-administered Kashmir has been killed at his home during a raid on a high-security neighbourhood. According to police, at about 9am (0400 GMT) on Tuesday four armed men tried to enter the house of a member of the Communist Party of India, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, inTulsibagh, Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administere.. More

  • Bird Flu Spreads to Greece

    It may look like a sun-kissed paradise but the picture-postcard island of Inousses in the Aegean Sea is at the forefront of fears that bird flu is spreading uncontrollably across Europe. The virus has been detected on the tiny Greek island and, if confirmed as the deadly H5N1 strain, it will be the first such case within the European Union. From Russia,.. More

  • Dozens of Iraqis die in US air strikes

    US warplanes and helicopters have bombed two villages near the city of Ramadi where witnesses say at least 39 civilianshave beenkilled, while the US army saysthe air strikehas killed an estimated 70 fighters. On Sunday, a group of about two dozen Iraqis gathered around the wreckage of a US vehicle destroyed the previous day by a roadside bomb. The.. More

  • Israel Re-Imposes West Bank Travel Ban

    Israeli occupation forces have sealed off Palestinian towns in the West Bank and banned private vehicles from intercity roads with a decision to officially resume military incursions. Israel says the harsh measures were re-imposed on Monday in response to the killing of three Israelis and has halted all communications with the Palestinian Authority,.. More

  • Earthquake Shakes Western Turkey

    A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook a region of western Turkey near the Aegean Sea on Monday, the state Anatolian news agency said. The quake was felt in Izmir, Turkey's third largest city, and surrounding areas, but there were no immediate reports of anybody being hurt or of damage to property, it said. Turkey is criss-crossed by seismic fault lines.. More

  • Iran Warned over Iraq Raids

    The United States and its chief ally Britain have warned Iran over its possible involvement in bomb attacks in Iraq, top officials said on Sunday. Iran denies meddling in Iraq and says the accusations against it are psychological warfare tied to efforts by Washington and London to report Tehran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions over.. More

  • Basayev Says He Planned Nalchik Raid

    In an e-mail message to the website www.kavkazcenter.com that was reposted on 17 October on chechenpress.org, Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev said that 217 armed men who participated in the 13 October multiple attacks on police, army and Federal Security Service (FSB) facilities in Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR) and.. More

  • UN Warns of Rising Hunger Deaths

    The number of people dying from chronic hunger and related illnesses is on the rise, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. More than six million people have died from hunger this year, said WFP director James Morris, in comments to mark World Food Day. "Hunger and related diseases still claim more lives than Aids, malaria and tuberculosis.. More

  • African Immigrants Found in Sahara

    The separatist Polisario Front in the Western Sahara says it has come across 92 immigrants expelled from Morocco. The immigrants, of nine nationalities including Gambian and Cameroonian, were found in small groups in a region of the Western Sahara controlled by Polisario, not far from a Moroccan military defence wall that divides the annexed territory.. More

  • Three Israelis Killed in West Bank Attack

    Palestinian armed men have shot dead three Israelis and wounded four in a drive-by ambush outside a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli medical sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Sunday attack, the first of its kind in four months, at a hitchhiking post outside the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements.. More