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  • Palestinian Council to Discuss Infighting

    The Palestinian Legislative Council is to meet in Ram Allah to discuss the security situation in the Palestinian territories. This follows thedeath ofthree Palestinians, including a police officer,in clashes between Palestinian police and Hamas fighters in Gaza on Sunday. Both sides blame the other for sparking the clashes that also wounded 50, five.. More

  • Gas Explosion Kills 34 in Coal Mine

    A gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine on Monday killed at least 34 people, the official Xinhua news agency reported, just the latest accident to hit the world's deadliest mining industry. The blast occurred in a mine near Hebi, a city in the central province of Henan, Xinhua said, but gave no further details. More than 2,700 people died in floods,.. More

  • NATO Peacekeepers in Kosovo Neutralise Explosive under UN Car

    NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo (KFOR) early on Saturday successfully removed an explosive planted under a UN car in the main street of the capital Pristina, police said. "The explosive was removed at ten minutes after midnight by KFOR specialists. We still don't know what kind of explosive it was," Refki Morina, a police spokesman told AFP. "The explosive.. More

  • US Soldiers Captured in Iraq?

    A website statement reportedly attributed to the al-Qaida group in Iraq, however, claimed that two US marines had been captured by its forces. "Al-Qaida soldiers succeeded in kidnapping two US marines ... and is giving the infidels 24 hours to release female Sunni Muslim prisoners ... or they (Western forces) should not bother to look for their children,".. More

  • Indonesian Police Investigate Bali Bombings

    The coordinated blasts in Bali that killed 25 people were likely set off by bombers who died in the explosions, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official says. On Saturday, three bombs tore through restaurants packed with evening diners, two at outdoor seafood restaurants on Jimbaran beach and one at a steak bar at Kuta beach in an area surrounded.. More

  • El Salvador Volcano Kills Two, Thousands Flee

    El Salvador's largest volcano erupted for the first time in a century on Saturday, killing two people and forcing thousands to flee their homes. The Ilamatepec volcano, also known as Santa Ana, hurled out hot rocks, ash and boiling water on Saturday morning and a massive plume of smoke rose more than 10 miles (16 km) into the air. Two people were.. More

  • Villages Evacuated after Russian Ammunition Depot Fire

    Explosions lit up the sky as a fire raged at an ammunition depot in eastern Russia. No one has been seriously hurt but the blasts caused damage over a widespread area. Some 4,000 people in villages around the depot on the Kamchatsky peninsula have been evacuated from their homes. A ten kilometre exclusion zone has been set up around the area. It is.. More

  • Many Killed in Bali Bombing

    Three near simultaneous blasts on the Indonesianresort island of Bali, triggered by human bombers,have killed at least 25 people and woundedmore than 100, including many foreign tourists. Police said the first blast on Saturday tore through the Raja restaurant in the shopping district of Kuta, the scene of the 2002 bombings which left 202 people dead,.. More

  • IAEA Rejects Arab Call to Discuss Israel

    The UN atomic watchdog has unanimously called for a nuclear-weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East but rejected an Arab call to denounce Israel as a nuclear threat. A general conference of the 139-nation International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday in Vienna also unanimously passed a resolution welcoming North Korea's agreement to abandon nuclear.. More

  • Afghanistan Vote Fraud

    European Union observers yesterday reported "worrying cases of fraud" in landmark Afghan parliamentary elections held on September 18. The EU mission reported ballot stuffing, proxy voting and possible intimidation of voters intended to influence their choice of candidate. "While these phenomena do not appear to be nationwide, they are a cause for.. More

  • Major, 7 Soldiers Killed in North Waziristan

    Six army soldiers and a major and a paramilitary Frontier Constabulary sepoy were killed on the second day of a military operation against armed elements in the North Waziristan Agency. Besides, two civilians were killed during an exchange of fire between security forces and armed men in the agency’s Mirali tehsil. A military official in Peshawar.. More

  • Remote Controlled Car Kills Many Iraqis

    At least10 Iraqis have been killed and around40 others injured in a car-bomb blast in a public market in Hilla, 100km south of Baghdad. Speaking to Aljazeera, Talib al-Janabi, an Iraqi journalist, said the explosion rocked centralHilla at 8.45am (0545 GMT) on Friday when the bomb placed insidea Mercedes was detonated by remote control. At least 10.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Two Fatah’s Activists

    Two Palestinians have been killed during clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Aljazeera reports. The clashes erupted during an Israeli raid into the refugee camp on Friday, Aljazeera's correspondent Hasan al-Titi said. The two Palestinians killed are Alaa al-Tirawi and Jamal al-Jirny, activists.. More

  • Bird Flu Could Kill 150 Million People

    A new flu pandemic could happen at any time and kill between 5-150 million people, a UN health official warned. David Nabarro, who is charged with co-ordinating responses to bird flu, said a mutation of the virus affecting Asia could trigger new outbreaks. "The consequences in terms of human life when the pandemic does start are going to be extraordinary.. More

  • Pakistan Activists Call for Apology

    Hundreds of rights activists rallied in the Pakistani capital yesterday, demanding President General Pervez Musharraf apologise for reportedly saying women in the country get raped to make money and get a visa. "We strongly condemn and denounce ... Musharraf's remarks against women survivors of rape in a Washington Post interview" during his recent.. More