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  • Many Killed in Baghdad Explosions

    A car bomb has exploded in a central Baghdad square killing at least five peopleand wounding seven, an interior ministry official said. A bomber set off hidden explosives inside a public bus in in Al Tayaran square in the Bab-al-Sharji area at about 11.40am (0740 GMT) on Friday, police Major Mohamed Younis said. The blast occurred as the minibus was.. More

  • Hurricane Heads for Upper Texas-Louisiana Coast as Bus Fire Kills 24 Evacuees

    Hurricane Rita roared toward the Texas and Louisiana coast with 135 mph winds Friday, creating monumental traffic jams along evacuation routes and raising fears of a crippling blow to the nation's oil-refining industry. The storm was expected to come ashore early Saturday along the upper Texas-Louisiana coast on a course that could spare Houston and.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Three Palestinians

    Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian fighters in Tulkarim in the West Bank, drawing strong condemnation from the Palestinianresistance group, Islamic Jihad. The three fighters fromal-Quds Brigades were killed early on Friday just hours after Israeli soldiers evacuated an army base. Khalid al-Batsh, a spokesmanfor Islamic Jihad, held Israeli.. More

  • Iran Warns of Fiery and Destructive Response

    Iran yesterday showed off its ballistic missiles and warned any nation considering attacking it would face a "destructive and fiery" response. On show at an annual military parade were thousands of troops and a range of hardware including six of Iran's Shahab-3 ballistic missiles - which sported banners saying "Death to America", "We will crush America.. More

  • EU Experts Urge Bird Flu Action

    Medical and veterinary experts from across Europe have advised EU states to coordinate their actions to deal with the threat of bird flu. The experts' meeting in Brussels on Thursday was the first such EU summit to focus on the disease, which has killed dozens of people in Asia. There have been no cases of bird flu among humans in the EU, but the.. More

  • Palestinian Shot Dead as Hamas Treats To Kidnap Israeli Soldiers

    An unarmed Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli troops in the northern West Bank, Palestinian sources said. According to Aljazeera's correspondent in Jenin, 19-year-old Alaa al-Hantuli was shot by troops who opened fire on a group of Palestinian youths who were standing in front of the Dotan military camp, south of Jenin, on Thursday. The Israeli.. More

  • Iraqi Policeman, US Soldier Killed as Basra Officials Boycott UK Troops

    An Iraqi police colonel and his driver have been killed while driving on a highway near Baquba, north of Baghdad, police sources said. The attack on Thursday, between Baquba and Kanaan, some 50km north of the capital, was carried out by unidentified armed men in a car. In Baghdad the owner of a tile-making factory and two of his sons were shot dead.. More

  • Hurricane Heads for Texas as Category 5

    More than 1 million people along the Texas coast fled the approach of Hurricane Rita on Thursday as it developed into one of the most intense storms on record and threatened catastrophic damage. With winds of 280 km/h, the Category 5 hurricane churned across the Gulf of Mexico on a course that was expected to take it ashore late on Friday or early.. More

  • Six Pakistanis Killed in Two Blasts

    Two bicycle bombs exploded minutes apart in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, killing at least six people and injuring more than 30, police and security officials said. The first bomb went off near the historic Minar-e-Pakistan monument in a crowded area of the city, killing one person and wounding 13, local police officer Amir Zulfiqar told AFP.. More

  • Israel Withdraws from Four W. Bank Settlements as Quartet Urges PA to Disarm Groups

    The Israeli occupation army has announced its withdrawal from two more Jewish settlements, thus completing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's pullout from the Gaza Strip and a small corner of the northern West Bank. The armywithdrew fromthe West Bank settlements of Ganim and Kadim- the first two enclaves to be declared evacuated in August -on Tuesday evening,.. More

  • US Hurricane Develops into Category 3 Storm

    After lashing the Florida Keys, Hurricane Rita gained power on Wednesday and headed across the Gulf of Mexico on a course that could take it to Texas and dump more rain on Katrina-battered Louisiana. Rita was upgraded to a Category 3 storm and the National Hurricane Center said it probably would develop into a Category 4 on Wednesday, the same classificatio.. More

  • Hague Prosecutor Says Vatican Is Shielding Top War Crimes Fugitive

    Carla Del Ponte, the Hague-based war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor, told London's "The Daily Telegraph" of 20 September that she believes that leading fugitive indictee and former Croatian General Ante Gotovina is hiding in an undisclosed Franciscan monastery in Croatia. She also charged that the Roman Catholic Church is refusing to cooperate on.. More

  • Indonesia Navy Fires at China Fishing Boat

    An Indonesian war ship fired at a Chinese-flagged fishing trawler, killing a Chinese crew member and wounding two others, a navy spokesman said on Wednesday. Lieutenant-Colonel Toni Syaiful said the Chinese vessel was suspected of fishing illegally in the eastern Arafura sea and tried to flee from the Indonesian navy ship on Monday after ignoring.. More

  • Storms in Bay of Bengal Kill 33, Scores Missing, Thousands Displaced

    At least 33 people have been killed, with scores of fishermen missing and tens of thousands of residents displaced after storms pounded the Indian and Bangladeshi coasts in the Bay of Bengal. At least 27 people were killed in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh which bore the brunt of the storms on Monday and Tuesday, while six people died in.. More

  • At Least Nine Americans Killed in Iraq

    USauthorities in Iraq have reported the deaths of nine Americans - five soldiers, a diplomatic security agent and three private security guards. A soldier from the 18th Military Police Brigade was killed in a roadside bombing on Tuesday 121km north of the capital, the military said on Tuesday, shortly after announcing the deaths a day earlier of four.. More