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  • Iran Offers to Bring Foreign Firms into N-Program

    Iran unveiled proposals to end a standoff over its suspected nuclear weapons program and thwart a move toward possible UN sanctions but the United States, France and Britain reacted coolly. In a much-anticipated address to the UN General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad outlined four proposals, including an offer to "engage in serious.. More

  • Poisonous Water Claims 8 Lives in Pakistan

    The death of at least eight children was confirmed on Saturday in Karachi’s Landhi area where water-borne diseases had broken out on Friday, affecting about 1,100 people in two days. The casualties took place in Dawood Challi where people consumed contaminated water. About 30 patients were brought to the Sindh Government Hospital, Korangi, and.. More

  • Palestinian Troops Seal off Egypt Border

    Palestinian forces have fired warning shots and pushed back stone-throwing crowds on the southern Gaza Strip's Egyptian border, trying to re-impose order after a week of illegal crossings by thousands of people. About 1500 soldiers and riot police warded off mobs along the 14km-long Rafah frontier on Saturday, where anarchy has reigned since Israeli.. More

  • Six Policemen Killed in Chechnya

    Chechen fighters have killed six pro-Moscow police and wounded another nine, local media reported on Saturday in a major blow to Russian forces in the turbulent region. Also, Chechen resistance reported the death of its top commander in a clash with pro-Moscow security forces earlier this week. Local news agencies reported that four policemen had.. More

  • One Killed, 22 Wounded in New Beirut Blast

    At least one person was killed and 22 wounded in a bomb attack on an apartment building in Beirut, the latest in a string of blasts in the Lebanese capital, police and rescue services said. The man killed was a Lebanese citizen of Armenian origin, and one of the wounded was in serious condition, said police. The blast occurred in a four-storey building.. More

  • Kosovo and Serbia in Key Meeting

    Top officials from Serbia and Kosovo have held a six-hour meeting in Vienna for the first time in two years. Kosovo is waiting for a UN report by special envoy Kai Eide expected to give the green light to crucial talks on its final status. Kosovo wants to become independent of Serbia, while Serbia insists it should remain a Serbian province. Kosovo.. More

  • Chavez Says US Has Plans to Invade Venezuela

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he has proof of a US plan to invade his county at the end of a visit to the United States for the UN General Assembly packed with diplomatic fireworks. "I have evidence that there are plans to invade Venezuela," the left wing leader, an outspoken critic of the US administration, told ABC television in an interview. Si.. More

  • No Control yet on Gaza-Egypt Border

    Egyptian and Palestinian police have fired warning shots in the air but failed to deter thousands of people from crossing the Gaza-Egypt border without identity or customs checks, officials said. An Egyptian policeman fired his rifle in the air on Friday when a group of Palestinians tried to make a new breach in the barrier, close to the main gap.. More

  • US Warplanes Bomb Ramadi

    US warplanes have bombed targets in the Iraqi town of Ramadi while US forces have clashed with fighters in the city, Aljazeera reported. US jets struck al-Bufarraj and Sufiya areas in Ramadi city at around 7.30am on Thursday, wounding an unknown number of civilians, independent Iraqi journalist Muhammad Hassan said. Fierce clashes erupted following.. More

  • Seventh Election Candidate Killed by Taliban

    Suspected Taliban fighters have shot dead a candidate for Afghanistan's landmark parliamentary elections, the seventh candidate to be killed before the weekend poll, a provincial official said. Armed men forced Abdul Hadi out of his house in Hazarjoft, a district in the restive southern province of Helmand, and gunned him down late on Thursday, provincial.. More

  • Hunger Strike Spreads in Guantanamo

    A hunger strike at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has grown to its largest point since detainees began their latest protest more than a month ago. After 11 detainees joined the protest overnight, there are now 131 taking part in the hunger strike, said Major Jeff Weir, a spokesman for the detention center on Thursday. Twenty-one of the striking.. More

  • 32 Die in Fireworks Factory Inferno

    More than 32 people including children were killed yesterday when a blaze at an eastern Indian fireworks factory set off explosions so powerful that the building collapsed. Thirty-two bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the factory in Khusropur village, 35km east of the Bihar state capital Patna, district magistrate B Rajendra said. "We expect.. More

  • Dozens Iraqi Policemen Killed in New Attacks

    At least25 members of Iraqi police have been killed in three separate car bomb attacks in southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. Twoattacks coordinated one minute apart of each other killed nine members of an elite police commando unit just after 12pm (0900 GMT) in the Dora district of the capital. Earlier, a similar attack in the.. More

  • Pullout from some Kashmir Areas to Be Sought

    President Pervez Musharraf is going to ask Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to withdraw troops from pre-designated areas in occupied Kashmir when he meets the latter on Wednesday evening.“The president has already discussed this proposal with President Bush,” said Ambassador Jehangir Karamat while briefing journalists.At his meeting with US.. More

  • Europe to Press Iran Nuclear Issue

    Leaders of the three major European powers are expected to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday in what could be a last-ditch effort to avert a showdown over Tehran's nuclear activities. The meeting -- described as 90 percent certain -- would be an opportunity for the leaders of Britain, France and Germany to "test the temperature.. More