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  • Iraqi US Backed Troops Sweep through Tal Afar

    More than 5000 Iraqi troops backed by US soldiers have swept into Tal Afar, conducting house-to-house searches and battering down stone walls in the narrow, winding streets of the city. "Operation Restoring Rights is being conducted to remove terrorists and foreign fighters operating in Tal Afar. This operation is in support of the Iraqi governments.. More

  • Mubarak Opponents Take to Streets

    Demonstrators have taken to the streets to protestelection resultsand opposition candidates have allegedfraud after Hosni Mubarak was declared victorin Egypt's first contested parliamentary elections. Egyptian opposition groups staged a demonstration on Saturday, charging that a low turnout gavePresident Mubarak no legitimacy to govern the country. Some.. More

  • Israeli Army all Set to Exit Gaza

    The Israeli army is all set to begin its operation to pull out of the Gaza Strip, the territory it has occupied for the past 38 years, before formally handing over control to the Palestinian Authority. The Israeli cabinet was meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday to rubber-stamp a recommendation by Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz to pull the several hundred.. More

  • Kosovo Serb Policeman Wounded in Ambush

    A Kosovo Serb policeman was wounded when his car was ambushed and fired on late Friday, the United Nations police force said. The attack happened in a region where two Serb men were shot and killed two weeks ago. The latest attack took place shortly before midnight on the main road near the Serb region of Strpce in southern Kosovo, the mainly ethnic.. More

  • Nuclear Talks without Preconditions, Says Iran

    Iran on Sunday said it would not bow to European Union demands that it suspend activities at its Isfahan uranium processing plant again and said any talks with the EU on nuclear issues must be without preconditions. "The resumption of the Isfahan plant's suspension is not part of our agenda and is out of the question for us," Iranian Foreign Minister.. More

  • Bird Flu Suspected in Woman's Death

    An Indonesian woman in Jakarta has died of what authorities suspect may be bird flu, the health minister said on Sunday. The woman, 37, died on Saturday night in a hospital in south Jakarta, after suffering from pneumonia and flu-like respiratory problems since Sept. 6. "We had taken samples for tests and one showed it was positive (for the H5N1.. More

  • New York Remembers September 11 Attacks

    The United States will pause on Sunday to remember the September 11 attacks four years ago in ceremonies overshadowed by the death and destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. In a now-familiar ritual, the names of the 2749 people who died when the twin towers of the World Trade Centre collapsed under the impact of two hijacked airliners will be read.. More

  • US, Iraq Troops Push into Tal Afar as Talabani Welcomes Israeli Investment

    US and Iraqi troops have swept into Tal Afar, conducting house-to-house searches and battering down walls with armored vehicles in an effort to clean the city of fighters. In the Tal Afar offensive, expected for weeks, coalition forces initially faced several hundred lightly armed insurgents in the largely deserted city, 420km northwest of Baghdad.. More

  • Egyptian Troops Deploy to Gaza Border

    Egypt has deployed the first batch of 750 border troops along its desert frontier with the Gaza Strip in line with Israel's withdrawal from the volatile Palestinian area, an Egyptian official said. Mohammed Youssef, an official with the Egyptian State Information Service based in the Egyptian border city of Rafah, said 200 soldiers were deployed on.. More

  • Gas Pipeline Hit in Ingushetia

    Two roadside explosions in Ingushetia region near Chechnya injured a police officer on Saturday, and a separate blast hit a regional gas pipeline, officials and media said. Two makeshift roadside bombs went off in the Ingush city of Malgobek when the police officer was driving to work in his car, a local interior ministry spokesman said. Another.. More

  • Mahathir’s Remarks Trigger US, British Walkout

    Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad triggered a diplomatic walkout from a human rights conference on Friday when he accused the United States and Britain of killing innocent civilians in Iraq. Mahathir Mohamad, who is famous for his anti-Western rhetoric, described Britain and the United States as liars, terrorists and murderers, prompting.. More

  • Mubarak Declared Winner in Egypt Poll

    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has won his country's first-ever contested presidential election with 88.6% of the vote, according to official results announcedby the electoral commission. Commission chairman Mamduh Marai told reporters in Cairo on Friday that incumbent Mubarak's win was based on a turnout of 23% of registered voters. Mubarakreceived.. More

  • Iraq Tal Afar Offensive Stepped Up

    Iraqi and US forces have stepped up their offensive against Iragi resistance fighters in the northern town of Tal Afar, while tightening security on the nearby Syrian border, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has said. Al-Jaafari also said that the government had decided to ramp up security controls along the border with Syria. Around 215 Iraqis.. More

  • New Orleans Evacuation under Way as more Storms Looming over US

    More stragglers seem willing to flee the filthy water and stench of death as increasingly insistent rescuers make what may be their last peaceful pass through swamped New Orleans before using force. Across a flooded city where as many as 10,000 holdouts were believed to be stubbornly staying put, police made it clear in orders barked from front porches.. More

  • Three Pakistani Soldiers Injured in Waziristan Explosion

    Three soldiers were wounded when a military truck was hit by an explosive device in Soor Bagh area of the North Waziristan on Thursday. Officials said that the truck was on way to Datakhel from Miramshah when it run over the explosive device at about 3pm. The vehicle was badly damaged and the wounded soldiers were taken to a military hospital set.. More