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  • Mubarak ahead in Egypt Vote Count

    With half of the votes in the Egyptian presidential election counted, incumbent President Hosni Mubarak is said to be 70% ahead of his challengers, Aljazeera's correspondent in Cairo reports. Al-Wafd Party candidate Numan Juma is in second place, followed by al-Ghad Party candidate Ayman Nour. Counting ballots continuein Egypt for thefirst ever contested.. More

  • Israel Closes Vital Gaza-Egypt Crossing

    Israelhas closed the vital Gaza-Egypt border crossing for at least six months, infuriating Palestinians who say the move will prevent free travel out of the Gaza Strip. The closing of the Rafah terminal on Thursday intensified an argument between Israel and the Palestinians over control of the border, just days before Israel is to turn over the Gaza.. More

  • Hussein Attorney Denies Ex-Iraqi Leader Confessed

    Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's chief attorney has denied that Hussein has confessed to ordering executions and waging a campaign against Kurds in which thousands of people were killed. Reuters today says it has received a statement from the attorney, Khalil Dulaimi, that says: "there was no confession by the president and all the investigations.. More

  • Angry Afghan Refugees Ransack UN Office in Pakistan

    Hundreds of Afghan refugees attacked a United Nations refugee agency office in northwest Pakistan in protest at delays in repatriating them, police and officials said Thursday. The mob destroyed computers, iris checking machines, furniture and a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) vehicle in the "sudden" riot late Wednesday in Peshawar near the.. More

  • Five Die of Water Diseases as Hillary Clinton Rejects Hurricane Probe under Bush

    Bacteria in contaminated water has killed five people rescued from Hurricane Katrina, officials said yesterday, adding a worrying new dimension to the disaster. Experts made a new warning not to even touch the floodwaters in New Orleans. Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the five died this week.. More

  • Four Americans Killed in Basra Attack

    A roadside bomb has struck a convoy of American security guards in the southern city of Basra, killing four US contractors, a US embassy spokesman said. Three of the contractors were killed instantly and a fourth died after British troops took him to a military hospital after the bombing on Wednesdayin Basra, said Peter Mitchell, a US embassy spokesman.. More

  • Armed Group Claims Killing Mussa Arafat

    Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Brigades has claimed responsibility for assassinating former Palestinian security chief Mussa Arafat and kidnapping his son in Gaza, according to Aljazeera's correspondent. Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Brigades isbelieved to be the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. The Associated Press news agency also quoted a spokesmanfor.. More

  • Bungled Car Bomb Kills Four in South Afghanistan

    A car exploded in a southern Afghan town on Wednesday, killing its three occupants and a passerby, in what appeared to be a bungled suicide attack, a provincial official said. Security has been stepped up across Afghanistan in the run-up to Sept 18 elections that have been denounced by Taliban, who have been battling U.S. and government forces since.. More

  • Voting Begins in Egypt

    Egyptians are voting in the country's first ever contested presidential election, a ballot that the government has touted as a major democratic reform in the US ally, although long-time leader President Hosni Mubarak is almost certain to win. Polls opened at 8am (0500 GMT) across the country. At one polling station - a school in Cairo's Manial district.. More

  • Bush Response Racist?

    Africa has slammed the Bush administration's slow response to the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans saying it revealed the "racist" character of American society. "Washington, in a bizarre display of uncaring aloofness in their hour of need, appeared unable to respond to the crisis until days later," the Johannesburg-based The Star.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Teen

    A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead as hundreds of stone-throwing youths and Israeli soldiers clashed, increasing tensions ahead of Israel's completion of its Gaza withdrawal. As fighting flared on Tuesday, Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz told the army to show no pity towards Palestinians at checkpoints in the occupied West Bank. It was.. More

  • US Jets Hit Iraqi Bridges near Syria

    US jets have attacked two bridges across the Euphrates River near the Syrian border to prevent foreign fighters from using them to get to Baghdad and other major cities, the US command says. A US Marine Corps statementsaid US and Iraqi forces also destroyed a "foreign fighter safe house", killed two foreigners and arrested three others during a raid.. More

  • Fire, Stampede at Egypt Theater Kills 29

    A fire that began when an actor knocked over a candle on the set of a play ripped through a crowded theater in this central Egyptian city late Monday, sparking a stampede of audience members and killing at least 29 people, survivors and officials said. The fire spread quickly across the set, which was made entirely of paper and had been ringed with.. More

  • Kosovo President Says He Has Lung Cancer

    Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, a veteran leader of ethnic Albanians, said he was suffering from lung cancer, just months ahead of long-awaited talks on the future status of UN-administered province, expected to start by the end of this year. "On Saturday, I returned from Germany, where doctors have established that I have lung cancer," Rugova said.. More

  • Sharon Denies West Bank Settlement Plan as Four Palestinians Die in Gaza Blast

    Israel has moved swiftly to quash a new row over its settlements, with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office slapping down a minister who announced plans to build thousands of homes in the West Bank. The Palestinians accused Israel of wrecking US President GeorgeBush's two-state vision for the Middle East after deputy defence minister Zeev Boim on.. More