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  • Portugal's Forest Blazes Continue to Take their Deadly Toll

    A fireman has died fighting the flames in Villareal, in the northeast of Portugal, one of his colleagues was injured. It follows the death of an emergency worker in an accident on Friday while on his way to tackle a blaze in Ferreiros in the centre of the country. In total six firefighters have died during operations this year. Dozens of brigades.. More

  • Indonesians to Finalize Aceh Deal

    Indonesian ministers and other officials have headed for Finland to sign an agreement to end decades of separatist fighting in Aceh province. Justice Minister Hamid Awaluddin, the head of the government delegation at talks with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Helsinki, said he was travelling with top security minister Widodo Adisucipto, several legislators.. More

  • US Troops Kill Iraqi Civilians in Baghdad

    An attack on a US military patrol followed by heavy US gunfire left 15 Iraqis dead and 17 wounded in a town west of Baghdad, residents have said. Residents of Nasaf, a town just outside Ramadi, west of Baghdad, said a roadside bomb exploded next to a US armoured patrol as it passed near the Ibn al-Jawzi mosque shortly after prayers on Friday. Following.. More

  • Bush Hints at Use of Force against Iran

    US President George W. Bush refused to rule out the use of force against Iran over the Islamic Republic’s resumption of nuclear activities, in an interview with Israeli television aired on Friday. When asked if the use of force was an alternative to faltering diplomatic efforts, Bush said: “All options are on the table.” “The use of force.. More

  • Tigers Deny Assassinating Sri Lanka FM

    Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have denied involvement in the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar and said the government must look "inwards" to get at the killers. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said in a statement on Saturday that forces within the government were trying to sabotage a Norwegian-arranged truce by resorting.. More

  • US Chopper Crashes in Iraq

    A US Apache helicopter crashed near the northern Iraqi oil centre of Kirkuk, wounding two people, military spokesman said. "An Apache helicopter went down in the vicinity of Kirkuk around 10 am this morning," said a spokesman for the 42nd Infantry Division, responsible for the area. "There are two injured who are being medevaced out," he added. He.. More

  • Hamas not to Disarm after Gaza Pullout

    Hamas will not surrender its weapons to the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip after Israel's pullout from the territory, one of the movement's top leaders has said. "This army will continue to defend our homeland as long as one inch of Palestine remains occupied," Mahmoud al-Zahar told reporters on Friday, after attending a training session of.. More

  • Iraq Shia Leaders Call for Federal State

    Iraqi Shia leadershave called fora federalstate of their own in the south. "Regarding federalism, we think that it is necessary to form one entire region in the south," said Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of one of the Iraqi Shia parties inthe Iraqi government. Al-Hakim, head of the ‘Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq’ (SCIRI), openly.. More

  • Bush Rejects Mother's Iraq Plea

    President George Bush has said he "sympathised" with the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq but refused to heed her call to pull out the troops. Speaking from his Texas ranch where Cindy Sheehan has been holding a roadside protest, Bush said withdrawing would be a "mistake". Ms Sheehan is vowing to remain until she gets to speak to the president.. More

  • Palestinians Prepare for Israeli Pullout

    Palestinian security forces are gearing up to deploy 5,000 troops around settlements in the Gaza Strip as Israel intensified preparations just days before the historic pullout is to begin. In a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice late on Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas confirmed that the Palestinian Authority.. More

  • 'Threats to UK Security' Detained

    Ten foreigners were detained in London and other parts of Britain and face deportation on national security grounds, Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced. None of the foreigners were identified, but one of the detainees was thought to be Abu Qatada, 44, a Jordanian resident in Britain for 12 years. In a statement, Clarke said: "According to my.. More

  • Detainee Alleges Inhuman Treatment in US Prison

    Lawyers of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the Qatar-born student who has been imprisoned in the United States as an enemy combatant for more than two years, have filed a new lawsuit charging that his military jailers had subjected him to inhuman treatment and of mistreatment of the Holy Qur’an. Ali al-Marri, 39, has, through his lawyers, challenged the.. More

  • Garang's Successor Due in Khartoum

    Salva Kiir, successor to the late southern Sudanese leader John Garang, is to arrive in Khartoum on Wednesday on his first visit to the capital in more than 22 years. Lieutenant General Kiir is due to be sworn as first vice president at a brief ceremony in Khartoum on Thursday, replacing Garang, who died in a helicopter crash on 30July after three.. More

  • More US Soldiers Killed in Iraq

    Four US soldiers have been killed and six wounded in an attack on a patrol near the northern Iraqi town of Baiji. Police in the town said two Humvee patrol vehicles and a larger armoured vehicle were wrecked and burnt out. They were surrounded by US troops after the incident. The US military said the attack happened at 11.30pm (1930 GMT) on Tuesday... More

  • UN Nuclear Agency Meets on Iran

    The UN nuclear watchdog has held a crisis meeting to try to stop Iran pursuing a nuclear programme after Tehran resumed work at a uranium plant, stoking Western fears the government was bent on developing atomic weapons. As the governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna on Tuesday, Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,.. More