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  • UK's Alliance with US Puts It 'at Risk'

    Britain's close alliance with the United States has put it at particular risk of terrorist attacks, two leading think-tanks say. The continuing debate about the wisdom of Britain's military commitments has intensified after the bombings of three London underground trains and a bus on 7 July which killed 55 people, including the four bombers, and injured.. More

  • Spanish Forest Blaze Kills 11 Firefighters

    A forest fire in Spain has claimed 11 lives. All the dead were volunteer firefighters who perished as they fought a desperate battle to overcome a blaze that has raged out of control in the centre of the country. A barbecue that was not put out properly is thought to be the cause of the inferno. After starting in a nature reserve, it has spread along.. More

  • Israel Set for Major Gaza Offensive

    In a sign of escalating tension, Israel has threatened a major ground offensive in Gaza. Troops and tanks on Sunday massed in preparation for an attack, but Israeli political sources said they were unlikely to move before US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits to try to salvage a crumbling five-month-old ceasefire. The worst surge in bloodshed.. More

  • No Survivors in W Africa Plane Crash

    No one survived the crash of an Antonov plane in Equatorial Guinea that went down in flames shortly after take off from the capital with 55 people aboard, national radio has reported. The plane, which crashed after leaving Malabo early on Saturday, "was completely destroyed, burned, and there were no survivors," the station announced. It took rescuers.. More

  • Many Killed in New Baghdad Bombing

    A bomber in a fuel truck has killed at least 60 people near a crowded vegetable market in a town south of Baghdad. The blast near a Shia mosque in al-Musayyib, near Karbala, also wounded 82 people and destroyed nine cars, police said on Saturday. "This is a black day in the history of the town," al-Musayyib police chief Yas Khudayr said by telephone. Some.. More

  • Palestinian Leader Ends Israeli Jail Term

    Shaikh Raed Salah, aleader of the Islamic Movement, has completed his Israeli prison sentence and been released after spending more than two years in jail for aiding Hamas as well as for his political views. Speaking to Aljazeera.net a few hours after his release, Salah said he was a victim of Israeli racism and oppression. "In any other country,.. More

  • Four Serbs may Get 20 Years for Killings

    Four former members of a Serbian paramilitary force were convicted Friday of abducting 16 Muslims from a bus in 1992 and taking them to Bosnia to be tortured and executed. The court said the four former members of the Avengers paramilitary group abducted 15 Muslim men and a woman while they were traveling from Serbia to their work in neighboring Bosnia.. More

  • Pakistani Soldier Killed in New Clashes

    A Pakistani television channel sayssecurity forces have killed 17 suspected foreign fighters in a tribal region near the Afghan border. Quoting unnamed government sources, Geo television reported that a Pakistani soldier was also killed in the offensive on Saturday night. Military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said an incident had taken place.. More

  • Indonesia and Aceh Formula for Peace

    Indonesia and Aceh movement have agreed the formula for a peace deal to end a 30-year-old conflict that has cost 12,000 lives in the province that was laid waste by last December's tsunami, Indonesia said on Sunday. A last-minute compromise overcoming Jakarta's resistance to the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) becoming a political party meant a draft agreement.. More

  • Romanian Flood Tolls Rise to 19

    The death toll in Romania's floods has risen to 19 over the past six days, the interior ministry said, although water levels were beginning to fall. The previous toll was 17 dead and one missing. Of the 19 dead, 12 came from the Vrancea region in the east of the country, one of the worst affected regions, Secretary of State for the Interior Victor.. More

  • Israeli Troops Raid West Bank, Arrest Palestinians

    Israeli troops have raided towns across the West Bank, arresting 26 Palestinians accused of being fighters a day after mounting violence left a five-month-old truce in tatters, the army said. The Israeli occupation army said it had arrested 16 people on Saturdayin the southern West Bank city of Hebron, five Islamic Jihad fighters in the town of Bethlehem.. More

  • Turkey Resort Blast Kills Four

    An explosion on a minibus in the Turkish Aegean resort of Kusadasi is reported to have killed at least four people and injured 14 others. The blast comes six days after a bombing in the nearby town of Cesme, which left at least 20 people injured. The cause of Saturday's explosion is not yet known, but police have not ruled out a suicide bomb attack... More

  • Biochemist Not al-Qaida Linked, Says Egypt

    The Egyptian Interior Ministry has said an Egyptian citizen arrested in Cairo in connection with bombings in London last week has no links to the al-Qaida network. In a statement published on Saturday in the daily al-Gumhuriya newspaper, minister Habib al-Adly said media reports about Magdy Mustafa El-Nashar, 33, were unfounded, hasty deductions. Al-Adly.. More

  • Taliban Hangs Afghan Tribal Chief

    Taliban fighters have hanged a pro-government tribal chief in the troubled southern Afghan province of Zabul, accusing him of being an American spy, officials say. Malik Agha's killing was the fifth in the past six weeks and came as violence mounts in the run up to the 18 September parliamentary elections that the Taliban have vowed to disrupt. Agha.. More

  • Eight Killed in Chechnya after Russian Helicopter Crash

    A military helicopter crashed in Chechnya on Saturday, killing eight people, the Russian news agencies reported, citing an air force spokesman. Officials initially had said there were four people aboard the air force Mi-8 helicopter, but three Russian news agencies later quoted air force spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky as saying there were nine on.. More