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  • At Least Seven Palestinians Killed by Israeli Missiles in Gaza

    SevenPalestinians, believed to be members of theresistance movement, Hamas, have beenkilled by Israelin what is seen as resumption of Israel's policy of "targeted killings". According to witnesses, Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a vehicle in Gaza on Friday, completely destroying it and scattering body parts of the occupants. Witnesses.. More

  • Car-Bombs Rock Baghdad

    Five car bombs have blown up in different locations across Baghdad within hours of each other, including two attacks on Iraqi military patrols that police sources said killed six people and wounded more than 20. Eyewitnesses said at least one of the bombers struck a US convoy, although there were no immediate reports of American troops among the casualties... More

  • Pictures of London Suspect Released

    British police have released two photographs of a man thought to have carried out one of four attacks in London, launching a public appeal for help in tracing the suspect's last moments. Police released pictures of Hassib Hussain, an 18-year-old from West Yorkshire in northern England, who police believe was responsible for the attack on a bus in Tavistock.. More

  • Palestinians Killed in Gaza Battle

    Two Palestinian bystanders have been killed and more than a dozen people wounded in gunbattles between Palestinian security forces and resistance factions, hospital sources said. The internal conflict erupted on Thursday night and resumed on Friday after fighters fired rockets into southern Israel, killing a young woman, and Palestinian police then.. More

  • Hunt for Missing

    Relatives desperately sought news of their loved ones yesterday as medical workers struggled to identify mangled corpses a day after around 150 people died in Pakistan's worst train crash in 15 years. Stations across the country are crowded with people frantically searching victim lists posted by the authorities after the three-train pile-up early.. More

  • Indonesia Suspects Bird Flu Deaths

    Bird flu is suspected in the deaths of three people in Indonesia, the country's health minister has said. If confirmed, the victims - a man and his two young daughters - would be Indonesia's first human fatalities from the disease. Millions of birds have died or been culled across Asia in the last few years, in an effort to stem bird flu. Since.. More

  • Portugal Suffers in Grip of Severe Drought

    Tonnes of fish and hundreds of farm animals are dying every day in the south of Portugal, where the worst drought in 60 years shows no sign of abating. It has already cost Portuguese farmers at least one billion euros. Below-average rainfall for nine months has left 97 per cent of the country suffering. The fish here are at the edge of a dam that.. More

  • Sunnis Allege Abuse by Iraqi Forces

    Sunni Arab clerics in Baghdad have raised new allegations of human rights abuses by Iraqi security forces. Two major Sunni organisations- the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) and the government's Sunni Endowment -said bodies of 11 Sunni men were found on Wednesday hours after they were taken by Iraqi security forces in early morning raids. The.. More

  • Palestinian Killed by Israeli Troops

    Israeli soldiers have killed a Palestinian resistance fighter as he was meeting a British reporter in the West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses say. They said soldiers early on Thursday broke into a house where Muhammad Alasi, 24, a local leader of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was talking to the reporter. Alasi tried to flee, but soldiers shot and killed.. More

  • Details on the al-Murr Assassination Attempt

    According to Lebanese security sources, a booby trapped car was behind the explosion which targeted the procession of the ougoing Lebanese defense minister Elias al-Murr. The sources added that the booby trapped car was stationed on the roadside of the road the procession that al-Murr took while he got out of his house in Antilias district. The Lebanese.. More

  • Top Afghan Cleric Killed

    Suspected Taliban armed men on a motorcycle have shot dead a senior pro-government Muslim clericwhile up to 17 Taliban fighters have been killed in two days of clashes with US and Afghan forces in the south. The killing of the cleric was the latest in a string of attacks on religious leaders allied to President Hamid Karzai's US-backed government... More

  • At Least 120 Killed in Pakistan Train Crash

    At least 120 people were killed and scores injured in Pakistan on Wednesday when a passenger train crashed into another at a station and a third train then plowed into the wreckage, police said. As police and rescuers searched for survivors and bodies among the mangled remains of carriages, a police commander said the toll from the pre-dawn disaster.. More

  • Many Killed in New Baghdad Blast

    Up to 24 people are believed to have been killed and at least 18 wounded by a car bomb in Baghdad. The attack on Wednesday occurred near a patrol of US forces, police sources said. US troops said one US soldier and many Iraqi civilians were killed by the blast, including at least seven Iraqi children. Three US soldiers were among the wounded. "The.. More

  • Israel Raids Tulkarim after Mall Blast

    Israeli forces have raided the Palestinian town of Tulkarim, killed two policemen, arrested five suspects and sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip after a bomb attack at an Israeli shopping centre killed at leastthree Israeli women. Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian policemen early on Wednesday during a raid on a West Bank town in what.. More

  • Police Arrest Man over London Blasts

    Police have arrested one man in the north of England in connection with last week's deadly bombings in London, the Metropolitan Police said. "One man has been arrested in West Yorkshire and will be brought to London to be questioned," deputy assistant commissioner Peter Clarke told a news conference in London on Tuesday. The British policealso saiditwas.. More