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  • Lebanon Bomb Wounds Pro-Syrian Minister

    Lebanon's caretaker Defence Minister Elias al-Murr has been wounded in a car-bomb attack on his motorcade in the capital, Beirut. Police reported that several people had been killed and wounded in the bomb blast, but did not give figures. They added that the minister was slightly wounded. Tuesday morning's blast occurred in a busy Christian suburb.. More

  • British Muslims Face Race Hate

    Despite efforts to protect British Muslims amid fears of a backlash, a higher than usual level of abuse has been reported. This includes hate mail and a number of attacks on mosques, but scenes of criminal damage do not tell the whole story. Muslims say they have also received many messages of support from outside their community from those who realize.. More

  • Policeman Hurt in Barcelona Blast

    An explosion at the Italian Cultural Institute in the Spanish city of Barcelona has lightly injured a policeman and killed a sniffer dog. The blast happened as a bomb disposal team was examining a suspicious metal coffee pot which staff had spotted at the building's entrance on Tuesday. The Italian foreign Ministry said a home-made bomb had caused.. More

  • Arson Attack in Russia Kills 20

    At least 20 people were killed and 17 wounded in an explosion yesterday at a shopping centre in the northwestern Russian city of Ukhta, the emergency situations ministry said.There was no immediate official indication of the cause of the blast, although reports in Russian news agencies suggested a gas explosion. "An explosion whose cause is unknown.. More

  • Hurricane Leaves Five Dead in US, 23 in Caribbean

    US Gulf coast have residents started mopping up in the wake of Hurricane Dennis, which left five dead in two US southern states and another 23 in the Caribbean. Thousands of people who had evacuated the area returned to gas shortages, rotting food, sweltering heat and badly damaged buildings. Trees, fallen branches and chunks of roofing and signage.. More

  • Dozens Civilians Burned to death in Congo Attack

    More than 30 civilians were burned alive when an armed gang herded them into their huts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and set them on fire, the UN mission in the DRC said. "More than 30 civilians, mostly women, were killed and about 50 wounded" in the attack on Saturday night on Ntulumamba village, about 70 kilometres (45 miles) to.. More

  • Detained Iraqis Suffocate in Police Van

    Nine Iraqi bricklayers detained by security forces on suspicion of involvement with armed fighters have suffocated to death while held for more than 14 hours in a police van. Three other suspects, who survived the ordeal of being locked up in a van in the sun, were taken to hospital on Monday morning where they were to be interviewed by officials who.. More

  • Ten Years on, Survivors to Recall Horror of Srebrenica

    Survivors as well as relatives of Muslims slaughtered at Srebrenica, Bosnia, began gathering here to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II and finally lay to rest some of the victims. The commemoration on Monday at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, just outside the eastern Bosnian town, is expected to gather.. More

  • Revolutionary Bakiyev Wins Kyrgyz Poll by Landslide

    Kyrgyzstan's Kurmanbek Bakiyev pledged on Monday to put together a government that would turn round his poor nation's fortunes after he won a runaway victory in presidential elections on Sunday. "Forming a high quality government that will work for the good of the nation is a thing of paramount importance from the very first," Bakiyev, looking weary.. More

  • Bomb Rocks Turkish Resort

    A bombexploded in a popular resort town on Turkey's Agean coast, injuring about 20 people, including two foreign tourists, authorities and news reports have said. "It's been determined that (the explosion) was a bomb," a police officer in the town of Cesme said on Sunday. Kurdistan Liberation Hawks (TAK), a militant wing of the banned Kurdistan Workers.. More

  • Many Killed in Iraqi Recruitment Centre

    As many as 21 people have been killed following the bombing of an Iraqi army recruitment centre in west Baghdad. According to Iraqi police sources on Sunday, a bomber with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up at the Muthana airport recruitment centre which has already been targeted on previous occasions. One police source said 21 were killed.. More

  • Afghan Policemen Found Beheaded

    The beheaded bodies of six missing Afghan police have been found a day after they were snatched away from aconvoy in a Taliban attack which left four more police dead and three others wounded. According to officials on Sunday, a convoy of about 30 policemen was on a routine patrol when it came under attack on Saturday in the Bahramcha area of Deshu.. More

  • Indian Troops Hurt in Kashmir Blast

    Three Indian troops were injured in a grenade attack in Indian Kashmir yesterday, while a bomb disposal squad defused three landmines on a road the state's chief minister was set to use. Three members of India's Border Security Force (BSF) were injured when suspected rebels attacked them with hand grenades in Sopore town, 50km north of the summer capital.. More

  • Kyrgyzstan Votes for Successor to Ousted Leader

    Kyrgyzstan held a presidential poll to choose a successor to ousted leader Askar Akayev, with front-runner and interim President Kurmanbek Bakiyev hailing the vote as a fresh start for the Central Asian country. Bakiyev, swept to office in March as protestors overran the seat of government, trumpeted the vote as the country’s first genuinely free.. More

  • London Bomb Attacks Were Coordinated

    Closer examination of technical data and interviews with eyewitnesses has offered a clearer picture of the coordinated attacks in London that killed more than 50, police say. "A slightly different picture is emerging around the timing of these bomb incidents," Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick said on Saturday at a Metropolitan Police briefing.. More