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  • Taleban Leader Mulla Omar Rejects Amnesty

    Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar would refuse any offer of an amnesty from the Afghan government, a Taleban spokesman is reported as saying. "We don't need any guarantee of safety," Taleban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi told the Reuters news agency. On Monday the head of Afghanistan's reconciliation commission called on Mullah Omar to be included.. More

  • Twin Blasts Rock Baghdad

    Two car bombs have exploded in central Baghdad, killingeight people and wounding 26. In the first attack on Tuesday, acar bomber blew up his vehicle near a US military convoy in central Baghdad, killing at leasteight Iraqis and wounding 16, Iraqi journalist Walid Khalid reported. Khalid told Aljazeera that witnesses said the real number of casualties.. More

  • Arab – South America Summit to Slam Israel

    South American and Arab leaders gathering for a summit in Brasilia,Brazil, are expected to adopt a declaration condemning Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory. According to a draft of the document approved by ministers on Monday, the first Summit of South American-Arab Countries will demand that Israel disbands settlements "including those.. More

  • Greece Ready for New Cyprus Talks

    Greek Cypriots have signaled they are ready to resume stalled negotiations with Turkish Cypriots on reunifying the divided island of Cyprus, the United Nations says. President Tassos Papadopoulos will send an envoy to theUnited Nations headquarters in New York for discussions on how talks can resume, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. It was not immediately.. More

  • Eight Year Old Girl Tortured in UK for Being a Witch

    An Angolan girl of eight was repeatedly tortured and almost killed after being accused by another child of being a witch, a British court was told yesterday, a case prosecutors described as "incredible". The girl, who had endured months of ill-treatment, had been put in a laundry bag and was about to be thrown into a river when one of her tormentors.. More

  • Iran to Resume Uranium Enrichment

    Aljazeera reports quoting Iran that it will resume uranium enrichment-related activities within days, a move that the US and EU have warned will compel them to take Iran's case to the Security Council. Agencies said IranonMondayconfirmed for the first time that it had converted 37 tonnes of raw uranium into gas. Tehran said it took the key step towards.. More

  • US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

    Two US soldiers have been killed in a clash with a group of anti-government forces in eastern Afghanistan. The US military said about 12 fighters had been killed in the clash. The deathsoccurred on Sunday after a group of marines chasedabout 25 rebels northwest of Jalalabad, a US military statement said. "The marines had intelligence that insurgents.. More

  • Supermarkets Sealed after Burma Blasts

    Soldiers and police sealed off two supermarkets and a convention centre yesterday in the capital of military-ruled Burma, where a series of bomb explosions blamed on rebels and a dissident group killed at least 11 people and wounded 162 others. City residents were fearful of more explosions after the blasts, which occurred over a 10-minute period on.. More

  • Egypt's Brotherhood Vows to Persist

    Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to continue staging protests despite hundreds of its supporters being detained in a police crackdown. The Brotherhood -which has been banned since 1954 - told reporters during a packed press conference on Sunday that it would keep staging protests to push forpolitical reform from Hosni Mubarak's24-year-old.. More

  • Iraq Cabinet Approved as Sunni Minister Quits

    The Iraqi parliament has approved appointments for six cabinet vacancies, handing four more positions to the Sunni Arab minority. But the Sunni selected as human rights minister turned down the job, saying he cannot accept a position awarded on sectarian criteria. Less than half of the National Assembly, 112 of the 155 legislators present, approved.. More

  • Two Killed in Kabul Grenade Attack

    Aljazeera's correspondent in Kabul reported that two people werekilled and five wounded when a hand grenade exploded in an internet cafe in central Kabul. The cafe is at the front of a guest house used by Westerners in the heart of the city. "Two people have been killed and five wounded by the bomb blast," Kabul police chief Akram Khakrizwal told.. More

  • Time for Blair to Quit?

    Questions were raised yesterday about whether Prime Minister Tony Blair will retire early despite winning a record third election with a healthy, albeit reduced, majority in the British parliament barely 48 hours earlier. The dust had yet to settle on a slightly reshuffled Labour cabinet before the British Press speculated that 52-year-old Blair was.. More

  • Jerusalem Patriarch Officially Sacked

    The Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem, Irineos I, has been officially removed from office over a deeply controversial land sale that has sparked Arab fury, achurch official said. "We have completed the process of removing Irineos as patriarch," patriarchate secretary Aris Tarchos told journalists in East Jerusalem on Saturday. Irineos left the.. More

  • New Attacks Strike Baghdad

    A car bomb has exploded at a busy intersection in central Baghdad as a foreign security convoy drove past, killing at least nine Iraqis and four foreigners, police and witnesses said. At least two of the sport-utility vehicles in the foreign convoy were ablaze after the blast, and police pulled charred bodies from the wreckage. One Western man staggered.. More

  • Egypt to host summit on Darfur

    Egypt is to hold a regional summit on the crisis in Sudan'sDarfur region, as part of an effort to help Khartoum comply with UN resolutions on the conflict. The Egyptian daily Al-Ahram said the two-day summit, expected to bring together the leaders of Egypt, Chad, Libya, Nigeria and Sudan, would open on 15 May at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. "The.. More