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  • Blast Rocks Lebanon Town

    An explosion has rocked the Lebanese port city of Jounieh north of Beirut, killing at leastone and wounding 11m news reports said. The state-run National News Agency and Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. reported that a Sri Lankan woman labourer died in the blast. Police said 11 wounded people, three with serious injuries, were taken to the hospital and.. More

  • Fatah Prevails but Hamas Gains in Polls

    President Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah faction has survived a strong challenge by Hamas in Palestinian local elections, unofficial results showed. The results released on Friday showed Hamas making strong inroads in key urban centres in the West Bank and Gaza, an indicator it could do well in this summer's parliamentary ballot, possibly complicating.. More

  • Blair’s Party for Third Time

    Tony Blair, confirmed as Britain's prime minister for a historic third term, has promised radical legislation on health, education and law and order, and said it was time to move on from divisions on Iraq that hurt his Labour Party in national elections. "I know that Iraq has been a deeply divisive issue in this country. But I also know and believe.. More

  • US Marine Cleared of Falluja Killing

    The US Marine Corps has ruled that no charges will be filed against a marine in the fatal shooting of a wounded and unarmed Iraqi in a Falluja mosque last November in an incident shown in a television pool report, a spokesman hassaid. After a five-month investigation, the Marine Corps determined that the marine corporal fired in self-defence and will.. More

  • New York Police Probe Grenade Attack on British Consulate

    Two makeshift grenades exploded outside a building housing the British Consulate in New York yesterday, causing slight damage but no injuries, officials said. A United Nations analyst found loitering nearby was being questioned, authorities said. The British Consulate is on the 9th and 10th floors of the 14-storey glass and metal building on the.. More

  • Japan threatens N Korea with UN

    Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has again warned North Korea to return to nuclear talks or face being taken to the UN Security Council. He was speaking on the sidelines of an Asia-Europe meeting (Asem) being held in the Japanese city of Kyoto. The warning came amid fresh reports of intelligence suggesting North Korea may be about to.. More

  • New Bloodbath in Iraq

    Twenty-five people have been killed in a series of attacks in Baghdad, including 15 in a carbomb blast, an Interior Ministry official says. Abomber, driving a car, detonated his explosives at around 8am (0400 GMT) outside an army recruiting post in al-Muthana, a former airfield in the centre of Baghdad, killing15 people, the official said. Nine police.. More

  • Fatah, Hamas Face off in Local Polls

    Palestinians began voting in municipal elections that have shaped up as a face-off between President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement and Hamas. More than 2500 candidates were vying for seats on 84 municipal councils across the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in what could be a test of sentiment over the halting pace of political and security.. More

  • Yemen Rejects USS Cole Attack Claim

    Yemen has rejected a former ambassador's accusations of government complicity in the attack on the US destroyer Cole in 2000. Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qurbi told Aljazeera.net on Thursday that Sanaa's ex-envoy to Syria, Ahmad al-Hasani was purposefully misinforming the media in an effort to help his political asylum bid in Britain. "There is no.. More

  • Britons Vote Today

    With Iraq a burning issue in the last days of this British election campaign Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged electors, who vote today, to judge him on his domestic policies and not the war. He faces a challenge in his own constituency from the father of a soldier killed in Iraq. The Conservatives' Michael Howard is telling voters they do not have.. More

  • Israel Freezes West Bank Pullback

    Israel says it will not hand over any more West Bank towns to Palestinian control becausefighters are not being disarmed, despite a previous truce pledge to transfer five towns. Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz charged that the Palestinians are not fulfilling their commitment to collect weapons fromfighters in the two towns Israel transferred under terms.. More

  • Anti Mubarak Rallies Held across Egypt

    Egyptian riot police fired tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in several cities demanding an end towhat they called President Hosni Mubarak's dicatorship, according to the protests' organisers. Police clashed with hundreds in the southern governorate of Fayyum, as well as in Mansura and Zagazig in the delta region, and fired tear gas to disperse.. More

  • Dozens Killed in Arbil Bomb Attack

    An Iraqi carrying hidden explosives has set them off inside a police recruitment centre in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil,killing at least 50 Iraqis, the US military says. The attack occurred on Wednesday as people were applying for Iraqi police jobs at the recruitment centre, said Captain Mark Walter, the spokesman who provided the US military toll... More

  • Beirut Urged to Change Election Law

    The Lebanese opposition has pressed for 11th-hour changes to what it regards as an unfavourable electoral law,two days before President Emile Lahoud is to call parliamentary elections. Separately, Lahoud calledon parliament to ratify a new election law, refusing to carry out the polls according to the 2000election law, which he said caused instability. Opp.. More

  • Slain Soldiers' Families to Sue

    The families of British soldiers who died in Iraq launch a bid today to take Prime Minister Tony Blair to court over his "deception" in going to war. Two days before the election, the families will deliver a letter to Downing Street outlining the legal case they will bring against the Prime Minister. "Some of the families are seriously concerned that.. More