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  • ICC Given Darfur Suspect Names

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is to hand the International Criminal Court names of suspected Darfur criminals. According to spokesman Fred Eckhard, those identified on Tuesday must appear before the ICC in accordance with the terms of last week's UN Security Council resolution. The commission established that war crimes and human rights violations.. More

  • Bomb explodes on Kashmir bus route

    A bomb has exploded, injuring three people and two other explosives defused on the route of the first India-Pakistan bus across Kashmir ahead of its inauguration this week. A police source said three civilians were injured in the explosion at Hanjivira village, about 35kmnorth of Srinagar, capital of the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, on Tuesday. T.. More

  • Gun Battles Continue in Saudi Arabia

    Saudi security forces have killed eight suspect insurgents in an ongoing siege in the northern town of al-Ras, according to security sources. Aljazeera said clashes were stillgoing onas armed men hurled grenades at police from their hideout in al-Ras in the al-Qassim region, 350km northwest of the Saudi capital Riyadh. Witnesses said gunfire could.. More

  • Notorious Abu Ghraib Prison Targeted

    The Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, has been hit by a blast for the second time in less than 48 hours causing casualties among US forces. Aljazeera has learned that a bomberdetonated his explosive-laden car at the main gate of the prison on Monday. Sources from Abu Ghraib told Aljazeera that USsoldiers were among casualties. Monday's attack was.. More

  • Thai Soldiers Injured in Bomb Attack

    Four Thai soldiers have been wounded in the latest bomb blast in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, less than 24 hours after a series of blastskilled two people ina nearby province. The bomb exploded in the early afternoon at a car park in a Yala province technical college where an army car was parked, Police said on Monday. The explosion injured.. More

  • Sudan Rebels Reject Darfur Summit

    One of the main rebel groups in the troubled western Sudan region of Darfur has rejected a planned summit in Egypt this month to discuss the two-year-old conflict. "Those mini-summits do not serve the cause of Darfur nor that of the Sudanese people," Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) chief Abd al-Wahid Muhammad Nur told reporters on Monday. Egypt is.. More

  • Egypt Astonished at Israeli Move

    Egypt has expressed its astonishment at Israel's honouring of 11 Egyptian Jews, denounced by a double agent, who planted bombs on its soil in the 1950s. Israel recognised for the first time on Wednesday that 11 members of a hardline groupin Egyptcarried out bomb attacks against US and British targets in Egypt. Cairo on Sunday described those individuals.. More

  • World Leaders Mourn the Pope

    World leaders and commoners have come together in expressing their grief and admiration for Pope John Paul II, who died on Saturday night. Feelings were intense in Poland, where the Church of St Anne in the heart of the Polish capital could not hold all those wanting to pay their respects to the Polish-born pontiff. Several thousand knelt outside in.. More

  • Iraq Assembly Elects Its First Speaker

    Iraq's new parliament has elected Sunni Arab candidate Hajim al-Hasani as speaker, ending a political row over who will get the post and making a first step towards forming a government. Earlier on Sunday,a senior Kurdish official involved in the negotiations saidal-Hasani, who is currently theindustry minister, would be named speaker. His deputies.. More

  • Afghan Soldiers Killed in Taliban Raid

    Talibanfighters havestormed a government building in southern Afghanistankilling nine Afghan soldiers in a two-hour gunbattle before fleeing, officials have said. The fighterson Sunday were in control of Helmand province's Deshu district headquarters, 700km south of the capital Kabul, throughout the exchange before being forced out, officials said. "A.. More

  • Saudi Raid Ends in Firefight

    Saudi Arabian security forces have exchanged fire with fighters responsible for a deadly wave of unrest in the kingdom over the past two years. The clashes took place on Sunday in the city of al-Rass in the al-Qassim region, 355km northwest of the capital, Riyadh, after security forces surrounded several wanted men in a neighbourhood called al-Jawazat,.. More

  • Syria to Announce Timetable for Pullout

    Syria will announce a timetable for the withdrawal of its remaining forces from Lebanon on Sunday, a Syrian official source said on Saturday. Syria has come under international pressure to end its 29-year military presence since the 14 February assassination of Lebanese former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. "The date and timetable will be announced.. More

  • Sudan Rejects Foreign Court

    Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir has vowed not to hand over any of his countrymen to a foreign court, after the UN cleared the way for Darfur war crimes suspects to be tried by the International Criminal Court. "I swear thrice in the name of Almighty Allah that I shall never hand any Sudanese national to a foreign court," said Bashir on Saturday.. More

  • Sunnis Urged to Join Iraqi Security

    Influential Sunni clerics who once condemned Iraqi security force members have made an unexpected appeal to citizens to join the nascent police and army. If heeded, the announcement could strengthen the image of the officers and soldiers trying to battle armed fighters and restore order in the country. Still, it was not a full-fledged endorsement... More

  • Several Killed in Afghan Attacks

    SevenAfghans, including two children, have been killed and five injured inthree separateincidents in Afghanistan. A roadside bomb exploded late on Friday in southern Kandahar province killing two children, said Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal. Another explosion on Friday blew up a tractor-trolley in the northern provincial capital Mazar-i-Shar.. More