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  • Pakistan Test-Fires Missile

    Pakistan has successfully test-fired its longest-range, nuclear-capable missile, a military spokesman said The Shaheen II missile has a range of 2000km and it successfully hit the target, said Major General Shaukat Sultan, spokesman for the Pakistan army. He did not say where the test was conducted. Pakistan's president, General Pervez.. More

  • Blast Rocks Beirut

    A car bomb has exploded in a suburb east of Beirut, woundingeight people, Lebanese security officials said. The blast in the early hours of Saturday blew off the front of the first and second floors of a building in a suburb on the northern edge of the Lebanese capital. The explosion shortly after midnight in the commercial area of the New Jadida.. More

  • UN Sets Timetable for Full Syrian Pullout

    UN Sets Timetable for Full Syrian Pullout UN chief Kofi Annan said he expects Syria to withdraw all its troops from Lebanon before parliamentary elections in April and May, marking the first time he has set a specific timetable for Damascus. Secretary-General Annan's demand was released in a written statement on Thursday after he met.. More

  • Mosul Blast Causes Carnage

    A car bomb blast has killed two Iraqis and wounded 15 others, including six US soldiers, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The US military said the soldiers wounded in the explosion on Thursday were all in stable condition. There was, however, no word on the condition of the Iraqis. "The car bomb was driven by a suicide bomber. Two Iraqi citizens.. More

  • Pakistan Clashes Leave many Dead

    Clashesbetween Baluchi tribesman and the Pakistani army inBaluchistan have left 50 people dead and scores injured, an Aljazeera correspondent in Islamabad said. The reporter, AhmadBarakat, quoted eyewitnesses on Thursday as saying the Pakistani army used artillery and helicopters to quell the resistance of tribal fighters who demand the dismantling.. More

  • $421m Bank Hackers' Bid Foiled

    British police are investigating an attempted robbery of £219 million (421m US dollar) at the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo. A gang hacked into computers at the bank in October 2004 and attempted to transfer the cash to 10 accounts around the world. The theft has raised fears of the threat posed by organised gangs of computer.. More

  • Syria Pullout Phase Roughly Finished

    Syria is close to completing the first phase of its pullback to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, while about 4000 troops have crossed back into Syria. A Lebanese security source said on Thursday that Syria's army and intelligence agents had finished their redeployment. He said Syrian troops and intelligence agents had abandoned positions.. More

  • Hamas Says Time not Ripe for Truce

    A truce with Israel is not being discussed at the Cairo talks between the leaders of Palestinian resistance groups, the Damascus-based leader of theresistance movement Hamas has said. "A truce is not on the table of negotiations," Khalid Mishaal told Egyptian television in an interview on Thursday. Palestinian groups gathered in the Egyptian capital.. More

  • Five Dead, Dozens Injured in Southern Afghan Bomb Blasts

    Two bomb blasts ripped through the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killing five people and injuring 31 hours after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the country, officials said. A United Nations security source speaking on condition of anonymity said two explosive devices were set off by remote control. City police chief Khan.. More

  • Pyongyang Blasts Rice over Remark

    North Korea lashed out at US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday for calling the Communist country an "outpost of tyranny" and ruled out new talks over its nuclear ambitions. "It is inconceivable for the DPRK (North Korea) to go out for the talks before it is delisted as 'an outpost of tyranny,'" a foreign ministry spokesman said in a.. More

  • Sudan Tells UN to Back Up its Darfur Death Toll

    Sudan demanded yesterday that the UN produce evidence to support a UN statement which said 180,000 people had died of disease and hunger over the past 19 months in the troubled Darfur region. The spokesman for UN emergency relief co-ordinator Jan Egeland said on Monday that Egeland had estimated that more than 180,000 people had died in Sudan’s.. More

  • Iraq Parliament Convenes First Session

    Iraq's new parliament has concluded its first meeting sincethe January election without reaching an agreement on a government line-up or electing a three-member presidential council and aspeaker. The parliament ended its session after 90 minutes on Wednesday, without giving a date for when it would reconvene as political parties are locked in hard.. More

  • 500 Arrested in Global Internet Paedophilia Sweep: Spanish Police

    More than 500 suspected paedophiles who traded material over the Internet have been arrested in 12 countries in Europe and Latin America, Spanish police coordinating the operation told AFP. Police said 19 arrests were made in Spain, with the remainder in France, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Dominican.. More

  • Abbas Pushes for Truce with Israel

    Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas has continued to pressure resistance groups to recognise a trucewith Israelandcementa ceasefire. Addressing a dozen Palestinian groups outside Cairo on Tuesday, Abbas stressed that the agreement on "calm" with Israel had already produced benefits but said Israel must fulfil its side of a deal reached at the 8 February.. More

  • Italy to Withdraw Troops from Iraq

    Italy will start to withdraw its troops from Iraq this September, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said, and more British troops may be deployed to fill the gap. "We will begin to reduce our contingent even before the end of the year, starting in September, in agreement with our allies," he said in an interview on state television RAI.. More