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  • Japanese Mayor Urges US Pullout

    The governor of Okinawa has asked Japan and the United States to remove all of the nearly 20,000 US marines from the southern Japanese island chain. Governor Keiichi Inamine on Tuesday said he also requested the downsizing or relocation of US air bases of Kadena and Futenma away from Okinawa's densely populated main island. In addition, he soughtthe.. More

  • Kosovo President Unhurt After Blast Hits Car

    Kosovo's President Ibrahim Rugova escaped unhurt on Tuesday when a dustbin exploded just as his car drove past in the province's capital Pristina. The explosion, whose cause was not immediately clear, comes at a politically tense time, one day after former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj pleaded not guilty to war crimes at The Hague and with talks.. More

  • Chechens in Jordan Launch Protest

    Jordanians of Chechen origin have staged a sit in near the UN offices in Amman, demandingit pressure Russian authorities to hand over the remains of assassinated Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov. The protesters held photos of the slain Chechen leader who was killed by Russian forces earlier this month, and chanted slogans calling for peace.. More

  • Sinn Fein Leaders Snubbed in US

    Leaders of the Irish Republican Army's political wing head to Saint Patrick's Day events in the US this week battered by a furore over IRA crime, shut out of talks in Washington and banned from its annual fundraising drive among Irish-Americans. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who is now in New York, has been omitted from official events hosted by.. More

  • Chinese AIDS Vaccine Tested on Humans

    An AIDS vaccine produced in China, has started to be tested on humans. According to a report of the New China News Agency, the first volunteer for the first test is a 20-year-old in the autonomous region of Guangxi Zhuang in the south of the country. One of the experts of an AIDS control and treatment center in the region, Chen Cie said seven more.. More

  • Al-Jazeera’s Alluni Moved to House Arrest

    Aljazeera has learned that a Spanish judge has ordered its correspondent Taysir Alluni released from jail and placed under mandatory house arrest pending his trial. The release order is expected to be carried out late on Monday night or early Tuesday. Alluni will then be taken to his home in Granada where he was first arrested in September 2003. He.. More

  • Egypt Frees Jailed Opposition Leader

    Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nur was freed yesterday after six weeks in jail that strained Cairo’s relations with Washington and turned the politician into a symbol of the movement for democratic reform. Egypt’s attorney-general, Maher Abdel Wahed, had ordered the leader of the Ghad (Tomorrow) party’s release on bail, but Nur initially.. More

  • Austria’s Haider Eyes Comeback to Far-Right

    Austrian firebrand Joerg Haider said yesterday that he is prepared to return to the helm of the anti-immigration Freedom Party, once Europe’s most successful far-right party, to rescue it from collapse.Earlier this week, Haider and his sister, Ursula Haubner, the party’s new chief, announced they would purge right-wing extremists and internal.. More

  • Israel Picks a Hardline Defence Chief

    The Israeli government has formally approved the appointment of Dan Halutz as the new chief of staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, ignoring criticism of his hardline approach to the Palestinian resistance. Halutz, who holds the rank of major-general, will succeed Moshe Yaalon, the present chief of staff, whose term of office expires in July. According.. More

  • US Contractors Killed in Iraq Blast

    Two US contractors, working for the Blackwater security firm, have been killed and a third wounded in a roadside bomb blast just south of Baghdad, a US embassy official has said. "It happened around 2pm (1100 GMT) on the road to al-Hilla. Two Blackwater employees were killed by an improvised explosive device," said US embassy spokesman Bob Callahan.. More

  • Kuwait Arrests Anti-US Cleric

    Kuwaiti authorities have arrested a leading Muslim cleric accused of publicly opposing Kuwait's support for the US-led war on Iraq in March 2003. Shaikh Hamad al-Ali was detained for 21 days pending an investigation, his lawyer Fahd Kumaikh said on Sunday. Kumaikh said his client was called on Saturday by state security and briefly interrogated.. More

  • Hamas to Contest Legislative Elections

    The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has decided to participate in legislative elections in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip this summer. The decision on Saturday, which had been widely anticipated,was announced by Hamas leader Muhammad Ghazal during a news conference in Nablus in the West Bank. Ghazal said the decision.. More

  • Powerful Quake Jolts Iran

    An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale has hit a sparsely populated area in southeastern Iran, but no casualties have been reported. Iran state television said the tremor struck just after 7am (0331 GMT) on Sunday and was centred close to the town of Saravan, close to Iran's borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan. No casualties were immediately.. More

  • Iran Dismisses US Incentives Approach

    Iran has dismissed a US offer of economic incentives if Tehran abandons parts of its nuclear programme that allegedly could be used to develop atomic weapons. "What is being suggested is very much insignificant," Sirus Naseri, a senior Iranian negotiator in nuclear talks with the European Union, said on Friday. "In fact, it is too insignificant.. More

  • Guantanamo Crisis Hits US

    The Pentagon is desperate to cut by more than half the number of detainees at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the US has been accused of abusing and torturing inmates. And, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is pressing the State Department to increase pressure on some unresponsive countries to take custody of some of their nationals,.. More