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  • British Politicians Facing IRA Threat

    British politicians and senior officials have been warned to increase their personal security because of a potential attack by the Irish Republican Army, the Irish Times newspaper reported yesterday. It said senior British Labour and Conservative members of parliament, ministers with sensitive portfolios, senior police, judges and military personnel.. More

  • Growing Calls for Elections in UAE

    Academics and members of the appointed consultative council in the United Arab Emirates have called for elections in the Gulf state. Professor Abd al-Khaliq Abd Allah of the UAE University told the English-language daily Khaleej Times that when millions of Arabs in Palestine, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have gone to the polls, the UAE cannot continue to.. More

  • Deadly Car Bomb Targets Iraqi Police

    Acar bomb hasexploded near a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing 10 people andinjuring scores more,local police say. Police captain Husam Mussayif said a car driven by a man wearing a police uniform tried to enter the police station compound and then detonated when the man was challenged. Mussayif was wounded in the.. More

  • Palestinian Cabinet Gets Fatah Approval

    Fatah lawmakers finally have accepted the makeup of a new Palestinian cabinet after a week of political wrangling. Fatah officials met Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya in Ram Allah late on Wednesday night to iron out their differences. The approval came after changes were made to the list of proposed ministers. All the cabinet ministers.. More

  • Falluja Mosque Marine Escapes Charge

    A US marine, captured on filmshooting a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during last year's assault on Falluja, will not be formally charged. CBS News on Wednesday said it had learned that military investigators had concluded insufficient evidence existed to formally charge the marine with murder. However, US Marine Corps spokesman Captain.. More

  • 1,100 Die in Cold Wave

    Avalanches in Indian Kashmir, icy temperatures in Afghanistan and torrential rain and snow in Pakistan pushed the death toll yesterday from an extreme cold snap gripping South Asia to more than 1,100, many of them children. In Indian Kashmir army and civilian rescuers braved sub-zero cold and harsh Himalayan winds to search for survivors of avalanches.. More

  • Karami Ready to Quit, but Lahud Firm

    Lebanese Prime Minister Umar Karami has signalled his willingness to concede to opposition demands to resign, but President Emile Lahud has refused to succumb tothe pressure. Lahud said his government would not bow as repercussions of the 14 February assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri continued to ripple across the nation. However.. More

  • Quake Victims Protest Delay of Aid

    Villagers hit by Tuesday's powerful earthquake in southeastern Iran have blocked roads to protest the delay in receiving aid after spending the night in freezing cold and rain. At least 420 people were killed in the earthquake that struck a remote mountainous region of Iran, turning their mud-brick homes and villages to rubble. In the Zarand.. More

  • Shia List Selects Jafari as Iraqi PM

    Iraq's main Shia alliance has named Ibrahim al-Jafari as its candidate for prime minister in the new government, Aljazeera has learned. Al-Jafari, currently the vice president of Iraq in the interim government, isa religious Shia and head of the Islamist Dawa Party. Hehad faced competition from inside the alliance from former exile Ahmad Chalabi,.. More

  • Syria Minister Warns of Bush Plot

    Comments made by President George Bush on the first day of his EU tour are part of a plot to reshape the Middle East, a Syrian minister has said. Bush's keynote speech branded Syria an "oppressive neighbour" to Lebanon and insisted Damascus "end its occupation" there. EU foreign ministers separately underlined their support for a UN resolution.. More

  • New Alert over Mutated Flu Virus

    A bird flu virus may mutate to a human form that becomes as deadly as the ones that killed millions during three influenza pandemics of the 20th century. Dr Julie L Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said yesterday that scientists believe it is highly likely that the virus that has swept through bird populations in.. More

  • Powerful Quake Hits SE Iran, Almost 400 Dead

    A powerful earthquake struck southeast Iran early on Tuesday, killing almost 400 people, injuring hundreds and destroying some villages, a local official said. The quake, with a magnitude of 6.4, was centerd on the town of Zarand, about 440 miles southeast of Tehran and just 160 miles from Bam, flattened by an earthquake that killed 31,000 people.. More

  • MPs Fail to Agree on Palestinian Cabinet

    Attempts to form a new Palestinian cabinet havedrawn a blankafter a session of parliament was halted amid disputes over theselection of newministers. Parliament speaker Rawhi Fattuh said on Monday the session would resume on Tuesday in the middle of debate which came after Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya unveiled his prospective cabinet line-up and the.. More

  • Landslide Claims 150 in Indonesia

    Almost 150 people were believed to have died under hundreds of tonnes of garbage and earth when heavy seasonal rain unleashed a massive landslide in Indonesia yesterday, police said. The landslide struck in the early hours when people were asleep and flattened up to 70 homes built in the shadow of a dumpsite at Cimahi, near Bandung, around 200km.. More

  • Mubarak New Term Stirs Protest

    More than 500 people haverallied in Cairo to protest against a new term in office for Egyptian President Husni Mubarak and against moves to enable his son Jamal to succeed him afterwards. "That's enough" and "Down with Hosni Mubarak" shouted protestors who gathered in front of Cairo University on Monday, while around 50 trucks packed with police.. More