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  • Croatia, Give up War Crimes Suspect or Give up EU Hopes

    Croatia's campaign to join the European Union will grind to a halt next month, unless it hands over indicted war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina. That was the blunt warning from EU member Poland's foreign minister. UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte has accused Zagreb of stalling over Gotovina. He was indicted by the Hague tribunal in 2001 for.. More

  • Iraqi Politician Seized as more Police and US Troops Killed

    Armed fighters have kidnapped an official of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party while four Iraqi policemen have been killed in violence north of Baghdad, security sources say. "Saif Abu Mishaal Hasan, in charge of the Iraqi National Accord (INA) in Salah al-Din, was kidnapped from his house in Dijla," near Samarra, 120km from Baghdad, they.. More

  • Al-Hariri Family Joins Call for Inquiry

    The family of Rafiq al-Hariri has called on the Arab and international community to back a UN Security Council demand for an investigation into the slaying of the former prime minister. "We pledge that the blood of Rafiq Hariri and his comrades will not have been shed in vain and we will not spare any effort to unmask those who ordered this crime,.. More

  • Iran Warns Retaliation after Blast Scare

    Iran has warned it will respond immediately to any military strike after a blast150km from a nuclear site sparked fears of an attack, state news agency IRNAsays. "An attack, whatever it is, against any site, whether it be nuclear or not, would produce a very rapid response," Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani said on Thursday. "The Iranian nation.. More

  • Two Killed in Somalia Blast

    An explosion has killed two people and wounded six in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, diplomats based in neighbouring Kenya said. According to witnesses, the blast on Thursday was caused by a bomb that exploded near a hotel in southern Mogadishu where an African Union (AU)team was staying. Witnesses said all the victims were Somali civilians,.. More

  • Thousands in Beirut Mourn al-Hariri

    The funeral cortege of slain former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri has left his family home towards his final resting place in Beirut accompanied by thousands of mourners amid heavy security. Al-Hariri's coffin, draped in a Lebanese flag, was placed in an ambulance as a military helicopter hovered overhead on Wednesday. His sons,.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Two Palestinians

    Two Palestinians have been shot and killed by Israeli troops near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the two were killed while they attempted to approach a Jewish settlement late on Tuesday night. “Israeli soldiers spotted two Palestinians who were approaching the Jewish settlement of Brakha, south of Nablus,.. More

  • Iraqi Groups Demand US Exit

    A meeting of groups which boycotted January's elections has called for a date for US troops to leave Iraq if they are to take part in the crucial task of writing a new constitution. A statement issued at the end of the meeting at Baghdad's Umm al-Qura mosque, the headquarters of Iraq's leading Sunni body, called for "an internationally guaranteed.. More

  • Kyoto Accord to Take Effect

    A world plan to fight global warming goes into force on Wednesday, feted by its backers but rejected as an economic millstone by the US and Australia. After years of delays, the 141-nation Kyoto protocol formally starts at midnight New York time (0500 GMT) with celebrations in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto where it was signed in 1997. The.. More

  • Corruption Trial Opens for Former Turkish PM

    Former Turkish prime minister Mesut Yilmaz went on trial to face corruption charges over a banking scandal, becoming the first head of government to be tried by the Supreme Court. Yilmaz, a three-time prime minister and former chairman of the centre-right Motherland Party (ANAP), is on trial along with former economy minister Gunes Taner over the.. More

  • Army on Alert after Beirut Bomb

    Lebanon's army has been put on high alert after former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in an apparent assassination on Monday. The car bomb in the centre of Beirut left at least nine others dead and caused widespread destruction. An army statement said it had "ordered a general mobilisation of all army units, raised to the maximum its.. More

  • Iraq War Protesters to Rally in Britain

    Hundreds of people opposed to the US-led war in Iraq are due to demonstrate across Britain, including a rally where protesters mimic death, outside the Houses of Parliament in London, organisers say. The event on Tuesday, organised by the Stop the War Coalition and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), will mark the second anniversary of a huge.. More

  • Call to Free Turk Bombing Suspects

    Prosecutors in the case against 71 Turks accused of involvement in four bombing attacks against targets in Istanbul in late 2003 have called for almost a quarter of the defendants to be released. Sixty-two people were killed and more than 700 wounded when two car bombs were detonated outside Istanbul's Nev Shalom and Beth Israel synagogues on 15.. More

  • Association of Muslim Scholars: Iraq Election Lacked Legitimacy

    The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq hassaid thecountry's elections cannot be acceptedas they were conducted while under occupation. A spokesman for the influential Iraqi group, Muhammad Bashar al-Faydhi, told Aljazeera on Sunday: "We, from the beginning, have announced our position towards the election as a political process that does.. More

  • Bangladesh Police Brace for Riots

    Thousands of security forces have been mobilised in Bangladesh to avert clashes between opposition demonstrators protesting against a deadly grenade attack and supporters of the coalition government. The opposition Awami League was on Monday holding a 36-hour shutdown strike to protest against the attack on a party rally last month which killed five.. More