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  • Egyptian Engineers Seized in Baghdad

    Fightershave captured four Egyptian engineers working for a telecoms company in Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official has said. Aljazeera learned on Sunday thatthe Egyptians worked as engineers forthe mobile telephone company Iraqna, a subsidiary of Egypt's Orascom Telecom. Theywere seized by fighters as they were leaving their homes in west.. More

  • IRA Urged not to Break Ceasefire

    The Irish Republican Army'spolitical ally Sinn Fein has urged the paramilitary group not to return to violence after its withdrawal of a conditional offer to put its weapons beyond use. Sinn Fein's deputy leader Martin McGuinness told Britain's Sky Television on Sunday that it was totally opposed to any return to conflict between Irish nationalists.. More

  • Solana Warns against Iran Strike

    A military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "a mistake", the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, has warned. "That will complicate enormously the situation," he told Britain's ITV television network. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week a strike on Iran was "not on the agenda at this point". Rice.. More

  • Thai PM Set to Sweep Sunday Poll

    Thailand is set to vote on Sunday, with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai party poised for a sweeping victory. Voting booths in the kingdom's 400 constituencies will open at 8am (0100 GMT) and close at 3pm with projected unofficial results by television stations expected later in the day. Thaksin has vowed to try to govern without.. More

  • Nine Die in Japan Suicide Pacts

    Nine people were found dead in two cars outside Tokyo yesterday, in what were believed to be the latest in a series of macabre suicide pacts involving charcoal burners that have swept Japan. Six people, three men and three women mostly aged in their 20s, were found in the morning in a rented minivan parked on a farm road on the scenic peninsula.. More

  • Iraqi Soldiers Killed near Basra

    Four Iraqi soldiers have been killed in a motorcycle bomb near the southern city of Basra, as violence elsewhere left another seven Iraqis and two US troops dead. "The booby-trapped motorbike exploded as the patrol passed by. Four soldiers were killed and their vehicle destroyed," captain Farid al-Tamimi said. The attack took place behind.. More

  • Abbas Talks with Fatah before Summit

    The Palestinian Authority leader has held talks with Fatah members days before he meets Israel's prime minister, and a resistance group said three of its leaders had been arrested by Palestinian police. Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazin,on Saturday met with more than 100 members of his Fatah party's revolutionary.. More

  • Afghan Plane Wreckage Located

    The wreckage of an Afghan airliner which disappeared from radar screens on Thursday has been located east of the capital, Kabul, Afghan officials say. Gen Mahbub Amiri said the wreckage was found near Band-e Ghazi - and he did not know whether there were survivors among the 104 people on board. Turkish, Russian and US citizens are believed.. More

  • Frenchman Jailed for Murder after Hunting Arabs

    A French court sentenced a man to 25 years in jail for murder on Friday after he killed a teenager simply because he was of North African origin during a drunken shooting spree which he likened to going hunting. Joel Damman, 50, roamed the streets of Dunkirk in northern France looking for Arab-looking victims on Oct. 4, 2002. He said he had.. More

  • Australia Expels Senior Israeli Diplomat

    Australia has expelled a senior Israeli diplomat for an unspecified offence, media reports say. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Saturday said the diplomat was believed to have been told to leave a few weeks ago, but the move was kept secret to avoid any damage to relations between Australia and Israel. It said the affair was revealed.. More

  • Nepal Ex-PM Calls for Street Protests

    Former Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala yesterday called on citizens to take to the streets to restore democracy in the wake of King Gyanendra's seizure of power. The appeal by Koirala, who served four times as premier of the Himalayan nation, was the first call for demonstrations by a mainstream politician since Gyanendra dismissed Sher.. More

  • More US Casualties in Iraq Attack

    One US soldier has been killed and seven wounded in a roadside bombing near the key northern Iraqi oil refinery town of Baiji, the US military said. One Task Force Danger soldier was killed and seven wounded in an improvised explosive device attack on a US combat patrol near Baiji, 200km north of Baghdad, said a statement on Friday. No further.. More

  • Egyptians Protest against Mubarak

    Several dozen Egyptians have demonstrated against a fifth term for President Husni Mubarak. Thousands of police kept the protesters apart from tens of thousands of visitors attending the Cairo International Book Fair in the suburbs of the Egyptian capital on Friday. "Enough!" said one banner, in an apparent reference to Mubarak's 24-year rule.. More

  • Palestinian Fighter Killed in Gaza, Israeli Soldiers Wounded

    A Palestinian resistance fighterhas been shot dead by Israeli occupation forces afterwoundingtwosoldiersin the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military source said on Thursday that troops opened fire after the fighter hadattacked an Israeli checkpoint with grenades and gunfire and wounded two soldiers. Jewish settlers in occupied Gazasaid a Palestinian.. More

  • Rumsfeld Offered to Quit over Abuse

    US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said he twice offered his resignation to President George Bush over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, but both times was asked to stay in the job. Photographs of US personnel sexually humiliating and physically abusing prisoners at the jail on the outskirts of Baghdad surfaced in April, triggering global.. More