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  • Baghdad Police Station Targeted in New Car-Bomb Attack

    A car bomb has exploded close to a police station in southern Baghdad, killing five Iraqis and injuring four others. Officers guarding the police station in the capital's southern Dora neighbourhood opened fire on the vehicle as it sped toward them and exploded, a police official said on Friday. Baghdad's Dora neighbourhood has become a flashpoint.. More

  • Indonesia and Aceh Officials Set to Meet in Finland

    Indonesian government officials and representatives from the Free Aceh movement were due to hold their first face-to-face talks in over a year in Finland, thousands of miles from the tsunami-shattered region. Delegations from the Indonesian government and the GAM, or Free Aceh movement, arrived in Helsinki on Thursday, and met initially for separate.. More

  • Many Killed in Bangladesh Rally Blast

    A bomb blast at an opposition rally in Bangladesh has killed five people, including a former finance minister of the country. Police and witnesses said the bomb exploded on Thursday at a rally of the main opposition Awami League at Laskarpur, 250km from capital Dhaka. About 50 other people were wounded. An Awami League spokesman said former.. More

  • Zhao Mourners Beaten Up

    China has detained dozens of people, some of whom have been severely beaten, for trying to mark the death of former leader Zhao Ziyang, witnesses said yesterday. The allegations came as the government intensified security to prevent mourners attending tomorrow's funeral in Beijing for Zhao, the former Communist Party secretary general purged for opposing.. More

  • Kirkuk Bombers Target Polling Stations as US Soldiers Raid Baghdad Mosque

    A series of bombings in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk have targeted three polling stations and a US military convoy. According to the Iraqi police force's General Sarhad Qadir on Thursday, the first bomb exploded at 8.10am (0510 GMT) near the police academy as a US military convoy was passing. He said there were no casualties nor serious damage... More

  • Suicide Bid Caused Rail Crash

    Police in California say they believe a suicidal man caused a train crash on Wednesday on the outskirts of Los Angeles that killed at least 11 people. The man parked his Jeep on a commuter line before changing his mind and getting out of the vehicle, they said. Named as Juan Manuel Alvarez, the man is expected to be charged with murder. One train.. More

  • Iran Denies Talks with EU at Impasse

    Iran has denied that its negotiations with three major European powers over its nuclear programme are at an impasse, according to the Iranian press. The comments by foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi on Thursday came after the emergence of reports that the EU was hardening its stance towards Iran and calling on Tehran to completely dismantle.. More

  • Palestinian Girl Shot Dead by Israeli Troops

    Israeli occupation forces have shot dead a three-year-old Palestinian girl in central Gaza despite officials announcing a resumption of talks and a halt to targeted liquidations. Aljazeera's correspondent in Gaza said Israeli troops killed Rahma Abu Shamas and injured three Palestinian civilians in Dair al-Balah region of the central Gaza Strip on.. More

  • More than 30 Marines Killed in Helicopter Crash

    A US Marine Corps helicopter has crashed in western Iraq killing at least 31 US servicemen while six other soldiers were killed in clashes with armed groups. "Early this morning, 30 Marines and one sailor of the 1st Marine Division and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force died when their CH-53E 'Super Stallion' helicopter.. More

  • US Judge Disallows FBI Terror Evidence

    A US judge has refused to let federal prosecutors present some of the most potentially damaging evidence against a Yemeni tribal leader charged with funneling millions of dollars to outlawed groups. Judge Sterling Johnson ruled on Tuesday that prosecutors will not be able to present documents allegedly linking Shaikh Muhammad Ali al-Muayyad to suspected.. More

  • Iran Promises Retaliation if Attacked

    Iran will retaliate to any attack against the Islamic republic by Israel or the US, a top Revolutionary Guards commander says. Brigadier-General Muhammad Ali Jafari told the Shargh newspaper on Wednesday that Tehran "will counter any stupid action by Israel and its master with firmness and in an astonishing way". The commander of the Revolutionary.. More

  • Guantanamo Britons Arrested in UK

    A Royal Air Force C-17 transport plane carrying the four men touched down at the RAF Northholt base in west London on Tuesday evening. They were then quickly driven off in a police convoy. London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement it had arrested Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar, Martin Mubanga and Feroz Abbasi while they were still sitting on.. More

  • Judge Assassinated in Baghdad as more US Soldiers Killed

    Armed men have shot and killed an Iraqi judge as he was leaving his home in eastern Baghdad, police sources say, while six US soldiers have died in separate incidents. Judge Qais Hashim Shammari was killed with his son in a roadside ambush, the sources said on Tuesday. US soldiers killed Meanwhile, sixUS soldiers were killed in two separate.. More

  • Eight Died in Saudi Flooding

    Eight people died after being washed away by flood waters near Medina during the worst torrential storm to hit Saudi Arabia in 20 years. The dead were among a 13-member family crammed into one vehicle which had tried to cross a flooded valley, Al Watan newspaper said. The vehicle was swept away and bodies found some 10km away. One passenger.. More

  • Israeli Rabbi Stokes Pullout Tensions

    A senior rabbi has said he sympathizes with Jewish colonists who are willing to lay down their lives rather than submit to Israel's plan to withdraw from the occupied Gaza Strip. President of the council of rabbis for the illegal settlements in the West Bank, Rabbi Dov Lior told Israel's second TV channel on Monday that "you can understand those.. More