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  • Palestinian Police Deploy on Border as Israel Troops Kill Children

    Palestinian security forces are being deployed in the northern Gaza Strip with an aim to prevent attacks on Israel by resistance groups. The deployment on Thursday comes after newly elected Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas ordered security services to halt attacks against Israel. "We have begun deploying our forces north and east of Gaza City.. More

  • Tearful Pilgrims Pray for Peace

    A white sea of the faithful flowed to the plains of Arafat under cold, breezy and overcast conditions as dawn broke on the second day of the five-day pilgrimage yesterday. Waves of men in seamless white robes and women in flowing overalls joined voices in a crescendo chanting “Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik” (Here I am O Allah, answering your call). The.. More

  • Tsunami Toll Tops 226,000

    The global toll from the Asian tsunami has shot above 226,000 after Indonesia's health ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of thousands of people previously listed as missing. The ministry raised the country's toll to 166,320 on Wednesday. It had previously given a figure of 95,450 while Indonesia's Ministry of Social Affairs had put the toll.. More

  • Brazilian Missing in Iraq after Ambush

    A Brazilian national is missing in Iraq after an ambush north of Baghdad by fighters who killed a Briton and his Iraqi colleague, the US military has said. "Two employees of Janusian Security were killed and a third employee is missing after anti-Iraqi forces attacked their convoy south of the Baiji Power plant... One British citizen and one Iraqi.. More

  • Abbas to Deploy Police on Border

    The Palestinian Authoritywill deploy hundreds of police officers along the Gaza-Israel frontier in the coming days to prevent rocket fire on Israeli towns, officials have said. New Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas orderedthe deployment after a meeting on Wednesday night between Israeli and Palestinian generals, convened in a last-ditch effort to.. More

  • US Judge Dismisses Saudi 9/11 Case

    A US federal judge has dismissed lawsuits against Saudi Arabia stemming from the 9/11 attacks. Ruling that the plaintiffs did not provide sufficient proof of alleged involvement on Wednesday, district court Judge Richard Conway Casey cleared numerous leading Saudi officials and financial institutions of any wrong-doing. Reacting to the 62-page.. More

  • Afghan Warlord Escapes Bomber

    Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum has escaped an apparent attempt on his life, reports say. He was unhurt when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan where the general had been praying, his aides say. A number of others were wounded in the blast in Shebergan early on Thursday. It is unclear who.. More

  • Girl, 15, Hurt as Truce Row Flares

    The Indian army said yesterday that mortar bombs were fired across the military line dividing Kashmir and accused Pakistan of violating a 14-month-old ceasefire between the nuclear-armed rivals. Pakistan denied the charge, which is nevertheless the latest in a string of setbacks to a slow-moving peace process between the South Asian rivals. The.. More

  • Arafat Standing to Mark Hajj Climax

    The valley of Mina reverberated with the chants of the talbiyah as more than three million pilgrims prepared for their journey today to the Plains of Arafat to bring this year's Hajj to a grand climax. The pilgrims' collective chant of "Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik" (Here I am Oh Lord, answering your call) filled the air as the tent city stood witness.. More

  • Abbas Talks with Hamas Leaders

    Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has held a meeting with Hamas leaders. Also on Tuesday, a Palestinian blew himself up near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. A top commander of the Palestinian security forces said after Tuesday night's meeting that forces would be deployed along the Gaza Strip's borders with Israel within days to enforce Abbas'.. More

  • Car-Bomb Explodes in Baghdad

    A car bomb has exploded in north-central Baghdad, killing six people, about 25 minutes after another car bomb blew up near the capital's Australian embassy, an interior ministry official said. The explosion at 0735 local time (0435 GMT) on Wednesday happened near the Al-Andalus traffic circle at the edge of the Baghdad neighbourhood of Karrada and.. More

  • Palestinian Bomber Kills Israeli Soldier

    A Palestinian has blown himself up near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, killing one Israeli soldier and wounding seven, Aljazeera reported. Correspondent Wail Dahduh said the wounded had all been evacuated from the scene by helicopter. The Islamic group Hamas claimed responsibility forlate Tuesday's attack, which took place at a highway.. More

  • Baghdad Car Bomb Targets Hakim's Party

    A car bomb has exploded in south Baghdad, killing four guards and injuringeight people near the offices of a leading Iraqi Shia party, Aljazeera reports. Tuesday's bomb exploded by a checkpoint barrier about 60m from the headquarters of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), an importantShia party. "A suicide bomber.. More

  • Tsunami toll tops 175,000

    The number of people killed in Asia's tsunami disaster has soared past 175,000 after Sri Lanka raised its death toll, amid fears of possible attacks against aid workers in Indonesia. A senior international aid official said Indonesia's Aceh province was rebounding so well from the disaster that emergency relief work could wind up fairly quickly. "I.. More

  • Israeli Aircraft Raid South Lebanon

    An Israeli jet has launched a bombing raid on an area adjacent to the disputed Shebaa Farms, following an attack by Hizb Allah on an Israeli bulldozer, Lebanese police said. On Monday Hizb Allah fired two missiles on a hilltop position in Alman al-Qusair that had been held by Israel before its 2000 pullout from south Lebanon, the police said. Israeli.. More