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  • Labour in Coalition Talks with Sharon

    Israel's opposition Labour party says it has set no conditions for joining Sharon's government, paving the way for a broad coalition that could push through his Gaza withdrawal plan. Sharon needs Labour to rebuild his shattered coalition and overcome the hard line right-wing opposed to withdrawing troops and Jewish settlers from the occupied Gaza Strip,.. More

  • Iran Rules out Nuclear Enrichment Freeze

    Iran has said on the eve of crucial talks with Britain, France and Germany that it is not prepared to accept a permanent freeze of its controversial nuclear fuel work. "The permanent suspension of enrichment is not on our agenda. A short-term freeze is what we are stressing," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters on Sunday. Iran.. More

  • Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Girl

    A young Palestinian girl has been killed by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said. Rania Siam was killed by either automatic gunfire or fragments of tank shells as she played outside her home on Friday, the sources added. Two others were wounded in the incident, the sources.. More

  • More Attacks on Occupation Forces in Iraq

    Fighters have killed a police captain at a checkpoint and gunned down an Iraqi guardsman in a billiard hall in separate attacks against US-backed forces in northern Iraq. Police Captain Basam Ali Ahmad died of wounds a day after being shot on Thursday as he manned a checkpoint in Samarra, police said. Despite US-led forces mounting a major offensive.. More

  • Jailed Palestinians in Israel Start Hunger Strike

    Five leaders of the Islamic Movement have begun an open-ended hunger strike in protest against their continued incarceration in Israel. The five men, who include the group's head Shaikh Rayd Salah and a former mayor of Um al-Fahm town, were indicted by an Israeli court in July 2003 for allegedly channeling money from charities in Europe and the Middle.. More

  • Many Killed in Pakistan Market Explosion

    A bomb has killed nine people and injured at least 21 after it exploded near a military truck at a packed market in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said. The victims were mostly passersby or vendors while a soldier was also killed by the device, which was apparently fixed to a bicycle, according to police and hospital sources... More

  • Five Palestinians Killed by Israeli Fire

    Five Palestinians have been killed and two others injured by Israeli occupation soldiers who opened fire in two separate incidents on a group of people along the Israeli-Egyptian border. In the first incident that happened overnight, an Israeli tank opened fire at three Palestinians, killing them immediately, Wail al-Dahduh, Aljazeera's correspondent.. More

  • Thousands Flee after Darfur Attack

    Tribesmen have attacked villages in Sudan's Darfur region, forcing out 7000 people from their homes and looting the area, the United Nations says. A UN report on Wednesday said 15 bodies had been found in the area around the town of Edwa in Darfur. The UN report did not say who had launched the attack. But aid community sources said Janjawid.. More

  • Al-Barghuthi Denies Quitting Poll Race

    Palestinian presidential candidate Marwan al-Barghuthi has denied reports that he has ruled himself out of the upcoming election. A statement issued on Wednesday by the office of al-Barghuthi described as inaccurate the claim of Talab al-Saagh, an Arab MP in the Israeli Knesset, about the possibility of al-Barghuthi's withdrawal from the vote. In.. More

  • Pro-Moscow Chechen Leader Admits Russian Abuses

    The pro-Moscow president of Chechnya has admitted that Russian forces are to blame for a number of civilian disappearances in the war-torn republic. "Law and order officials, having arrested a suspect, do not always inform the local authorities and the families of the detained, which is a breach of the law," President Alu Alkhanov was quoted as saying.. More

  • Ulster Deal Hit by Row

    Anglo-Irish attempts to seal a lasting political settlement in Northern Ireland hinged yesterday on whether IRA guerillas would allow pictures to be taken of their weapons being destroyed. Photographic evidence of the effective end of one of Europe's oldest and deadliest insurgent groups is seen by some as a crucial precondition of a deal for the British-rul.. More

  • Doctors Backs Yushchenko 'Poison' Claims

    He is the man with two faces: In July Victor Yushchenko was on the Ukrainian campaign trail looking as he always had, then, months later, his appearance during the final days of the election was shocking. His face was pockmarked and scarred, and he appeared to be in poor health. The presidential candidate has always said he was poisoned, and now a.. More

  • Bomb Attack Precedes Kashmir Visit

    Kashmiri fighters in Indian-administered Kashmir have injured 30 people after hurling a grenade in a busy marketplace as President Abdul Kalam visited the region to address frontline troops. Two hours after Kalam arrived at a high-security army airport in Srinagar on Wednesday, unidentified men the grenade at a security patrol, but missed their target. .. More

  • Palestinian and Israeli Killed in Gaza

    An Israeli missile strike has killed a Palestinian resistance fighter in the Gaza Strip shortly after one Israeli soldier was killed and four others wounded in a bomb attack. The fighter killed was Ismail al-Sawarka, an Islamic Jihad activist. The missile attack came shortly after two explosive devices detonated as an Israeli occupation military.. More

  • Karzai Sworn in as Afghanistan Leader

    Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan's first elected president at a ceremony attended by US Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Scores of foreign dignitaries congregated in the heavily fortified presidential palace in Kabul to see Karzai place his hand on the Quran and take the oath of office. Despite Taliban.. More