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  • Ulster Parties Close to Deal

    The leader of Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland's main Catholic party and the political ally of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), said yesterday he believed his Protestant rivals were ready to agree to a peace deal. But Gerry Adams said he had yet to receive a telephone call from US President George W Bush, who tried to help break a deadlock in the British-ruled.. More

  • Ukraine Parliament Calls Election Invalid

    Ukraine's parliament declared yesterday that a contested presidential run-off vote handing victory to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich was invalid and failed to reflect the will of voters. Meanwhile, the European Union called for new presidential elections to be held by the end of the year's to end its current electoral crisis, in a new sign of a standoff.. More

  • Lecturer Killed in Mystery Gaza Blast

    A Palestinian lecturer was killed yesterday in a mystery explosion at his university office in Gaza City, as five children were wounded by Israeli fire, Palestinian sources said. The blast took place in the office of 27-year-old Yasser Al Madhun, who died on the spot. He worked as a lecturer at Gaza City's Al Azhar university. In the northern West.. More

  • Mine Blast in China Traps 188 Workers

    A gas explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine on Sunday, trapping at least 188 miners and sending smoke billowing out the mine's air vents, the government said. The accident occurred in the state-owned Chenjiashan coal mine in Shaanxi province at 7:20 a.m. The Web site of the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party,.. More

  • Iraqis Emerge Amid the Ruins of Falluja

    Relief agencies which finally reached Falluja found a city in ruins and its remaining civilian population beleaguered and hungry. Muhammad Chibib pleaded with the marine colonel, coaxing him a little further down the street to another house. Behind him a family of seven stood at their gate, clutching their first fresh food and water in days. "Please.. More

  • Envoys Visit Ukraine as Rallies Resume

    Thousands of supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko have taken to the streets of Ukraine's capital while European envoys prepare to fly in to try to resolve the crisis over a contested election. Witnesses on Friday said there was early tension near the presidential building in Kiev where thousands of demonstrators faced special forces ringing.. More

  • 11 Killed as Earthquake Hits Papua

    An earthquake in the Indonesian province of Papua has killed at least eleven people and injured dozens more. The tremor that hit close to the coastal town of Nabire measured 6.4 on the Richter scale. A telecommunications mast and several churches collapsed and the airport of Nabire was closed for some time. Several aftershocks have been felt in the.. More

  • Eight Teenagers Die in Attack at Chinese School

    In central China eight teenagers have been stabbed to death in a high school dormitory. Four other children have been injured, two of them seriously. The attacker is still at large. A spokesperson for the city of Ruzhou in the Henan province says the victims were all sleeping on the lower bunk of bunk beds. In the past months, similar attacks have.. More

  • Palestinian Refugee Killed by Israeli Shell Fire

    A shell fired from an Israeli tank has killed a Palestinian refugee in the Rafah camp in southern Gaza. Muhammad al-Ghariz died from shrapnel wounds on Thursday after the tank round sent fragments of rock and cement in all directions. Witnesses to the incident said the 30-year-old al-Ghariz had not been armed. The Israeli army had no immediate comment... More

  • Japanese want Troops to Leave Iraq

    Most people in Japan want their troops to leave Iraq, according to a poll carried out by a leading business newspaper. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun poll found on Thursday that some 61% of Japanese want troops home now. The majority of those who took part voiced growing opposition to Japan's first deployment to an active combat zone since the second world.. More

  • US Soldiers Killed in Afghan Attack

    Two US soldiers have been killed and another wounded by a homemade bomb in central Afghanistan's Uruzgan province while an Afghan civilian has been killed in a rocket attack in the south east, the US military said. Stating that the two US fatalities occurred in the vicinity of Deh Rawud, US military spokesman Major Mark McCann added that one soldier.. More

  • Kuchma Warns Ukraine Could Implode

    Outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has said his country could erupt in civil war as a stand-off between rival candidates in a presidential election deepened. As the opposition vowed to block the country's roads, airports and railways in response to a nationwide strike call by the opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko who refused to recognise.. More

  • US-Led Troops Raid Villages near Baghdad

    Thousands of US-led troops are conducting a campaign of raids on towns and villages south of Baghdad, the US military said on Wednesday. Unlike this month's storming of Falluja, west of the capital, there has been relatively little combat since the offensive began on Tuesday, but rather a series of raids on resistance strongholds. In Washington, Defence.. More

  • Rebels Killed in Sudanese Bombing

    A Sudanese bomber plane has killed 25 rebels in an air raid on a village in the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan, a rebel commander said. Bosh Shag Omar, a local commander with the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), told Reuters by telephone the Russian-built Antonov aircraft bombed the village of Tadit, 40km south of the North Darfur capital.. More

  • Pakistan PM Talks Kashmir in Delhi

    Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh have begun talks focusing on the Kashmir dispute. Appearing before cameras on the second day of a two-day visit to New Delhi on Wednesday, Aziz gave journalists no hints as to what might be achieved. Differences over Himalayan Kashmir have bedevilled the two countries for.. More