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  • French Citizens Flee Ivory Coast

    French citizens have queued at Ivory Coast's main airport to flee their former West African colony as violent anti-French protesters massed for a fifth day in support of President Laurent Gbagbo. "I don't have a job anymore or a house ... . They took the bath, the furniture and electrical wires, everything," Bruno Regis, a teacher from a French school.. More

  • Breakthrough in Darfur Peace Talks

    The Sudanese government and its rebel foes have reached an agreement at the peace talks aimed to end the conflict in the Darfur region. Both sides signed two accords - humanitarian and security protocols - on Tuesday at the talks being hosted by the African Union (AU) in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Agricultural Minister Majzub al-Khalifa inked.. More

  • Dutch Arrest Man for U.S. Embassy Bomb Threat

    Dutch police have arrested a man for a "joke" bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the U.S. embassy in The Hague last week, they said on Wednesday. The embassy and several nearby restaurants were evacuated on Friday evening after a bomb threat, but the police found nothing suspicious. On Saturday the police arrested and later released a 27-year-old.. More

  • Hospital Hit as Fighting Rages in Falluja

    Warplanes have bombed a government clinic in the centre of Falluja as US ground forces engaged in pitched battles with fighters defending the city. Residents said the one-storey Popular Clinic which had been receiving wounded anti-US fighters and civilians was hit overnight as US-led forces pressed into the city. The residents said on Tuesday it was.. More

  • Arafat in Deeper Coma

    Yasir Arafat's condition has taken a turn for the worse and his coma has deepened, the French military hospital caring for the Palestinian leader has announced. "The state of health of Mr Arafat worsened during the night (on Monday)," Christian Estripeau the chief doctor treating him, said outside Percy military hospital in a south-western suburb.. More

  • Guantanamo Tribunals Illegal Says US Court

    A US federal court has ruled that Usama bin Ladin's driver is entitled to a legal hearing on whether he is a prisoner of war. The landmark opinion issued on Monday could prevent military trials of alleged enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay. It was the first time a court has stalled hearings in the military commissions, resurrected from the second.. More

  • Mbeki in African Union Bid to Halt New Ivory Coast Clashes

    South African President Thabo Mbeki was to meet his Ivory Coast counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked fears of a return to the conflict that has split the west African state for two years. Escorted by the UN special envoy to Ivory Coast, Albert Tevoedjre of Benin, Mbeki was whisked through the.. More

  • Assault on Besieged Falluja under Way

    US forces have struck a railway station inside Falluja with small arms and tank machinegun fire as fighting raged in the besieged Iraqi city. US warplanes staged ferocious strikes on targets in Falluja after interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gave US-led forces the go-ahead for a full-scale attack on city on Monday afternoon. Aircraft struck.. More

  • Palestinian Officials to Visit Arafat

    Palestinian leaders are going ahead with a visit to France to see critically ill Palestinian President Yasir Arafat despite a scathing outburst from his wife. Muhammad Dahlan said on Monday that Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya, Palestinian Liberation Organisation Secretary-General Mahmud Abbas and Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath would leave the.. More

  • EU Chief Casts Doubt on Iraq Elections

    EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has said there is little prospect of Iraq holding national elections on time in January because of deteriorating security. His comments to reporters in The Hague on Monday effectively call into question the Western and Iraqi government line. "The situation from the point of view of security does not give much.. More

  • Strong Earthquake Jolts Northern Japan

    A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted northern Japan on Monday in the latest aftershock to hit a region struck by a deadly tremor last month. The earthquake struck at 11:15 a.m. (9:15 p.m. EST Sunday) and its focus was near those of the other quakes that have hit the Niigata region, the Meteorological Agency said. A series of smaller quakes.. More

  • Blast Hits Dutch Islamic School

    An Islamic school in the Dutch city of Eindhoven was hit by an explosion but no one was injured, ANP news agency reported. Windows at nearby buildings were blown out. Eindhoven mayor Alexander Sakkers told public Dutch radio that no one was hurt in the explosion but that people in the neighborhood were in shock. Muslim houses of worship and Islamic.. More

  • Suicide Suspected at WTC Site

    A 25-year-old from Georgia who was distraught over President Bush's re-election apparently killed himself at ground zero. Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits area of the former World Trade Center site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found nearby, but.. More

  • Iraqi Policemen Targeted in New Attacks

    At least 22 people, mostly policemen, have been killed in deadly attacks against police stations in the western Anbar province for the second day in a row. At dawn on Sunday, armed assailants clashed with police and then set off explosions at police stations in the neighbouring towns of Haditha and Haqlaniya, 220km northwest of Baghdad, said Captain.. More

  • Iran Nuclear Stand Boosted by China

    Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing has said in Tehran that Beijing opposes US efforts to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear programme. The United States accuses Iran of secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons under cover of its civilian atomic energy programme, and wants the UN nuclear watchdog, the International.. More