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  • Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Child

    Israeli occupation soldiers have shot dead a 12-year-old Palestinian boy during confrontations with protesters in a refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin. An Israeli military source said the soldiers had responded after coming under fire, but Palestinians said the protesters were only throwing stones. Palestinian witnesses said the soldiers.. More

  • Battles Rage in Samarra

    An attack on a US post in the Iraqi city of Samarra has set off street battles in which a civilian has been killed and seven Iraqi National Guards wounded. Police said the fighting began around 9pm (1800 GMT) on Friday and continued past midnight. A US military spokeswoman had no immediate information on the clashes. American troops and Iraqi.. More

  • Thai Muslim Detainees to Be Freed

    Thai authorities will start on Saturday releasing most of the 1200 Muslim men detained last week after a protest which left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide, the country's prime minister has said. Thaksin Shinawatra said 300 protesters would remain in custody as an investigation continued into last Monday's tragedy, one of the bloodiest days.. More

  • Fighting Erupts in Somalia

    Fighting has erupted between the rival Somali territories of Puntland and Somaliland as the African country struggles to establish stability under a nascent transitional government. Witnesses from the disputed Sool region reported on Friday seeing at least nine people killed in the fighting, during which they said troops from both sides used heavy.. More

  • One Israeli soldier killed, Two Palestinians, Including girl, Shot Dead

    A few mortar rounds on Thursday afternoon hit an Israeli military post close to the settlement of Morag, in Gaza Strip. One Israeli soldier was reported dead. Israeli sources confirmed also that three troops were seriously wounded. Three others were lightly injured. Earlier, a 9-year old girl was killed early Thursday when Israeli forces shelled houses.. More

  • 11 Iraqi Troops Executed as US Soldier Killed

    An Iraqi group said on its Web site Thursday that it had executed 11 Iraqi troops taken hostage south of Baghdad and posted video of the bound men being shot or beheaded. According to The AP, the Ansar al-Sunnah Army said it had beheaded one and shot the 10 others. "After investigating with them and (hearing) their confessions, it turned out this.. More

  • Paris-Bound Arafat 'Suffering from Leukaemia'

    Gravely ill Yasser Arafat, who is being rushed to a French hospital for treatment, is suspected to be suffering from leukaemia, a senior Palestinian official said early today. As fears grew for the icon of the struggle for a Palestinian state, aides said 15 Palestinian, Tunisian, Jordanian and Egyptian physicians had advised that Arafat, 75, had to.. More

  • Twin Bomb Blasts Rock Southern Thailand

    At least 16 people have been wounded in two roadside bomb blasts in Thailand's tense southern region. The first blast wounded seven people and the second blast near a food stall injured nine members of a police bomb squad investigating the earlier explosion in the provincial capital of Yala. The twin explosions on Friday come amid growing outrage.. More

  • Three Foreigners Snatched in Kabul

    Three foreign election workers have been seized by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul. The poll workers, including two women, were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo, government officials said on Thursday. They were part of a joint UN-Afghan election team handling the 9 October presidential poll. Seven armed men stopped the UN-marked vehicle.. More

  • Short Circuit Caused Pakistan Blast

    An explosion at the Marriott hotel in the Pakistani capital that injured at least seven people, including two Italians and a US diplomat, was caused by a short-circuit in the lobby, according to local authorities. Doctors at a government hospital said on Friday the two Italians received minor injuries in Thursday's blast. A spokesman at the US embassy.. More

  • Fallujans Killed in New US Bombing

    US warplanes have bombed the Iraqi city of Falluja, killing three people and flattening several homes in the eastern Julan district. Thursday's dawn raid was described as the latest in a series of "precision" attacks on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his alleged network. A US military statement said "credible intelligence sources" reported that those killed.. More

  • Yasir Arafat in Serious Condition

    Senior Palestinian leaders are said to have been summoned to the West Bank headquarters of Palestinian President Yasir Arafat amid increasing concern over the ageing leader's health. Conflicting reports about the 75-year-old leader's health led to intense speculations on Wednesday. But a senior Arafat-aide told Aljazeera that the Palestinian president.. More

  • Ten Dead in Russian Mine Blast

    Ten miners died and about 20 were injured after a gas explosion ripped through a pit in central Siberia trapping dozens of miners, the Interfax news agency reported citing a spokesman for the local government. Russia's emergencies ministry meanwhile said that seven miners had been killed and 23 injured during the blast at the Listvyazhnaya mine in.. More

  • Bashir Goes on Trial again in Jakarta

    Indonesia's prominent Muslim preacher Abu Bakr Bashir has been put on trial again, charged once more over the Marriot hotel attack in 2003 and the Bali bombing in 2002. The 66-year-old listened on Thursday as prosecutor Salman Maryadi also re-accused him of leading the outlawed Islamist group Jemaah Islamiya (JI), despite having been found not guilty.. More

  • At least 80 Muslims Die in Thai Army Custody

    Thailand risks a Muslim uprising in the south after the deaths of almost 80 Muslims in military custody, the main Islamic political party in neighbouring Malaysia has said. Most of the victims suffocated and several broke their necks when 1300 people were stuffed into vehicles for at least six hours after Thai officials used water cannon, gunfire.. More