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  • Falluja Counts Cost of Fresh Bombing

    US warplanes bombed the Iraqi city of Falluja overnight, killing two people and wounding three. Hospital staff said they had received the casualties after what residents said was an air strike on the southern edge of Falluja at about midnight (2100 GMT) on Friday. Residents said US forces detained at least 17 people in outlying areas of the city.. More

  • Several Strong Earthquakes Shake Japan

    Several strong earthquakes shook northwestern Japan in less than an hour on Saturday, toppling homes, causing blackouts, cutting water services and derailing a bullet train. At least nine people were reported injured. The quakes - the first of which measured a magnitude 6.8 and struck at 5:56 p.m. - were centered near Ojiya city about 12 miles beneath.. More

  • Kosovo Goes to the Polls

    It is election day in Kosovo, with the province's long-term future at stake. Nominally part of Serbia and Montenegro, this impoverished part of Europe has been under international administration since NATO's intervention in 1999. But calls for independence are growing with two men leading the way. The Democratic League of Kosovo headed by the province's.. More

  • More US Soldiers Charged over Abuse

    Two more US soldiers have been charged over Abu Ghraib abuse even as the US government released more documents on prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. A US military court in Baghdad on Friday ordered the soldiers, including an alleged ringleader, to stand trial over the sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Military.. More

  • Sudan Engaged in Fresh Diplomacy

    The Sudanese government has resumed negotiations with the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to settle differences over political and economic issues. The government delegation to the talks in Cairo is being led by federal minister Nafie Ali Nafie. The opposition delegation is led by Abd al-Rahman Said. NDA leader Muhammad Uthman al-Mirghani.. More

  • Top Hamas Activist Killed in Israeli Strike

    A senior leader of Hamas' Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades has been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Medics and witnesses said a missile from an Israeli drone struck a vehicle on Thursday and killed Adnan al-Ghoul, who has been on Israel's most wanted list since 1987. The Israeli army offered no immediate comment on the attack which also killed.. More

  • US Pilot Dies, Three Soldiers Injured in Afghanistan

    The pilot of a US military helicopter died after it crashed in western Afghanistan while two US soldiers on other side of the volatile nation were seriously wounded by a bomb, officials said. The Black Hawk helicopter came down near the city of Herat Thursday as it flew to rescue an electoral educator who had been accidentally shot by his armed escort,.. More

  • European Heavyweights Pressure Iran over Nuclear Program

    Europe's three heavyweight states presented Iran with a last-chance proposal to reassure the world it is not secretly developing atomic weapons and Iran said talks would continue. "We are at an initial stage, matters have to be considered on both sides," Iranian official Sirus Naseri told reporters after the three-hour meeting in Vienna. "I think.. More

  • US Warplanes Kill Family of Six in Falluja

    US warplanes killed a family of six and at least eight civilians were killed and 11 US soldiers wounded in clashes in Samarra. A witness saw a man and a woman and four children, two boys and two girls, being pulled out of the rubble of a razed home in Falluja. The US military denied a family of six was killed, saying it launched four strikes against.. More

  • China Mine Blast Kills 60, Scores Still Missing

    A gas explosion in a crowded coal mine in China killed at least 60 people and left 88 missing with little hope of surviving the country's most serious mine accident in years. In another accident, six miners were killed in a gas leak in a grim reminder that the world's biggest mining industry is also the most dangerous, with thousands of people.. More

  • Lebanese PM Quits Amid Political Crisis

    Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri has resigned, bringing to a head a political crisis that has paralysed Lebanon for weeks. "I have ... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the [next] government," he said in a statement on Wednesday, blaming internal political differences for his decision. Hariri,.. More

  • Palestinian Killed on Way to Mosque

    Israeli occupation troops have shot dead a Palestinian man on his way to a mosque for prayers in the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah. Military sources reportedly said soldiers at an army outpost in a buffer zone separating Rafah from the border with Egypt shot two men approaching them on Wednesday in apparent preparation for an attack. It was not immediately.. More

  • Europe Seeks Iran Nuclear Deal

    Three key European nations are ready to promise Iran nuclear technology if Tehran takes steps to show it is not secretly trying to make atomic weapons, a confidential document says. "We would support the acquisition by Iran of a light water research reactor," said the seven-page document presented by Britain, France and Germany to the G8 group of industriali.. More

  • UN Demands Syria Pulls out of Lebanon

    The UN Security Council has called on Syria to withdraw its 14,000 troops from Lebanon. France and the United States were the major players behind a policy statement which was read at a formal meeting in New York on Tuesday. The security council, which also called on Secretary-General Kofi Annan to report on any progress twice a year, intended to.. More

  • Bird Flu Kills 23 Tigers in Thai Zoo

    Twenty-three tigers died and 30 more are sick from bird flu at a private zoo in Thailand after eating the carcasses of infected chickens, but health officials said yesterday that there was little threat to humans. The tigers have been dying at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in central Chonburi province since September 14, said Charal Trinvuthipong, director.. More