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  • Powerful Earthquake Rocks Taiwan and Southern Japan

    A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale shook Taiwan, sparkling several fires and prompting people to flee swaying high-rise buildings but causing no serious damage. The quake led to a dozen technicians being trapped in elevators of the world's tallest building, Taipei 101, for several minutes but the 508-metre (1,666-feet) structure.. More

  • Three Palestinians Killed in Israeli Air Strike

    Three Palestinian resistance fighters have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza strip. Raid Abu Sayf of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Wayl Salih of the resistance movement Hamas both sustained fatal injuries when an Israeli helicopter opened fire on Friday at the Jabalya refugee camp, the focus of a massive operation in the area.. More

  • Iranian nuclear power plant completed

    Russia and Iran have finished construction of the Bushehr atomic power plant in the Islamic republic - a project the US fears Tehran could use to make nuclear arms. Diplomats in Moscow said the announcement on Thursday, made after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Iran, reflected Russia's readiness to press ahead with the project in return.. More

  • Several Killed in Baghdad Green Zone Blasts

    Twin blasts inside Baghdad's Green Zone have killed at least ten people and wounded 20, US military and hospital sources said. The dead include at least three US nationals. Six Iraqis were also killed. He said the wounded included 13 Iraqis, three US citizens and two US military personnel. A revised figure later put the number of US contractors.. More

  • Israeli Missiles Hit Refugee Camps in Gaza

    Israeli air strikes have killed five Palestinian refugees in Gaza as an army offensive that has taken more than a 100 lives continues unabated. Missiles blew up two Palestinians in the Jabalya refugee camp in north Gaza on Thursday after most of the makeshift city was stormed by more than 200 tanks and troop carriers. Helicopters backing a separate.. More

  • New Somali President Sworn In

    Somalia's newly-elected president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad has taken oath of office, faced with the great task of restoring stability to his anarchic country after 13 years without central government. African presidents attending the ceremony, including Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Kenya's Mwai Kibaki, exhorted the international.. More

  • Muslim Fasting Month to Start Friday

    Believers across the world will begin the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan this week. The Arabian peninsula will start the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Friday. The announcement in Cairo was made by Shaikh Ali Juma, the mufti of Egypt, during a ceremony broadcast on state television on Wednesday. Similar announcements were made by the authorities.. More

  • Occupation Soldiers Killed in Baghdad

    At least three US soldiers have died after an attack on their convoy in eastern Baghdad, the military says. In a statement released on Wednesday, the US army confirmed that all three died at about 10pm (1900 GMT)following an ambush just outside the capital. Their deaths bring the US toll in Iraq since the beginning of the latest war on Iraq to 1079... More

  • Chinese Hostage Crisis Hits Impasse

    A Pakistani rebel leader refused to meet a council of tribal elders trying to secure the release of two Chinese hostages held by his group. Abdullah Masud said on Tuesday he would not negotiate unless his men holding the Chinese engineers were allowed to leave their besieged base with the captives. "I will not hold any negotiations with the Jirga.. More

  • Nine Die in Net Suicide Pact

    Japanese police said yesterday they were investigating a suspected group suicide involving nine people who met through the Internet, the latest in a rash of suicides linked to the Web. Seven of the dead - four men and three women, including several teenagers and a 33-year-old mother were found dead yesterday in a car parked on a mountain road in Minano.. More

  • Israeli Gunfire Kills Palestinian Schoolgirl

    United Nations officials say an 11-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl was shot in the stomach and critically wounded by Israeli gunfire as she sat inside a UN school in a Gaza refugee camp. A spokesman for the UN refugee agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City said the pupil had been wounded inside a school run by the international organization. "She was inside.. More

  • Many Killed in US Strikes on Falluja

    The US military has killed at least six Iraqis in two separate missile strikes on the city of Falluja. The first attack just after midnight on Tuesday destroyed one the biggest restaurants in central Falluja, leaving two night guards dead. Nearby shops were also destroyed. The second strike flattened a house in the al-Askari neighbourhood, killing.. More

  • IAEA: Iraqi Nuclear Equipment Missing

    Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons are disappearing from Iraq but neither Baghdad nor Washington appear to have noticed, the UN nuclear watchdog has said. Satellite imagery show entire buildings in Iraq have been dismantled. They once housed high-precision equipment that could produce nuclear bombs, the International.. More

  • Lebanese Army Fires at Israel Warplanes

    Israeli warplanes flew over much of Lebanon yesterday, drawing anti-aircraft fire from the Lebanese army, Lebanon's military said. Israel regularly makes overflights of Lebanon but usually on a smaller scale than yesterday. The UN has often criticised Israel's violation of Lebanese airspace. "Ten Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace this morning.. More

  • US Military Convoy Hit in Mosul

    A car bomb aimed at a US military convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has caused several casualties, witnesses say. A pickup truck sped up beside the US convoy and exploded in Mosul's southern Yarmuk district at 0800 GMT (11am) on Monday, said Iraqi police First Lieutenant Jar Allah Muhammad Said. The blast rattled the city and blew a deep.. More