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  • Italy Sends Back Island Migrants

    Italy has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after facilities on its southern outpost were swamped by hundreds of new arrivals. Three planeloads of illegal immigrants were sent back to Libya from the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. More than 600 migrants reached Lampedusa during Saturday night alone. Italian Interior.. More

  • 14 killed in blast at Thai factory

    Fourteen people were killed and five injured yesterday in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Thailand's ancient capital Ayuthaya, officials and witnesses said. The blast destroyed the factory that officials revealed had not had a licence to produce fireworks for 10 years and police blamed "carelessness" for the blast. All the dead and injured.. More

  • More Palestinians Killed in Israeli Onslaught on Gaza

    An Israeli aircraft has fired two missiles at a group of Palestinian resistance fighters in the northern Gaza Strip, raising to six the number of Palestinians killed on Sunday. The Israeli missiles hit just seconds after the fighters fired off rockets, Palestinian sources said. The first missile hit two men on an empty wagon cart and killed them instantly... More

  • ETA Leader Tracked Down after Years on the Run

    The arrest of Mikel Antza and his companion Soledad Iparraguirre brings to an end an exhaustive manhunt lasting several years. The pair headed the 'wanted' list of authorities on both sides of border. Antza, the son of a prominent ETA member, has not been formally accused of involvement in any specific crime of violence. But he is alleged to have.. More

  • Iran Rejects Nuclear Handover Call

    Iran says it is not willing to be held to ransom for the nuclear technology it has already developed in order to maintain its growing electricity needs. The Iranian Government said today it had already acquired the technology to produce its own nuclear fuel and said it would be "irrational" to agree to surrender such a capability in exchange for supplies.. More

  • Darfur Rebels Reject Talks Conditions

    Ethnic minority groups in Darfur have rejected an attempt by the Sudanese government to divide them, a Khartoum daily reported. Ahead of a new round of peace talks in Nigeria later this month, the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) said it would not take part unless fellow rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) were also allowed to take.. More

  • Many Killed in US Air Strike on Falluja

    A US warplane has attacked the Iraqi city of Falluja, killing up to twenty people and wounding at least 13. Loud blasts were heard throughout the city as residents said a neighbourhood on the northern side of the city came under attack late on Friday. Two houses were reported to have been flattened in the al-Shurta district. Dr Ahmad Tahir at Falluja's.. More

  • More than 50 Palestinians Killed as State of Emergency Declared in Gaza

    The Palestinian cabinet has declared a state of emergency in the Palestinian territories after a massive raid by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip. Fifty-three Palestinians have been killed, most of them in Gaza, since Israel launched its latest offensive, Operation Days of Reckoning, this week. About 200 tanks and armoured vehicles have.. More

  • Dozens Killed in US Assault on Samarra

    At least 80 people have been killed and over 100 wounded as US and Iraqi forces pounded Samarra, seizing the city hall and police stations, medics and the military said. The early Friday morning attack amounted to the first major effort by US and Iraqi forces to reclaim parts of Iraq ahead of nationwide parliamentary elections scheduled for January... More

  • More Palestinians Killed as Occupation Troops Continue Major Offensive

    At least six Palestinians were killed Friday during the continuing Israeli attack on northern Gaza Strip as occupation troops took control of a nine-kilometer stretch in the area. Massive Israeli forces advanced into northern Gaza Strip and some 90 tanks and armored vehicles were reported entering the Strip late Thursday night hours after the Israeli.. More

  • 190 Arrested in Australia Child Porn Raids

    Australian police have arrested more than 190 people and expect to charge hundreds more in a massive nationwide crackdown on Internet child pornography linked to organised crime in eastern Europe, officials announced yesterday. Those charged after raids this week on more than 400 premises include policemen, doctors, armed forces members, government.. More

  • US Help on Allawi Speech Decried

    A leading Democratic senator has expressed profound dismay at the reported US administration role in the writing and delivery of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to the US congress last week. In a letter to President George Bush on Thursday, California Senator Dianne Feinstein said: "I want to express my profound dismay about reports.. More

  • Violence Flares in Gaza

    At least seven Palestinians have been killed by an Israeli tank shell in the Jabalya refugee camp, raising the death toll in violence across Palestine to 24. The tank shell incident took place on Thursday near Jabalya's main market, scene of gun battles between occupation soldiers and resistance fighters. Palestinian witnesses said the dead were likely.. More

  • Car Bombs Rock Baghdad

    A series of bombs targeting US forces were detonated in a western Baghdad neighbourhood, leaving scores of dead and wounded. Interior Ministry spokesman Colonel Adnan Abd al-Rahman said two car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded on Thursday in swift succession as a US convoy was passing through Baghdad's al-Amal neighbourhood. Hospital officials.. More

  • 11 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raid

    At least eleven Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed in a day of violence in the Gaza strip. The latest attack by Palestinian resistance fighters killed two Israelis along a strip of road connecting the northern Gaza Jewish settlements of Elei Sinai and Dugit, Israeli radio said on Thursday. One of those killed was a woman jogging along.. More