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  • 'Blair is Lying' Says British Captive in Iraq

    British captive Kenneth Bigley has appeared in a videotape broadcast on Aljazeera, pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet the demands of his captors to release female prisoners in Iraq. The tape, released on Wednesday, showed Bigley squatting down in an iron cage and dressed in an orange jumpsuit of the sort worn by Muslims detained at Guantanamo.. More

  • N Koreans Refugees Invade Canadian Embassy

    Forty-four North Korean men, women and children scaled the walls of the Canadian embassy in Beijing yesterday in a likely bid for political asylum, an embassy spokesman said. It was one of the largest groups ever to burst into a diplomatic compound in the Chinese capital in a desperate attempt to escape poverty and oppression in their Stalinist home.. More

  • New Zealand Deports Israeli Spies

    Two suspected Israeli spies have been deported from New Zealand after they finished jail terms for illegally trying to obtain a passport. Uriel Kelman and Eli Cara got six-month sentences in July, but denied working for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark severed all high-level diplomatic relations with Israel,.. More

  • Government Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

    Five Afghan soldiers have been killed in the southern province of Zabul when a military patrol came under fire in Nawbahar district some 340 km south of the capital Kabul. Afghan officials say the Taliban are responsible. "Taliban ambushed Afghan soldiers patrolling in Nawbahar...two of them have also been arrested in the incident," provincial deputy.. More

  • More Civilians Killed by US Hits in Falluja

    At least four people have been killed in the latest US onslaught on the Iraqi town of Falluja overnight. Ten others were injured on Tuesday as US warplanes again bombed Falluja, targeting the area of al-Askari and the industrial neighbourhoods near the main highway east of the city, Iraqi journalist Husain al-Shammari told Aljazeera. The US military.. More

  • Jewish Settler 'Gets Away' with Murder

    A Jewish settler who killed a Palestinian driver has been freed from police custody and placed under temporary house arrest, Israeli state-run radio has reported. His release, ordered by the Kfar Sava court on Tuesday, sheds light on the stunning leniency adopted by the Israeli justice system toward Jews involved in serious crimes against non-Jews. .. More

  • Lebanese Protest Suspect's Death

    After overnight riots, thousands of Lebanese have staged a protest over the death in custody of a suspected al-Qaida leader. On Tuesday protestors in Majdal Anjar, a town on the border with Syria, called for the resignation of Interior Minister Elias Murr and for an independent legal and medical probe into the death of Lebanese Ismail Muhammad al-Khatib... More

  • Disabled Palestinian Killed in Raid

    Israeli occupation forces have killed a mentally-ill Palestinian and detained up to 20 people in the West Bank on the fourth anniversary of the current intifada or uprising. Salah Ailalu, 47, was hit in the stomach on Tuesday by troops who saw him outside after they had declared a curfew in Jenin, sources said. The curfew was imposed on Monday as.. More

  • US Forces Attack Sadr City as Falluja Officials Say 'Only Civilians were Killed'

    US forces have bombed the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, killing up to five people and wounding 46, including women and children. Residents said loud explosions echoed throughout the night and US jets repeatedly swooped low over the sprawling slum, home to many supporters of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. Dr Qasim Saddam of the Imam Ali hospital in Sadr.. More

  • Several Killed in Dubai Airport Collapse

    A wall has collapsed at Dubai's airport construction site, killing at least five workers and injuring many more. Workers said they saw up to 40 casualties being taken away on Monday, but the toll could not be confirmed. "At least five people were killed on the spot and some died in hospital, but we don't know how many," said an official of Naboodah.. More

  • Carter Predicts Unfair Vote in Florida

    Former US president and veteran elections monitor Jimmy Carter has said he foresees a repetition of some of the problems that plagued the 2000 US presidential elections. Basic requirements for a fair vote are missing in Florida, he said in Monday's Washington Post. Reforms passed in the wake of the debacle have not been implemented due to lack of.. More

  • Israeli Forces Raid Jenin

    Israeli occupation forces, backed by helicopters, have raided the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. Clashes erupted between the forces and Palestinian fighters during the raid in the early hours of Monday, Aljazeera's correspondent said. An unknown number of Palestinians were detained and the troops surrounded and occupied several homes,.. More

  • Russian Forces Killed in Chechnya

    A Russian soldier and three policemen have been killed in a shooting in the capital, according to Russian media reports. The soldier and the three officers were on patrol in Grozny's Leninsky district on Saturday evening and had stopped two cars to check the passengers' documents, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, quoting Maj-Gen Ilya Shabalkin,.. More

  • France: No EU Slot for Turkey in 15 Years

    Turkey will not join the European Union for at least 15 years and could only do so once France had held a referendum on the issue, French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has said. "The membership of Turkey, in the best of cases, will not happen for 15 years," he told LCI television on Sunday. "A decision as important as the membership of Turkey.. More

  • Israel Says It Kills Hamas Leader in Syria

    Izzaddin Al Halil, a senior Hamas official, has been killed in a car blast in Syria, the Palestinian resistance movement confirmed Sunday. Israel claimed responsibility for today's car bombing in Damascus. The explosion took place in the Al Zahera neighborhood in Damascus, a Hamas spokesman confirmed. It should be noted that in recent weeks, Israel.. More