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  • Iran Has New Missile

    The Iranian army has taken delivery of a new "strategic missile", Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani was reported to have said yesterday. The missile, unnamed for security reasons, was successfully tested last week, Shamkhani was quoted as saying by state television. It was unclear if the weapon in question was the Shahab-3 medium-range missile, acquired.. More

  • Civilians Killed in US 'Precision Strike'

    US warplanes, tanks and artillery units have bombed the Iraqi town of Falluja, killing at least eight people and wounding 15. The pounding of the city began overnight and continued into the early hours of Saturday, hospital officials told Aljazeera. Dr Dhiya al-Jumaili of Falluja General Hospital said at least eight people were killed and 15 wounded,.. More

  • Three Million Told to Flee Hurricane in Florida

    Hurricane 'Jeanne' got stronger, bigger and faster Saturday, forcing anxious Floridians to hurriedly shutter their homes and buy last-minute supplies as the storm bore down on the state's Atlantic coast with winds near 115 mph. Three million people were told to evacuate. If it hits Florida late Saturday or Sunday as predicted, it would be the fourth.. More

  • Palestinian Killed in Israeli Strike

    A 60-year-old Palestinian man has been killed and five people wounded in an Israeli air strike on Khan Yunis. Aljazeera reported witnesses as saying a missile was launched on Saturday by an Israeli helicopter which landed near a mosque in the Khan Yunis camp. Ali Abdullah, a Palestinian civilian, died from the attack. The occupation military said.. More

  • Pinochet Denies Involvement in Killings

    During questioning by a judge, the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has denied involvement in killings allegedly committed by his regime. Judge Juan Guzman interviewed him about the deaths of 19 leftists whom human rights groups say were among 3,000 people killed during Pinochet's reign between 1973 and 1990. In a surprise move last month,.. More

  • IAEA to Probe Dimona Effect in Jordan

    The UN nuclear watchdog has said it will send experts to Jordan to verify whether the Dimona nuclear plant in Israel is emitting high levels of radiation. "We have received a request from the Jordanian Government to assist them in monitoring the radiological situation," Mark Gwozdecky, spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said.. More

  • US Aircraft, Artillery Fire Pound Falluja

    US artillery and aircraft fire have pounded sectors of the Iraqi town of Falluja, sending up clouds of smoke. The smoke on Friday shrouded the southeastern industrial zone, which houses mainly metal and mechanical workshops, as residents charged that US forces had lobbed artillery into the area, although warplanes were also sighted. Within minutes,.. More

  • Yusuf Islam to Take Legal Action against US

    Singer-songwriter and peace activist Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is to begin legal action against US authorities to find out why he was deported from the United States as a terrorist risk, he said. We have now initiated a legal process to try to find out exactly what is going on, and to take all necessary steps to undo the very serious,.. More

  • Egyptians Abducted in Iraq

    Two Egyptians working for a telecom company in Baghdad were seized from their offices overnight by a group of armed men, Iraq's interim Interior Ministry has said. The men were abducted at about 10pm (1800 GMT) on Thursday in the upmarket Harthiya neighbourhood, said ministry official Colonel Adnan Abd al-Rahman. The two engineers were driven away.. More

  • Sudan Condemns UN Sanction Threats

    Sudan has condemned UN threats of sanctions against Khartoum, saying they are incentives to anti-government rebels in Darfur. Addressing world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Usman Ismail said threats of sanctions would only undermine efforts to restore security in the troubled western region. Arguing.. More

  • Rumsfeld: Iraqi Polls May be Limited

    US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has conceded that Iraq may not be able to hold countrywide elections in January because of escalating violence. In sharp contrast to US President George Bush and interim Iraqi leader Iyad Allawi's optimism over planned polls, Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that the troubled country.. More

  • France Insists No Troops to Iraq

    France has reiterated its criticism of the US-led war in Iraq and will not send troops to the country, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier has said. "As everyone knows, France did not approve of the conditions in which the conflict was unleashed. Neither today nor tomorrow will it commit itself militarily in Iraq," Barnier told the UN General Assembly.. More

  • Several Hurt in Israeli air Strike as Palestinian Resistance Kills Occupation Soldiers

    A missile fired from an Israeli helicopter has wounded 12 people in a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza. Just before midnight on Thursday, Israeli tanks entered the Khan Yunus refugee camp in southern Gaza, witnesses said. Helicopters fired two missiles, and the second wounded 12 people, hospital officials said. Bulldozers tore down three houses.. More

  • Death Toll From Haiti Floods Tops 1,070

    Trucks dumped scores of bodies into a mass grave in this flood-ravaged city still littered with corpses, as officials said the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and could double again. There was no funeral ceremony when the bodies were dumped into a 14-foot-deep hole at sunset Wednesday. Dozens of bystanders shrieked, held.. More

  • Dozens Killed in Baghdad Car Bomb

    More than 25 people have died after a car bomb exploded in a busy commercial area outside a restaurant in west Baghdad. Husayn al-Shammari, an Iraqi journalist, told Aljazeera: "A car bomb detonated on Wednesday morning in Rabia street in Baghdad, less than 1km from the site where US forces exploded a booby-trapped car on Tuesday. "The explosion.. More