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  • Hurricane 'Ivan' Leaves up to 33 Dead in Caribbean

    Hurricane Ivan hurtled toward Jamaica after devastating the Caribbean island of Grenada, where up to 24 people died, and killing nine others in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Tobago. The deadly storm packed winds of up to 230 kilometers (145 miles) per hour as it headed for Jamaica where the authorities ordered the population to rush to take.. More

  • Indonesia Police: Bombing Fits Pattern

    Indonesian police are blaming an al-Qaida-linked group for the massive explosion outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta that has killed at least nine and left more than 182 people injured. Authorities said initial investigation revealed similarities between Thursday's attack and the August 2003 car bombing of the American-owned JW Marriott hotel.. More

  • Rebel Cleric Killed Says Yemen

    Yemeni forces say they have killed opposition cleric Husain al-Huthi and tens of his supporters. Officials said on Friday that his death marks the end of a series of clashes over several months that have left over 200 rebels and troops dead. "We can confirm that Huthi and tens of his supporters were killed today in morning fighting," the official.. More

  • Sudan Rejects Darfur 'Genocide' Label

    Sudan has rejected a declaration by the US that the alleged atrocities in the country's troubled Darfur region was genocide. "This is just another sort of pressure brought against the government of Sudan by the United States and Western governments, the kind of general political pressure that shows the US is not a friend of Sudan," said Ahmad Hassan.. More

  • Pakistan Jets Pound Tribal Area

    Pakistani jets have pounded areas near Wana in South Waziristan killing and injuring many. Aljazeera's correspondent in Islamabad quoted tribal sources on Thursday saying Pakistani forces bombed areas where they believed foreign and tribal residents were holding a meeting in South Waziristan. Sources said the number of dead are in the tens. Army.. More

  • US Bombing Kills more Falluja Civilians

    US air strikes have killed at least 12 Iraqi civilians in the town of Falluja in a third successive night of bombing. Speaking from the town's main hospital on Thursday, Dr Mushtaq Talib said three women and five children were killed and another 15 were injured. The victims, from just three families, were taking shelter in a couple of houses that.. More

  • Israeli Fire Kills a Palestinian in Gaza Incursion

    A Palestinian has been killed by Israeli fire in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The attack took place early on Thursday morning during an extensive incursion into Gaza. A column of Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles entered the refugee camp under the cover of darkness, residents and witnesses said. Helicopters fired at least two missiles.. More

  • Indonesia Blast Targets Australian Embassy

    A huge explosion just outside the Australian embassy in Indonesia's capital has killed at least three people and injured many more. The blast in the busy Kuningan district in South Jakarta on Thursday morning damaged the security fence around the embassy and destroyed cars parked inside the compound. Local journalists said they had seen at least three.. More

  • US Missiles Pound Falluja

    Up to six Iraqis have been killed and 24 others injured in US air strikes that have rocked the town of Falluja. In the first attack late on Tuesday, US jets fired several missiles on Falluja, killing four people and wounding 11 others. A hospital spokesman said that a child and an elderly man were among the dead. Early on Wednesday, US jets struck.. More

  • Eight Dead in Turkish Mine Tunnel Fire as Four Missing in Spanish Floods

    Eight bodies were pulled from an underground tunnel in a copper mine in northern Turkey where a massive fire broke out. Rescuers have so far brought eight bodies to the surface, the regional governor, Mustafa Kara, told the Anatolia news agency on Wednesday. Turkish media previously reported four dead in the blaze, which broke out at the mine near.. More

  • US Missiles Rock Falluja

    Up to six Iraqis have been killed and 24 others injured in US air strikes that have rocked the town of Falluja. In the first attack late on Tuesday, US jets fired several missiles into Falluja, killing four people and wounding 11 others. A Falluja hospital spokesman said that a child and an elderly man were among the dead. Fighting inside the city.. More

  • Revenge Attacks Backed by Qurie

    Retaliation by Hamas to Israel's killing of 14 of its fighters would be justified, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie said yesterday. "No crime goes unpunished," Qurie said at a meeting of the Palestinian cabinet. "For sure there will be retaliation, and the retaliation will be justified." Qurie's condemnation came as more than 30,000 Palestinians,.. More

  • Vanunu Seeks Palestinian Citizenship

    Israel's nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has said he wants to be a Palestinian citizen and was planning to present his request to Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. "I want to ask the Palestinian Authority and chairman Arafat: 'If you want, I would like to be a Palestinian citizen'," Vanunu told Israeli private television late on Tuesday. .. More

  • Families Flee US Bombardment of Falluja

    The Iraqi city of Falluja is coming under heavy artillery fire, sending families fleeing and causing civilian casualties, hospital sources have said. Witnesses reported an intense tank and artillery barrage in the southern Shuhada district and industrial zone. US warplanes also bombarded the eastern corridor of the city late on Tuesday evening, residents.. More

  • Four NGO Workers Kidnapped in Iraq

    Gunmen have abducted two Italians and two Iraqis working for a non-governmental (NGO) relief organisation in Baghdad. The armed attackers stormed a building where the Bridge to Baghdad NGO offices were located in central Baghdad on Tuesday and kidnapped two Italian women and two Iraqi support staff, witnesses said. A spokesman for the aid group.. More