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  • Fighting Surges around Najaf Shrine

    US and Iraqi forces are reportedly closing in on fighters loyal to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr besieged in the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. Clashes between US-led forces and al-Mahdi Army militiamen raged just a few metres from the mosque complex for the first time, witnesses told Aljazeera on Wednesday. "US warplanes fired missiles that fell near the.. More

  • Bangladesh Braces for more Unrest

    The main opposition party has buried a popular woman leader killed in a grenade attack as Bangladesh braces for more protests amid fears of further violence. Ivy Rahman, chief of the women's wing of the Awami League, died on Tuesday, three days after a grenade blew her legs off. Up to 30,000 party supporters attended her funeral on Wednesday amid.. More

  • Many Dead in Russian Plane Crashes

    Two Russian passenger planes carrying more than 80 people have crashed almost simultaneously after both planes took off from the same Moscow airport. Interfax news agency quoted a government source on Wednesday as saying one plane carrying more than 40 passengers and crew sent a hijack alarm before crashing near the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don... More

  • South Africa Arrests Thatcher Son over Coup Plot

    South African investigators arrested former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's son Mark over his alleged involvement in a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, the SAPA news agency reported. Makhosini Nkosi, spokesman for the Scorpions elite investigating unit, told the news agency that Thatcher had been arrested in Cape Town. "The Scorpions have.. More

  • Top Palestinian Commander Shot Dead in Gaza Strip

    Unidentified armed men have ambushed one of the top commanders of the Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip, wounding him and killing a bodyguard, Aljazeera correspondent reports. Brigadier-General Tariq Abu Rajab, deputy head of the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, was shot in the chest on Wednesday as he drove to his office in Gaza.. More

  • Seven Hurt by Bomb Explosion in Southern Turkey

    Seven people were slightly hurt when a bomb exploded overnight outside a bank in Dortyol, southern Turkey, near the border with Syria, the Anatolia news agency reported. The police chief of Hatay province Cafer Sahin said the explosion was probably terrorist-linked in a likely reference to Kurdish rebels. Those hurt included passersby and two people.. More

  • Twin Car Blasts Target Iraqi Ministers

    Separate blasts targeting Iraq's interim environment and education ministers have rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, leaving at least five people dead. Environment Minister Mishkat al-Mumin survived an attack on her convoy while travelling through the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Qadisia on Tuesday morning. Four of her bodyguards were killed.. More

  • Israel Begins Building New Settlement Homes

    Israel has begun work on a controversial new programme of home building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. About 200 homes will be built on a hillside on the edge of the Har Gilo settlement close to Jerusalem. It is thought Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan could eventually see the construction of more than 2,000 houses on existing enclaves... More

  • Nepal Renews Call for Talks

    Nepal's government yesterday renewed its appeal to Maoist rebels for talks in a bid to get them to call off a six-day blockade of the capital, hit by new jitters as suspected guerillas shot dead a pedestrian. The Maoists, who control much of the Himalayan kingdom, have declared the capital of 1.5 million people off limits to traffic as part of their.. More

  • Vanunu: Dimona May Be a Chernobyl

    In an Aljazeera exclusive, former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu has warned that Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor could cause a catastrophe equivalent to Chernobyl. "This reactor remained operative for 30 years and must be closed down," said Vanunu on Monday. "It is dangerous and could cause a catastrophe like the one at Chernobyl if it continued.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian

    A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli occupation troops in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The 21-year-old man, identified as Hazim Abu Zahri, was hit in the chest after Israeli troops moved into the area on Monday. The latest death takes to 4246 the number of people killed in the Palestinian uprising against Israel since September 2000,.. More

  • Iran Plans more Nuclear Plants

    Iran said yesterday it was planning to build more nuclear power plants with Russian help, ignoring US concerns that byproducts from the plants could be used to manufacture atomic bombs. "We have contracts with Russia to build more nuclear reactors. No number has been specified but definitely our contract with Russia is to build more than one nuclear.. More

  • US Fire Damages Wall of Najaf Shrine

    US occupation forces have hit a part of the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf causing damage to its outer wall, as fierce fighting continues. Director of the al-Sadr office in Nasiriya Aws al-Khafaji told Aljazeera the damage occurred during clashes between the occupation forces and the al-Mahdi Army on Sunday night. Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr said US.. More

  • Rights Group Slams Guantanamo Trials

    The military commissions for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, which begin next week, lack key fair trial protections, a leading rights body has said. Although legal experts from Human Rights Watch (HRW) will observe the proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the group is concerned that "the military serves as prosecutor, judge, jury, appeals court and potentially.. More

  • More US Soldiers Face Abu Ghraib Tribunal

    Four US soldiers accused of mistreating prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq are to face a hearing before a military judge in Germany, to decide if they should be court-martialled. The four, Corporal Charles Graner, Specialist Megan Ambuhl, Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick and Specialist Javal Davis, are accused of among other charges,.. More