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  • Aljazeera Vows to Cover Iraq Despite Closure

    Aljazeera has vowed to continue its Iraq coverage despite the one-month closure of its Baghdad office announced by the Iraqi interim government on Saturday. In a statement Aljazeera expressed regret for the unjustified move, and said it was contrary to pledges made by the interim Iraqi government to start a new era of free speech and openness. Aljazeera.. More

  • Australia Accused of Lying about Iraq

    A group of more than 40 former Australian diplomats and defence chiefs has accused Prime Minister John Howard's government of deceiving the Australian people about the reasons for invading Iraq. The open letter on Sunday echoed similar statements issued earlier in the year by retired US and British officials, making Australia the latest of the pro-war.. More

  • Najaf Civilian Deaths Trouble Annan

    UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has expressed extreme concern over the renewed fighting in Iraq, particularly in the Iraqi city of Najaf. A spokesman for Annan on Friday said the secretary general was "particularly troubled by the high death toll including civilian casualties". "He believes that, in such a situation, force should be [a] last resort... More

  • Abandoned Siberian Boy Raised by Dog

    He has been dubbed "the dog boy" and "Mowgli" after the main character in The Jungle Book. Six-year-old Siberian boy Andrei Tolstyk is being reintegrated back into society after being raised by a dog for the past three years. Abandoned by his parents in a house in the middle of nowhere, he was recently discovered by social workers who wondered why he.. More

  • Two PA Ministers Quit amid New Israeli Raids

    Two Palestinian cabinet ministers have tendered their resignations, but for different reasons. Justice Minister Nahid al-Rayas told journalists on Saturday the "chaos and unrest" in the Occupied Territories had made his job untenable. "Unfortunately, the situation is deteriorating by the day." Al-Rayas said he handed his resignation to Palestinian.. More

  • Poll Officials Killed in Afghanistan

    Two election officials have been killed in an ambush of a joint UN and Afghan electoral registration convoy in south-central Afghanistan. The team had been registering voters in Charchino district of Uruzgan province, 370km south of the capital Kabul, and were en route to the next district Kijran on Friday when they came under fire. "Two electoral.. More

  • UK 'Always an Enemy' Says Robert Mugabe

    Zimbabwe will always regard former colonial ruler Britain as an enemy, President Robert Mugabe said yesterday in a speech that also took a swipe at a leading clergyman who has been an outspoken critic of his government. Mugabe has clashed with the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair mainly over his seizure of white-owned farms for redistribution.. More

  • Karachi Time Bomb Kills Two

    Two people have been killed and three more injured in a time bomb explosion in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi. Police said a 3-kg device was placed outside a car rental shop in the affluent southern quarter of the city on Saturday. The attack occurred at around 6.30am (0130 GMT). Witnesses said the explosion was so big it threw up paving.. More

  • US Planes Strike Najaf Amid Fierce Fighting

    US planes have pounded the central Najaf as intense clashes rage on between occupation troops and Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr's al-Mahdi army in the worst fighting since a truce was agreed in June. Nearly 30 people were killed and more than 130 wounded on Friday as the unrest fanned out across central and southern Iraq, with clashes with British troops.. More

  • Rafah Crossing Open Again

    Israel has reopened the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, giving stranded Palestinians a chance to get home after a long wait. An Egyptian official said on Friday people were being allowed to cross the frontier after a 19-day closure. A first busload of 50 Palestinians drove across the border at about 10 am (0700 GMT) and others will.. More

  • Bush Bitten by Own Soundbite

    U.S. President George W. Bush has told a roomful of top Pentagon brass his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States. The latest installment of misspeak from a president long known for his malapropisms came during a signing ceremony for a new 417 billion US dollar defence appropriations bill that includes 25 billion.. More

  • Denmark Confirms Iraq Prisoner Abuse

    Danish army investigators have confirmed that its troops ill-treated and humiliated Iraqi prisoners, denying them food, water and access to toilets. The abuses - confirmed on Thursday - occurred while Iraqi detainees were interrogated earlier this year in southern Iraq. "This case covers four interrogations of Iraqis arrested at Camp Eden in [the].. More

  • Japan Remembers the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima

    The mayor of Hiroshima has slammed the United States for continuing to develop nuclear arms. His criticism came on the 59th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing which killed tens of thousands of people in this Japanese city. "The egocentric world view of the US government is reaching extremes," mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said on Friday at.. More

  • Several Die in Attack on Iraq Police Station

    At least nine people have been killed and more than 20 wounded when fighters opened fire and a human bomber blew up a minibus outside a police station at Mahawil, south of Baghdad, police said. At around 8.30am on Thursday fighters drove up to the police station, 75km from Baghdad, and opened fire at officers outside the building, said a police colonel.. More

  • American Jews Arrive in Israel

    A new wave of Jewish immigrants from North America has arrived in Israel, as part of an Israeli campaign to encourage Jews from around the world to settle in Israel. Some 250 North American Jews landed at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The Israeli government has sought to restore immigration to pre-2000 levels, which sharply declined.. More