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  • Pakistani Gunmen Kill Six in Ambush

    Gunmen attacked a government vehicle near a small town in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, killing at least six people, including five soldiers, and wounding two, police said. The gunmen ambushed the vehicle near Khuzdar, around 200km southeast of the Baluchi provincial capital, Quetta, they said. "Five soldiers and a civilian were killed.. More

  • At Least 283 Die in Paraguay Supermarket Fire

    A fire swept through a supermarket packed with shoppers on the Paraguayan capital's outskirts on Sunday and killed at least 283 people, police said. More than 100 people were injured in an inferno that officials said was caused by a gas explosion near the food court of the huge Ycua Bolanos supermarket, causing part of the roof to collapse. Flames.. More

  • Israel to Block Jordanian Arms Deal

    Israel is trying to sabotage a major American-Jordanian arms deal, according to an Israeli diplomatic source quoted in the Israeli press. The source, quoted in Haaretz newspaper, has said Israel is trying to block the sale of AMRAAM air-to-air missiles to Jordan for fear it would impair Israel's "qualitative edge" in the region. "It is not healthy.. More

  • Many Iraqis Killed in Latest Falluja Attack

    Ten Iraqis have been killed and 38 injured, in continuing clashes between US occupation forces and resistance fighters in Falluja following a US attempt to enter the city on Saturday. Most of the injured are civilians, who were trying to flee the site of the clashes, particularly those bombed by US occupation forces earlier, Dr Rafya al-Isawi, director.. More

  • Sudan Says Meeting UN Demands Will Be 'Difficult'

    Sudan said it will try to disarm Darfur militias as required by a U.N. resolution threatening sanctions, but the justice minister cautioned on Saturday meeting the deadline will be extremely difficult. With international pressure mounting and France announcing it would redeploy soldiers in Chad to help bring aid and security to desperate refugees,.. More

  • Israeli Troops Attack Gaza Homes, Farmlands

    Israeli troops have opened fire at Palestinian houses and destroyed farmlands in Jabalya in the Gaza region, but there have been no immediate reports of casualties. About 10 Israeli military tanks and bulldozers entered and attacked the eastern part of Jabalya city late on Saturday, Aljazeera correspondent Hiba Akila reported. The military vehicles.. More

  • Blasts Kill Seven in Mosul and Baghdad

    A car bomb has exploded in Iraq's city of Mosul killing at least five people and wounding 51 while a roadside bomb in Baghdad has taken two lives. The car bomb exploded at 8.05am on Sunday, in front of the police station at Somar in south-east Mosul, said Captain Nidam Muhammad. Of the five dead, three were policemen and two civilians, reported.. More

  • Sudan Accepts U.N. Resolution on Darfur

    Sudan said Saturday it would comply with a U.N. resolution threatening it with sanctions if it failed to restore security in the crisis-hit Darfur region. "Sudan is not happy with the (U.N.) Security Council resolution, but we will comply with it to the best of our ability," Osman Al Said, Sudan's ambassador to the African Union, told a news conference.. More

  • Three Foreigners Freed in Nablus, PA Building Torched

    Palestinian activists freed three foreign church volunteers early Saturday, several hours after they had been abducted in the West Bank city of Nablus late Friday, Palestinian security sources said. Unidentified armed men took the three - an American, a Briton and an Irishman - who have been working on an academic project at a Nablus university, as.. More

  • Belgium in Shock after Gas Blast

    Belgium was in shock after its worst industrial accident which left at least 16 people dead after a high-pressure gas pipeline exploded at an industrial estate near here. Three victims remained missing and 119 were injured, many with horrific burns, in the blast near this town of southern Belgium. The force of the initial explosion was so great that.. More

  • UN Threatens Sudan with Tough Action

    The UN Security Council voted on Friday for a US-drafted resolution that threatens to impose sanctions on Sudan in 30 days if it does not disarm and prosecute marauding militia in Darfur. The 13-0 vote, with abstentions from China and Pakistan, came after the United States deleted the word "sanctions" and substituted a reference to a section of the.. More

  • US Air Strike Kills 13 Iraqis in Falluja

    Around 13 Iraqis have been killed and 14 others injured in clashes between resistance fighters and US forces in the town of Falluja amid reports of air strikes destroying civilian homes. Dr Salim Ibrahim at Falluja General Hospital estimated on Friday that 13 Iraqis were killed in the town west of Baghdad. Ibrahim told the Associated Press that he.. More

  • Guantanamo Hearings to Start in August

    Preliminary hearings in the first criminal cases against prisoners held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are expected to begin in August month, a senior defense official has said. The hearings would be the initial legal step in the first US military tribunal - formally called a military commission - since World War Two and would set.. More

  • Belgian Gas Blast Kills 14

    At least 14 people have been killed and about 100 others injured in a gas explosion in southern Belgium, the health ministry has said. An interior ministry spokeswoman, Berangere Dubois, said "a high-pressure gas distribution pipeline blew up" early on Friday morning at the Ghislenghien business park, near the town of Ath, which lies close to a major.. More

  • Polish Soldier, Two US Marines Killed as Iraq National Conference Postponed

    In Iraq, a Polish soldier was killed and three others injured by a remote-controlled mine which exploded overnight, Polish radio Zet reported on Thursday. Defense Ministry spokeswoman Agnieszka Kucharska confirmed the casualties but said she had no further details on the incident, including exactly when it happened. "One is dead and three are wounded,".. More