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  • Israeli Troops Kill Five Palestinians

    An explosion ripped through a Palestinian car in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Thursday afternoon, killing two people, medics said. Palestinian sources said they saw an Israeli helicopter firing missiles at the car. They hit the car as it was nearing the entrance of the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, not far from the Egyptian border, the Palestinian.. More

  • Qatar Upholds Life Terms for Yandarbiyev's Killers

    A Qatari court has rejected an appeal by two Russian intelligence agents against life sentences handed down for the killing of a Chechen separatist leader in Doha earlier this year. Presiding Judge Abd Allah al-Saadi told the court on Thursday that the earlier verdict was upheld. The verdict sentenced Anatoly Bilashkov and Vassily Pokchov to jail.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian

    Israeli occupation troops have shot dead at least one Palestinian civilian during house raids in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces invaded the northern village of Illar in the early hours of Thursday, Palestinian security officials said. The victim was Zahir Ashkar, a leader of al-Quds Brigades in the city of Tulkarim, north of the village,.. More

  • NATO Meeting on Iraq Security Fails

    NATO envoys failed to agree on plans for training Iraq's security forces due to sharp differences, particularly between the US and France, over who will command the mission and who will pay. "It's not over, there will be another meeting tomorrow morning," an official said as ambassadors of the 26 NATO nations emerged empty-handed from their second.. More

  • Car Blast Kills at least 70 Iraqis in Baquba

    A car bomb went off on Wednesday outside a police station in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing at least 70 people and injuring scores more, U.S. military and Iraqi health officials said. "It's all civilian casualties at this stage," U.S. Army Capt. Marshall Jackson said. The blast, which killed 21 people inside a passing bus, took place.. More

  • Bali Case against Abu Bakar Dropped

    Indonesian police have dropped plans to charge Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir over the 2002 Bali bombings. But he will still be charged with heading Jemaah Islamiah, the Islamic group blamed for the attacks, according to Detective Chief Suyitno Landung. The announcement came after a ruling that an anti-terror law used to convict the Bali bombers.. More

  • Guantanamo Inmates Back in France

    Four French nationals held without charge in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, arrived back home after they were handed over to French authorities. The men were seized by US forces in Afghanistan on suspicion of fighting with the fallen Taliban government there. Relations have been frosty between Paris and Washington.. More

  • Sudan: US Using Darfur Crisis

    Washington is using the Darfur crisis as a pretext to topple the Sudanese government, Khartoum's envoy to the African Union (AU) has said. Uthman al-Said also told reporters on Tuesday that a western military intervention in Sudan's remote western region would risk splitting Africa's largest country and unsettling its neighbours. "The US government.. More

  • Arafat, Quraya to 'Bury Differences'

    Palestinian legislators say they expect President Yasir Arafat to soon bury differences with Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya. Following a three-hour meeting with Arafat late on Monday, the legislators said the president was likely to promise Quraya speedy measures to satisfy growing calls for anti-corruption reforms. "Arafat agreed to speed up the.. More

  • Murder Rap on Fugitive Yukos Sshareholder

    Russia said yesterday it had issued an arrest warrant charging a core shareholder of oil giant Yukos - now hiding in Israel - with murder, dealing a new blow to the country's top oil producer and its jailed chief Mikhail Khodorkovksy. Leonid Nevzlin, the second largest Yukos shareholder, is accused of ordering the murder of a married couple in 2002.. More

  • Blast Kills Three Iraqis as Five others, Including Interior Ministry Official, Shot Dead

    Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying Iraqi women working with British forces in southern Iraq on Monday, killing two women and injuring two others, police said. Lt. Col. Ali Kadhem, of Basra police, said attackers drove alongside the women's car as they were driving to work at Basra airport at about 8 a.m. local time and sprayed gun fire at them,.. More

  • Disabled Palestinian Shot Dead in Gaza

    A mentally disabled Palestinian woman was killed on Monday by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip as she was walking towards a Jewish settlement. Palestinian security sources and medics named the casualty as 50-year-old Ghalia Yunis. They said she had been shot several times when approaching the Israeli separation wall dividing the settlement.. More

  • Iraqi Group Threatens to Kill Pakistani Collaborators

    An armed group in Iraq says it has seized two Pakistanis and an Iraqi driver employed by a Kuwaiti company. A group calling itself The Islamic Army in Iraq said it had "investigated" the two Pakistanis - a technician working for Kuwait's al-Tamimi group and a truck driver and decided to execute them, in a video received by Aljazeera. The captors.. More

  • Three U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Afghan Blast

    Three U.S. soldiers were wounded in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the military said, in the latest sign of rising violence in the run-up to October's presidential election. Also on Monday, a police chief in the southern city of Kandahar city narrowly escaped a bomb blast officials blamed on followers of the Taliban regime bent on.. More

  • Death Toll from South Asian Floods Rises to 925, Millions Stranded

    The death toll from flooding across South Asia that has left more than 42 million people stranded or homeless rose to 925 as India battled to get relief to its flood-hit areas and two-thirds of Bangladesh was submerged. Although flood waters were starting to recede in hard-hit northeastern India, the situation was worsening in parts of Bangladesh where.. More