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  • Four US Marines Killed in Anbar Province

    Four more US marines were killed in action on Tuesday in western Iraq, the US military said on Wednesday, taking its death toll in the restive region to 14 in just over one week. "Four marines assigned to First Marine Expeditionary Force were killed in action July 6 in the Al Anbar province while conducting security and stability operations," the.. More

  • Five Dead in Sri Lanka Suicide Bomb Blast-Police

    At least five people were killed and 11 wounded when a woman blew herself up in a police station in the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday in the first such attack since a truce signed two years ago with Tamil Tiger rebels. Police said the woman detonated an explosive device while she was being frisked on her way into the station, which lies on Colombo's.. More

  • 9/11 Commission, Cheney Row Deepens

    The public spat between the White House and the US commission probing the 11 September attacks has escalated over the Bush administrations' claims. The 9/11 commission released a statement on Tuesday saying it was aware of no new information proving the existence of cooperative pre-war ties between Iraq and al-Qaida, despite the administration's claims.. More

  • African Union to Send Troops to Darfur

    The African Union (AU) is preparing to send hundreds of troops to Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region where more than a million people have been uprooted by conflict. "The protection force will be deployed as soon as possible ... Forces from Rwanda and Nigeria are on standby. They are ready go to," AU Director of Peace and Security Sam Ibok said at.. More

  • At least 15 Iraqis were killed in a US airstrike on Fallujah.

    The attack occurred at 7:15 pm when US warplanes dropped four 500-pound bombs and two 1,000-pound bombs "against a Mujahideen safe house," said a US military spokesman. It is the deadliest single incident since the US-led coalition handed official power to a caretaker government on June 28. Hospital sources said at least 15 people were killed and.. More

  • Milosevic Trial Adjourned

    The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was adjourned, after judges said the whole process had to be reviewed due to his failing health. "The trial chamber is clearly of the view that a radical review of the trial process is needed in light of the health of the accused," presiding judge Patrick Robinson said shortly before.. More

  • Indonesians Vote in Presidential Election

    Millions of people across the world's largest archipelago have voted in Indonesia's first direct presidential election as frontrunner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned of possible violence if the contest goes to a second round. "Three cheers for democracy," enthused a Jakarta Post editorial as voters on Monday, ranging from illiterate tribesmen in Papua.. More

  • Afghan Mayor Badly Wounded in Blast

    The mayor of a southern Afghan province has been seriously wounded along with a bodyguard when suspected Taliban guerrillas blew up his car, a spokesman said. The attack on Haji Manaf Khan, the mayor of Helmand province, occurred in the provincial capital Lashkargar on Sunday, said provincial spokesman Haji Muhammad Wali. "His car was blown.. More

  • Palestinians Killed in West Bank and Gaza

    A young Palestinian stonethrower has been killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip, the latest death in a weekend of anti-occupation related violence. The victim died when soldiers opened fire in the direction of stonethrowers, witnesses said on Sunday. The young man, aged about 18, was hit by a bullet in the neck and died.. More

  • India Tests Nuclear Capable Missile

    India has tested another of its missiles with the capability of carrying a nuclear warhead. An Indian defence official says the military tested a short range variant of its nuclear capable surface to surface Agni missile from a testing site off the country's east coast on Sunday. The missile, with a strike range of 700 kilometres (around 435 miles),.. More

  • Eight Killed in Kashmir Strife

    A mountain gunbattle, a time bomb hidden in a fruit seller's hand cart and a grenade lobbed in a busy market killed eight people and wounded 44 in the Indian part of Kashmir yesterday, in what police suspect was retaliation by Kashmiri fighters for a recent crackdown. In the first attack, a timed explosive set off a massive blast yesterday morning.. More

  • Iraqi Fighters May Be Offered Amnesty

    Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's new government is considering offering an amnesty to Iraqis who fought the US-led occupation, possibly pardoning those who killed Americans. "If he was in opposition against the Americans, that will be justified because it was an occupation force," Georges Sada, Allawi's spokesman, said on Saturday of rebels.. More

  • IAEA Wants Israel to Back Nuke-Free Region

    The UN's atomic energy agency chief is heading for Israel to pitch for a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East Muhammad al-Baradai is determined to push ahead with his agenda despite allegations that Israel has atomic weapons. Israel, which is believed to have up to 200 nuclear weapons, has a policy of "ambiguity" under which it neither confirms.. More

  • New Claim of Prisoner Abuse Emerges in Afghanistan

    The US military said it was investigating a new allegation of prisoner abuse, the third to be examined in Afghanistan following revelations of detainee abuse in Iraq. US military spokesman Major Jon Siepmann said investigators were being called in to probe the claim, which follows earlier allegations of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan. "This week the.. More

  • U.S. General Says Met Israeli Interrogator in Iraq

    The U.S. general who was in charge of Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison said on Saturday she had met an Israeli interrogator in Iraq, a claim Israel denied but which was likely to irritate many in the Arab world. Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, who was responsible for military police guarding all Iraqi jails at the time prisoners were abused.. More