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  • Attacks Hit Iraq Oil Export

    Attacks on an oil pipeline have shut down oil exports from Southern Iraq. "There were two sabotage cases," Oil Minister Thamir Ghadban said on Tuesday, confirming attacks on a pipeline feeding storage tanks in the southern city of Basra on the Gulf. Local shipping agents said deliveries to Basra were cut off. One said the targeted line had been "seriously.. More

  • Norway Drops Case Against Exiled Kurdish Mullah Krekar

    Prosecutors in Norway dropped their case against Mullah Krekar, the Iraqi Kurd founder of Ansar al-Islam accused of inciting murder and funding terrorism, largely due to lack of evidence. "The decision to shut the case means that the crown prosecutor found no basis on which to charge Krekar with any crime and he (Krekar) therefore has the right, from.. More

  • We Need more Foreign Troops, Says Karzai

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on NATO to increase its forces in the region before national elections in late 2004. But Karzai stopped short of specifically asking the US to increase its 20,000-strong presence. Speaking in Washington before a meeting with President George Bush on Tuesday, the interim president called on NATO's 6000-strong.. More

  • Explosion near Illegal Israeli Settlement

    A Palestinian was killed when the car he was driving blew up outside the illegal Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the occupied Gaza Strip. Israeli security sources said soldiers guarding the road leading to the Netzarim colony opened fire at a suspicious vehicle which immediately detonated. The size of the explosion, which was heard in nearby Gaza.. More

  • Neo-Nazi Graffiti Sprayed on Muslim Graves in Eastern France

    A Muslim cemetery and a village in eastern France were painted with Neo-Nazi slogans and swastikas over the weekend, prompting Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin to head to the region Monday to speak with officials and religious representatives. More than 50 Muslim graves in a Strasbourg cemetery were Sunday night covered with black swastikas.. More

  • US Judge Puts Jewish Leader on Trial

    A US judge has ruled that a leader of an armed Jewish group must stand trial for allegedly plotting to bomb a Los Angeles mosque. The Jewish Defence League's Earl Krugel is also accused of attempting to blow up the office of an Arab-American congressman. US District Judge Ronald Lew on Monday invalidated a plea bargain struck earlier between prosecutors.. More

  • Palestinians Killed in Israeli Missile Strike

    An Israeli missile has blown up a car in the West Bank city of Nablus, killing two Palestinian resistance fighters, Palestinian security sources have said. Palestinian officials on Monday showed fragments of what they said was a missile that hit a car outside Nablus's Balata refugee camp, killing the local leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Khalil.. More

  • Egypt Authorities Accused of Torture

    The Egyptian Attorney General has cancelled a follow-up visit by members of parliament and the National Security and Defence Committee (NSD) to the Turra prison following allegations of torture and in some cases, murder. The cancellation followed an earlier meeting with some detainees after reports of abuse and brutality including the death of Akram.. More

  • Israel & France to Sign Multi-Million Dollar 'Defense Deal'

    France and Israel are set to sign their biggest defense deal in decades which will see the state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) transfer its know-how for the manufacture of military drones, the Haaretz daily reported Monday. The deal, worth between 150 and 200 million dollars, is the largest clinched between the two countries since France declared.. More

  • Foreigners Killed in Powerful Baghdad Blast

    Twelve people including five foreigners have been killed and more than 50 wounded in a car bomb attack along a busy street in central Baghdad. Two Britons were among the dead in the rush-hour bombing on the east bank of the Tigris river on Monday morning, Iraq's new Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced. He said they were employed in the reconstruction.. More

  • US Diplomats Urge Voters to Remove Bush

    Former US diplomats and military leaders have written a letter strongly condemning President George Bush's foreign policy. The letter - an unusually strident public critique signed by 26 former military and foreign service officials - says Bush's policies have proved ineffective and left the United States isolated internationally, according to the.. More

  • American Killed in Riyadh, Second Missing

    Suspected al-Qaida fighters have shot dead an American in Saudi Arabia as the US embassy says it is searching for another citizen missing in the kingdom's capital. The US embassy identified the dead man as Kenneth Scroggs. Three armed men shot him in the back as he parked in his home garage in the Malaz district of Riyadh on Saturday, said witnesses... More

  • Serbs Try Once again to Elect New President

    Serbia is making another attempt to lift itself out of political quagmire. After a year and half without an elected head of state, the country is hoping this presidential election will succeed. Three previous polls were declared invalid because of a low turnout. Fifteen candidates are taking part in today's vote, though only four are seen as serious.. More

  • Dissident General Threatens War in DR Congo

    General Laurent Nkunda, a leader of dissident troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, threatened the government with war unless it sets up a commission to deal with alleged crimes against his ethnic group. "If no commission of enquiry is created, we'll go back to Bukavu and we'll be at war with the government," Nkunda told AFP in neighbouring.. More

  • Separate Attacks Kill Iraqi Official, Police

    A senior official at Iraq's ministry of education has been shot dead in Baghdad as another explosion leaves 16 people dead in the capital. Kamal Al-Jarrah, the ministry's director of public relations and cultural affairs officer, was gunned down in front of his home in the west of the capital as he left for work, said a ministry official on Sunday... More