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  • Occupation Tanks Poised to Enter Falluja

    US tanks have taken up positions around Falluja and appear to be preparing to enter the Iraqi city. At least 15 tanks were seen on Wednesday taking up temporary stations one kilometre past the US checkpoint that leads into the city. Iraqi officials in Falluja confirmed that American troops had asked local authorities to provide them with safe passage.. More

  • UN Council Okays Iraq Resolution Unanimously

    The UN Security Council has voted unanimously for a US-British resolution that formally ends the occupation of Iraq on June 30 and authorizes a US-led force to keep the peace. "It means full sovereignty for Iraq. It means a new age in hopefully very pleasant Iraqi history," said Iraq's new interim president, Ghazi al-Yawar, who is visiting Washington... More

  • Qatar Assassination Trial Nears Verdict

    Qatar's criminal court is to give its verdict in the case of two Russian intelligence agents on trial for the murder of a former Chechen leader by the end of the month. Defence lawyer Muhsin al-Suwaidi said Anatoly Bilashkov and Vassily Pokchov will be told of the court's decision on 30 June. Al-Suwaidi confirmed that the prosecutor general had called.. More

  • Gunmen Kill American in Saudi Capital Riyadh

    Gunmen killed an American working for a U.S. company in the Saudi capital Riyadh Tuesday, the fifth attack on Westerners and other foreigners in the world's top oil exporter in five weeks. The latest killing in the kingdom was likely to heighten fears among tens of thousands of expatriates, many of whom work in the oil industry. The American worked.. More

  • Several Dead in Mosul, Baquba Blasts

    Up to nine people have been killed and scores wounded after two car blasts rocked Mosul in northern Iraq, while five others died in a blast outside a US base in Baquba, north of Baghdad. Twenty-five others were wounded in the first explosion outside the city hall building and near a school in Mosul, 360km northwest of Baghdad. Hospital sources.. More

  • Sea Search over Gabon Air Crash

    A sea search is under way for some 20 missing passengers after a light aircraft came down in Gabon. Eight passengers swam to shore and were airlifted to hospital after the privately-owned plane crashed off a beach near the capital Libreville. The plane was flying from Libreville to Franceville in the southeast of the former French colony when it.. More

  • US 'Approved' al-Qaida Detainees' Torture

    The US Justice Department offered justification for the use of torture against al-Qaida detainees in an August 2002 memo to the White House, The Washington Post has reported. The memo said if a government employee were to torture a suspect in captivity, "he would be doing so in order to prevent further attacks on the United States by the al-Qaida.. More

  • French Embassy in Ivory Coast under Siege by President Backers

    More than 100 hardline supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo hurled stones and shouted anti-French slogans outside the French embassy in the Ivory Coast main city Abidjan. Anti-French violence was reported around the city, the latest escalation in tensions that have pummelled the one-time west African powerhouse in the 20 months since a failed coup.. More

  • Israeli Warplanes Bomb Palestinian Camp South of Beirut

    Israeli warplanes bombed targets near the Lebanese capital city of Beirut around Monday night in what Israel described as response to earlier rocket fire into Israeli territorial waters. Lebanese security sources said the Israeli jets hit Palestinian military targets south of Beirut. There were no reports of casualties or damage. Lebanese security.. More

  • Palestinians Shot Dead

    The body of a Palestinian teenager who was killed by Israeli occupation troops has been recovered in the southern occupied Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. Muhammad Nabhan, 17, was recovered from a cemetery on Monday, a day after he was killed by Israeli gunfire, Palestinian medical sources and witnesses said. Troops had opened fire on a group of Palestinian.. More

  • UN Peacekeepers Killed in Congo

    Unknown assailants have ambushed a UN convoy in eastern Congo, killing two South African peacekeepers and wounding nine others. The recent violence targeting UN personnel prompted the UN peacekeeping force (MONUC) to begin evacuating dozens of its staff from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring Republic of Congo. The UN staff - civilian.. More

  • Barghuthi Given Five Life Sentences

    Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuthi has been handed five life terms by an Israeli court. The Tel Aviv court sentenced the Fatah leader on charges of involvement in incidents leading to five Israeli deaths. Two other 20-year terms for being a member of a banned organisation was also handed down by the same court on Sunday. The Palestinian Authority.. More

  • Allawi Urges Troops to Stay

    Multinational forces should remain in Iraq until the country is able to handle its own security, the interim Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi has said. "We would like the multinational forces to remain in Iraq for some time until Iraq is capable of handling its own security problems," he told BBC's Breakfast with Frost programme on Sunday. He gave.. More

  • Thousands Rally in Paris Against Bush, Iraq War

    Thousands of people in the French capital demonstrated against the war in Iraq on Saturday as President Bush met France's Jacques Chirac ahead of ceremonies commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy. Wearing T-shirts depicting Bush as a war criminal and carrying banners reading "Bush -- Terrorist number one!" and "U.S. troops out of Iraq," a colorful.. More

  • UN Resolution on Iraq Handover 'Inadequate'

    The US-picked Iraqi foreign minister has criticised the latest draft resolution on Iraq for failing to address the relationship between the new interim government and the multinational force. Hushyar Zibari said the interim Iraqi government must have some authority over the multinational force in Iraq and that the views of the new US-appointed government.. More