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  • Czech Troops to Leave Iraq Early Next Year

    Czech military police are likely to be pulled out of the US-led occupation force in Iraq early next year. The announcement by the Czech defence minister, Miroslav Kostelka turns up the pressure on the US and Britain to staunch the withdrawal of nations from the multinational force. Spanish troops left Iraq in May in line with election campaign promises.. More

  • Top Afghan Police Official Killed in Blast

    A senior police official has been killed in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad as a bomb attached to his office chair detonated. Haji Ajab Shah was killed on Tuesday at the police headquarters of the city, the capital of Nangarhar province. "His body is in the morgue," said a doctor at the local hospital where Shah was taken. The size of the explosive.. More

  • Campaign to Elect Indonesia President Begins

    Indonesia has kicked off campaigning for the country's first direct presidential election. Opinion polls on Tuesday show incumbent leader Megawati Sukarnoputri lagging behind her former chief security minister, general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Susilo is the clear frontrunner to take over the world's most populous Muslim nation on a platform of firm.. More

  • Arafat Extends his Hand to Sharon

    Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat has said his government helped prevent revenge attacks on Israel for the killings of two resistance leaders. In an interview with Israel's Channel 10 on Sunday, Arafat was asked why Palestinian groups had not carried out the attacks they threatened after Tel Aviv ordered the assassinations of Hamas leaders.. More

  • Roadside Bomb Kills US Soldier

    A US soldier was killed and two others wounded when a homemade bomb hit their vehicle in the south of Baghdad. In a statement on Monday, occupation forces said all three soldiers were from the 1st Armoured Division. The incident took place around 14:40 GMT on Sunday. Some 811 US soldiers have died since the start of the US-led invasion of Iraq.. More

  • Many Palestinians Killed in Israeli Air Strike

    Three Palestinians, including two resistance fighters, have been killed in two Israeli missile strikes in the Gaza City. Palestinian medical sources told Aljazeera correspondent Samir Abu Shamaleh, that the air strikes early on Sunday hit a motorcycle traveling through the city's Zeitoun district, "wounding at least nine civilians". Hamas sources.. More

  • Saudi Hostage Crisis Ends, Hostages Released

    Saudi forces have ended their offensive on assailants as most of the 50 European, American and Arab hostages have been released. A Saudi security official said an attacker believed to be the leader in the hostage crisis in the eastern oil city of Khubar was also arrested on Sunday. Another two hostage takers were "in the process of being arrested,".. More

  • Norway Fails to Secure Sri Lanka Peace Deal

    Peace broker Norway has ended its latest shuttle diplomacy without a peace deal breakthrough, dimming hopes of an end to ethnic bloodshed. The two sides appeared on the brink of a deal to re-start peace talks two week ago, but Western diplomats here said that fresh problems over an agenda for talks was holding up a deal, despite hectic moves by the.. More

  • US Soldiers Killed in Iraq

    Three US soldiers have been killed west of Baghdad as occupation forces continued to come under attack across restive Iraq. The US military on Saturday said the three marines died in action in Anbar province, which extends from just west of Baghdad to the Syrian and Jordan borders. Also during the day, Centcom confirmed the deaths of two more soldiers,.. More

  • Pakistan Test-Fires Nuclear Missile

    Pakistan successfully test-fired yesterday a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, as part of efforts to boost defences in its rivalry with India. The test of the Ghauri (Hatf V) missile, capable of carrying all types of warheads and travelling up to 1,500 km, came a week after a new government took office in India. A Pakistani military.. More

  • Speculation Rife over Iraq Government

    A senior US official in Baghdad's occupation authority has denied speculation that Husain Shahristani was going to be Iraq's next prime minister. Despite claiming on Wednesday that there had been no final decision as to who Washington was going to appoint, the former nuclear scientist was ruled out. "Anybody suggesting that Shahristani is the prime.. More

  • Dominican, Haiti Floods Death Toll Nears 2,000

    The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in Haiti and the Dominican Republic rose to at least 1,950 on Wednesday with the discovery of more than 1,000 bodies in a Haitian town. The toll rose dramatically when the bodies were found in Mapou, a rural southeastern Haitian town where communications are poor, said Margareth Martin, the head.. More

  • Car Bomb Blasts Rock Karachi

    A police guard was killed and at least 32 other people injured yesterday when two car bombs exploded near US buildings in Karachi, Pakistan police and medical sources said. The guard died in the city's Jinnah hospital. The injured included 10 journalists, Press photographers and TV cameramen. Others hurt were police officers and civilians, police said. The.. More

  • US Soldier, Six Iraqis Killed in Tikrit as Two Russians Shot Dead in Attack near Baghdad

    A road accident south of Tikrit killed a U.S. soldier and injured two, the military said Wednesday. The accident took place Tuesday night some 10 kilometers south of Tikrit. The injured were being treated at a nearby medical facility and in stable condition, according to the military. No further details were released. Also in Tikrit, US forces killed.. More

  • Saudis Tortured at Guantanamo Bay

    Five Saudis who were detained at Guantanamo Bay claim they were tortured at that American military installation, a Saudi lawyer said. The Saudi allegations follow allegations by Britons released from Guantanamo that they were abused there. The International Red Cross Committee, the only international entity allowed access to the Guantanamo prisoners,.. More