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  • Palestinians Stranded on Rafah Border

    The Rafah border crossing, Gaza's only route to the outside world, has been shut down again by Israeli occupation forces, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded in the crossing. The nine-day long closure, imposed by Israeli forces prior to their bloody siege of Rafah in which more than 45 Palestinians were killed, has affected Palestinians travelling.. More

  • Two Koreas Discuss Military Tension Reduction at High Level Forum

    North Korea and South Korea discussed tension reduction on the world's last Cold War frontier at unprecedented talks between their military generals, officials said. The meeting on Wednesday, the first of its kind since the Korean War over five decades ago, was under way at Mount Kumgang, a tourist enclave on North Korean eastern coast, they said... More

  • Several Dead in Pakistan Mine Blast

    At least 12 miners are feared dead after a gas explosion at a coalmine in southwestern Pakistan. The explosion occurred on Tuesday evening after a buildup of gas in the mine owned by a private company in Sinjidi, about 45km east of the main southwestern city of Quetta, the provincial Chief Inspector of Mines Maqbul Hussain said. He said three badly.. More

  • Blast Rocks Baghdad Hotel

    A suspected car bomb has exploded outside a Baghdad hotel used by foreigners and close to the Australian embassy, wounding at least three people. Aljazeera's correspondent reported that a stationary car exploded outside the Qarma hotel in the Jadiriya area of central Baghdad. The blast was also close to an Australian military checkpoint near the embassy... More

  • Dominican Storms 'Leave 130 Dead'

    More than 130 people have died after torrential rains swept across the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. At least 80 people were killed in the Dominican Republic when two rivers broke their banks in the small town of Jimani on the border with Haiti. Fifty-eight people were reported killed in flooding in Haiti, AFP news agency reported. Meteorologists.. More

  • Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison to Be Demolished

    Iraq's most infamous prison is to be demolished and Washington's top military commander replaced. According to Pentagon officials on Tuesday, Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison will be closed for good by the US-selected interim administration in July, by which time US Lt General Ricardo Sanchez is expected to no longer be in Iraq. Both the prison and Sanchez.. More

  • Terminal Evacuated as Workers Hear Cracking

    Terminal 2E of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport was completely evacuated today after workers there, clearing up after the roof collapsed this weekend, reported hearing fresh cracking sounds coming from the structure. Four people died when concrete, metal and glass crashed down onto a waiting area on Sunday morning when a large section of the tube-like.. More

  • Iraqi Oil Pipeline Badly Damaged

    An pipeline that carries crude oil from the northern Kirkuk oilfields to Turkey has been bombed and greatly damaged. A security official of Iraq's Northern Oil Company, Juma Ahmad, confirmed on Monday that an explosive device badly damaged the pipe at around 1500 GMT. He said the attack was carried out on a section between the Kirkuk oilfields to.. More

  • Israeli Troops Move out from Rafah as Three Palestinians Die in Nablus Blast

    Israeli forces have evacuated forces from Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip early on Monday, media reports said. An Israeli military source confirmed that troops had lifted the six-day siege. According to the source, the troops withdrew from the Tel al-Sultan area as part of a "new deployment" and to "ease conditions for.. More

  • Deadly Ebola Strain Surfaces in Sudan

    Scientists have been alerted to a new strain of the deadly Ebola virus discovered in southern Sudan. World Health Organisation officials have traced an Ebola-like disease to the town of Yambio, in the Western Equatorial region of the African country. Fifteen cases of the potentially fatal virus have been confirmed over the past fortnight and four.. More

  • US Troops Kill 20 Iraqis in Najaf Mosque

    US forces and Iraqi soldiers launched a major offensive against a Shi'ite militia yesterday, killing 20 people in a raid on a mosque and pounding other positions around Najaf. The fiercest fighting in the area for weeks killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens, including civilians, overnight and seemed a definitive response to a tentative truce.. More

  • Man Drowns Three Daughters in Canal

    An Egyptian farmer pushed his three young daughters into an irrigation canal in southern Egypt yesterday, then puffed on a cigarette as he watched them drown, a deputy prosecutor said. Anwar Abdel Sattar, 35, fled afterwards, according to Khaled El Taher, deputy prosecutor of Barkheel village, near Sohag town, 390km south of Cairo. The girls' uncle,.. More

  • Many Feared Drowned as Bangladesh Ferry Capsizes

    A river ferry carrying up to 300 people capsized during a storm in Bangladesh early Sunday with most of the passengers feared trapped inside, police said. The double-decker M.V. Lighting Sun was sailing to Dhaka on the Meghna river from the southern Madaripur area when it was swamped by a sudden storm near Chandpur, 106 miles east of the capital... More

  • Kashmir Blast Kills 28 Indian Soldiers

    At least 28 Indian soldiers have been killed and several others injured after their bus blew up in a landmine explosion in Kashmir. The powerful explosion on the road connecting Srinagar and Jammu in India's Jammu-Kashmir state occurred when a Border Security Force convoy was passing by, said Neeraj Sharma, a spokesman for the paramilitary force... More

  • Six Killed in Paris Airport Roof Collapse

    Six people were killed when a roof collapsed at a new terminal at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle international airport near Paris Sunday, triggering a search for trapped survivors and questions about safety. Slabs of concrete and metal crashed onto a seated waiting area in the less than one-year-old showcase terminal 2E just before 7 a.m., bringing down.. More