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  • US Helicopters Kill 40 Iraqis on Wedding Party

    US occupation forces have reportedly killed at least 40 Iraqi civilians in an air raid that targeted the village of Makr al-Dib on the Syrian border. Quoting witnesses and broadcasting images of dozens of shrouded bodies lined up on a dirt road on Wednesday, al-Arabiya television said warplanes had blasted dozens of people who were celebrating a wedding... More

  • More Palestinians Die in Rafah as UN Security Council 'Condemns' Israel

    At least five Palestinians were killed on Thursday in two separate incidents as Israeli troops moved into a new neighborhood in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on the third day of a massive military offensive, witnesses and Israeli sources said. Palestinian doctors said two Palestinians were killed by Israeli tank shells before daybreak.. More

  • More Ghraib Abuse Pictures Surface as Former Inmates Talk about Torture

    More images of US occupation forces in abusive acts at the Abu Ghraib prison have surfaced in an on-going investigation. In a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday that a new disc contained 11 pictures that had not yet made it to the international press. But the assistant defense secretary for legislative.. More

  • Berlusconi under Pressure to Bring Soldiers Home

    As Italy mourns the first of its soldiers to die in combat since November in Iraq, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is coming under increasing pressure to withdraw Italian troops from the country. Corporal Matteo Vanzan died on Monday after clashes at the weekend in the southern city of Nassiriya. Five others were wounded in the gun battle with Shi'ite.. More

  • Bomb Found in Athens

    An unexploded bomb was found yesterday outside a British car dealership in southern Athens, in the latest attack coinciding with the lead-up to the Olympic Games in August, a police spokeswoman said. The bomb was in a box under a car at a dealership for the famed Land Rover, now owned by Ford. Police detonated the device and the motive for the attack.. More

  • US Soldiers Decline to Plead in Abuse Arraignment as Four Iraqis Killed in Karbala

    Three US soldiers accused over the abuse scandal at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib jail declined to enter pleas Wednesday during a series of short pre-trial hearings in Baghdad. The sole judge, Colonel James Pohl, ordered Sergeant Javal Davis, 26, Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick, 37, and Specialist Charles Graner, 35, to return for a further hearing in.. More

  • Singh Named New Indian PM

    Manmohan Singh, the economist who became prime minister after Sonia Ghandi declined the seat, is best known as the ''father of Indian reforms.'' During his stint as the finance minister in the early 1990s, the suave, soft-spoken Sikh guided India out of financial trouble and put the country on course to becoming an economic power. With Sonia Gandhi.. More

  • Israeli Aggression Kills at Least 20 Palestinians

    Israeli forces have raided the Rafah refugee camp since early Tuesday, killing at least 20 Palestinians. Scores of Palestinians were wounded. Some of them could not reach the hospital as Israeli gunships and tanks target them, medics said. Shortly after 4 A.M. (local time) an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile at a crowd in the Rafah refugee.. More

  • India's Gandhi Walks Away from PM Job

    Sonia Gandhi has declined to serve as prime minister of India, leaving the question of who will take the post unanswered. "The post of prime minister has not been my aim," Gandhi told incoming MPs of her Congress party on Tuesday. "I would follow my inner voice. Today, it tells me that I must humbly decline this post," Gandhi said in parliament... More

  • Lebanon Cracks 'Israeli Spy Ring'

    Lebanon has cracked a spy ring recruited by Israel to help assassinate the head of the resistance group Hizb Allah, a Beirut newspaper has said. A Palestinian woman in her forties is in custody, accused of being recruited by Israeli agents in Tunisia to establish a spy ring comprising Arab workers in Lebanon, the daily Al-Safir said in a front-page.. More

  • 12 Palestinians Killed in Massive Israeli Attack on Rafah

    Israeli forces raided the Rafah refugee camp early on Tuesday in what appeared to be the start of a wide-scale operation. At least 12 Palestinians were killed. At least seven were reportedly killed in two separate air strikes. The others were shot dead by Israeli gunfire. At least 30 Palestinians were wounded.Some of the Palestinian victims were identified.. More

  • ISESCO to Hold Islamic Seminar in France

    The Rabat-based Islamic Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), will organize an Islamic seminar in the French city of Lale on May 19. Dr. Abdul Aziz Othman Al-Tuwaijry, director-general of ISESCO, and Martine Aubry, mayor of Lale city and chairperson of the European Cultural Capital for the year 2004, will jointly inaugurate the.. More

  • EU Split over Turkey's Entry

    A bad human rights record, rampant terrorism and part of the Muslim world - just some of the charges leveled by those opposed to Turkey's entry into the European Union. But it seems there are just as many people who want to extend Europe's traditional values of tolerance and pluralism to Ankara. US President, George W Bush, is one of Turkey's supporters.. More

  • Honduras Prison Blaze Kills 103

    A huge fire at a prison in northern Honduras killed 103 inmates on Monday, all of them members of a violent street gang the government has targeted in a controversial crackdown. Police said the early-morning fire at the prison in the northern city of San Pedro Sula followed an explosion caused by a short circuit. Some inmates speculate prisoners threw.. More

  • IGC Head Killed in Car Blast

    The current head of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, Izz al-Din Salim, has been killed in a car bomb attack near a US checkpoint in Baghdad. Salim was waiting in a convoy of at least four cars outside the occupation forces' headquarters, known as the Green Zone, when the bomb went off. He was among at least eight Iraqis killed in the blast... More