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  • Israel Kills Four Palestinians

    Israeli occupation forces have killed at least four Palestinians, including a teenager, in separate incidents in the West Bank. According to Aljazeera's correspondent, Israeli Special Forces from what is called the Arabist Unit, disguised as Palestinians in civilian clothing penetrated the area of Jabal abu Dhahira in Jenin and opened fire on a vehicle.. More

  • Aid Workers Visit Korea Blast Site

    Foreign aid workers who arrived yesterday at the scene of a deadly train explosion in North Korea described massive devastation: huge craters, twisted railway ties, flattened houses and rubble "everywhere," though there was no sign of the dead or injured who had apparently been removed by North Korean officials. In an unusually frank statement, secretive.. More

  • Four US Soldiers Dead in Attack as Car Explosion Kills Three in Tikrit

    At least four American soldiers were killed and seven wounded before dawn Saturday when two rockets hit a U.S. base north of Baghdad, U.S. military officials said. Two 57-mm rockets slammed into the base in Taji at 5:30 a.m., said Air Force Lt. Col. Sam Hudspath, The AP reported. Earlier on Saturday, a car bomb went off near the main U.S. base in.. More

  • Greek and Turkish Cypriots Vote on UN Peace Plan

    Greek and Turkish Cypriots went to the polls in separate referenda on a UN plan to reunify their island divided for 30 years before it joins the European Union on May 1. A total of 623,801 voters -- 480,165 Greek Cypriots and 143,636 Turkish Cypriots -- are registered to vote Saturday on the plan drawn up by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to try to.. More

  • US to Lose more Occupation Support

    Faced with an eroding occupation force, the United States has said it hopes several nations will keep troops in Iraq past their July deadline for withdrawal. But Norway rejected the appeal on Saturday, indicating its 180 troops would leave after an American-backed interim Iraqi government takes power on 30 June. Foreign Minister Jan Petersen.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Four Unarmed Palestinians

    Israeli forces killed three unarmed Palestinians, including a senior Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades leader, and wounded one in Qalqilyah after spotting them in the center of the West Bank city before dawn Friday. The victims were identified as Muhammad Abd al Hafizh Nazal, 30, Muahmmad Kamel Nazal, 23, and Abd a Rahman Wasef Nazal, 22. Israeli sources.. More

  • Middle East Situation Alarming

    The world's Muslim nations yesterday urged the US to drop its support for the latest Israeli peace plan and called for a new UN mandate on Iraq, describing the situation in the Middle East as "alarming". An emergency meeting of the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's biggest grouping of Muslim states, said in Putrajaya.. More

  • India: BJP Alliance Dropping Seats

    The coalition of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is struggling to retain its majority in parliament, a new survey has said, halfway through a three-week election. The poll on Friday said Vajpayee's regional partners in India's south and east had lost ground and his own Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had failed to improve.. More

  • Al-Sadr Militiamen Seized in Iraqi Capital

    US occupation forces have captured supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, while three hostages have been released and a South African guard shot dead in Iraq. US troops claimed to have seized the six Iraqis on Thursday, saying they were members of the Mahdi militia of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr in Sadr city, northeastern Baghdad. Earlier on.. More

  • Israel Brings Death to Tulkarim

    Three Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarim. Named as Bilal Amsha, Ghanim Ghanim and Aiman Bagharna by Palestinian security sources, the shootings occurred when 20 Israeli armoured vehicles continued raiding various towns and villages. The three men, all in their late twenties, are.. More

  • North Korea Train Blast 'Kills Many'

    Up to 3,000 people have been killed or injured in a huge explosion after two fuel trains collided in North Korea, reports say. The blast happened at Ryongchon station, 50km north of Pyongyang, South Korea's YTN television said. The incident reportedly happened nine hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passed through the station on his way.. More

  • Sanctions Imposed on Belgian Far-Right Party

    Belgium's far right Vlams Blok party may lose substantial state funding after a court convicted three of its associations of breaching anti-racism laws. The ruling agreed with complaints from human rights organisations that the groups were helping a party "engaged in and promoting discrimination and segregation". Each of the associations has been.. More

  • Basra Blasts Kill at Least 68 People as Poland Considers Troops Withdrawal

    At least 68 people were killed and over 200 others, including four British soldiers, were injured in attacks on three police stations in Basra and a police academy in nearby Zubair, local officials said. "There are 55 bodies in the morgue" of Sadr University Hospital in central Basra, an intern told AFP. Another hospital reported four dead and three.. More

  • Israel Kills Seven Palestinians in Gaza

    At least seven Palestinian men have been shot dead in an Israeli raid on the town of Bait Lahiya in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical services confirmed the fatalities after the attack on Wednesday. Two of those killed were resistance fighters. They were named as Rafat Abu Hasira, a member of the Islamic Jihad, and Suhail al-Hirsh, from al-Aqsa.. More

  • 10 Killed in New Riyadh Car Blast

    Explosions severely damaged the headquarters of Saudi security Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens, a police official confirmed. Initial reports indicated the blasts came from at least one car bomb, which exploded at a protective barrier outside the HQ. Witnesses said the explosions, which occurred about 2 p.m. local time, shattered.. More