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  • Bouteflika Re-Elected Algerian President

    Algerian President Abd Al-Aziz Bouteflika has been re-elected, scoring a resounding victory over five challengers in Thursday's presidential polls. Bouteflika secured a stunning 83.5% of the votes, leaving his principal challenger Ali Benflis way far behind at a dismal 7.93%. Benflis immediately rejected the result, charging "rampant fraud." He.. More

  • Thousands Flee Sri Lanka Fighting

    Thousands of Sri Lankan civilians are fleeing homes in the east after fighting between Tamil Tiger factions, the Red Cross has said. Clashes erupted early on Friday between breakaway commander Colonel Karuna and the mainstream Tiger faction around the Verugal river. Col Karuna's forces have now retreated south from their frontline positions. The.. More

  • Two US Soldiers Killed in Fallujah as two Iraq Interim Ministers Quit

    Two US marines were shot dead by snipers in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. One of the marines was killed by a sniper as he climbed a ladder. The second died after he was hit in the neck as he passed a window, the officer said Thursday, according to AFP. A third marine was shot and injured in the leg, the source said, adding that the.. More

  • Ceasefire Deal Expected in Darfur

    Darfur rebels, Sudan government are likely soon to reach 45-day ceasefire agreement amid US, UN pressure. Members of the Sudanese government and rebels from the western Darfur region have agreed on how to handle humanitarian issues arising from the 14-month war in the area, and are likely soon to reach a ceasefire agreement, a diplomat said Thursday... More

  • Israelis Raid Palestinian Village, Impose Curfew

    Israeli occupation forces have imposed a curfew on the village of Asirah near the West Bank city of Nablus. The forces invaded the village at dawn on Thursday, raided and demolished a number of houses and damaged some cars while they were allegedly searching for wanted Palestinian fighters, witnesses told our correspondent. The forces also raided.. More

  • Nine Killed in Kashmir Explosion

    Kashmiri fighters hurled a grenade at an election rally in Indian Kashmir yesterday, killing at least nine people and wounding 50, including two state ministers, police said. The attack in Uri near the ceasefire line dividing the disputed Himalayan region between India and Pakistan was the first poll-related violence in the state ahead of Indian elections.. More

  • Dostum's Soldiers Capture Afghan Town

    Forces of a renegade adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai have overrun the capital of a northern province. Forces of ethnic Uzbek strongman General Abd al-Rashid Dostum invaded Faryab province on Wednesday, prompting the central government to dispatch national army troops there on Thursday in an attempt to restore order. "Both the governor.. More

  • More than 280 Iraqis Killed in Fallujah as Israelis, Japanese, Koreans Held Hostage

    Over 280 Iraqis have been killed and 400 injured this week in the U.S. raid on Fallujah city west of Baghdad, the director of Fallujah's hospital said Thursday. Taher Al-Issawi told The Associated Press that the toll was likely higher. "We also know of dead and wounded in various places buried under rubble, but we cannot reach them," because of.. More

  • Iraqis Head to Fallujah with Supplies

    Thousands of Sunni and Shiite Muslims backed by cars full of food and medical supplies headed on foot Thursday toward the town of Fallujah which has been besieged by US forces. The protesters answered a call by Muslim groups for a peaceful march to carry supplies to residents of the Sunni town where dozens of Iraqis have been killed since US marines.. More

  • At Least 20 Palestinians Hurt in Protests

    Israeli workers building a West Bank separation barrier cut down dozens of olive trees with chain saws yesterday, sparking clashes between stone-throwing villagers and Israeli troops who fired tear gas and rubber bullets. Twenty Palestinians were hurt by rubber bullets, local hospital officials said. Stones injured two Israeli border policemen, and.. More

  • German Court Frees Munir al-Mutasaddiq

    The only man jailed over the September 11 attacks has been freed in Germany pending a forthcoming retrial. The Moroccan Munir al-Mutasaddiq was sentenced by a German court to 15 years in 2003 for conspiring to murder about 3000 people in the 2001 plane attacks in the United States. The same court ruled on Wednesday he should be released. But.. More

  • Falluja Engulfed in Fighting

    Fierce street battles are raging in Falluja between resistance fighters defending the town and US occupation forces, who are launching missile attacks in and around residential areas. At least 52 Iraqis have died in attacks since Tuesday in the besieged town which American forces completely sealed off on Sunday, according to hospital sources reported.. More

  • Amtrak Train Derails in Mississippi, One Dead

    An Amtrak train carrying 80 passengers and crew derailed in Mississippi on Tuesday night, killing one person and critically injuring 15 others, authorities said. Train No. 58, the City of New Orleans, jumped the tracks 25 miles north of Jackson about 7:30 p.m. EDT in Yazoo City, Amtrak and Mississippi emergency management officials said. The train.. More

  • Nepal Paralyzed

    Nepal has come to a standstill for a second successive day as a general strike called by Maoist rebels is widely observed across the Himalayan kingdom. As on the first day of the three-day strike, almost all shops, schools, businesses and factories remained closed on Wednesday while streets were empty of all vehicles except ambulances, state cars.. More

  • Israelis Blow up Gaza Tunnel

    Israeli troops blew up a weapons smuggling tunnel on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip yesterday, the seventh such tunnel to be discovered along the volatile border since the beginning of the year, the army said. According to the army, about 80 smuggling tunnels have been found in the area since the outbreak of the latest Intifadha. Israeli.. More