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  • Rumsfeld Says more Troops may Arrive in Iraq

    Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that American soldiers have captured a number of people in Fallujah as they start an operation in this Iraqi city where four American military contractors were killed last week. "The forces have cordoned off the city. They have photographs of a good many people who were involved in the attacks against.. More

  • Ingushetia President Escapes Assassination Attempt

    The pro-Kremlin president of a Russian region bordering Chechnya has survived an apparent assassination attempt. Ingushetia's President, Murat Zyazikov, was slightly injured when a car packed with explosives rammed into his motorcade on Monday morning. A presidential spokesman said it appeared to have been a suicide attack. Correspondents say.. More

  • Rwanda Remembers - Ten Years on

    Apart from its sheer brutality, the Rwandan genocide is notorious for the number of ordinary people who aided or became killers themselves. It is the main reason why every weekend since 1998, local tribunals are held in villages across the country. The aim is to uncover the truth about who did what but also to help in the healing process. Punishment.. More

  • Qatar to Trail Yandarbiyev Assassins

    Qatar is preparing to try two Russian secret agents for the February assassination of a former Chechen president in Doha despite repeated demands by Moscow that they be freed. "The file of the two Russian secret agents has been referred to court but the trial has not started yet," said a Qatari official on condition of anonymity on Tuesday. "It.. More

  • PLO Asks Hamas to Join Ruling Gaza Body

    The umbrella Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has asked the Hamas resistance fighters to join a decision-making body to run the Gaza Strip if Israel pulls out, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday. The resistance movement is a powerful force in the territory that Israel has held since the 1967 Middle East war, but which Prime Minister Ariel.. More

  • Lithuania Sacks President over Corruption Scandal

    Lithuania's parliament threw out President Rolandas Paksas after 15 months in office, narrowly voting to impeach him on corruption charges just weeks before the former Soviet republic joins the EU. "From this day April 6, 2004 Rolandas Paksas, by decision of the parliament, is dismissed from the post of president of the republic," said supreme court.. More

  • Bremer Declares Sadr 'Outlaw' as Occupation Helicopters Kill Number of Iraqis in Baghdad and Fallujah

    The top U.S. administrator in Iraq declared a Shiite cleric an "outlaw" Monday after his supporters rioted in Baghdad and four other cities in fighting that killed at least 52 Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and a Salvadoran soldier. Later, occupation officials and announced a warrant for Muqtada Sadr arrest. "Effectively he is attempting to establish.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Three Unarmed Palestinians in Gaza

    Israeli forces have killed three Palestinians outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, medical officials said on Monday. The three men, all aged 19, were apparently hit by Israeli tank fire in the Palestinian village of Guhr al-Dik near the settlement of Netzarim late on Sunday, the officials said. An Israeli military source confirmed that.. More

  • Iran Collision Kills at Least 30

    At least 30 people have been killed in north-eastern Iran when a crowded passenger bus and a truck collided. At least 27 people were also injured, some critically, in the accident near the city of Gonabad, in the province of Khorasan. Police sources were quoted as saying the truck driver appeared to have lost control in the early morning mist... More

  • Huge Ballot Papers Bemuse Indonesian Voters

    Indonesians have voted in parliamentary elections in a crowded contest that may see the former political party of ousted strongman Suharto win the most votes, but not a majority. Tens of thousands of police were deployed during voting on Monday at nearly 600,000 polling booths in the world's most populous Muslim country. Voters struggled with.. More

  • Demonstrations in Iraq Turn Bloody

    At least 20 Iraqis and four occupation soldiers were killed Sunday during a huge demonstration by followers of an anti-American Shiite cleric. Eyewitnesses said bullets were shot during a protest in Najaf by thousands of Muqtada Sadr supporters, who had gathered outside the headquarters of Spanish troops in the city of Najaf. Twenty Iraqis, including.. More

  • Malaysia Rejects US Sea Patrols

    Malaysia has rejected a proposal that the United States help patrol one of the world's busiest waterways. America's top military commander in the region said Washington intended to use US forces to counter possible terrorism in the Straits of Malacca. However, it appears that he failed to consult Malaysia, which along with Indonesia borders the.. More

  • Bush Corruption Claims

    John Dean, Richard Nixon's legal counsel who was jailed for his part in the Watergate scandal, has accused the Bush administration of trumping even the Nixon regime in secrecy, deception and political cynicism. In the latest book to attack the conduct of the current United States administration, Mr Dean says that it has created potentially the most.. More

  • Jenin Remembered as Jewish Settler Killed

    Up to 15,000 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin have commemorated those killed in a bloody Israeli operation two years ago, as a Jewish settler was shot dead in a resistance attack. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces have conducted more raids, imposed fresh curfews and arrested dozens of people. And a once prominent Palestinian.. More

  • Two Iraqis Die in Baghdad Protest

    At least two followers of Shi'ite leader Moqtada Sadr were killed yesterday after throwing themselves in front of US tanks during a demonstration in central Baghdad, a police officer said. "There were two or three dead among the protesters who threw themselves under American tanks which could not avoid them on Tahrir Square," said Sergeant Abbas Mohamad. Th.. More