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  • US Soldier Killed in Blast as Two Iraqi Female Translators Shot Dead

    A US soldier was killed and two others were wounded when a homemade bomb exploded in Baqouba, the U.S. military said Thursday. The attack Wednesday injured the three troops, two of whom were taken to a military hospital in Balad, where one died. The second soldier was in stable condition. Elsewhere, attackers killed two Iraqi women working as translators.. More

  • Israeli Mossad Chief's Phone Stolen

    A cell phone belonging to the chief of the Israeli Mossad spy agency was stolen last month, and the theft might compromise sensitive security information, police said Wednesday. Mossad chief Meir Dagan's phone has not been found, and no suspects have been arrested, said Israeli police spokesman Gil Kleiman. Israeli military censorship lifted a publication.. More

  • Dozens Killed in Spanish Railway Bombing

    Three explosions have killed at least 60 rail passengers in Madrid, just three days before Spanish elections. Emergency services told state television on Thursday that at least 62 died in bombings that targeted three stations in the capital's southern suburbs. Spanish media are estimating that around 50 people have been injured in the blasts. Police.. More

  • Seven Palestinians Killed as Qurei Denies Reports on Imminent Summit with Sharon

    Five Fatah fighters were killed by undercover Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian sources said Wednesday. They were killed in an operation by an Israeli undercover army unit that intercepted the vehicle they were traveling in. They were identified as Ayman Sabahna, Amer Sakhel, Mohammad Khairallah, Iyhab Abu Jaafar and Bassem.. More

  • Zimbabwe: West Behind Mercenaries

    Zimbabwe has said US, British and Spanish spy agencies helped dozens of suspected mercenaries in a plot against Equatorial Guinea's government. "They were aided by the British secret service, that is MI6, .... American Central Intelligence Agency and the Spanish secret service," Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi told a news conference.. More

  • Britain Frees All Guantanamo Detainees Sent Home

    British police have freed all five Britons flown home from Guantanamo Bay prison camp and the former terror suspects began denouncing their U.S. captors on Thursday amid questions about why they were held for two years. The United States turned over the five detainees to British custody on Tuesday, and by late Wednesday British police and prosecutors.. More

  • US Marines Battle Gunmen outside Haitian PM's Residence

    US Marines fought several firefights in the Haitian capital, and believe two Haiti fighters may have been killed outside the prime minister's residence, a spokesman said. The first incident occurred late Tuesday just after Gerard Latortue was named Haiti's new prime minister as part of efforts to resolve the Caribbean country's political crisis. The.. More

  • Quraya, Sharon to Meet next Week

    A summit between Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya and his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon has been scheduled for next week. A source close to Sharon on Wednesday said the date of the summit had yet to be finalised. But according to Palestinian and Israeli sources, the meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 16 March. It would be the first such.. More

  • Two Americans, Translator Killed in Iraq

    Two Americans working for the U.S.-led coalition were shot dead along with their Iraqi translator after their car was stopped at a makeshift checkpoint by men dressed as Iraqi policemen, a Polish military spokesman said Wednesday. The shooting happened outside Hillah in south-central Iraq on Tuesday night, Col. Robert Strzelecki said by telephone.. More

  • Four Guantanamo Britons Held on Return, One Freed

    Four Britons released from the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp and re-arrested on their return home were to be questioned by anti-terror police on Wednesday, while a fifth walked free for the first time in over two years. The five, held since late 2001 or early 2002 along with more than 600 others suspected of fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan.. More

  • French Teachers Strike over Pupil's Headscarf

    Teachers shut a state school in eastern France on Tuesday in protest against a Muslim schoolgirl who insisted on wearing a headscarf to class. Teachers in the school in Thann, near the borders with Germany and Switzerland, complained the 11-year-old girl of Turkish origin had been allowed to attend school wearing only a small bandanna on her head.. More

  • Two Killed in Bomb Attack on Istanbul Masonic Lodge

    At least two people were killed and six wounded when two assailants carried out a bomb attack on a Masonic lodge in Turkey's commercial capital Istanbul, the city's governor said. The two attackers shot their way into a restaurant on the ground floor of the lodge in the Kartal district on the city's Asian side of town after wounding a security guard,.. More

  • Palestinian Woman Killed in Jenin as Bush Wants Blair to Outlaw Hamas

    Israeli occupation troops killed Tuesday a Palestinian woman in the West Bank city of Jenin, witnesses and medics said. Witnesses told WAFA news agency that Israeli tanks and military jeeps stormed into the eastern part of the city of Jenin, amid intensive fire, and shot the woman dead. According to sources at Suleiman Hospital, the 22-year-old woman,.. More

  • Roadside Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier in Iraq

    At least one U.S. soldier was killed and another injured by a roadside bomb north of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, a military spokeswoman said. The soldiers were driving in a four vehicle convoy southeast of the town of Baquba, 40 miles north of Baghdad, when the bomb exploded at around 9:30 a.m, report said. Also, seven people were wounded Tuesday.. More

  • Indonesian Court Reduces Bashir Sentence

    Indonesia's Supreme Court has cut the jail term of the Muslim preacher accused by authorities of heading the outlawed Jemaah Islamiya group. The head of the crimes division unit at the Supreme court told reporters on Tuesday Abu Bakr Bashir's sentence had been slashed from three years to 18 months. Judge Moegihardjo also confirmed time spent in.. More