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  • Death Toll in Irbil Twin Bombing Attacks may Rise to over 100

    Two unidentified bombers blew themselves up at the offices of two rival Kurdish parties in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil Sunday. Kurdish officials said casualties were still being counted, but one minister said the death toll could rise above 100. Earlier, reports said an unidentified person with explosives strapped to his body came to the meeting.. More

  • John Kerry Leading in Two States

    Democratic frontrunner John Kerry kept his big leads in Missouri and Arizona and closed the gap on Wesley Clark in Oklahoma three days before a crucial round of seven Democratic presidential contests, according to a Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby poll released yesterday. Kerry sought yesterday to lock up the presidential nomination in next Tuesday's clutch of.. More

  • Iranian MPs Quit over Election Row

    Almost half of the Iranian parliament has quit over a hardline watchdog's decision to bar hundreds of reformist candidates from elections due to take place in the country in less than three weeks time. The resignation of 117 out of 290 MPs makes it almost impossible for the legislature to function, and marks a significant escalation in Iran's worst.. More

  • Flood Arafat in Hajj Climax

    Some 1.7 million pilgrims flowed in a sea of humanity across the plain of Arafat on Saturday for the climax of the annual Hajj, praying for forgiveness on the Mount of Mercy. They arrived from Mina, some seven kilometres away - many by foot, others in buses and small vehicles and pick-ups - to the pilgrimage's most important site, in fine sunshine... More

  • Nine Iraqis in Mosul, Three US Soldiers Killed in Iraq as Iraqi Governing Council Limits Al Jazeera Coverage

    A car bomb went off Saturday outside a police station in Iraq's third largest city, killing at least nine people and injuring 45, witnesses and hospital sources said. Staff at the Republican Hospital in Mosul said nine people including civilians and policemen were killed and 45 others were injured. According The AP, Saturday was a pay day and the.. More

  • Bush Refuses to Call Inquiry into WMD

    President George Bush has declined to endorse calls for an independent inquiry into intelligence failures regarding Saddam Hussein's alleged cache of WMDs. Bush said on Friday that he wants "to know the facts" about any intelligence failures about the deposed Iraqi President's supposed weapons programme. But the issue of an independent commission.. More

  • Hamas Kidnap Threat

    Hamas yesterday threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers in order to try to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said in Gaza City there was "no solution for the issue of (Palestinian) prisoners except by capturing soldiers of the enemy and exchanging them for ours". Yassin's comment followed.. More

  • Somali Leader 'Ready to Step Down'

    Somalia's interim leader has said he is ready to move aside, following a peace deal signed by rival warlords. President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan told the BBC that the Somali people were fed up after 13 years of war and lack of development. The rival faction leaders have agreed on how to choose a parliament, which would in turn elect a president... More

  • Second BBC Exec Resigns Over Iraq Story

    Director General Greg Dyke has quit as the BBC's crisis deepens in the wake of Lord Hutton's damning verdict. The BBC's new Acting Chairman Lord Ryder also apologised "unreservedly" for errors during the Dr Kelly affair. Mr Dyke's departure came 20 hours after BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies resigned following the Hutton Report and after the governors.. More

  • Seven US Soldiers Killed in Blast in Afghanistan

    Seven US soldiers working near a weapons cache were killed in an explosion west of the Afghan city of Ghazni, the Central Command announced. One US soldier was missing following the blast, Central Command said in a statement, adding that three US soldiers and an interpreter were injured. "The soldiers were working around a weapons cache when the.. More

  • Bombing on Jerusalem Bus Causes Many Casualties

    A bomber blew himself up on a bus near Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's official residence in West Jerusalem on Thursday morning, killing at least 10 people and wounding 45, 10 seriously, Israeli police and medical sources said. The blast occurred a day after Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian resistance fighters, across Gaza City, killing 13 Palestinians.. More

  • Arab, Israeli Prisoners Leave for Germany

    Arab prisoners and a kidnapped Israeli flew on separate planes to freedom in Germany Thursday, in a long-awaited prisoner swap between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah. A plane carrying 36 Arab prisoners took off from Jerusalem shortly before 4 a.m., while another plane left Beirut, Lebanon, carrying businessman Elhanan Tannenbaum and the bodies.. More

  • US Weapons Expert: "We Were All Wrong"

    The former US chief weapons hunter, David Kay, called for a review of the US intelligence failure over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction but insisted political pressure was not to blame. "We were all wrong," Kay told the US Senate Armed Service Committee as he was subjected to intense questioning about his explosive disclosure that a six month.. More

  • Israeli Soldiers Kill 13 Palestinians in Gaza Strip

    At least 13 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were shot dead and others wounded by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said Wednesday. They added many other Palestinians were injured. During an Israeli raid into Alzaytoun area, south of Gaza City, Palestinian fighters exchanged fire with occupation troops. At least.. More

  • Blair Cleared in Death of Weapons Expert

    Britain's Tony Blair cleared the second hurdle of his toughest week in power Wednesday when a senior judge said the prime minister's office bore no blame for the suicide of a top Iraq weapons expert. Summarizing the conclusions of his lengthy inquiry, Lord Hutton told a hushed courtroom he was satisfied "there was no underhand strategy" by Blair's.. More