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  • Sudanese President Limits Peace Talks

    Sudan's president has said his government will not negotiate a territorial dispute with southern rebels at peace talks in Kenya. Stating that sovereignty over the Nuba mountains, the southern Blue Nile and Abyai were not up for discussion, Umar al-Bashir's comments on Wednesday potentially raise a major obstacle to a peace deal. The three contested.. More

  • Eight Iraqis Killed by US Fire North of Baghdad

    Eight Iraqis were killed during a firefight with US troops near the town of Samarra, north of the capital Baghdad, the US military said. "Yesterday afternoon, southwest of Samarra, soldiers from the 1-8 Infantry Battalion killed eight attackers and wounded one," said Major Josslyn Aberle, spokeswoman for the US Fourth Infantry Division in Tikrit... More

  • At Least 4 Dead in Gaza Bombing

    At least four people have been killed in a bomb attack on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials have said. At least 10 people were injured in the blast at the Erez crossing point, Israel radio reported. Israeli media said it happened at a building where Palestinian laborers enter a nearby industrial complex. Correspondents.. More

  • Court Delivers Setback for Silvio Berlusconi

    Italy's Constitutional Court has ruled that a recent law giving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution is illegitimate. The legislation was rushed through in June last year and protected the five most senior members of government while they are in office. It meant a corruption trial against Berlusconi had to be frozen. But the.. More

  • School Shooting Stuns Netherlands

    A Dutch schoolteacher has died after a student shot him in the head in a school cafeteria. Students of the secondary school in the Hague said a pupil known as a troublemaker shot an economics teacher. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende described the shooting as horrific and promised an investigation. Tuesday's shooting has sparked a national.. More

  • 4 Iraqi Civilians Killed by US Troops

    American soldiers killed at least four Iraqi civilians yesterday in Fallujah, while a US Apache helicopter crashed nearby, after being hit by ground fire. Paul Bremer, the US administrator of Iraq, said attacks on the coalition had come down dramatically and plans to hand over power to Iraqis were well under way, although it would not be possible.. More

  • 37 Feared Dead in Uzbekistan Air Crash

    A passenger plane is reported to have crashed in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. It's not yet clear how many casualties there were but one report suggested 37 people may have died. The country's emergencies minister was quoted as saying the aircraft involved was a Soviet-built Yak-40. Such jets are frequently used for short flights within former.. More

  • Khatami Threatens Mass Resignations

    Iran's reformist president has escalated his battle with hardline Shiite clerics by threatening the resignation of his entire administration. Mohammad Khatami said his government would "go together" if a ban on reformist candidates standing in next month's election was not lifted. He described the ruling as biased - his toughest pronouncement yet,.. More

  • US Helicopter Crashes West of Baghdad

    A US Apache helicopter has crashed west of Baghdad but there was no immediate information on why it came down and whether there were any casualties. The helicopter, which usually carries a crew of two, crashed on Tuesday at around 9:30 a.m (06:30 GMT) near the town of Habbaniya, about 80 km west of the capital, a US military spokesman said. "We.. More

  • Harold Shipman Found Dead in Cell

    Killer doctor Harold Shipman has died after being found hanging in his cell in Wakefield Prison. Shipman was discovered at 0620 GMT by staff who tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at 0810 GMT, a Prison Service spokeswoman said. He was jailed for life in January 2000 for murdering 15 patients while working in Hyde, Greater Manchester... More

  • US can Keep Post-September 11 Detainees Names Secret: Supreme Court

    Despite pleas from human rights advocates, the US Supreme Court allowed the US government to keep as an ongoing secret the names of hundreds of people detained in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks. The court declined to hear a case challenging the administration of President George W. Bush's refusal to disclose the identities of hundreds.. More

  • Treasury Demands Probe into O'Neill "Secrets"

    For some Republicans, former US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill is a traitor. But the man who claims George W. Bush plotted to invade Iraq long before September 11 is sticking to his guns. O'Neill dropped the bombshell in a book, "The Price of Loyalty", written by journalist Ron Suskind about O'Neill's two-year tenure as Bush's top economic aide. The.. More

  • Syria Snubs Israel Offer

    Syria dismissed yesterday as a "media manoeuvre" an Israeli invitation to President Bashar Al Assad to visit Jerusalem for peace talks, saying only a resumption of previous negotiations would achieve peace. "Partial solutions and media maneuvres do not achieve peace in the region... Syria's longstanding position is to resume negotiations from where.. More

  • US Soldier Killed in Bomb Explosion

    A US soldier was killed and two wounded in a roadside bombing yesterday in Baghdad, a US military spokesman said. "One 1st Armoured Division soldier was killed and two were wounded when their convoy was attacked by an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) in central Baghdad," the spokesman said. In Tikrit, US soldiers shot dead seven members of an armed.. More

  • Lindh Killer "Commanded by Voice of Jesus"

    With the trial of the man accused of murdering Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh due to begin on Wednesday prosecuters have been outlining their case. They claim forensic evidence links Mijailo Mijailovic to the murder weapon and the victim who was stabbed in Stockholm department store in September. The 25 year old confessed to the murder last week.. More