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  • Mosque Blast Kills Six Iraqis as British Source Says Saddam not Providing Information

    A car rigged with explosives detonated outside a Shiite mosque as people streamed out of Friday prayers, killing six and wounding 37, according to medical officials in the central Iraqi town of Baqouba. Meanwhile, a senior British official said Friday Saddam Hussein has given no useful information to U.S. interrogators, but documents and papers found.. More

  • France, Libya Sign UTA Bomb Compensation Pact

    Families of 170 people killed in the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner blamed on six Libyans signed a 170 million US dollars compensation deal with Tripoli Friday in Libya's latest step to mend relations with the West. The accord was signed in Paris by a representative of a private Libyan fund run by the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi... More

  • Spain Detains Hundreds of Illegal Immigrants

    Spanish authorities have detained nearly 300 migrants in the Canary Islands. They had been trying to reach Spanish territory illegally, in nine different boats. The 296 migrants arrived on the islands of Fuerteventura and Tenerife overnight between Wednesday and Thursday. The detentions bring to over 500 the number of people intercepted in attempts.. More

  • Two Palestinians Shot Dead by Israeli Troops

    Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians yesterday, an activist in a West Bank city centre and a man standing at the window of a house in a Gaza refugee camp overlooking a Jewish settlement, witnesses said. Assad Falah Halilya, identified by the activist Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as one of its members, was shot in the head by what witnesses described.. More

  • Fresh Hope for Guantanamo Britons

    The first of the nine British citizens held in Guantanamo Bay are reportedly expected home within weeks. The US has softened its demand that they face prosecution or indefinite detention in the UK, The Times says. US ambassador at large for war crimes Pierre-Richard Prosper told the newspaper the detainees could be repatriated if the UK "managed".. More

  • Black Hawk Crash Kills Nine US Soldiers near Falluja

    An American Black Hawk helicopter crashed Thursday after making an "emergency landing" near the Iraqi town of Falluja. All nine are presumed to be soldiers with the US occupying forces. "We have confirmation that there were nine personnel on board," Brigadier General Mark Kimmit, a senior US military spokesman, told a news conference. Another spokesman.. More

  • Palestinian Activist Killed as Israeli Students Jailed for Shunning Occupation Army

    An Israeli undercover unit killed a Palestinian activist from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian security and medical sources said. Asaad Salah Khaliliyeh, 32, was shot dead in front of the Jenin municipality by plainclothed Israeli security forces traveling in a civilian vehicle, the sources said, according.. More

  • Racist Attack in Belfast was 'Hate Crime'

    A racist attack on a south Belfast Pakistani family, including a pregnant woman, has been condemned as a "hate crime" by the police. A six foot wooden plank was thrown through the front window of a house in Tavanagh Street in the loyalist Village area. A man and his sister-in-law, who is eight and a half months pregnant, were in the house at the.. More

  • One Soldier Killed and 34 Wounded in Mortar Attack on US Army Base in Iraq

    At least one US soldier was killed and 34 were wounded in a mortar strike on a military base west of Baghdad, a military spokesman said. "One soldier was killed and 34 wounded," the spokesman said. About six mortar shells struck the Logistical Base Seitz, located northwest of Baghdad, in the attack at 6:45 pm, the military said. The toll had earlier.. More

  • Sudan Wealth-Sharing Deal Signed

    Sudan's government and main rebel movement have signed an agreement on sharing the oil-rich country's wealth. The agreement, signed on Wednesday in the Kenyan town of Naivasha, is a key component of efforts to end 20 years of civil war. It provides an approximate 50-50 split of revenue from the country's 300,000 daily barrels of oil and other income.. More

  • China Identifies 2nd Suspected SARS Case

    China reported a second suspected case of SARS on Thursday, even as the country's first confirmed SARS patient of the season was released from the hospital. The new suspected case, a 20-year-old waitress, was hospitalized with a fever on Dec. 31, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It said she was under quarantine in Guangzhou's No. 8 People's Hospital... More

  • US Occupation Troops Slay Iraqi Couple, Arrest some 80 People

    A firefight between US occupation forces and Iraqi resistance fighters in the town of Fallujah left an Iraqi couple dead, Iraqi police and witnesses said, according to AFP. In northern Iraq, resistance fighters attacked a checkpoint with bullets, killing a policeman and a civilian west of Kirkuk on Wednesday. Fallujah residents and the US Army's.. More

  • Suspect Admits Killing Swedish Foreign Minister

    The man suspected of killing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has admitted committing the crime. Mijailo Mijailovic was arrested following the death of Ms Lindh, who was stabbed in a Stockholm department store last September. Mijailovic's lawyer, Peter Althin, said his client had confessed to the crime during interrogation. Ms Lindh was a.. More

  • Israel Kills Three Palestinians in West Bank Raids

    Israeli occupation soldiers have killed three Palestinians in the West Bank, including two in Nablus and one in Tulkaram. One of the two killed in Nablus was resistance activist Ibrahim Attari who died early on Wednesday during an army operation in the western part of the town. Attari, 30, was a member of the Return Brigades which is linked with.. More

  • Al-Qaradawi Threatens Legal Action against French Headscarf Ban

    Muslim cleric Yussef al-Qaradawi has threatened legal action if France adopts a law banning the Islamic headscarf in schools, warning such measures only breed extremism. "If the law is passed, we will seek to file a legal complaint because this law will be in contradiction with the French constitution," Qaradawi told AFP in an interview on Tuesday... More