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  • Bombs Kill Two US Soldiers, Two Children as Three Bodyguards of Kurdish Security Official Killed in Ambush

    A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier and two children in Baghdad on Sunday. The Baghdad blast also injured five U.S. troops and their Iraqi interpreter as well as eight members of the Iraqi civil defense corps, said U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Compton of the Army's 1st Armored Division. Elsewhere, a bomb exploded west of Baghdad, killing another U.S... More

  • Mass Graves Dug for Iranian Earthquake Victims

    In the Iranian city of Bam, cemeteries are overflowing with fully-clothed corpses. Hundreds of bodies have been tipped into trenches hollowed out by mechanical diggers. Many died in their sleep: Friday's earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck before dawn. The United Nations co-ordinator in Bam says there is consensus that the rescue.. More

  • Taliban Behind Kabul Airport Blast

    A Taliban spokesman has reportedly claimed responsibility for a human bomb attack which killed six people near Kabul airport on Sunday. The spokesman for the former regime warned that another 60 bombers planning to attack foreigners had entered the capital and would attack International Security Assistance Force troops, coalition forces and people.. More

  • Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Troops

    Israeli troops scouring a West Bank militant stronghold killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded at least 17 others in clashes with stone throwers yesterday, witnesses and medics said. They said a 17-year-old was fatally shot in the chest while confronting troops, who have stepped up searches in Nablus since a bomber killed three off-duty Israeli.. More

  • U.N. Nuclear Inspectors Arrive in Libya

    The International Atomic Energy Agency is to start technical discussions with Libyan officials on Tripoli's nuclear programme, just over a week after the regime announced it was giving up weapons of mass destruction, IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky announced. The director-general of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, and his team who arrived.. More

  • Iraqi Resistance Attacks in Karbala Kill 11, Including Four Occupation Troops

    Iraqi resistance fighters launched three coordinated attacks in the southern city of Karbala on Saturday, killing 11 people, including six Iraqi police officers and four occupation soldiers. In addition, 25 other people were wounded, a Polish commander said. One car bomb detonated in front of the main Iraqi police station in Karbala, injuring five.. More

  • Prodi Survives Parcel Bomb Attack

    European Commission President Romano Prodi is unhurt after a letter bomb attack on his home in Bologna in northern Italy, his spokesman has said. The parcel, sent as a 'Christmas' gift a few days ago, burst into flames when Mr Prodi tried to open it on Saturday, Marco Vignudelli said. But he added that Prodi had not been hurt and there had been.. More

  • Death Toll may Rise to 40,000 in Iran

    The devastating earthquake leveled nearly three-quarters of the Iranian city of Bam on Friday. The preliminary death toll increased on Saturday to 20,000, the Interior Ministry said, and rescue crews said it could go even higher. Officials said an accurate count was impossible with many victims still trapped under the rubble. An exact toll is not.. More

  • Week's U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Reaches 10

    At least four American soldiers were killed in bomb blasts and a mortar attack, authorities said Friday, bringing the U.S. death toll in Iraq this week to 10 - violence serving as a reminder that resistance fighters remain defiant. Unidentified gunmen also assassinated a tribal leader who backed the coalition near a mosque in the northern town of.. More

  • New Blast Kills Five in Pakistan

    Five people have died and three others were wounded in an accidental blast in a crowded area of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. "Five people have been killed and three injured this (Saturday) morning when workers were unloading some material imported from China," district mayor Rawalpindi Tariq Kiyani said. "The material being unloaded was to be.. More

  • Iran Earthquake Kills Thousands

    A pre-dawn earthquake killed more than 15,000 people in Iran on Friday and injured thousands more in the ancient Silk Road city of Bam, government officials said. About 70 per cent of the buildings in the historic city, a popular tourist spot some 600 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran, had collapsed and many people were feared trapped under the.. More

  • Four US Soldiers Killed Northeast of Baghdad as Japan Starts to Send Troops to Iraq

    Four American troops were killed by bombs and mortars in three separate incidents in Iraq, the U.S. military confirmed on Friday. A roadside bomb killed one soldier and injured another when it went off by a convoy near Baquba early on Friday, and a second soldier was killed trying to defuse a bomb outside the town, Captain Jefferson Wolfe said. Earlier,.. More

  • Pro-Europe or Nationalist Policy for Serbia - Elections to Decide

    Serbia goes to the polls this Sunday, in an election which could decide on its future integration with Europe or isolation. Vojislav Kostunica heads one of the pro-democracy parties - DSS - which united to end the Milosevic regime three years ago. Boris Tadic heads the democratic party DS. It was led by the late prime minister Zoran Djinjic, who was.. More

  • 'High Toll' in Iran Earthquake

    A powerful earthquake struck southeastern Iran Friday, wrecking many buildings in the historic city of Bam and killing a "very high" number of people, officials said. State television said about 60 per cent of the buildings in Bam, a popular tourist attraction some 600 miles southeast of the capital Tehran, had collapsed in the earthquake measuring.. More

  • Israeli Raid on Gaza, Blast in Tel Aviv

    Five Palestinians including two senior leaders of a Palestinian resistance group were killed in Gaza City, on Thursday, while four Israelis died in an explosion at a bus stop outside Tel Aviv. Leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance group Moqled Hamid, an associate and at least three other Palestinians were killed and seven people wounded,.. More