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  • At Least 9 Russian Guards Killed Near Chechnya

    Armed attackers stormed into a village near Chechnya early Monday, killing at least nine Russian border guards and taking four hostages as they fled, a local official said. A regional interior ministry spokesman in the Russian region of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea said heavily-armed Chechens, numbering up to 60, burst into the mountain village of.. More

  • Attacks Continue in Iraq Despite Saddam's Capture

    Hopes that the capture of Saddam Hussein would bring an end to the resistance in Iraq have been crushed. Two car bombs have exploded outside police stations, killing at least 10 people. They are among the first signs of resistance since the former Iraqi leader was detained by US troops on Saturday evening. In the first blast, in a village around.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Unarmed Palestinian Civilians

    Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two unarmed Palestinians, and were searching for a third in southern Israel. The army said a group of six Palestinians, in the early hours of Monday morning, approached a fence in the northern Gaza Strip that separates the occupied Palestinian area from Israel. The army claimed that one of them was captured.. More

  • Fresh Elections in Cyprus Possible after Tie

    A landmark Turkish Cypriot election that could decide the fate of the divided island has ended in a dead heat. The pro-reunification, pro-EU Republican Turkish Party - led by Mehmet Al Talat - emerged as the largest single party but overall the two rival blocs have 25 parliamentary seats each. The poll had been widely billed as a referendum on veteran.. More

  • Iraqi Leaders Demand Saddam Trial

    Iraqi leaders say they want Saddam Hussein put on trial in Iraq for crimes against humanity following his capture. The former dictator is in US custody after being found in a hole under a mud hut near his home town of Tikrit. US President George Bush said he "will face the justice he denied to millions," without giving details of conditions or.. More

  • Bomb Narrowly Misses Musharraf Motorcade

    Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he narrowly escaped a "terrorist" assassination bid when a powerful explosion rocked a bridge just seconds after his motorcade had passed. Musharraf said he felt the aftershock of the explosion on Sunday as he drove away from the blast site in Rawalpindi, a military garrison city near Islamabad. "It was.. More

  • Among the Iraqis there've been Mixed Reactions to the Capture of Saddam Hussein

    Here residents celebrate the news by taking to the streets, firing shots into the air and sounding car horns. "This makes us very happy," says this man. "Now we can live in peace." Another man says it's a chance to congratulate the Iraqi people themselves, that a criminal has been caught. "It's a day we'll never forget," he says. "We've waited 35.. More

  • Occupation Forces Net Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein has been captured alive near his hometown of Tikrit in a major coup for the beleaguered US-led occupation forces in Iraq. US occupying administrator Paul Bremer said Hussein was captured late on Saturday 13 December after more than eights months of searching for him. Bremer began the press conference with the dramatic announcement,.. More

  • Huge Explosion Kills 12 at Iraq Police Station

    A car bomb exploded Sunday morning at a police station in this town west of Baghdad, killing 12 people and wounding 19 others, Iraqi police said. But an emergency room administrator at a hospital in the nearby city of Ramadi said there were 18 people killed in the blast and more than 20 injured. Many of the victims were police officers, said the hospital.. More

  • Denktash has the Last Word

    Some 141,000 Turkish Cypriots will flock to the polls Sunday to elect new members for the 50-seat legislature of northern Cyprus -- a contest that has become a referendum on a United Nations plan for an end to the Cyprus problem, supported by the opposition parties and rejected by the ruling conservatives. Turkish Cypriots will express their will.. More

  • Afghan Loya Jirga Begins Today

    With security tight following Taliban threats, Afghans prepared on Sunday for a crucial debate on a constitution designed to take their war-battered country to its first free elections. Hundreds of police, soldiers and foreign peacekeepers manned a tight security cordon in a 2-mile radius of the venue at a polytechnic campus in the city's west. The.. More

  • New Iraqi Soldiers Protest against Pay as Resistance Continues

    The US-led coalition in Iraq was reviewing the pay scale for the New Iraqi Army Saturday after some 300 soldiers walked out on the fighting force's first battalion, as the resistance on the ground continued. The US military commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, told reporters that the Iraqi troops' mass walkout was caused by unhappiness.. More

  • EU in Crisis as Summit Collapses

    A "total disagreement" on member states' voting powers has prevented European Union leaders from concluding a first constitution for the bloc. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had chaired the EU summit in Brussels which ended in stalemate. Berlusconi said many agreements on institutional reform had been sealed, but more time was needed to.. More

  • Female Student Shot Dead in Nablus

    A Palestinian student has been shot dead near her university in the West Bank after her taxi reportedly broke through an Israeli army roadblock. Kamlah al-Shuli, 20, was hit by two bullets in the chest when Israeli soldiers opened fire on her vehicle in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday. She was reportedly on her way to nearby al-Najah university... More

  • Bush Approves Sanctions against Syria

    US President George W Bush has approved economic and diplomatic sanctions against Syria over its alleged support for terrorism. Possible actions include a ban on US exports to Syria and the freezing of the country's assets in the US. BBC Washington correspondent Michael Buchanan says Bush signed the Congress-inspired bill reluctantly. The president.. More