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  • Musharraf Offers Troop Pullout from LoC

    President Pervez Musharraf said that Pakistan was ready to withdraw its 50,000 troops from the Line of Control provided India pulled back its 700,000 troops from occupied Kashmir. The president was replying to a question in a BBC Radio's programme "Talking Point" which was broadcast live to millions of Hindi and Urdu listeners. When asked would Pakistan.. More

  • US Soldier Dies as Doubts Grow over Samarra

    A US soldier has died of bullet wounds even as doubts were cast over the version of events being put out by the Pentagon over Sunday night's bloodbath in Samarra. The occupation soldier was wounded when he was attacked by resistance fighters west of Baghdad on Monday morning. No further details were available. In Samarra, scenes of devastation.. More

  • Unofficial Middle East Peace Plan is Launched in Geneva

    World leaders past and present gave strong backing yesterday for an unofficial Middle East peace plan. As its authors, self-proclaimed moderates from both sides of Palestinian-Israeli divide, launched the plan at a packed ceremony in Geneva, senior figures from around the globe called it a ray of hope in one of the most intractable conflicts. "The.. More

  • Body Found at UN Headquarters

    A body was found shot dead at the United Nations headquarters, UN sources said, although it was not immediately clear if the incident was a suicide. UN sources said the body was found Monday morning on the main UN building's third floor, where many of the journalists who cover the United Nations are based. There was no immediate word on the identity.. More

  • Palestinian Child among Dead in Israeli Raid

    The death of a nine-year-old boy has increased to four the number of Palestinians killed in a pre-dawn Israeli raid on the West Bank on Monday. Two of the dead are members of the Hamas resistance group, including senior official, Ghassan Abassi. The identity of the fourth Palestinian was not immediately known. Our correspondent said the boy died.. More

  • China Quake Kills 10, Injures 34 in Northwest

    An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted China's northwestern region of Xinjiang on Monday, killing at least 10 people and destroying 700 homes, state media and the Xinjiang seismological bureau said. The tremor hit Zhaosu county, on the border with Kazakhstan, at 9:38 a.m. (local), official Dai Xiaomin said. The official Xinhua news.. More

  • Innocents Killed in Samarra Bloodbath

    US troops in the Iraqi town of Samarra have admitted to perpetrating a bloodbath, with one occupation spokesman confirming nearly fifty people were killed. Lieutenant Colonel Bill MacDonald told journalists on Sunday that all the 46 were killed when troops fought off multiple attacks on military convoys. But local residents said US troops killed.. More

  • Palestinian Dies in Car Blast

    Palestinian police have launched an investigation after a car blew up in the southern Gaza Strip, killing a member of the Islamic Jihad group. Yusuf Abu Matar, 33, who also belonged to the Palestinian police force, died in a local hospital on Sunday. An explosive device reportedly went off as he sat in his car in the Rafah refugee camp on the southern.. More

  • Spain and Japan Vow to Fight "Terror" - Two Koreans Killed in New Iraq Attack

    Madrid and Tokyo vowed not to give in to "terrorists" after seven Spanish intelligence officers and two Japanese diplomats were killed in Iraq as resistance stepped up attacks on foreign occupiers. In the latest such attack, two South Koreans were killed and two others seriously wounded in an attack on a highway near Tikrit, the South Korean foreign.. More

  • Turkish Engineer Freed by Taliban

    Taliban fighters freed a Turkish road engineer who was kidnapped a month ago in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. During his captivity, Hasan Onal was apparently transferred to different villages with support from local people, said Mufit Ozdes, Turkey's ambassador to Afghanistan. His Taliban captors turned over the engineer Saturday.. More

  • U.S. Soldiers and Japanese Diplomats Killed in Iraq

    Iraqi resistance fighters killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded a third in an ambush in western Iraq, a military statement said on Sunday. A day earlier, seven Spanish intelligence agents and two Japanese diplomats died in separate attacks near Baghdad. A military statement said the U.S. troops were killed when a task force from the 3rd Armored Cavalry.. More

  • At Least 14 People Die in Malaysia Crash

    Fourteen passengers in two buses were killed while many others were injured when the vehicles collided at the KM63 Jalan Kuala Lipis-Gua Musang near Chegar Perah early this morning. Kuala Lipis CID OCPD Supt Shakaruddin Che Mod said 13 of the passengers died on the spot while another died at the Kula Lumpur Hospital at 6.15am today. So far, the.. More

  • Talks to Follow North Ireland Poll

    London and Dublin are standing firm by the Good Friday Agreement, despite election results in Northern Ireland that pose all sorts of problems for the province's peace process. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern have much to reflect upon in the wake of the ballot which saw the hardline Unionist DUP - staunch.. More

  • Seven Spanish Agents Killed in Baghdad

    A Spanish official on Saturday night said seven soldiers were killed and one wounded south of Baghdad. The Spanish Defense Ministry said a team of eight soldiers attached to an intelligence unit was attacked around the city of Hillah, some 50 kilometers south of Baghdad, as it returned from a mission. A Spanish helicopter that reached the scene.. More

  • UK Grants Chechen Leader Asylum

    Chechen leader Akhmed Zakayev, has been granted asylum in the UK, the Home Office in London has said. Saturday's decision by Britain's interior ministry has angered Russian officials. "We can confirm Mr Zakayev has been granted refugee status. His application (for asylum) has been successful," a Home Office spokesman said. Russia, which sees its.. More