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  • Muslim Teachers Face Headscarf Ban

    German state authorities yesterday agreed to the country's first bill that bans teachers from wearing a Muslim headscarf in school, although Christian and Jewish symbols would be allowed. The measure was drawn up by the conservative-led government in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg following a landmark verdict by Germany's highest court.. More

  • Rockets Fired on Coalition HQ in Baghdad, Four Killed in Basra Blast

    Rockets pounded the US-led coalition's compound in Baghdad, while the violence spreads to the southern Iraqi port city of Basra where at least four Iraqis were killed in a bomb blast. In the latest of near nightly attacks on the US-led coalition's Baghdad compound, at least four rockets hit inside the closed-off security zone, but there were no casualties,.. More

  • Bomb Damages U.N. Office in Afghanistan

    A car bomb exploded outside a United Nations office in this southern Afghan city Tuesday, wounding at least one person, a U.N. official said. Meanwhile, in a mountainous area of eastern Afghanistan, American and Afghan troops clashed with two groups of fighters, killing one and causing the others to retreat in to Pakistan, the U.S. military said... More

  • Germany's CDU to Expel MP after 'Anti-Semitic' Remarks

    Germany's opposition conservatives are taking steps to eject one of their members after he made anti-Jewish remarks. Christian Democrat MP Martin Hohmann, an obscure backbencher from the state of Hesse, said in a speech last month that Jews, like Germans, could be seen as perpetrators, arguing that some had served in death squads during the Russian.. More

  • US Soldier Killed in Iraq as Rumsfeld Seeks International Troops

    US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has called for "a lot of troops" from other countries to help stabilize Iraq, after the deaths of a US soldier and a Kurdish fighter working with Iraq's border guard. Three US soldiers were wounded early Monday when a roadside bomb exploded by a military convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said,.. More

  • Israel Expels Man from West Bank

    Israel has expelled a suspected Palestinian activist from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, under a policy condemned by human rights groups. Soldiers reportedly delivered Kamal Idris to a checkpoint near a Jewish settlement in the Strip on Monday. The army said that Mr Idris, who was not formally charged or tried, belonged to a "terrorist group".. More

  • US Court to Rule on Guantanamo Legality

    The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals by 16 detainees who say they are being held illegally at the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It is the first time the country's highest court will rule on the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policy. The legal challenge was lodged by two British, two Australian and 12 Kuwaiti.. More

  • Iran Suspends Nuclear Enrichment Programme

    Iran has taken further steps to defuse a row over its nuclear ambitions. During a visit to Moscow, the head of the Supreme National Security Council announced that Tehran's uranium enrichment programme had been suspended. The UN's nuclear watchdog has also been given the green light to carry out more rigorous inspections of Iranian facilities. The.. More

  • US Soldier Killed in Baghdad, Washington Unhappy with Iraq's Governing Council

    A U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday evening, the U.S. military said on Monday. A military spokesman said the soldier was killed in an attack at about 7 p.m. west of Iskandariya, about 30 miles south of Baghdad. No other details were immediately available. **Washington Unsatisfied.. More

  • Bush Has Failed to Make U.S. Safer, Says Gore

    Former Vice President Al Gore accused President Bush on Sunday of failing to make the country safer after the Sept. 11 attacks and using the war against terrorism as a pretext to consolidate power. "They have taken us much farther down the road toward an intrusive, 'big brother'-style government - toward the dangers prophesied by George Orwell in.. More

  • Stampede in Sudan Kills 31

    Police in Sudan have launched an inquiry into an accident in which 31 people were killed and 48 injured. The victims died in a stampede as they rushed to get charity donations being distributed on Saturday to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The incident happened in the city of Port Sudan, about 1,200 km (750 miles) northeast of the capital.. More

  • Koizumi's Coalition Suffers Blow

    Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's coalition government is expected to have its parliamentary majority eroded in general elections with the main opposition party's big gains heralding a genuine two-party system, according to Japanese media projections this morning. Meanwhile, the head of the main opposition Democratic Party, Naoto Kan, said.. More

  • Saudi Bombing Death Toll Rises

    A massive double car bomb which devastated a Riyadh compound of Arab expatriates, killing at least 13 people, struck close to homes of Saudi royals, a Western diplomat has said. Interior Minister Prince Nayef and some other Saudi royals had private homes near the compound. "It was about half a mile from one of the houses of Prince Nayef," the diplomat.. More

  • Israeli Approves Prisoner Swap with Hizbollah as Qorei Announces New Cabinet Deal

    Under pressure from prime minister Ariel Sharon, the Israeli cabinet has voted by 12 to 11 in favour of a prisoner swap with the Lebanese armed group Hizbollah. The German-mediated deal involves trading some 400 jailed Palestinians and Lebanese for a kidnapped Israeli spy and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers captured in 2000. It has been severely.. More

  • US Soldier Killed in Baghdad

    An American soldier was killed in an attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Saturday evening, the US military has said. A roadside bomb killed the soldier from the First Armoured Division and wounded another. Earlier on Saturday, two US soldiers were killed in Fallujah, the US military says. A US Black Hawk helicopter which crashed on Friday.. More