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  • Riyadh Blast Toll Mounts

    Five are dead and at least 100 people, mainly children, have been wounded after three explosions rocked a residential housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. At least five people, four Arabs and one Indian, were killed in the car bombing west of Riyadh at midnight on Saturday, a senior Saudi official said "Three Lebanese, one Sudanese and one.. More

  • Two Occupation Soldiers Killed in Fallujah as US Takes Revenge for Deadly Copter Attack

    Two US soldiers were killed and one wounded when a military vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Fallujah. "Two were killed in action and one wounded when a military vehicle struck an improvised explosive device at 8:30 am," a military spokeswoman said Saturday. A US army captain in Fallujah earlier told AFP the vehicle was a Bradley... More

  • Israelis Kill Three Palestinians in Gaza Strip

    Five Palestinian gunmen and a child were killed in the occupied territories yesterday by the Israeli army, which also captured the militant leader suspected of masterminding last month's suicide attack in Haifa. Israeli troops shot dead two activists from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - an armed offshoot of the mainstream Fatah movement - during clashes.. More

  • Bush Calls for 'Democracy' in the Middle East

    US President George W Bush's calls for democracy rang hollow in the Middle East, where many said yesterday they were appalled Washington was preaching liberty for Arabs while occupying Iraq. The war on Iraq and Washington's support for Israel in its bloody conflict with the Palestinians have antagonized many Arabs and Muslims who were already seething.. More

  • Blackhawk Down in Iraq, Six US Dead, as Turkey Goes Back on Troop Pledge

    Six US soldiers were killed when a Blackhawk helicopter was "forced down" in northern Iraq and another died in a separate attack as Turkey announced it was abandoning plans to send troops to help its beleaguered US ally. The bloodshed that has become the daily norm here also claimed the life of another US soldier in Mosul and an Iraqi woman northeast.. More

  • Mauritania Poll 'Marred by Fraud'

    Voting has ended in Mauritania in a presidential election clouded by claims of fraud and intimidation. In the capital, Nouakchott, turn-out was high and voting peaceful, but the opposition claims the polls are being rigged. Armed police were patrolling the streets as voting took place. Casting his vote, President Maaouiya Ould Taya said no country.. More

  • Gunmen Fire on Georgian Opposition Protestors

    Masked men have shot over a crowd of protestors in the western Georgia town of Zugdidi, scattering the marchers and wounding several of them. The protestors were gathered for a political rally of the opposition party Saakashvili-National Movement. They are contesting government results from last Sunday's parliamentary election, which place the party.. More

  • Four Killed in Downed Black Hawk as Mosul Attack Kills US Soldier

    A US army helicopter crashed into a riverbank near Tikrit, killing at least four U.S. soldiers, the military said. Another American was killed and nine were wounded in attacks in the northern city of Mosul. The military said preliminary reports showed that four on board the Black Hawk helicopter were killed, although a U.S. officer on the scene said.. More

  • Palestinian Child Shot Dead in Gaza Strip

    Israeli soldiers have shot and killed three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including an 11-year-old child, in separate clashes. The latest casualty on Friday was a Palestinian child killed by shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said. Mahmud al-Qayed, 11, was hit in his chest as he was playing.. More

  • Anthrax Scare Shuts 11 Washington Postal Buildings

    The U.S. Postal Service shut down 11 postal facilities in the Washington area late on Thursday after preliminary tests indicated possible anthrax at a U.S. Navy mail handling center, officials said. The Navy closed the automated mail handling operation at its naval air station in Washington on Thursday to run additional tests after sensors detected.. More

  • N-Bomb Aid for Koreans is Denied

    Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said in South Korea that his country had never helped North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and would never do so. Musharaff said in a speech in Seoul that reports that Islamabad had traded its nuclear know-how for Pyongyang's missile technology were "aspersions cast against my country". "I have investigated.. More

  • Mauritania Cops Arrest President's Rival

    The leading opposition candidate in Mauritania's presidential election has been arrested on the eve of the vote. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah was taken from his home to an unknown location. Earlier this week, police arrested two sons of Mr Haidallah in a raid on his home. On Wednesday, police used tear gas to break up a demonstration against.. More

  • Iraqi Attacks Kill Two US Soldiers, Polish Officer as British Soldier Dies in Road Crash

    The US-led coalition said that two more American soldiers were killed in Iraq while an attack on a convoy claimed the first Polish fatality as strikes on coalition troops showed no sign of abating. One of the US soldiers was killed Thursday near Husaybah, on the border with Syria, 335 kilometers (210 miles) west of Baghdad. The other soldier died.. More

  • Muslim Brotherhood Member Tortured to Death by Egyptian State Security

    A member of the Muslim Brotherhood has been tortured to death by Egyptian authorities. The popular Islamic organization said Saad Sayed Muhammad Qutb, 43, died on Monday at the headquarters of the Egyptian state security forces in Cairo. "He underwent several sessions of interrogation and different kinds of torture," a statement said. Senior Brotherhood.. More

  • Palestinian Woman Killed by Israeli Troops

    Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian bystander Thursday, witnesses said, a day after Israel announced it would ease West Bank blockades to boost Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie. Emtiaz Abu Ras, 38, was shot as she peered from a window of her house at troops who pursued and opened fire at a Palestinian in an alley in the West Bank city of Nablus,.. More