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  • Bin Laden Widens Anti-US War

    Aljazeera has broadcast a message from Osama bin Laden warning the US to leave Iraq and threatening attacks against its Western and Muslim allies for backing the "crusading forces". In the tape, played on Saturday, the man blamed by the US for organising the September 11, 2001 attacks gave separate messages to listeners in Iraq and in the US. To.. More

  • Three Palestinians Killed by Israeli Tank Fire in Southern Gaza

    Three Palestinians, including a woman, were killed by Israeli tank shell fire in the southern Gaza Strip during a military incursion which began several days earlier, hospital sources said. Nine other Palestinians were injured in the shooting early Saturday, three of them seriously, the sources said. The three victims of the incident in the southern.. More

  • After Deadly Protests Bolivia Gets New President

    Congress named Carlos Mesa president of Bolivia after accepting the resignation of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada following weeks of protests that left at least 80 dead. Sanchez de Lozada formally resigned in a letter to Congress, which accepted it Friday by a vote of 84 to 26. "My resignation, which I submit to Congress, should be sufficient to resolve.. More

  • OIC Summit Ends in Puff of Inaction

    Islamic leaders ended an their summit in Malaysia without either passing a planned resolution on Iraq or endorsing the three-year-old Intifadha in Palestine. Instead the meeting, which ended on Friday, was largely overshadowed by host Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad's controversial remarks about Jews. The 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference.. More

  • US Occupation Toll Tops 100 as Four more Troops Killed in Iraq

    A US soldier died in a blast in Baghdad, hours after three troops were killed in the central Iraqi city of Karbala. "This morning at 7:50 am one military policeman from the 220th Military Police Brigade was killed and two others were wounded in an improvised explosive device in the Baghdad area," a coalition spokeswoman told AFP on Friday. The troops.. More

  • Unmanned U.S. Spy Plane Crashes in South Korea

    An unmanned U.S. spy plane crashed north of the capital of South Korea as it tried to make an emergency landing during a training flight, a spokeswoman at the 8th U.S. Army said on Friday. The Shadow 200 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle crashed near Tongduchon, 28 miles northeast of Seoul, around 9:05 p.m. GMT on Thursday, Ha Haeng-Cha, public information.. More

  • Three US Soldiers Killed in Karbala as Pentagon Plans to Send More Forces to Iraq

    At least three US soldiers and two Iraqi policemen were killed in the central Iraqi city of Karbala overnight, said US army Major Ralph Manos, a spokesman for the multinational force which controls the Karbala area. "Currently we confirmed three American MPs killed in action and two wounded, and we confirmed two Iraqi police killed in action and.. More

  • Iran to Answer Nuclear Concerns

    UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed ElBaradei has said he is cautiously optimistic that Iran will meet the deadline set by the agency to prove that it is not trying to produce nuclear weapons. Mr ElBaradei, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the BBC that he had been informed that in the next few days Iran would be providing.. More

  • Kashmir Leader's Home Attacked

    A firefight is raging between troops and Kashmiri fighters after the home of the chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir came under a grenade attack. Security guards at the heavily guarded residence of the chief minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, opened fire after a grenade was hurled at the house in the provincial capital of Srinagar. Witnesses.. More

  • Senate Backs Converting Some Iraq Aid to Loans

    WASHINGTON -- In a setback to President Bush, the US Senate on Thursday voted to convert half of a 20 billion dollars aid package Bush sought to rebuild Iraq into a loan. The Senate voted 51-47 to make 10 billion dollars a loan to Iraq that Bush could forgive if other creditor countries waive repayment of at least 90 percent of debts they hold from.. More

  • UN Council Adopts Iraq Resolution, Approves its Occupation

    The UN Security Council has voted 15-0 to adopt a contentious resolution on Iraq's future, a victory for the US which sought approval for its occupation of the country. Russia, Germany and France, key opponents of the war, announced hours before Thursday's vote they would support the resolution, albeit with reservations. Syria, the last hold-out,.. More

  • Israel Troops Kill Palestinian Policeman as PA Arrest Gaza Suspects

    A Palestinian policeman, Walid Abd al Wahab, 30, was killed Thursday during a gunfire exchange with Israeli forces in in Al Barazil neighborhood of Rafah near the border with Egypt, according to Palestinian officials. Another six Palestinians were injured, including four under 18, hospital sources said. Earlier, it was reported that Israeli soldiers.. More

  • Syria Targeted for US Sanctions

    Syria has been dealt a huge blow by American politicians from the House of Representatives who voted 398-4 to impose sanctions. The US House of Representatives blames its near unanimous decision to sanction Syria on the country's alleged ties to armed groups and purported efforts to obtain nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The legislation,.. More

  • Summit of Muslim Nations Opens with Iraq, Middle East Topping Agenda

    The world's Islamic leaders opened the summit meeting, with turmoil in Iraq and the Middle East topping their agenda. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) leaders -- representing 57 Muslim nations and 1.3 billion people -- met under a heavy veil of security in Malaysia's new administrative capital Putrajaya, near Kuala Lumpur. The two-day.. More

  • Azerbaijan President's Son Wins Election

    The son of Azerbaijan's ailing president won an overwhelming victory in elections to choose his father's successor. But western observers and the opposition alleged massive voting irregularities. One observer said there were so many problems with Wednesday's election - among them ballot-box stuffing and unmonitored voting - that he stopped trying.. More