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  • Palestinian Resistance Groups Deny Gaza Attack

    Two major Palestinian resistance groups have denied involvement in a blast which killed three American security guards and injured another in the Gaza Strip. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad distanced themselves from the roadside explosion which devastated a diplomatic convoy in Beit Hanun on Wednesday morning. An armed group calling itself the Popular.. More

  • 12 Dead in Staten Island Ferry Accident

    A Staten Island ferry crashed Wednesday as it was docking, leaving at least a dozen people dead as passengers aboard the shattered vessel scrambled for their lives, police and city sources told The Associated Press. Some victims lost limbs as the accident ended an otherwise routine trip from lower Manhattan, with metal girders torn apart and wood.. More

  • Four U.S. Convoy Guards Killed in Gaza Blast

    Four security guards were killed by an apparent roadside bomb attack against a convoy of U.S. diplomatic vehicles in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Israel Radio reported. The convoy included officials from U.S. Middle East envoy John Wolf's office and from the CIA, the radio said, but added that Wolf was not in the convoy at the time of the blast. A.. More

  • Start of Azerbaijani Dynasty

    Like father, like son? If Ilham Aliyev is elected president of Azerbaijan on Wednesday, the family will become the first ruling dynasty in a former Soviet republic. But there are concerns Aliyev Junior is not enough of a chip off the old block and lacks the charisma of his former KGB chief father. The transfer of power appeared a foregone conclusion.. More

  • Israel Expels 15 Palestinians out of West Bank as Occupation Tanks Return to Torment Rafah

    Israel's military ordered 15 Palestinian detainees expelled from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, an action human rights groups denounced as a violation of international law. The military said expulsion orders for 15 Palestinians held in Israeli custody were the only way to be sure the detainees would not return to 'terrorist' activity. None participated.. More

  • Political Protest in Saudi Arabia Dispersed by Police

    Hundreds of people demonstrated in Riyadh Tuesday to denounce detentions of dissidents following a call from an exiled opposition group. The official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) downplayed the protest, descrbing it as "a rally by a number of individuals" which "disrupted traffic" in a busy district of the Saudi capital. But, anti-riot police intervened.. More

  • Turkish Embassy in Baghdad Hit by Blast, Cool UN Response to US Iraq Draft

    Baghdad has once again been rocked by an explosion - this time the target was the Turkish embassy. A suicide bomber killed himself and wounded several other people when his car blew up outside the heavily-fortified building. Scenes of chaos followed. One unconfirmed report suggests a motorist whose vehicle was near the scene of the blast also lost.. More

  • Muslim Nations Want Pivotal Role for UN in Iraq

    Foreign ministers meeting in Malaysia sought the rewording of an Islamic summit resolution on Iraq on Tuesday to strengthen a call for a dominant role for the United Nations. But the U.S.-backed Iraqi Provisional Governing Council blocked efforts by some countries in the Organization of the Islamic Conference to set a deadline for U.S.-led occupation.. More

  • Symbolic Talks on Kosovo Undermined

    Groundbreaking talks between Serbian and Kosovo Albanian leaders are proving problematic even before they begin today. A Serbian delegation only agreed to attend at the last minute, and Kosovo's Prime Minister has boycotted the summit in the Austrian capital. The Kosovo delegation will be headed by President Ibrahim Rugova, a veteran ethnic Albanian.. More

  • Occupation Tanks Enter Rafah Refugee Camp

    Dozens of Israeli occupation tanks entered the Rafah refugee camp before dawn Tuesday, just days after another incursion into the Gaza site left eight dead and more than thousand homeless. On Monday, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat delivered yet another blow to his new premier, appointing an acting security chief over interim Prime Minister Ahmed.. More

  • Islamist Leader Freed in Sudan After more than Two Years of Detention

    Sudan's President Omar el-Beshir freed his former ally-turned-rival Hassan al-Turabi after more than two years of house arrest, as the country works to end its 20-year civil war. The president's office said the release was part of efforts to "prepare for the coming peace era" in Sudan. Hassan al-Turabi, wearing the traditional white turban, told.. More

  • Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in 24-Hour Period

    Iraqi resistance fighters ambushed a U.S. military convoy northeast of Baghdad Monday killing one American soldier and wounding two others, the U.S. military said. The death brought to 97 the number of U.S. soldiers killed by hostile fire since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1. The soldier was the third to be killed within 24 hours... More

  • U.N. Nuclear Agency Chief to Visit Iran

    In a previously unannounced visit, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency chief will visit Iran this week to help persuade the Tehran regime to meet an Oct. 31 deadline to prove it is not producing atomic weaponry, the agency said Monday. In a statement, the agency spoke of "important questions that are still outstanding," about the nature of Iran's nuclear.. More

  • US Soldier Killed in Iraq Blast

    A US soldier was killed and another wounded when their vehicle struck a landmine near the central Iraqi town of Baiji. "The Bradley (vehicle) struck a landmine. It could have been put there minutes before or hours before," a US military spokesman said on Monday. Baiji is about 220km northwest of Baghdad. The attack on Sunday night brought to 95.. More

  • Five Dead, 50 Wounded in Bolivia's Unrest

    The toll from Bolivia's civil unrest reached five dead and more than 50 wounded, after troops fired on anti-government protesters near the capital and the government accused opposition leaders of trying to mount a coup. The latest deaths in El Alto, a city of half a million residents 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) west of La Paz, brings to 16 the toll.. More