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  • Eight Killed in New Taliban Attack

    Up to 100 Afghan Taliban guerillas attacked a police station in the volatile southern province of Zabul early yesterday, killing eight policemen and wounding two others, a local official said. The latest attack by a resurgent guerilla movement occurred in Zabul's Arghandab district shortly before 2am, district officer Haji Qudratullah said. He said.. More

  • Many Die in Belarus Asylum Blaze

    An overnight fire at a mental hospital in the ex-Soviet republic of Belarus has killed at least 30 people. All the victims were patients at the asylum in Kozlovichi, a town in the western province of Grodno. A Belarusian presidential official said a patient known to be a pyromaniac had set fire to the building. Staff reportedly delayed alerting.. More

  • Qurie Threats to Quit as Israeli Army Stays in Rafah

    The Palestinian Authority has come up with an uneasy compromise after holding crisis talks. New Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie says he will, in the short-term, head an emergency cabinet. But if his dispute with Yasser Arafat is not resolved, he has made it clear that he will step down. "The same government will continue until 20-25 days and after that.. More

  • Huge Explosion Rocks Hotel Used by the CIA in Iraq, Many Killed and Wounded

    A huge blast took place near a hotel used by the American occupation forces in central Baghdad on Sunday, witnesses told Reuters. Initial reports said at least 10 people killed and more than 60 were wounded. The witnesses said they saw a car ablaze at the Baghdad Hotel, believed to be CIA headquarters. Additionally, members of the Iraqi interim council,.. More

  • Liberia Prepares for New Government, Fresh Start

    The west African state of Liberia, torn apart by years of civil war and scarred by poverty, acquires a new, interim government Tuesday, two months after the departure of its former president Charles Taylor. It will be headed by a little-known businessman, Guyde Bryant, regarded as a neutral figure, who will preside over an administration made up of.. More

  • Death Toll of Rafah Raid Rises to Eight as Palestinian Cabinet Crisis Resolved

    An 19-year-old Palestinian civilian, Zaki Al-Shareef, was killed Saturday by Israeli occupation forces in Rafah. He was the eighth victim of a massive Israeli raid, which started Friday, in this Southern Gaza Strip city. Eyewitnesses and Palestinian security sources said that 20 Palestinian homes in the neighborhoods of Al Barazil, Tel Al Sultan.. More

  • Dozens Taliban Prisoners in Great Escape

    Forty Taliban prisoners have made a daring escape from prison after hatching a plot which could come straight from The Great Escape. Most of the prisoners belong to Taliban forces say security sources from the volatile southern Afghan city of Qandahar where the men were being held. The prisoners escaped through a tunnel they dug under the ground,.. More

  • 50 Maoists, Seven Policemen Killed in Nepal Clash

    At least 50 Maoist rebels and seven policemen were killed in Nepal during one of the biggest clashes since a seven-month ceasefire ended six weeks ago. Police said Saturday at least 600 rebels attacked a police post late Friday in the village of Khas-Kusum in the western Banke district, 415 kilometres (257 miles) from Kathmandu, with the fierce fighting.. More

  • Islamic Nations Call for US Occupation to Leave Iraq, Oil Workers Killed in Kirkuk

    The world's Islamic nations opened their biggest meeting in three years Saturday with a call for the eviction of U.S. troops from Iraq and the rapid restoration of its sovereignty. Divisions over Iraq threatened to prevent Islamic leaders from finding a unified voice to address a widespread feeling that the war against terrorism has turned into a.. More

  • Israeli Invasion Kills At Least Seven Palestinians, Including Children

    Israeli occupation troops killed seven Palestinians in a massive raid in southern Gaza on Friday, including two children, amid reports Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei wants to quit amid a burgeoning power struggle. Up to 100 armoured vehicles supported by attack helicopters thrust deep into densely populated refugee camps around the southern.. More

  • Chief UN War Crimes Prosecutor Tells Balkan Nations to do Better

    The Chief United Nations War Crimes Prosecutor has accused several former Yugoslav Republics of not helping the Tribunal in the Hague. In a damning report Carla del Ponte singled out Serbia and Montenegro saying she believed many top war crimes suspects were hiding there. "I regret to have to report to you that Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, the Republic.. More

  • India Buys Radar System from Tel Aviv

    India, Israel and Russia have signed an agreement to sell Israel's sophisticated Phalcon early-warning radar system to Delhi, Indian officials say. Defence analysts say the 1bn US dollars Phalcon system will give India a greater edge in conventional weaponry over its regional rivals, Pakistan and China. In August, the United States lifted its objections.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Three Palestinians in Gaza Refugee Camp

    Three Palestinians are dead and 33 wounded - two seriously - after another Israeli invasion of the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Fighting erupted as Israel sent dozens of tanks into the Rafah refugee camp early on Friday on a mission, it said, was aimed at destroying tunnels Palestinians used to smuggle weapons. According to Palestinian.. More

  • 2 Americans Killed, 4 Wounded after Deadly Baghdad Bombing

    Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded in an ambush just hours after a fatal car bombing that killed 10 people - including the driver - in the same Baghdad neighborhood, the U.S. military said Friday. Earlier Thursday, a bomber crashed a white Oldsmobile loaded with explosives into a police station in the Sadr City neighborhood, killing himself.. More

  • Indonesian Bus Crash Inferno Kills 54, Mostly Schoolgirls

    At least 54 people, most of them teenage schoolgirls, were killed when their bus was crushed in a fiery three-vehicle collision in Indonesia. Forty-nine girls, aged between 17 and 18, were returning from a three-day field trip to Bali island Wednesday evening when their bus was struck head-on by a container truck whose brakes apparently failed, turning.. More