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  • Grenade Attack Kills Four in Philippines Mosque

    A grenade attack on a mosque in the Philippines has killed at least four people and injured many more. An unidentified man hurled the grenades into the mosque on the southern island of Mindanao. The mosque was located inside the compound of the government's National Irrigation Administration in the town of Midsayap. The suspect fled as the grenades.. More

  • Chief US Inspector's Interim Report: No WMD in Iraq

    America's chief weapons inspector has told the US congress his team has not yet found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. David Kay told reporters after delivering his interim report: "We have not found actual weapons at this point. It does not mean that we have concluded there are no actual weapons. It means at this point in time - and it is.. More

  • Palestinian Killed in Rafah as Israel Plans to Build New Settlements

    A 60-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead and four other pensioners were badly injured when Israeli troops opened fire in the southern Gaza Strip late yesterday, Palestinian medical sources said. Salim Bayumi was walking just outside his home in the border town of Rafah when a sudden burst of gunfire erupted from an Israeli tank, they said. He was.. More

  • Azerbaijani President Pulls Out of Election Race

    Ilham Aliyev could soon be leading one of Asia's oil rich giants, Azerbaijan. The 41-year-old is in the frame for the job after his father, the current president, pulled out of this month's election race on the grounds of failing health. Heydar Aliev had steered his son into the post of prime minister and groomed him for power. He even changed the.. More

  • UN Nuclear Inspectors Begin Work in Iran as N. Korea Says It Is Making Nuclear Bombs

    United Nations inspectors have left Vienna for Iran where they will attempt to verify whether the country's nuclear programme is for energy purposes only, as Tehran insists. Before boarding his plane, the deputy director general of the UN's atomic watchdog, the IAEA, Pierre Goldschmidt, commented: "We have only a few weeks to progress and report.. More

  • Iraq: Three US Soldiers Killed in Separate Attacks

    A female US soldier was killed and three other soldiers were wounded by a bomb blast in Iraq in a day marked by violent protests between jobless Iraqis and police. Another US soldier was shot dead late Wednesday while on patrol in Baghdad's al-Mansour district, the U.S. command said. Also a soldier from the 4th Infantry Division died following.. More

  • Liberia Rebel Leader Attacked

    Fighting has erupted in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, during a visit to the city by rebel leader Sekou Conneh. The BBC's Paul Welsh in Monrovia says shots were fired after a crowd began to throw stones at Mr Conneh's convoy as he made his way to meet the interim President, Moses Blah, for the first time. Three people were killed and others were.. More

  • Hundreds Homeless after Siberian Earthquake

    A tremor measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has left an estimated 1,800 people to fend for themselves in the open air in southern Siberia. The quake hit a sparsely populated and mountainous region to the south of Novosibirsk. A key north-south road has reportedly been cut, making access for emergency services difficult. Those in the stricken region.. More

  • Israel Troops Arrest Senior Islamic Jihad Leader

    A leading figure in one of the main armed Palestinian resistance groups has been detained by Israeli forces after a dawn raid on the northern West Bank town of Jenin. Sheikh Bassam al-Sadi, a regional head of the Islamic Jihad group, was held early on Wednesday when dozens of Israeli soldiers backed by tanks and helicopters swooped upon the main Palestinian.. More

  • American Soldier Dies in Baghdad as US Troops Shoot 10-Year-Old Child

    A soldier assigned to the 17th Field Artillery Brigade died from a non-hostile gunshot wound at a base camp north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Wednesday. No further details were given in the incident, which occurred Tuesday near the town of Balad. The soldier's name was withheld pending notification of relatives. **US Troops Shoot 10-Year-Old.. More

  • Belgian Court Convicts 23

    A Belgian court has found 23 people, including a former Tunisian footballer, guilty of having links to al-Qaida and plotting attacks on a military base housing US troops. The 23 suspects face charges linked to attempted terrorist attacks and the assassination of Afghan anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massood in 2001. Former professional footballer.. More

  • US Soldier Killed in Afghanistan, Taliban Tape Urges Resistance

    The clash took place Monday near a coalition base at Shkin, in Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan, military spokesman said in a statement from Bagram Air Base, the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. Two enemy fighters were also killed, he said. "One coalition service member died of wounds received in combat and two others were.. More

  • US Troops Under New Attacks, as Casualties Mount

    US forces used tanks, helicopters and a fighter jet to battle their way out of a heavy ambush in Iraq as troop and civilian casualties continued to mount in what is becoming a security quagmire. And while an Iraqi politician narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, the European Union urged a transfer of sovereignty within a "realistic schedule".. More

  • US Charges Muslim Activist with Violating Libyan Economic Sanctions

    A Muslim activist is accused of violating U-S economic sanctions imposed in 1986 after terrorist bombings tied to Libya in Vienna and Rome. Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi made a court appearance in Alexandria, Virginia, today as part of a federal investigation of terrorist financing. He's accused of having illegal dealings with Libya. Investigators say.. More

  • Washington Rejects Independent Counsel for Leak

    The White House on Monday rejected Democratic demands that an independent counsel be appointed to find out who leaked secret information apparently aimed at discrediting a vocal critic of prewar intelligence on Iraq. The sudden squall over the leak that blew the cover of an undercover CIA operative energized Democratic presidential candidates and.. More