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  • Liberia to Get 15,000 UN Troops

    The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a force of up to 15,000 peacekeepers for Liberia. The resolution, proposed by the United States, sets up a UN mission in Liberia to monitor last month's peace agreement between the government and rebels. The main task of the force will be to restore security and to devise a plan to disarm.. More

  • Member of Iraqi's Governing Council Critically Wounded

    Aquila al-Hashimi, a member of Iraq's Governing Council, was shot and critically wounded Saturday in an assassination attempt outside her home in western Baghdad, police and doctors said. Al-Hashimi was in critical condition with abdominal wounds, a doctor at al-Yarmouk hospital said on condition of anonymity. After surgery she was moved to an unspecified.. More

  • UN Backs Arafat Tells Israel to Stop Threats

    Side-stepping a US veto in the Security Council, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly yesterday to tell Israel to drop a threat to harm or deport Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. The 191-nation assembly, where Washington has no veto, voted 133-4, with 15 abstentions, in an emergency session to adopt a resolution demanding that the Jewish.. More

  • Dozens Killed as Train Hits Bus in Pakistan

    At least 40 people have been killed in Pakistan when a train slammed into a bus packed with students and teachers at an unmanned railway crossing. A police official said women and children were among the dead but he could not give exact figures. The accident happened on Saturday near Malak Wal town, 150 km south of the capital, Islamabad. .. More

  • New US Losses as Iraqi Minister of Defense Surrenders

    An ambush on the outskirts of Tikrit killed three U.S. soldiers and injured two late Thursday night, according to a U.S. military spokesman. Lieutenant-Colonel William McDonald said the three soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were killed by a small arms fire in the Al-Ouja village, located south of Tikrit, when they were on patrol, inspecting.. More

  • Bosnia's Ex-President Izetbegovic in Critical Condition

    Bosnia's wartime president Alija Izetbegovic is in critical condition, his doctor said a day after the 78-year-old former leader developed internal bleeding to the chest. He is in critical condition," Ismet Gavrankapetanovic, the head of a medical team monitoring Izetbegovic, said on Friday. The doctor said that his condition had not improved since.. More

  • At Least Nine Dead in Isabel Hurricane

    Hurricane Isabel knocked out power to more than 3.5 million people as it weakened into a tropical storm and raced up the Eastern Seaboard early Friday, swamping tidal communities along Chesapeake Bay, uprooting trees, disrupting air traffic and shutting down the nation's capital. The massive storm was blamed for at least nine deaths: seven in Virginia,.. More

  • Paris-Berlin Summit Calls for Iraqi Government for Iraq

    The Franco-German relationship is blossoming after successful talks in Berlin on post-war Iraq and ways to boost Europe's economy. The two countries will be joined by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the weekend. Speaking at a briefing after the talks, French president Jacques Chirac re-iterated he would like to see progress in Iraq, sooner rather.. More

  • Iraqi Attack on US Convoy, Several US Soldiers Believed Killed

    Several US occupation soldiers are believed to have died in the Iraqi town of Khaldiya in one of the fiercest resistance attacks to date. Witnesses reported seeing several soldiers being evacuated from their badly burnt vehicles after a US convoy came under attack as it passed through the town on the way to Ramadi from Fallujah. "A bomb exploded.. More

  • Tamil Tigers Urged to End Terrorism

    The United States marked the first anniversary of Sri Lanka's stalled peace talks by asking Tiger rebels to abandon "terrorism" and make realistic proposals to allow the negotiations to resume, the US embassy here said yesterday."It is unfortunate that this anniversary finds the talks in suspension," it said in a statement, quoting a US State Department.. More

  • Spain Seeks Closer Ties with Tripoli

    The Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has begun a visit to Libya. He is the first Western leader to make the trip in more than a decade. It comes just days after the United Nations Security Council lifted sanctions imposed on Libya for its involvement in the Lockerbie bombing. There is more than a hint of opportunism in Aznar's trip. Libya.. More

  • Hurricane Isabel Hits US Coast

    Hurricane Isabel's powerful winds and rain hit the US East Coast and brought the federal government in Washington to a standstill. Towns along the North Carolina coast, where the hurricane headed, were desolate and boarded up as the centre of the storm with its winds of up to 170 kilometers (105 miles) an hour moved closer Thursday. Isabel was expected.. More

  • Sudan Peace Process Reaches Crucial Stage

    The peace process intended to end a 20-year civil conflict in Sudan that has killed 2 million people through fighting, war-induced disease and famine has reached a crucial stage following unprecedented talks between Sudan's vice president and the leader of the main rebel group, an analyst said Tuesday. "We have arrived this week ... at a moment of.. More

  • Israeli Army Kills Palestinian Fighter in Nablus, Arafat Ready to be a Martyr

    Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday shot and killed a Palestinian resistance fighter affiliated with the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, local sources said. The sources Fadi Abu Zint was killed early on Wednesday during clashes with Zionist troops in Nablus. In addition, Zionist troops arrested three Palestinian men in the refugee camp of Balata, near.. More

  • New Saddam Tape as US Renews Syria 'Terrorism' Claims

    Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has demanded that the United States unconditionally withdraw its forces from Iraq. In a new audio tape attributed to him and broadcast on Wednesday by an Arabiya television channel, Hussein also threatened to step up anti-US attacks and to "wage holy war by all means against the foolish invaders." "We call on.. More