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  • Alouni Charged with Links to 9/11

    A Spanish judge has formally charged 35 men, including al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Al-Jazeera TV journalist Taysir Alouni, with involvement in the September 11 attacks. As part of his investigation into an al-Qaida cell operating in Spain, High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon in a 700-page indictment on Wednesday called for Interpol to arrest.. More

  • Swedish Police Nab Lindh Murder Suspect

    Swedish police were rushing to conduct DNA testing on a man arrested overnight as the top suspect in the killing of foreign minister Anna Lindh, amid media reports he had close links to neo-Nazi organizations. Police hope that the genetic testing will link the man to the crime scene. The assailant left traces of his own blood, a knife, a baseball.. More

  • US Veto Gives Israel 'Green Light' to Kill Arafat

    There are fears Israel will see America's veto at the United Nations as a "licence to kill" in the Jewish state's bid to get rid of Yasir Arafat. A war of words erupted between UN members within hours of the resolution - demanding Israel neither harm nor deport Arafat - being tabled. The resolution fell after America voted against the motion, while.. More

  • 17 Injured in New Attacks on Troops

    Thirteen Iraqis and four coalition soldiers were wounded in attacks on occupying forces in Iraq, the US military said yesterday but added that there had been fewer strikes over recent days. Three US soldiers were wounded in separate attacks near the central town of Fallujah and the northern city of Mosul, witnesses and the US military said. One.. More

  • Arafat Aide Proposes Truce, Israel Rejects it

    A top aide to Palestinian President Yasir Arafat has proposed an indefinite ceasefire with Israel, but Israeli officials brushed aside the offer and demanded that the Palestinian Authority crack down on Palestinian armed groups. In the event of such a ceasefire, the Palestinian leadership would ensure that the peace deal is respected if Israel halted.. More

  • Thousands Urged to Flee Hurricane 'Isabel'

    More than 75,000 residents and visitors were urged to evacuate the North Carolina coast Tuesday as Hurricane Isabel weakened but remained a dangerous storm on a track toward land. Forecasters said Isabel appeared to be on a course to hit Thursday on the North Carolina coast and move up through eastern Virginia. Large swells and dangerous surf already.. More

  • Blast Kills Three in Japan Hostage Incident

    Three people were killed and 34 injured in an explosion after a man, wielding a knife and cross bow and demanding back pay, took hostages in an office in the Japanese city of Nagoya on Tuesday and set the area alight. Paper and glass flew and screams could be heard as the blast ripped through the third floor office of a delivery firm in the industrial.. More

  • Hutton Witnesses Face Tough Questions

    The Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly enters a new phase on Tuesday, with witnesses being cross-examined by lawyers. One of the first witnesses to face potentially hostile questioning will be the deputy chief of defence intelligence, Martin Howard. He has previously described to the inquiry his involvement in the arrangements for.. More

  • Fallujah Police Chief Shot Dead, US Troops Kill Civilian in Baquba

    In a region already shaken by the mistaken killing of eight Iraqi policemen by US forces in the worst 'friendly' fire incident since major fighting ended, the police chief of this city was shot dead yesterday in an ambush by three gunmen. Meanwhile, near Baquba on Monday, residents said an Iraqi was shot and later died after he mistook American soldiers.. More

  • 180 Perish in Saudi Prison Blaze Horror

    More than 144 prisoners and 40 security men burned to death in Saudi Arabia’s largest jail, more than double the official toll given by authorities. The shocking figures were released to Aljazeera by London-based dissident Saad al-Faqih who first broke the news of the al-Hair Prision blaze on Monday, saying his information came from “an unimpeachable.. More

  • Huge Explosion Kills Two, Injures 15 Near Chechnya

    A truck filled with explosives blew up outside a government security building in a southern Russian region bordering Chechnya, killing at least two people and wounding at least 15, a doctor and news reports said. The explosion shattered all the glass in the Ingushetia regional headquarters of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, leaving the three-story.. More

  • WTO Ministerial Conference Ends in Failure

    A crucial WTO ministerial conference to spur momentum toward a new global trade pact collapsed in failure, a setback that could jeopardize the future of the multilateral trading system. "It's over," said a Canadian delegate here after five days and nights of fruitless and sometimes bitter bargaining among trade ministers from the 146-nation World.. More

  • Jewish State; 'Killing Arafat is one of the Options'

    Israel's Vice Premier Ehud Olmert has said assassinating Palestinian President Yasir Arafat is an option in the Jewish state's threat to "remove" him. "Killing (him) is definitely one of the options," Olmert, a member of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party, told Israeli radio on Sunday. Arafat is one of the "heads of terror", claimed.. More

  • Chaos after Bomb Alert at Dusseldorf International Airport

    Germany's third busiest airport has been closed down most of the day after numerous bomb warnings. Several telephone calls were apparently made this morning warning of explosives somewhere around the airport and security officials are taking the calls very seriously. Hundreds of police officers using sniffer dogs are searching all three of the airport's.. More

  • Bloodless Coup in Guinea-Bissau

    There has been a military coup in the tiny West African country Guinea-Bissau. Soldiers are on the streets and inside radio and TV stations. Apparently the population had been told to stay home and the coup took place without a shot being fired. President Kumba Yalla has been removed from office and replaced by the army chief of staff General Seabra. At.. More