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  • One US Soldier Killed 4 Injured in Fallujah Town

    At least one US soldier was killed and four others were injured, when their convoy entered the hotspot town of Fallujah west of Baghdad and was attacked with an "improvised explosive device" (IED), witnesses said. A helicopter attempted to land to medivac the wounded to a nearby hospital after the blast, but was turned back after it was targetted.. More

  • New Blazes Rage out of Control in Portugal

    Fires are spreading throughout Portugal, bringing terror to people living at their foot. Dozens of new blazes are raging out of control in central and southern Portugal in what has become the nation's worst ever fire season. In Mafra, around 40 kilometres northwest of Lisbon and in the southern Algarve tourist region, fires are forcing people from.. More

  • Nine Killed in Occupied Chechnya

    Nine people have died in the past 24 hours in occupied Chechnya as a result of mine blasts and armed clashes. Russian soldiers, trying to rout Muslim fighters, are targeting their positions in southern Chechnya with heavy artillery barrages. They have detained as many as 150 people after conducting house-to-house searches, a Russian official told.. More

  • Somali Refugees Drown Near the Yemeni Coast

    A further 27 people are still missing in the Gulf of Aden, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said. An official of the international organisation in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, told AFP that 55 others had been rescued. "The 100 refugees were forced by the crew under threat (at gunpoint) to throw themselves into the sea from the boat.. More

  • International Community still Reluctant to Help the US in Iraq

    The United States has not managed to persuade its allies to help foot the bill for restoring peace in Iraq or provide soldiers for the mission. Talks in Geneva between the foreign ministers from the United Nations Security Council failed to come up with a common plan. The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said a consensus was necessary but they were.. More

  • Muslim Cleric Held in U.S.

    One of Canada's most moderate and respected Muslim clerics was pulled off a plane Thursday and thrown in jail by U.S. immigration officials in Fort Lauderdale without any charges being laid. Ahamad Kutty, who has preached tolerance and peace throughout North America for more than two decades, was ordered off his Orlando-bound flight from Toronto.. More

  • One Palestinian Killed as Israel Defies UN over Arafat Exile

    Israeli forces clashing with resistance fighters in the West Bank town of Nablus overnight killing an 80-year-old bystander, witnesses said. Occupation military sources said troops sought to arrest a local guerrilla but had no word on the dead bystander. Also in the West Bank, the army discovered three bomb belts in a Bethlehem area butcher shop,.. More

  • 48 Killed As Typhoon Pounds South Korea

    The most powerful typhoon ever to ever hit South Korea (news - web sites) flipped over a floating hotel, twisted massive cranes, killed at least 48 people and left another 25 missing Saturday. Typhoon Maemi lashed the southeastern coast with 135-mph winds Friday night before subsiding into a tropical storm Saturday morning. Nearly 25,000 people fled.. More

  • Libya's Bid for Rehabilitation

    Lockerbie, once a little-known Scottish town, is now a name synonymous with one of the worst acts of terrorism the world has ever seen. The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 provoked outrage and when the finger of blame pointed to Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was largely isolated by the international community. Fifteen years on, he is attempting to wipe.. More

  • Atomic Board Gives Iran Oct. 31 Deadline

    The U.N. atomic agency board on Friday gave Iran until Oct. 31 to disprove suspicions about its nuclear program, setting the stage for possible U.N. Security Council action if it doesn't comply. Iran's delegation walked out of the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors meeting in protest after a resolution containing the deadline.. More

  • Sudan Talks Enter Second Week

    Sudanese peace talks aimed at ending the country's 20-year old civil war has entered its second week without any breakthroughs yet in sight. Officials attending the talks in Kenya said the government and the rebels were haggling hard and several differences still remained to be peppered over. But Sudanese state-run al Anbaa daily said the two sides.. More

  • US Troops Kill Iraqi Officers as Resistance Continues

    U.S. soldiers opened fire Friday on Iraqi police officers chasing highway bandits near an 'American' checkpoint in a small town west of Fallujah, witnesses said. Fallujah police were chasing a white BMW without license plates that they identified as one used by highway bandits on the road connecting Baghdad with the Jordanian border. The officers.. More

  • New Korea Missile "Can Hit US"

    North Korea has been using Russian technology in developing a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching any target in the continental United States, an administration official said yesterday. The official, asking not to be identified, estimated the potential range at 15,040km. The distance from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital,.. More

  • Al-Jazeera Journalist to Stand Trial in Spain

    A court in Spain has ordered a journalist from the Arabic TV station Al Jazeera to stand trial on charges of belonging to an Al Qaeda cell. The case against Tayseer Alouni is being prosecuted by Judge Baltasar Garzon who accuses him of providing money and information to the group and recruiting new members. Al Jazeera has branded Alouni's detention.. More

  • US Convoy Ambushed West of Baghdad

    Several US troops were wounded during a major skirmish west of the Iraqi city of Fallujah when resistance fighters attacked a military convoy. Witnesses quoted by AFP said on Thursday that the convoy had stopped when one of its vehicles broke down in the town of Khaldiyah, 30km west of Fallujah. Gunfire and mortar fire were exchanged for more than.. More