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  • France Agrees to Lift Sanctions against Libya

    France said Thursday it was prepared to vote to lift UN sanctions against Libya after the families of those killed in the 1989 bombing of a French jet over Niger reached a compensation deal with Tripoli. "Now that the families have arrived at an agreement, France naturally no longer has any objection to the UN Security Council voting as soon as possible.. More

  • Israel to Expel Arafat, West Bank, Gaza Raided

    Israel's foreign minister said Israeli leaders, holding an emergency session Thursday after two bomb attacks should ignore U.S. objections and expel Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Ariel Sharon, cutting short a trip to India after 15 Jewish settlers and soldiers were killed in bomb attack in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv Tuesday, prepared to consult.. More

  • Swedish FM Anna Lindh Dies after Attack

    Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh died a day after being stabbed by an unknown assailant in Stockholm, a spokesman for the Karolinska hospital told AFP. Lindh had been stabbed in the arm, abdomen and chest Wednesday while shopping at a downtown department store. Lindh, one of her country's most admired politicians, died following massive internal.. More

  • Bin Laden on New Al-Jazeera Tape

    A new videotape of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri has been broadcast by Al-Jazeera television on Wednesday. Aired on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks against US targets, the tape showed Osama and Zawahri in an "undisclosed mountain area." In the tape, bin Laden praised those who carried out the 11 September.. More

  • Knife Attack on Swedish Foreign Minister

    Sweden's Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, has been seriously injured in a knife attack. She was wounded in the chest, stomach and arms. The high profile politician, tipped as a possible future prime minister, has undergone surgery for her injuries. Following the attack, Swedish Premier Goran Persson announced his government's Euro campaign is to be halted... More

  • Samudra Sentenced to Death for Bali Blasts

    An Indonesian court has sentenced a key suspect to death for his pivotal role in the Bali bombings ... the second time the death penalty has been passed in connection with the attacks. The suspect, Abd al-Aziz alias Imam Samudra, a 33-year-old computer expert, had been charged with "plotting, organising and carrying out crimes of terror" in relation.. More

  • Dangerously High Levels of Radiation Measured around Baghdad

    Soldiers and civilians in Iraq face a health timebomb after dangerously high levels of radiation were measured around Baghdad. Levels between 1,000 and 1,900 times higher than normal were recorded at four sites around the Iraqi capital where depleted uranium (DU) munitions have been used across wide areas. Experts estimate that Britain and the US.. More

  • Zionist Air Strike Kills Two, Wounds Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar

    An Israeli missile strike wounded a political leader of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, killed his adult son and a bodyguard in the Gaza Strip, medics said. The Hamas official, Mahmoud al-Zahhar, had been standing in the doorway of his two-story house in Gaza City when it was attacked. He was thrown out by the blast and slightly wounded in.. More

  • Huge Explosion in Irbil, US Soldier Killed Northeast of Baghdad

    One Iraqi was killed and 53 people wounded, including six US defense department personnel, in a suspected car bomb blast in Irbil, a US military spokeswoman said. Nicole Thompson said the blast went off at 9:05 p.m. Tuesday at a building in the northern Iraqi city, but she could not give any other details. "So far there are 47 wounded Iraqis and.. More

  • Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Blasts Leave At Least Twelve Dead

    A Palestinian bomber blew himself up at a cafe in Jerusalem Tuesday night, killing at least four other people and wounding about 40 others, rescue workers and witnesses said. The bomber struck at the popular Cafe Hillel on a strip with many restaurants and small shops. Ambulances rushed to the residential neighborhood, and workers carried away the.. More

  • Palestinian Boy Killed in Hebron, US Wants Qorei to Tame Palestinian Fighters

    A 13-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and two people wounded in an Israeli army attack on the West Bank town of Hebron. The boy was hit by shrapnel from an Israeli tank round fired during the attack, early on Tuesday, which occurred after the soldiers surrounded a building in the town. Israeli troops arrested one of the wounded Palestinians,.. More

  • New Pipeline Sabotage, Granted Seat in Arab League for US-Picked Iraqi Council

    Saboteurs struck a critical oil pipeline in northern Iraq on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks that have halted the country's oil deliveries to Turkey at an estimated cost of 7 million US dollars a day. Adel al-Qazzaz, director general of the Northern Oil Co., said the line attacked Monday had carried 35,000 barrels a day from the Jabour oil.. More

  • Sharon India Visit Angers Muslims

    The Israeli prime minister has begun a controversial visit to India that has sparked fury among the country's Muslims. Ariel Sharon became the first Israeli prime minister to visit India when he arrived in New Delhi on Monday. The trip will cement a once secretive relationship that has become a military and strategic alliance in just a few years... More

  • More Than 100 Killed in Nigeria Bus Crash

    Three buses and a truck collided Monday in central Nigeria, killing more than 100 people in the impact and the fiery explosion that followed, authorities said. State television showed charred remains of some victims of the accident, which happened shortly after midnight Sunday about 60 miles outside the capital, Abuja. Authorities said the buses.. More

  • Five Afghan Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attack

    Five Afghan soldiers were killed and five wounded in a Taliban ambush on a convoy in the southeast of the country, according to Aljazeera's correspondent. The ambush occurred in Shahwali Kot, 25km north of the provincial capital Qandahar on Monday. AL-Jazeera correspondent was told by Afghan Militia Forces spokesman, Hajji Guraneh, that the attackers.. More