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  • Hamas Activist Killed in Gaza, Palestinian Authority Freezes Islamic Charity Founds

    An Israeli air attack killed a Hamas activist on Thursday night with a missile in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. They identified the man as Hamdi al Kalakh, 35, an operative in the military wing of Hamas, and added three other Palestinians were wounded in the attack in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis. **Israeli Troops.. More

  • Power Cut in London Causes Chaos

    A rush-hour power cut has caused major disruption on rail and Tube services in London and the South East. Power returned to the system at about 1900 BST but the knock-on effects are still being felt by commuters struggling home. Network Rail said about 1,800 trains were affected by the power cut, caused by a fault with the National Grid. Train.. More

  • Blair Faces Hutton Inquiry Losing One More Soldier in Iraq

    Britain's Prime Minister is facing a critical test today as he takes the stand at an inquiry focusing on the death of a top government scientist. The probe is looking into Dr David Kelly's apparent suicide, soon after he got caught up in a row over the government's reasons for going to war with Iraq. Details of Tony Blair's personal involvement in.. More

  • 270 Bodies Exhumed From Bosnia Grave

    Forensic experts have recovered the remains of 270 victims in five weeks of digging at Bosnia's largest known mass grave and expect to find more as they burrow deeper, officials said Thursday. The mass grave, with a surface area about the size of a tennis court, was opened last month on Crni Vrh hill, near the border with Serbia and about 50 miles.. More

  • Palestinian Killed in Bethlehem, New Raids in Ramallah

    One Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in Bethlehem. The Israeli officials said he was holding a knife. But Palestinian eyewitnesses described the incident, which took place near an Israeli army roadblock, as a cold-blooded murder. Meanwhile, the Zionist army has tightened collective punitive measures against Palestinian civilians.. More

  • Three American Troops Killed in Iraq

    Two American troops were killed Wednesday in separate attacks in Baghdad and a city just to the west, the military reported. A third soldier was reported to have died separately of a non-hostile gunshot wound. In one incident, a soldier was killed and three were injured in a roadside bombing in Fallujah, some 50 kilometers west of Baghdad, according.. More

  • Pakistan Rejects Indian Charges

    Pakistan dismissed Indian charges that it was waging a "war of terrorism" against India and said it had nothing to do with the twin bombings in Bombay that killed 52 people. A foreign ministry statement called the comments by Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani earlier in the day "baseless and irresponsible" and not in keeping with recent.. More

  • US Asks Israel to Explore Reopening Iraq Pipeline, Turks Visit Kirkuk

    The United States has asked Israel to explore reviving a pipeline route pumping oil from Iraq direct to the oil refineries in the Israeli port of Haifa. The office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, sees the pipeline project as a "bonus" in return for Israel's backing of the US-led campaign in Iraq, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.. More

  • US Closes Operations at Saudi Base

    The US air force quietly deactivated its 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing at Prince Sultan Air Base, marking the end of an era of US air patrols to safeguard the oil-rich kingdom against Iraq, military officials said. Air Force Major General Robert Elder, the deputy commander of US air forces in the region, led a ceremony disbanding the unit at the remote.. More

  • Israel Kills Bystander in Gaza Strike on Hamas Members

    One Palestinian was killed and more than 20 others wounded in a failed Israeli helicopter strike on two Palestinian activists in the northern Gaza Strip, security sources said. Palestinian sources said two attack helicopters fired a volley of rockets just outside the town of Jabaliya, targeting two members of the group Hamas but killing instead a.. More

  • Two American Soldiers Dead in Iraq as Massive Raid Takes Place to Catch Gang Leader

    An American soldier was killed Tuesday after a support convoy was hit with a roadside bomb in the town of Hamariyah, the military announced. Two other soldiers were wounded in the blast, said U.S. Central Command spokesman Maj. Mike Escudie. Earlier, a US soldier has died from bullet wounds sustained in a "non-hostile incident", which is still under.. More

  • Germans to Lead EU Border Force

    The European Union's future battles to police its land borders are to be coordinated by German police. The decision to hand them the job of controlling the bloc's terrestrial boundaries is part of the effort to establish a European agency in charge of frontier checks. The Germans were seen as the best prepared for the task after years of patrolling.. More

  • Israeli Troops Snatch Wounded Palestinians

    Israeli undercover troops snatched two wounded Palestinians from their West Bank hospital beds in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday. The troops entered the intensive care room, imposed a curfew on the patients and doctors and carried the two men - members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a doctor, who spoke on condition on anonymity said. The men - Othman.. More

  • Delegates Arrive for Korea Talks

    Delegates from six nations have arrived in China ahead of unprecedented talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Six countries will be represented at the Beijing talks - North and South Korea, Russia and China, Japan and the United States. Starting on Wednesday they will be discussing how to end the 10-month row over North Korea's insistence on.. More

  • More than 400 Iraqi Women Kidnapped

    A woman organization working for the freedom of woman in Iraq announced yesterday that more than 400 Iraqi women were kidnapped, raped or sold since the collapse of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein in April. Yanar Muhammad, who supervises this organization, said in press statements during a demonstration at al Fardous street in the downtown of Baghdad.. More