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  • Search Continues for Russian Helicopter

    Rescuers continued to scour the dense forests of the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East, on the third day of a massive search for a missing helicopter carrying a regional governor. Local emergency officials denied earlier reports that parts of the helicopter had been found and said only that a rescue group was investigating an oil slick that.. More

  • Sharon's Helicopters Assassinate Abu Shanab, Hamas Ends Truce

    Senior Hamas political leader Ismaeel Abu Shanab was among three Palestinians killed today afternoon by missiles fired by Zionist helicopters in Gaza, a Palestinian officials confirmed. The attack took place in the Rimal neighborhood. Paramedics pulled three bodies out of the burning vehicle, those of Abu Shanab and his two bodyguards. Witnesses.. More

  • One US Soldier Killed, Ali Hasan al-Majeed Caught

    The Iraqi general Ali Majeed, was arrested by US forces, U.S. officials said Thursday. In April, the U.S. Central Command said the body of Gen. Ali Hassan al-Majeed, fifth on US most wanted Iraqis list, had been found after an air assault on his home in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. At that time, British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said there.. More

  • Libya Paid Five Million Euro for Sahara Hostages

    Libya paid a ransom of five million euros "on its own initiative" to the abductors of 14 European hostages who were released this week after being held for months in the Sahara desert, diplomats said. The money passed "neither through Malian nor German hands," the diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity after the freed hostages returned home safely.. More

  • Chirac Says Lessons Must be Learned from Heatwave

    French President Jacques Chirac has admitted shortcomings in the country's renowned health system after this month's killer heatwave but said steps would be taken to improve the system's readiness. He said: "I have asked the government to analyse the causes of the crisis that we have gone through, thoroughly and transparently. All the necessary lessons.. More

  • Palestinians Hold Meeting on Bus Bombing

    Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, facing growing international pressure to clamp down on Islamic groups, convened an emergency Cabinet meeting Wednesday to decide how to respond to a Hamas bombing that killed 20 Jewish settlers. The Cabinet did not announce a decision after its two-hour session, except to say the rule of law in the West Bank.. More

  • Translator Killed, Two US Soldiers Wounded in Tikrit

    Iraqi resistance fighters attacked a US convoy with a rocket-propelled grenade in Tikrit on Wednesday, killing a translator for the occupation forces and injuring two occupation soldiers, said US army officials. The attack took place shortly after noon. The soldiers were traveling in a three vehicle convoy in the Tikrit market district. **Grim Task.. More

  • Libya Begins Lockerbie Payout

    Libya has begun to transfer the 2.7 billion US dollars compensation it has agreed to pay to the families of those killed in the Lockerbie airliner bombing, US officials say. "Because it is such a large sum, it will not be deposited all at once. Some will go in tomorrow (Thursday). Some could go in Friday," an unnamed official told Reuters news agency... More

  • Chechen Fighters Kill 6 Russian Soldiers

    Fighting persisted in Chechnya on Tuesday, with six Russian occupation soldiers killed and 11 others wounded in the war-ravaged region. Three were killed and seven wounded in resistance attacks on Russian positions, while two died in a clash with Chechen fighters near the village of Dyshne-Vedeno, in southern Chechnya, the official in the Moscow-backed.. More

  • Huge Explosion Kills More than 20 on Israeli Bus

    Palestinian bomber blew himself up on a bus packed with ultra-Orthodox Jews, killing more than 20 people, and wounding about 100 in one of the deadliest bombings in the past three years of fighting. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas condemned the bombing as a "terrible act." The blast went off shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, as the crowded.. More

  • At least 17 killed, including U.N. Representative in Iraq, in Car-Bomb Attack

    A big blast, caused by a car bomb, on Tuesday rocked the area around a hotel housing the U.N. headquarters in northeast Baghdad. Unconfirmed reports said at least 17 people were killed in explosion. A senior U.S. official confirmed that the U.N. Special Representative in Iraq, 55-year-old Brazilian Sergio Vieira de Mello, had died after being trapped.. More

  • 10 Afghan Policemen Killed, Blast Hits Home of Afghan Leader's Brother

    At least 10 Afghani policemen, including a police chief, were killed in a province south of Kabul in the latest incident in a spate of violence that has claimed more than 90 lives in the past week, officials said on Tuesday. Abdul Khaliq, police chief of Logar province, and several other senior police officers from the province were among those killed.. More

  • Heavy Spurt of Fighting in Chechnya Kills 15 Soldiers

    Fifteen soldiers were killed and 40 wounded in a spurt of heavy fighting across Chechnya over the last 24 hours, an official in the Moscow-backed Chechen administration said Saturday. Chechen fighters, firing automatic weapons and launching grenades, stormed a military commandant's office in Samashki, west of Grozny, killing three soldiers and wounding.. More

  • Britain Proposes UN Libya Sanctions Lifted

    Britain is proposing lifting United Nations sanctions imposed on Libya after the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people. This comes after Tripoli accepted responsibility for the attack. There are reports however that France may use its veto in the vote that is expected to take place this week. White House Spokesman Scott McLellan has said.. More

  • Occupation Soldier Dies in Baghdad, 12 Iraqis Killed in Tikrit

    An American soldier was killed by an explosive device in Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement. While the military did not give any further details of how the incident occurred, a Central Command spokesman in Florida said: "It was a hostile act." The soldier, from the 1st Armored Division, was taken to the 28th Combat Support.. More