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  • Location of European Hostages in Mali Still Unclear

    The 14 European tourists held hostage in Mali will not arrive in the capital Bamako today. They have been freed, according to the country's military authorities, but bad weather continues to delay their flight from northern Mali, where they have been gathered from diverse locations over the course of the afternoon. The German foreign minister, Joschka.. More

  • Liberian Rivals to Sign Peace Deal

    Liberia's warring factions were poised to sign a deal to form an interim government and end 14 years of almost non-stop war, a week after warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor was forced to resign and go into exile. "There are absolutely no hitches, there were no outstanding issues this morning," an exultant Mohamed ibn Chambas, the executive secretary.. More

  • French Death Toll may have Reached 5000

    French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has defended his government's handling of a killer heatwave amid reports that the final death toll could hit 5000, far higher than the 3000 victims registered so far. In an interview with the weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche published today, the conservative prime minister said he was "appalled" by.. More

  • One Died in Tel Aviv Explosion

    An explosion in a Tel Aviv office building killed one woman and wounded several others Monday, Israeli police said, suspecting criminal violence and not a Palestinian attack. Police said explosives caused the explosion in an elevator shaft, not a gas canister as was originally believed. A woman who was seriously injured in the explosion, died in.. More

  • 22 Killed in Afghanistan Gunfire

    At least 22 people were killed in a major battle with hundreds of suspected Taliban fighters armed with rockets and machine-guns who attacked government offices in a southeast Afghan border town, a local official said. Fifteen attackers and seven government soldiers were killed in the fighting which started around midnight Saturday in Barmal town,.. More

  • Danish Soldier Killed in Basra, Nine Iraqi Prisoners Died in Attack at Iraqi Jail

    A Danish soldier serving with the occupation forces in Iraq has been killed in a clash near the southern city of Basra. Details are still sketchy but shooting erupted when a Danish unit stopped a truck carrying several Iraqis during a routine patrol overnight, a spokesman from Denmark's army command said. Two Iraqis also died in the incident. One.. More

  • 15 American Soldiers Assaulted Taxi Drivers in Bahrain

    Three Bahraini taxi drivers, two of them brothers, were injured when they were assaulted by a group of men in Adliya early yesterday. Hussain Mohammed Jaffer, aged 31, his brother Jaffer, 27, and Habib Mansoor Ali, 32, were all treated at Salmaniya Medical Complex. Three men, reportedly US servicemen, were arrested after being chased, caught and.. More

  • Zionist Troops Arrest Islamic Jihad Member

    The Israeli army on Sunday arrested one Palestinian in Qalqilya, one of four West Bank cities to be handed over to Palestinian security control to bolster a cease-fire underpinning a new peace plan. Palestinian security sources said Azem Nazzel of Islamic Jihad, among groups that have led a 34-month-old intifadha in the occupied Palestine, was arrested.. More

  • New Sniper Killings In U.S., 3 Dead

    Bullets that killed three people in separate shootings outside convenience stores in and around West Virginia's capital were of the same caliber and fired from the same kind of weapon, officials said. Police on Friday stopped short of definitively linking the crimes, which took place in the past week. "All three balls had the same characteristics,".. More

  • Vital Iraqi Pipeline Blown up Again, Mine Attack on US Troops

    There has been another setback in the slow process of recovery in Iraq. A vital oil pipeline which was reopened just days ago has been blown up by Iraqi resistance fighters. The pipe, which carries oil from Iraq's nothern fields to Turkey, is essential to Iraq's efforts to resume exports of its most valuable asset. The fire which raged at the site.. More

  • Aid Groups Rush Supplies to Liberia

    Humanitarian aid trickled into Liberia's devastated capital by plane and boat Saturday, a welcome relief but not nearly fast enough for residents famished after 70 days of siege. Fighting persisted in the interior, blocking hopes of immediate help for the millions trapped there. About 500 civilians gathered to stare at the gates of the port where.. More

  • Hamas Says; Israeli Withdrawal 'Not Enough'

    The latest efforts to move the Middle East peace process forward are not enough, say Islamic groups. Israel has promised to pull out of two West Bank towns, Qalqilya and Jericho, with proposals for a withdrawal from Ramallah and Tulkarm over the next 10 days. But the Hamas group says Qalqilya is surrounded by a security wall anyway and Jericho has.. More

  • Libya Takes Responsibility for Lockerbie in UN Letter

    Libya has formally accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, in a letter handed to the United Nations. "Libya, as a sovereign state, has facilitated the bringing to justice of the two suspects charged with the bombing of Pan Am 103 and accepts responsibility for the actions of its officials,".. More

  • Hundreds of Thousands Pour Onto New York Streets after Power Cuts

    Hundreds of thousands of people poured onto the streets of New York as office blocks and other buildings emptied following a massive power cut. Outages were also reported in Detroit, Ottawa and Toronto. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said however there was no evidence of a terrorist attack. All shops shut and Grand Central station was evacuated.. More

  • Israel Agrees Handover of Cities

    Israel has agreed to hand control of four West Bank cities back to the Palestinians, according to Palestinian officials. Israel has also agreed to permit Yasser Arafat to travel to the Gaza Strip to visit the grave of his sister Yousra, who died earlier this week and was buried in Gaza City, Israel TV reported. It would be the first time Arafat.. More