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  • Tensions Soar in Kosovo after Serb Teenagers Killed

    Flags flew at half mast in Belgrade as Serbia mourned two young victims of a shooting in Kosovo. The killings of the two teenagers who were gunned downed by a suspected ethnic Albanians have sent tensions soaring in region. After attending the funerals the Serb Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic discussed the attack with the UN's new adminstrator in Kosovo,.. More

  • Meltdown Makes Americans Think about the Future

    New York had never seen anything quite like it: thousands of rush hour commuters forced to abandon their vehicles or make their way home on foot as juice drained from the Big Apple. The blackout quickly brought back memories of September 11th. President George Bush was swift to react. "One thing I think I can say for certain is that this was not a.. More

  • France Says Heatwave Caused 1,500 to 3,000 Deaths

    France's health ministry says the heatwave is responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of between 1,500 and 3,000 people since late July. Undertakers in France are working flat out to cope, after an unusually long stretch of hot weather. Nationwide they have reported a 37 percent increase in deaths. The surprise government announcement.. More

  • Two British Soldiers Killed in Southern Iraq

    Two British soldiers were killed and two others wounded when unidentified gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at their convoy in southern Iraq. The convoy of five vehicles, came under attack Thursday whilst travelling between the main city of Basra and Zubair further south. Six British soldiers were killed in a June 24 attack in Al-Majar Al-Kabir.. More

  • Zionist Troops Kill Jihad Leader in Hebron

    A local Islamic Jihad leader was killed by Zionist troops in a firefight Thursday, prompting threats of revenge by the militant group and placing further strain on an already shaky cease-fire. Palestinian witnesses said the Israeli soldiers fired an anti-tank missile into the building, setting it ablaze and bringing down walls. Military bulldozers.. More

  • NATO Fails to Arrest Bosnia's Top War Crimes Suspect Mladic

    NATO troops launched an operation to arrest Ratko Mladic, one of the most wanted war crimes suspects in Bosnia, but failed to find him during a raid on his mother's house, carried out just a few hours after she died. The operation, the first known attempt to arrest the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander, took place in Kasindol, near Sarajevo at.. More

  • Israel Demolishes Bomber's Home

    Israel has demolished the West Bank home of a teenage bomber who was involved in one of Tuesday's attacks. Troops destroyed the family home of Khamis Jarwan, who was identified by Palestinian and Israeli sources as being responsible for the first bombing at a shopping centre in Rosh Haayin, near Tel Aviv. Israeli police are on nationwide alert.. More

  • More American Soldiers Killed by Iraqi Resistance

    Iraqi resistance fighters killed two American soldiers north of Baghdad, and U.S. forces said Wednesday they were holding two key members of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard. An attack 15 miles south of Tikrit, killed one U.S. soldier and wounded a second Wednesday when their four-vehicle convoy hit a roadside bomb, according to US military sources... More

  • Five Killed in Saudi Battle

    Four Saudi policemen and one suspected militant were killed in clashes in Riyadh yesterday after security forces raided a suspected militant stronghold. Security forces also arrested seven individuals suspected of links with the Al Qaeda network after the shootout in the city's Al Suwaidi residential district, a top interior ministry official said. Saudi.. More

  • Europe Still in Grip of Forest Fires

    Fires continue to rage in Portugal with emergency services battling seven blazes. The latest wave of destruction is to the south of the country in the popular tourist region of the Algarve. Firefighters say the flames have been out of control for the last four days. Reports suggest that 215,000 hectares have been left charred - that is an area almost.. More

  • Kelly Inquiry: BBC Journalist Accuses Government of Manipulation

    Weapons expert Dr David Kelly did believe the British government exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq to support its case for war, according to a BBC journalist. A war of words erupted in May between the corporation and Downing Street after Andrew Gilligan filed a report claiming the government had "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction... More

  • US Soldier Killed in Ramadi, Detentions Continue

    A U.S. soldier was killed and two soldiers were wounded in a bomb attack Tuesday west of Baghdad, as Kurds near the Iranian border said they had captured dozens of militant fighters trying to infiltrate Iraq. A U.S. Army spokeswoman said the soldier died when three synchronized bombs were detonated near a U.S. convoy in the restive town of Ramadi... More

  • Zionist Officers Train Kurds to Assume Control on Future Iraqi Army

    Israeli and American officers are supervising intensified training of a special Kurdish force in the northern Iraqi city of Dahuk, according to well-informed Kurdish sources. The sources told the Egyptian Middle East News Agency (Al-Sharq Al-Awsat) that the zionist officers were training the Kurdish forces on fighting in mountainous areas in addition.. More

  • Two Jewish Settlers Killed, Many Wounded in Dual Attacks

    Two separate bomb attacks left at least two Jewish settlers dead and 12 wounded in the first major bomb attacks since Palestinian groups declared a truce six weeks ago, Israeli police said. A police official confirmed a blast in the town of Rosh Ha-Ayin near Tel Aviv was the work of a Palestinian bomber and said two bodies, including the bomber, had.. More

  • Two Pakistani Soldiers Killed by U.S. Forces

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistan said U.S. forces killed two of its soldiers near the Afghan border on Monday. The Pakistani military's public relations department said a strong protest had been lodged with U.S. authorities about the incident in which one Pakistani soldier was also wounded. It said in a statement U.S. forces fired on the Pakistani.. More