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  • US Soldier Killed in Baquba Attack

    A US soldier was killed and two others wounded late Sunday in Baquba, 66 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, a military official said Monday. A police station was attacked late Sunday in Baquba, leaving one US soldier wounded, said a police officer in the town. "A grenade was hurled at the police station at 10:30 pm and a US soldier was injured," said.. More

  • Israeli Warplanes Above Lebanese Capital

    Israeli jets buzzed Beirut early Monday after an air raid on southern Lebanon in retaliation for the Hezbollah militia killing one Jewish settler in cross-border fire. Low-flying jets shook residents awake shortly after 1:00 am with loud bangs in a mock raid following threats of "retaliatory options" by Ariel Sharon after meeting with his army chiefs.. More

  • Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria Consult on Iraq, Israel

    The Egyptian, Saudi and Syrian foreign ministers hastily called a meeting as Arabs faced pressure to act on the Iraqi and Israeli fronts. The previously unscheduled meeting in Cairo was arranged for Monday, a day after the Syrian-sponsored Hezbollah group shelled northern Israel, killing one Jewish settler and wounding five others, prompting a raid.. More

  • Twenty Wounded in Car Bomb Blast in Colombia

    At least 20 people were wounded in a car bomb explosion in central Colombia, the third such attack in as many days, police said. The blast, near a gas station in San Martin town, 200 kilometers (124 miles) southeast of Bogota, also caused substantial material damage, Meta department police commander Colonel Jose Arnulfo Oliveros said. "There are.. More

  • Israel Warplanes Hit Hezbollah Positions

    Israeli warplanes attacked suspected Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon on Sunday, hours after the group shelled northern Israel, killing one Jewish settler and lightly wounding five others. The attacks came amid an increase in border violence following months of calm. Earlier Sunday, Israel's foreign minister demanded that Syria and Lebanon.. More

  • British Temperatures Break Records

    Britain has recorded its hottest day ever. At Heathrow Airport, just west of the capital London, temperatures reached a record-breaking 37.9C (100.22F), breaking Cheltenham's previous record of 37.1C (98F) in 1990. Brits soaked up the sun but with the sweltering temperatures came electric storms. At a football match in Birmingham one woman had a.. More

  • Two US Soldiers, 10 Iraqis Wounded in University Blast

    Ten Iraqis and two US soldiers have been wounded in a grenade blast targeting occupation forces beside an Islamic college on a campus of Baghdad university, witnesses and military sources said. Two of the wounded included a driver and a cameraman for the Al-Jazeera satellite news channel on campus to interview a Muslim US soldier, said Lieutenant.. More

  • Hezbollah Kills One Israeli in New Shelling

    At least one Jewish settler was killed when Hezbollah guerillas fired anti-tank shells over the northern Israeli town of Shlomi on Sunday, the Israeli army and emergency services said. Four people were hurt, one seriously, the report said. The Lebanese Shiite armed group, which is backed by Iran and Syria, routinely responds to Israeli air force.. More

  • Four Died in Japan's Typhoon

    A typhoon sweeping across Japan has left at least four dead and at least 10 people missing. Typhoon Etau blew through the country for four days, before sweeping off into the Pacific Ocean, drenching the northern island of Hokkaido on Sunday. More than 700 homes were flooded, with landslides, high winds and rain disrupting transport links. The.. More

  • Nine Die in Kashmir Violence

    SRINAGAR, Kashmir - Nine people, including an elderly Muslim and his son, were killed on Saturday and overnight in occupied Kashmir, where the residence of a state lawmaker was also attacked, police said. Police said a group of suspected rebels barged into the house of Mohammed Khursheed, 60, in the village of Kasblari in southwestern Poonch district.. More

  • Bitter Taylor Says Farewell to Liberia

    Liberian President Charles Taylor has bid farewell to his supporters, ahead of his forced resignation due on Monday. Speaking to cheering members of his National Patriotic Party in Monrovia on Saturday, Taylor said the campaign to remove him amounted to a "rape of democracy". However the president said he was standing down in the interest of the.. More

  • U.S. Soldier Killed in Ramadi, Ex-Iraqi Interior Minister Arrested

    One U.S. soldier was killed in Ramadi by Iraqi resistance fire. In Tikrit and Fallujah U.S. troops came under renewed attacks with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms early Saturday. Meanwhile, U.S. troops arrested Saddam Hussein's interior minister, Mahmoud Diyab al-Ahmed, Al-Jazeera reported. Today, soldiers west of Kirkuk opened fire on a.. More

  • Hamas Vows Israel Raid Payback

    The armed wing of the Palestinian group, Hamas, has called on members to avenge the death of two of its leaders killed in an Israeli army raid. Two other Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed after Israeli troops surrounded a building in a refugee camp in Nablus, where suspected Hamas activists were staying. Senior Hamas leaders said.. More

  • Millions More Under Threat in Sudan

    Red Cross warns rising water levels of rivers threaten millions of people in eastern Sudan as rains still falling. GENEVA - Millions more people in eastern Sudan are under threat from disastrous floods along the river Qash, which has risen by another two metres (6.6 feet) in a day and shows no sign of abating, the Red Cross warned on Friday. Marie-Franco.. More

  • U.S. Soldiers Kill Six Iraqis in Tikrit's Street Market

    Six civilians, five Iraqi men and one child were killed early Friday by US gunfire in a street market in the town of Tikrit. A child who was in the marketplace of the town, 175 kilometers north of Baghdad, was also fatally shot, and a woman was wounded, witnesses said. There was no immediate confirmation of the incident from the US military. Meanwhile.. More