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  • Irishman's Arrest 'a Mistake'

    The arrest of an Irishman in the West Bank was a "mistake", Israeli radio has reported. The station quoted officials saying that there were "increasing doubts" that the man who was arrested near Ramallah was the person Israeli police had intended to detain. Sean O Muireagain, 40, from west Belfast, was arrested on Saturday by Israeli security forces.. More

  • Hurricane Kills at Least Two in Texas

    Hurricane Claudette sloshed ashore on the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday, peeling off roofs, knocking out power and flooding low-lying areas before its whistling wind began to let up. At least two deaths were reported, a 33-year-old woman in Victoria, 40 miles inland from Port O'Connor, and a 13-year-old boy in Jourdanton, near San Antonio, who were.. More

  • One U.S. Soldier Killed in New Blast, Two Wounded

    At least one U.S. soldier was killed and two others were wounded today when a powerful explosion went off as their convoy made its way along a highway west of Baghdad, soldiers at the scene said. The explosion occurred at about 9 a.m. as a 20-vehicle military convoy was passing a wrecked car that had been abandoned alongside the road, said Spc. Jose.. More

  • Five Afghan Policemen Killed in Attack by Suspected Taliban Fighters

    Suspected Taliban fighters attacked a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan, killing the police chief and four other officers, an official said Tuesday. Two other policemen were wounded in the attack Monday in Ghorak district, 72 miles northwest of Kandahar, said Mohammed Salim, deputy police chief in Kandahar. About 12 suspected Taliban.. More

  • New Kuwaiti Prime Minister Names Cabinet

    Kuwait's new prime minister named a 15-member Cabinet Monday, with members of the Gulf state's ruling family receiving key government posts. Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, who was appointed prime minister Sunday, tapped the outgoing Cabinet's oil minister, Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah, to head up the new Energy Ministry, which combines the oil,.. More

  • Britain Rebuffs Sharon Bid to Change EU Stance on Arafat

    Ariel Sharon made little if any headway during a visit to London in getting Britain's help in changing EU attitudes towards veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. After meeting Prime Minister Tony Blair, Sharon and the British premier reiterated their support for the "roadmap" for Middle East peace drawn up by the quartet of the US, European Union,.. More

  • Israel Arrests Irish 'Bomb Expert', Sharon Seeks Support to Isolate Arafat

    A suspected dissident Irish republican who Israeli police accuse of training Palestinian militants in the use of explosives has been arrested in the West Bank. British and Irish newspapers earlier reported that a manhunt was underway for a dissident Real IRA bomb maker in the region. Security sources told Reuters news agency the 40-year old man.. More

  • One U.S. Soldier Killed, Six Wounded in Iraq

    Unidentified attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, killing at least one and wounding six others, the U.S. military said. The attack came the day after the launch of US-picked Iraqi Governing Council. A convoy of military vehicles was attacked in the central al-Mansour area of Baghdad at around 6:00.. More

  • First Iraqi Governing Council Meets

    Iraq's Governing Council held its inaugural session in a landmark step towards rebuilding the country and preparing the ground for elections as early as next year. Delegates representing the country's tapestry of Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish, Turkmen, and Christian communities met around an oval table in its new headquarters, the former ministry for military.. More

  • Blast Hits Indonesia Parliament

    A bomb jolted Indonesia's parliament Monday, police said, causing only minor damage. The blast came days after police captured a group of Islamic activists and seized a huge quantity of explosives. The explosion, in the basement of a building that is the symbolic heart of Indonesia's fledging democracy, was the latest blow to a country grappling with.. More

  • 14 Afghan and US Soldiers Killed in Attacks

    CHAMAN: The Taliban on Sunday said they had killed 14 Afghan and American soldiers in two guerilla attacks in Kandahar, reports reaching here from across the border said. The Taliban men attacked the commandos who were returning to Kandahar. The attacks were made in the Mandi Saar and Khushal areas. But the Afghan authorities refused to comment on.. More

  • Hamas, Islamic Jihad Threaten to End Truce

    The Palestinian movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad threatened to end their freeze on anti-Israeli attacks if the Palestinian Authority attempted to confiscate their weapons. "If the Palestinian Authority tries to confiscate our weapons they will force Islamic Jihad and Hamas to cancel the truce," said a joint statement. "If the Palestinian Authority.. More

  • Belgium Scraps War Crimes Law Which Angered U.S.

    Belgium said Saturday it has decided to scrap a controversial war crimes law which has seen cases launched against President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said his new government, sworn in Saturday, has decided as one of its first acts to scrap the law which has angered the United States. He.. More

  • Blix Says; Blair Made WMD Mistake

    The former head of the UN weapons inspectors Hans Blix has told a British newspaper that Tony Blair made a "fundamental mistake" in claiming that Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes. Although Blix has previously expressed doubts about Britain and America's use of intelligence, his remarks to the Independent on Sunday.. More

  • Israelis May Consider Deporting Arafat

    A senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Saturday that Israel would consider deporting Yasser Arafat if the Palestinian leader continued to try to "scuttle the peace process." Speaking after Sharon told a British newspaper that European leaders were undermining a fledgling peace effort by maintaining ties with the Palestinian leader,.. More