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  • N.Korean Missile Upstages Seoul Inauguration

    North Korea launched an anti-ship missile into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said Tuesday. South Korea believed the missile to be a small, conventional one - not the long-range, ballistic Taepo Dong rocket that U.S. officials fear can reach far beyond Japan and possibly hit parts of the continental.. More

  • Four U.S. Soldiers Die in Kuwait Helicopter Crash

    Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Kuwait on Tuesday when their helicopter crashed during training in the desert, the U.S. military said. Their UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter went down near Camp New Jersey, a temporary U.S. military base 30 miles north of Kuwait City, while conducting night training, a U.S. military statement said. The four were the only.. More

  • Sharon Forges Israeli Coalition

    Israel's centre-right secular Shinui party has joined Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party in a coalition. The move gives Mr Sharon a slim majority in parliament that will allow him to form a government, a spokesman for the prime minister said. Mr Sharon's agreement with Shinui comes a day after the far-right National Religious Party also joined.. More

  • Qatar Upholds 'Spy' Death Ruling

    An appeal court in Qatar has upheld the death sentence imposed on a Jordanian journalist convicted of spying. Firas al-Majali, 30, a reporter for the state-owned Qatar Television, was arrested in January 2002 for allegedly spying and passing information about Qatar to Jordan. Qatari officials said Majali sent details to Jordan on the status of US troops.. More

  • Earthquake Rocks Western China

    At least 257 people are reported dead and more than 1,000 injured after an earthquake hit China's north-western region of Xinjiang on Monday morning. The death toll is expected to rise as news comes in from outlying areas of the arid region. The quake struck 40 kilometres (24 miles) east of Jiashi city, near the border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan,.. More

  • Iraq Hopes to Avoid War as Washington Rallies Support for UN Resolution

    Iraq said it was considering UN demands to destroy banned missiles to avert war, as Washington rallied support for a new UN disarmament resolution that could be offered in the next few days.Baghdad also asked for a postponement of an Arab summit scheduled for Saturday, while chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix told a US newsweekly the regime of President.. More

  • Ten Palestinians, an Israeli Die as Israel Occupies Gaza in New Strike

    Israeli occupation forces invaded a northern Gaza Strip town and started building camps in commandeered houses, killing six Palestinians in a major operation to stamp out resistance activists firing rockets into southern Israel and at internationally illegal Jewish settlements.Four other Palestinians and an Israeli occupation soldier died as a result.. More

  • Non-Aligned Summit Opens in Kuala Lumpur Monday

    HH the Prime Minister, SH Abdallah Ben Khalifa Al-Thani has arrive in Kuala Lumpur at the head of the country's delegation to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement summit, where discussions are likely to be dominated by a possible United States war on Iraq. Malaysia is hosting the summit of developing nations in the 114-member Non-Aligned Movement.. More

  • Eight Palestinians, Israeli Die in Gaza Clashes

    Israeli occupation forces killed eight Palestinians, at least five of them armed, and an Israeli occupation soldier was shot dead Sunday as an occupation army offensive against Islamic activism strongholds in the Gaza Strip pushed on. On the political front, Israel's center-left Labor Party said it was pulling out of talks to join Ariel Sharon's governing.. More

  • Blix Says 'Iraq Has No Credibility'

    "Iraq cannot be trusted to disarm, but only the UN Security Council can decide when to end arms inspections", top UN arms inspector Hans Blix said in an interview made public.The inspection process is taking longer than expected but should be allowed to continue if Iraq cooperates in a meaningful way, Blix told Time magazine in an interview published.. More

  • Iraq Studying Order to Destroy Missiles

    Iraq has made no decision yet on a U.N. order that it destroy its Al Samoud 2 missile program, Iraq's chief liaison to U.N. inspectors said Sunday as inspectors visited plants involved in producing the missile. With U.S. troops massed on Iraq's doorstep ahead of possible war, Gen. Hossam Mohamed Amin told journalists that destroying the missiles would.. More

  • UN Gets 'Last Chance' on Iraq

    President George W Bush has confirmed that the US and its allies will present a new resolution on Iraq to the UN Security Council next week. The resolution will set out in "clear and simple terms" that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is not complying with disarmament demands, Mr. Bush said. The UK Government backed the move, but said the UK and US would.. More

  • Israeli Tanks Enter Gaza Town

    About 20 Israeli tanks entered the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, residents said. The town is across from an Israeli village hit by rockets a few days earlier. The tanks, accompanied by attack helicopters, headed for the center of town, firing on a house and blocking all access roads as occupation soldiers imposed a.. More

  • Gunmen Kill Nine Shi'ite Muslims in Pakistan

    Unidentified gunmen killed at least nine Shi'ite Muslims and wounded eight as they headed to evening prayers in Karachi on Saturday, police and hospital officials said. The three gunmen opened fire as worshippers entered a mosque for dusk prayers in Malir, a low-income area on the eastern outskirts of the restive southern port city. The assailants fled.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Kill Two Palestinians in Nablus

    Israeli occupation troops killed two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday during stone-throwing clashes which erupted in the heart of the historic city, witnesses and hospital officials said.A total of 33 Palestinians were killed in violence this week, most of them during an Israeli occupation army offensive in the Gaza Strip that.. More