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  • El-Baradei Calls on Iran to Cooperate

    The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Mohammed ElBaradei, called for greater cooperation from Iran to "clarify" some issues concerning its nuclear programme, in comments to AFP here. "There are some matters that need to be clarified concerning Iran's nuclear programme and I hope Iran will cooperate with us," the director general of the International.. More

  • Explosion in Iraqi Oil Pipeline

    An explosion has occurred in an oil pipeline northwest of Baghdad, a US army spokeswoman told AFP, adding that the cause of the blast was still unknown. "There was a pipeline explosion northwest of Baghdad near the town of Hit. There are no reported US casualties," the U.S. Sergeant First Class said Sunday, adding that the cause was under investigation... More

  • 7 Rockets Fired at US Base in Afghanistan

    Kabul - Unknown attackers fired up to seven rockets at a US base in southeastern Afghanistan, but there were no casualties or damage, a US military spokesman said on Friday. "Seven rockets impacted in the vicinity of the fire base at Urgun-e last night (Thursday)," Colonel Rodney Davis told reporters at Bagram air base, 50 kilometres north of Kabul... More

  • Israeli Troops Assassinated Hamas Official

    Israeli troops shot dead a top Hamas official in the West Bank city of Hebron as drafters of the peace "road map" prepared to meet on Sunday to discuss ways of salvaging peace efforts imperiled by two weeks of violence. "This is another proof that the Israelis are...continuing the assassinations," said Palestinian Cabinet Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo... More

  • 105 Dead in Nigerian Pipeline Blast

    More than 100 Nigerian villagers were burned alive when a petrol pipeline exploded as there were looting fuel, the head of the Nigerian Red Cross said."Over 105 people are known to have died. We expect a lot more deaths to be reported," Red Cross president Emmanuel Ijewere said, adding that the blast had been triggered accidentally on Thursday. "Whole.. More

  • Iran Says It Won't Allow Soil Sampling

    A confrontation is brewing between the United States and Iran, with the Shiite cleric country vowing to continue to put limits on U.N. weapons inspectors and the Bush administration urging them to do more about Iran's nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said it expected Iran "to grant the agency all access deemed necessary".. More

  • Blast Hits Chechen Capital

    A large explosion has ripped through a Russian government building in the Chechen capital Grozny. The blast, at a Justice Ministry building, has injured at least 36 people. The attack came a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin told a news conference in Moscow that the only way forward in Chechnya was to follow a peace plan laid out by.. More

  • Imam Says US Opening Iraq to "the Jews"

    A Sunni Muslim prayer leader charged that US forces were opening Iraq up to "the Jews" and chided Iraqis working as "brokers" for the Jewish infiltrators, as the chief US civilian administrator said the country needed an economic overhaul in order to flourish. Sheikh Mahmud Khalaf, a Sunni Muslim imam, said the US-led invasion was part of a Jewish.. More

  • Gas Explosion Kills 10 in Turkish School

    Ten people were killed and 13 injured after a gas explosion ripped through a Qur'anic school dormitory in central Turkey overnight. The explosion, which was apparently accidental, caused the building in Kayseri, some 250 kilometers southwest of Ankara, to collapse, CNN-Turk television reported Friday. CNN-Turk said there were 23 people inside at the.. More

  • Powell Calls Hamas `Enemy of Peace'

    Calling Hamas an "enemy of peace," U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday that the Palestinian Authority must take decisive steps to disarm the Islamic group, and as usually backed Israel. Powell spoke Friday at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who said no progress can be made on a U.S.-backed peace plan until.. More

  • Iraq Attack Kills U.S. Soldiers

    A rocket-propelled grenade slammed into a U.S. military ambulance Thursday, killing three American soldiers, the latest in a series of attacks on U.S. personnel or their offices. The ambulance was transporting a wounded American soldier to a medical facility when it came under fire on a highway about 20 miles south of Baghdad. Three mortar shells exploded.. More

  • Jewish Settlers Fight With Israeli Troops

    Hundreds of angry, screaming Jewish settlers scuffled with Israeli troops on a West Bank hilltop Thursday when the military tore down a tent camp, the first populated outpost targeted under a peace plan. Settlers set fire to underbrush and threw purple paint on the windows of armored bulldozers as the troops approached. When the soldiers began tearing.. More

  • Scores Feared Missing after Ships Collide on China's Yangtze River

    Rescue boats were combing the middle reaches of the Yangtze River searching for survivors of a passenger ship that sank after colliding with a cargo boat on the river above the massive Three Gorges Dam. The accident happened just before 8:00 am near Fuling city, 270 kilometers (167 miles) from the dam, but on the upper end of a huge reservoir now being.. More

  • 3 U.S Soldiers Killed in Bagdhad, Mortar Attack Kills One Iraqi in Samarra

    At least three U.S. soldiers were killed in sothern part of Baghdad, AL-Jazeera satellite channel reported, without giving further details. Only hours before attack, a mortar shell slammed into a coalition-run humanitarian aid office north of Baghdad, killing an Iraqi and wounding 12 others, the latest of several attacks targeting Iraqis working.. More

  • Israeli Killed in Bomb Attack

    A Palestinian bomber attacker killed an Israeli storekeeper as well as himself in an attack in northern Israel, dealing a fresh blow to peace efforts, medical sources said. The deadly explosion happened in a grocery store-cum-restaurant near Beit Shean in the northern Jordan valley, killing the owner and badly damaging the premises. "It was a suicide.. More