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  • Bomb Hits Bus in Kabul, Kills Six

    A bomb exploded in a bus carrying German peacekeepers in Kabul on Saturday, killing at least six people on board and wounding about 11, police said. The International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, bus was traveling from the airport toward eastern Kabul and driving near the city's customs house when the bomb exploded inside it, Kabul Police Chief.. More

  • Hamas Stops Talks on Halting Attacks on Israelis

    The Islamic group Hamas said it will not hold talks with the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abo Mazen) on halting attacks on Israelis. The Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, has been trying to persuade Islamic groups to end uprising, and was to have held a new round of talks with leaders of Hamas and other militias this weekend... More

  • UN Arms Inspectors Arrive in Baghdad as Weapons Debate Widens

    United Nations' nuclear experts arrived in Baghdad to visit a plundered nuclear plant, as the debate over Saddam Hussein's alleged banned weapons of mass destruction widened further. The seven-man team from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived as chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix publicly questioned the credibility of the coalition.. More

  • Gas Explosion Kills 11 Chechens

    An explosion likely caused by a natural gas leak ripped through an apartment house in the Chechen capital of Grozny early Friday, killing at least 11 people. Gas explosions are common in buildings across Russia, and Chechnya prosecutor Vladimir Kravchenko said it appeared the blast was not a terrorist act, the Interfax news agency reported. The explosion.. More

  • Israeli Forces Kill two Palestinians

    Deadly violence shook Palestine, only a day after hopes for peace got a boost at a summit in Jordan. The killing of two Palestinians and two Israelis came as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat cast doubts on the US-led summit from which he was excluded, saying Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had offered Palestinians nothing "on the ground." Arafat's.. More

  • US Soldier Killed as Bush Vows to Find Saddam's Weapons

    US President George W. Bush vowed to find Saddam Hussein's alleged arms of mass destruction, as a at least one US soldier was killed in an Iraqi hotspot town Al-Fallujah, a day after reinforcements were ordered to the area. Extra troops were being sent to bolster the US-led coalition after a string of deadly attacks, while more experts arrived in Iraq.. More

  • US Attorney General Wants Broader Anti-Terror Powers

    Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Congress Thursday for expanded powers to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely before trials and to let him seek the death penalty or life imprisonment for any terrorist act. Ashcroft told the House Judiciary Committee that the 2001 Patriot Act signed into law after the Sept. 11 attacks should also be expanded.. More

  • Mideast Summit Opens New Chapter in Peace Process

    Palestinian and Israeli leaders exchanged pledges to end violence and work for a Palestinian state at a summit with US President George W. Bush that opened a new chapter in the search for Middle East peace. With Bush making his initial foray into the volatile region, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas.. More

  • Occupation Forces Bolster Patrols in Iraq

    Reinforcements were on their way to bolster US-led occupation forces in northern and western Iraq after a series of attacks, as a new team of experts arrived to search for evidence of banned nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Troops from the US Third Infantry Division were being dispatched to the Sunni Muslim tribal belt west of Baghdad and.. More

  • New Bomb Attack in Chechnya, 15 Died

    A female bomber blew up a bus carrying workers from a Russian air base near Chechnya on Thursday, killing herself and at least 14 people and injuring many others, officials said. The bus was traveling from the city of Mozdok in the North Ossetia region to a nearby military air base and was waiting at a closed railroad crossing when a woman in a white.. More

  • At least 11 Killed in Train Collide in Spain

    Rescuers and forensic experts searched through the twisted, smoking wreckage Wednesday of a head-on train collision in central Spain that left at least 11 people dead and another 16 missing. Authorities said 38 people were injured in the crash Tuesday evening, when a passenger train carrying about 90 people and an empty freight train collided near.. More

  • Iraqis Demand Right to Rule Themselves

    Muslim clerics led thousands of protesters through Baghdad's streets Tuesday, telling U.S. and British forces to withdraw or face attacks, as Iraqi political groups demanded more say in their country's future. The Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella group of parties that opposed Saddam Hussein mainly from exile, insisted that Iraqis rather than Americans.. More

  • Britain to Hold Probe on Iraq Weapons

    British lawmakers decided on Tuesday to launch an inquiry into Prime Minister Tony Blair's motives for attacking Iraq as he faced accusations of misleading parliament and the public over Saddam Hussein's suspected banned weapons. Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee said late on Tuesday it would look into the decision to go to war, focusing particularly.. More

  • G-8 Summit Ends With Concerns About Nukes

    On Iraq, at least, they turned the page. But feuding world leaders who came together at a let's-make-up summit in France remained split over the next crises darkening the horizon - how to prevent North Korea and Iran from building nuclear weapons. The gathering of the powerful Group of Eight nations closed Tuesday with pledges to build a "stable and.. More

  • Bush Seeks Arab Backing for Mideast Plan

    The US President Bush looked Tuesday for a commitment from Arab leaders to end Palestinian uprising and move toward peace with Israel. Seeking to broker Middle East peace, Bush met first with Egyptian President Mubarak, who organized the Arab summit in this Red Sea resort. Amid tight security in Sharm el-Sheikh, Bush and Mubarak are holding talks before.. More