Osama bin Laden, the leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, was located between October 17 and 19 on the territory of North-Eastern Pakistan. A reconnaissance airplane from the Indian Air Forces located Osama bin Laden, travelling in a column of t
The condition of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has improved markedly as he entered a fourth day of emergency treatment in France, Palestinian officials have said Monday. Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said 75-year-old Arafat was "more lively and less
US President George Bush enjoys a three-point edge among likely voters, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center. The survey has President Bush with a three-point lead, 48% to 45% for Sen.
The deputy governor of Baghdad has been assassinated and four of his bodyguards wounded in a drive-by shooting on Monday. Police say the drive-by shooting that killed Hatem Karim occurred in the southern Dora district of the Iraqi capital.
Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's former prime minister has won the first round of voting to choose a successor to President Leonid Kuchma, an exit poll showed. Yushchenko who is seeking to bring the country closer to the European Union took 45.
Ukrainians go to the polls on Sunday in a contest-intense presidential election judged as a "moment of truth" for the future of democracy in the former Soviet republic. The nationwide goes amid heavy security for the election pitting the pro-Russian rulin
A Tupolev-154 passenger jet, flying from Kazan to Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh, was forced to make an emergency landing at the Kazan airport after one of its three engines malfunctioned shortly after takeoff. The engine faulted about twenty minutes after the T
The US space agency Nasa says the first space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster of 2003 is to be launched next May or early June. All shuttle missions had been suspended pending investigation of the accident, in which seven astronauts died.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stated he would replace his controversial nominee to the European Commission, Rocco Buttiglione. The latter has been at the centre of backdrop crisi over his comments on homosexuality and women.
Two Iraqi police officers were killed and six other were wounded Friday in a missile and mortar firing in Ramadi between US marines and Iraqi militants. Two of the wounded are US marines, according to US military officials.
The body of an Asian man was found Friday in Iraq near the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, the US military said in a statement e-mailed from the Iraqi capital. Soldiers from the US-led multinational force have reportedly taken the man's remains from a h
More than 80 suicide attackers have been trained abroad to launch strikes in Russia, announced country's security services chief during Parliament debates. Nikolai Patrushev called Friday for the creation of a single permanent anti-terrorist centre.
Spanish police have arrested 13 more suspected Islamic militants in connection with an alleged plot to blow up the High Court in Madrid. Investigators into the train attacks of 11 March, in which bombers killed 191 people in the Spanish capital, are based
A roadside bomb went off Friday morning by a main road in the center of Athens. The explosion occurred just as two buses passed by, but caused no injuries.
An explosion hit the Marriott Hotel in the central area of Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Thursday, slightly injuring five people, but the government said it was not a terrorist attack. "There is nothing to worry about.
Latvia's government resigned Thursday after lawmakers refused to pass the 2005 budget that had been proposed by Prime Minister Indulis Emsis. This was the ten government of the Baltic state.
A car bomb exploded in the centre Baghdad on Thursday. The vehicle most probably was targeting a U.
A methane explosion killed 13 people and injured 23 in a mine in Russia's Siberia on Thursday, a spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry said. The reasons for the blast are still unknown.
An Iraqi group linked to al-Qaeda network threatened in a video posted on a website Tuesday to behead a Japanese hostage within 48 hours unless Japan withdraws its forces from Iraq. In Japan, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected the demand on Wednesd
Two tigers have devoured a worker at the zoo in Turkey's Gaziantep city, according to media reports. The predators grappled the 43-year-old man while he was bringing food into their cage.
Israel's parliament has voted 67-45 to back Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's heatedly debated proposal to withdraw Jewish settlers and the troops protecting them from Gaza Strip. Under the proposal Israel is to maintain control of Gaza's borders, coastline a
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