The former UN chief weapons inspector in Iraq, Richard Butler, says his phone calls at the United Nations were bugged during his tenure from 1997 to 1999. He told Australian radio at least four UN Security Council members monitored his calls, and he would
Haitian anti-President rebels have seized control over the city of Mirebalais, some 57 kilometres from capital Port-au-Prince. Rebels, lead by Guy Philippe, already control half of the country, and are threatening to attack the capital unless President
Libya is set for destroying more than 3,000 unfilled chemical bombs, under the supervision of Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspectors. The experts have already begun overseeing the dismantling of Libya's nuclear
Former Japanese doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara has been found guilty and sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways. The trial of Asahara lasted eight years.
The United States moved closer to normalized relations with Libya by ending a 23-year ban on travel there to reward Tripoli for quitting its quest for weapons of mass destruction. The package, which was to be formally announced later Thursday, is "in reco
European Commission President Romano Prodi will visit Libya later Thursday to take part in a conference of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union (AU), Iranian news agency IRNA reported. Prodi's spokesman, Reijo Kemppinen, told the EU Observ
British spies were bugging UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's office in the run up to the Iraq war, former UK cabinet minister Clare Short has claimed. The ex-international development secretary said she had read some of the transcripts of his conversation
An explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak destroyed a cafe in southern Siberia on Thursday, killing at least 17people and wounding another 17, Russian officials said. The cafe in the southern Siberian city of Chita was destroyed in the blast an
Turkish prosecutors indicted Wednesday 69 suspected al-Qaeda militants accused in the Istanbul suicide bombings last year that killed 63 people and injured nearly 700. Turkish media reported that prosecutors were demanding life imprisonment for five of th
Anger over lack of emergency aid and the shoddy construction work is mounting among the thousands of survivors of the devastating earthquake in northern Morocco, whose death toll exceeded 570. Search and rescue teams said late Wednesday they had all but g
President Vladimir Putin huddled with top pro-Kremlin lawmakers while Russia was kept guessing about its new leaders after a shock government sacking just three weeks ahead of a presidential poll. Putin did little to clarify the new leadership mystery by
Libya reversed its prime minister and confirmed that it was responsible for blowing up Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 and killing 270 people. The statement by the Jamahiriya news agency could put back on track a plan by the Bush administration to let Americans
US marines escorted foreigners trying to flee Haiti's capital Wednesday as looting broke out and opposition leaders urged a "timely and orderly" departure of beleaguered President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide loyalists built dozens of flaming barricad
Belgium marks the Binche carnival, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage event. It is the biggest and the liveliest such event in Belgium.
A Swiss air traffic controller has been killed in his home in Zurich, police reported. The victim was on duty at the time two planes collided over southern Germany in July 2002, and investigators do not ruled out the possibility that revenge was the motiv
Envoys from the United States and North Korea have staked out sharply different positions at the start of six-way talks on Wednesday to resolve Pyongyang's nuclear issue. North Korea said it hoped the talks would create "a positive result" and narrow the
The US military is searching for the crew of a helicopter that has crashed west of Baghdad, an Aljazeera correspondent says. The US military says the crash involved crew from the 82nd Airborne Division's area of operations but has not yet announced any ca
Exploiting a provision which bars gays from military service, more than 150 Italians are thought to have paid two doctors for certificates diagnosing them as suffering from "sexual anxieties" and being "incompatible" with the stress of living together in
Regional al-Qaeda networks are still capable of "Catastrophic Attacks" on US targets, CIA Director George Tenet, cited by The Washington Post, told the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday. According to Tenet, the US has achieved considerable success
Leftovers of nuclear tests were found in Iran by experts of the international nuclear watchdog MAGATE, Russian news agency RIA Novosti broke off on Wednesday. The initial results revealed tracks of plutonium-210, which is processed for military purposes,
The number of people who died in Tuesday's earthquake that rocked northern Morocco exceeded 560, latest figures showed on Wednesday. There are also reports of more than 300 injured.
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