As China's southern Guangdong stepped up a campaign to exterminate rats believed to carry the SARS virus, neighbouring Hong Kong reported a new suspected case of the potentially fatal illness in the province. Beijing, however, said in its daily SARS repor
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale shook an area close to the Algerian capital on Saturday evening, slightly injuring about 300 residents, official media reported.
A top Palestinian decision-making body voiced its right to declare a state unilaterally in the West Bank and Gaza after Israel threatened to take stand-alone measures of its own. The executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) also
At least 21 illegal immigrants were found frozen to death after the engines on a speedboat carrying them from Albania to Italy cut out amid biting cold in the Adriatic Sea, officials said. An Italian naval vessel found only 11 survivors on the stricken bo
An American Eagle commuter flight from New York to Washington was diverted Saturday because a threat was made by a passenger "against the aircraft". An FBI spokesperson said the threat involved a note given to someone on the plane.
Iraqi police fired into a crowd of protesters that were throwing stones killing six people and wounding 11.They protested over the lack of jobs in the southern town of Amarah on Saturday, Hundreds of protesters gathered opposite the coalition office where
Eight people were killed as communist insurgents launched a new wave of attacks in the Philippines, including an attempted raid on a power plant and the burning of a telecommunications tower, the military said. The attacks came as the spokesman of the com
Saddam Hussein, who was declared a prisoner of war by the US Defence Department, could stand trial in Iraq by June, an Iraqi Governing Council member said. The US Defense Department named Saddam a prisoner of war after much legal internal strife, nearly a
A Pakistani court has fined two French journalists and sentenced them to six months in jail for violating visa regulations. Reporter Marc Epstein and photographer Jean-Paul Guilloteau of French weekly L'Express pleaded guilty to charges that they visited
The US delegation which visited North Korea revealed that it visited the secret nuclear complex at Yongbyon. US thinks that the facility is being used to develop nuclear weapons.
Iraqi police defused a car bomb outside a Shiite mosque in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad. On Friday suicide attacker with a bomb on a bicycle killed at least five worshippers after the prayers at a Shiite mosque in Iraq underscoring the threat of r
Army and police divers recovered 34 more bodies from a canal, raising the death toll in one of Pakistan's worst bus crashes to 62, state television said. Rescue teams found 28 bodies late Thursday after the overloaded passenger bus plunged into the Thal c
US reduced its nationwide terror alert but maintained special measures for international flights and in other areas as it warned that the world must remain on guard for attacks. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced that the alert had been reduc
Turkey abolished death penalty signing Protocol No.13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which bans completely death penalty, in war times including, AFP informed.
Interim president of Georgia Nino Burjanadze announced at the special briefing today that the parliamentary elections would be held on March 28, 2004. Nino Burjanadze thanked Georgia's people for their high turnout in presidential elections and expressed
Libya has sent a harsh letter to Israel, via a third party, announcing that it is suspending contacts with Jerusalem due to leaks to the press of meetings between representatives from the two countries, Israel Radio reported Friday morning, citing an Arab
At least 5 people were killed in a blast outside a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad, as US troops rounded up suspected insurgents in Tikrit and Iraq 's interim leadership endorsed Kurdish autonomy within a federal system. Officials said that at least tw
The United Nations and the Red Cross launched a USD 73 M appeal on Thursday for victims of the earthquake that razed the Iranian city of Bam, killing some 30,000 people. The money will be used over the next three months to provide medical care, revive agr
About 12,000 children fell dead under the ruins of the devastating quake, which hit the Iranian town of Bam on Dec 26, 2003, according to a report of UNICEF, Russian media informed. The report reads that another 1,800 children are left complete orphans an
President Bush plans a major announcement on space policy next week that envisions sending Americans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars, officials and congressional aides said on Thursday. The successful landing on Mars by a robot explorer has buoyed
US troops in Iraq raided houses and shops across Tikrit late Thursday in an operation aimed at weeding out remaining resistance in the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Russell, whose battalion is due soon to pull out of Iraq along with t
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