The European Commission proposed more than $300m of trade sanctions on politically-sensitive US products, including fruit, steel, guns and even billiard tables, in retaliation for US-imposed steel tariffs. The Commission's proposal, which would require ba
The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to send a fact-finding mission to look into Israeli military action at the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin. But after heavy diplomatic pressure from the US and Israel, the resolution do
Pollsters say the outcome of the French presidential election is wide open, with less than three days to go before the first round. The incumbent conservative President, Jacques Chirac, has a lead which is so small that it may not be significant, they say
Italian investigators are looking into the background of an elderly Swiss pilot who crashed his light aircraft into Milan's largest skyscraper killing three people. The crash initially caused panic, as people feared it was a terrorist attack similar to th
The worst violence for a month has flared up in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli troops continue their partial withdrawal from Palestinian towns in the West Bank. Three Palestinian men were shot dead during an incursion by Israeli tanks and troops into the town
The five planets visible to the naked eye are lining up in the sky. Astronomers say the rare grouping of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn may not be seen again for a century.
Jamaican police have arrested 51 suspected drug smugglers and recovered 2,502 cocaine-filled condoms they had swallowed. The operation also netted nearly $1 million in suspected drug money.
The US has sounded out Japan on the possibility of sending a destroyer to support a military offensive against Iraq, newspaper reports say. The informal request was made during a meeting of US and Japanese officials, said the Asahi newspaper, which quoted
Israel has rejected an appeal by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for a "robust" armed force to halt the escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Annan told the UN Security Council that an impartial multinational force large enough to take "decisive action
Israel has completed its pullback from the West Bank town of Jenin, redeploying its forces on the outskirts of the town. Residents are being allowed to search for relatives and belongings in a devastated refugee camp, where a UN official called the scene
At least four people are dead and dozens injured after a small private plane hit Italy's tallest skyscraper, causing a massive explosion that shook windows of nearby blocks and carved a huge gash into the side of the 32-storey structure. Interior Minister
A landmine claimed at least 15 lives in Chechnya on Thursday just as Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Moscow that the military stage of the conflict was over. Addressing both houses of the Russian parliament, Mr Putin said that the time had come t
Israel has begun to withdraw its forces from the West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus, the scene of heavy fighting during the past two weeks. Witnesses saw 50 tanks leaving the battered Jenin refugee camp.
Former Afghan king Zahir Shah has returned to Kabul from Italy amid tight security after 29 years in exile. Delegations from all over Afghanistan - holding flowers and pictures of the former king - greeted him at the airport, overjoyed at his return, BBC
A US fighter plane in Afghanistan has accidentally bombed a group of Canadian troops, killing four soldiers and injuring eight others. The incident, which occurred during a routine training exercise, happened near the southern city of Kandahar, 14 kilomet
US President George W Bush has insisted that the Middle East peace mission of his Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was not a total failure. Mr Powell ended his 10-day visit on Wednesday without clinching a ceasefire or securing a full Israeli withdrawal
Captured al Qaeda fighters say Osama bin Laden was wounded in Tora Bora in December and ordered lieutenants to disperse in various directions, anti-terror coalition sources said, quoted by CNN. But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he has not seen "s
The Bush administration said Tuesday it did not encourage a failed coup in Venezuela, but acknowledged "conversations" with opposition leaders in that oil-rich country, as well as a meeting with Venezuela's military chief-of-staff late last year. Some reb
British Royal Marines have destroyed al-Qaeda bunkers and cave complexes in the mountains of south-eastern Afghanistan. About 500 marines have gone into action with allied US and Afghan troops, to track down any residual Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters in a
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has ended a 10-day Middle East peace mission without clinching a ceasefire or securing a full Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian areas. Speaking after talks in Ramallah with the besieged Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafa
The besieged Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, has voiced outrage over his treatment by the Israelis, following talks with US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Mr Arafat emerged from the meeting in Ramallah in angry mood, the BBC's Jon Leyne reports.
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