Eleven Palestinians were killed and nearly 100 injured Thursday during an Israeli military operation near the Jabaliya refugee camp, Palestinian hospital officials said, less than a day after a suicide bombing killed 15 Israelis in the northern Israeli po
A passenger plane crash in southern Algeria claimed the lives of more than 100 people on board. According to AP reports one man survived and 102 died in the crash.
German unemployment has risen to 11.3%, its highest level during the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
Israeli troops, backed by tanks and helicopters, advanced into a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip overnight, in an operation that is reported to have left at least 11 Palestinians dead and scores injured. Palestinians accused Israelis of firing into a crowd
Officials in Armenia say the incumbent President, Robert Kocharyan, has won a clear victory in the second round of the presidential election. With nearly all the votes counted, Mr Kocharyan is on 67% - far ahead of his challenger, Stephan Demirchyan.
Reports from the United Nations say Britain is proposing changes to the planned new Security Council resolution it is tabling on Iraq, to allow President Saddam Hussein a final opportunity to disarm peacefully. The British initiative is part of the diplom
US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Iraq had made no real attempt to disarm but instead was trying to deceive and divide the international community. In an impassioned speech, Mr Powell said Iraq's effort must fail, because no one wanted to live in a
In a message to the population and to the outside world, thousands of members of Iraq's interior security forces have marched in Baghdad. The authorities say they would play an important role in defending the country against any US-led invasion.
Pope John Paul II has called on world leaders to assume their responsibility and make every effort to spare humanity "a dramatic conflict" in Iraq. The head of the Catholic Church made the appeal during his weekly general audience.
A bomb blast has ripped through a bus in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, local officials say. There are reported to be many casualties from the explosion, which happened while the vehicle was on a main street.
Spain's Lower House of Parliament has voted in a secret ballot instigated by the opposition calling on parliamentarians to oppose the government's support of military action in Iraq. But the motion has been defeated.
The annual meeting of China's parliament has opened for a session which is due to bring forward a new generation of leaders to guide the world's most populous nation. Almost 3,000 delegates to the largely toothless National People's Congress, or NPC, gath
The United States is ordering extra military forces - thought to be long-range bombers - to boost defences near North Korea. The move comes amid heightened tensions with Pyongyang, following Monday's interception of a US surveillance plane by four North K
Washington has accused North Korea of "reckless behaviour" after four of its fighter jets intercepted a US reconnaissance plane in international airspace. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Pyongyang was testing the tolerance of the US and the incid
Russia is still not ruling out the use of its veto in the UN Security Council to prevent a war in Iraq, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has told the BBC. "I do not rule anything out, because the right of veto can be used by any permanent member of th
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld believes Iraq is capable of building new weapons even with inspectors in the country. In an exclusive interview for BBC he said even the destruction of al-Samoud missiles as demanded by the United Nations was no real s
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been seeking to rally his people behind him as the United States steps up its preparations to topple him. In a letter read out on television to mark the Islamic New Year on Tuesday, Saddam told his people that if they kept
Nineteen suspected members of the November 17 guerrilla group have gone on trial in Athens. The start of the hearing in a bunker-like courtroom built inside a maximum-security prison was marked by arguments and chaotic scenes.
About 80 people are missing after a boat sank in north-western Nigeria. The boat sank on the River Niger in Kebbi State on Saturday but reports of the accident just started to emerge on Monday.
The 184 victims of the 11 September 2001 attack on the Pentagon will be remembered with 184 "light benches", the US Defence Department said on Monday. The winning design was chosen from 1,126 entries, and will stand under the final flight path of American
Iraq destroyed six more of about 100 Al Samoud 2 missiles on Monday, according to U.N.
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