Ailing Pope John Paul II is "in a bad way," one of his closest advisers said in remarks published Tuesday, calling on the faithful to pray for him. However, the Vatican said the pope would put up with a heavy schedule of public appearances and travel.
A strong earthquake measuring some 4.7 on the open-ended Richter scale shook Tuesday evening the Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece.
South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun lead Wednesday a special ceremony to mark the 55th Armed Forces Day at the Sungnam military airport in the Seoul suburbs. In his speech at the ceremony Roh said that South Korea needed to feel confident that tension ove
Yemen has foiled car bomb attacks against three embassies in capital Sanaa as a previously unknown Islamist group named "Qaeda of Jihad" threatened to attack Yemeni officials. Policemen seized three vehicles packed with explosives, which were planned to b
Serbian state security officer opened fire on colleagues in the southern city of Nish on Tuesday, killing four and wounding three. The dead included one woman.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair told his ruling Labour Party he stands by his decision to go to war with Iraq despite widespread opposition. Blair was addressing his party's annual conference on Tuesday in Bournemouth, as a new poll revealed about 60 pe
An Indian policeman was killed and 24 people including 10 policemen were wounded after two grenade attacks by suspected Islamic militants in Indian-administered Kashmir. Four more people died elsewhere in the restive region, according to police.
New Iraq constitution is unlikely to be adopted within six months, as proposed by Secretary of State Colin Powell, a spokesman for the president of the Iraqi Governing Council said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a US convoy, was attacked on a bridge in northern B
A trial in Belgium of 23 suspected Al-Qaeda militants has ended with convictions for all but five of the accused. The chief suspect - Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian who used to play professional football in Germany - was sentenced to 10 years in jail for plot
The United States has begun withdrawing its peacekeeping troops from Liberia, ahead of the arrival of a United Nations force. Two warships have already left Liberia waters, and a third is due to leave mid-week, defence officials said.
Prominent members of the opposition Democratic Party in the United States are calling for an independent investigation into new allegations surrounding the case for war in Iraq. Two White House officials are said to have illegally disclosed to journalists
Air France is to form a partnership with KLM of the Netherlands in a deal knocking British Airways from its perch as Europe's biggest airline. The ?3.
Amid dissatisfaction from voters, under fire over Iraq and attacked over his domestic agenda, British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces the challenge to reassert his authority in a keynote address to the annual conference of his Labour Party, potentially hi
Israeli troops blew up Tuesday the home of an Islamic Jihad gunman who carried out an attack in a village near Hebron on the eve of the Jewish New Year, killing two people, including a seven-month-old baby. Israel routinely demolishes the homes of gunmen
Hurricane Juan downgraded to a tropical storm early on Monday but it killed at least one person and caused more than 100,000 people to lose power when it hit the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Juan weakened after slamming Nova Scotia during the night w
US troops backed by tanks and helicopters battled Iraqi resistance fighters Monday near this Sunni Muslim town west of Baghdad, and the US military announced the arrest of 92 people in a series of raids aimed at those responsible for attacks against Ameri
Arab satellite television stations aired a new audiotape ascribed to Osama bin Laden's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri in which he called on Pakistanis to overthrow President Pervez Musharraf and on Muslims to resist the US-led "crusade." "Muslims in
An explosion in downtown Florencia, Colombia, killed 10 people and wounded 54 others. Among the dead were two policemen and a 9-year-old boy; the other victims were civilians, police said.
The Indian army says it has killed a number of Islamic militants who were trying to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan. A group of 25 militants was intercepted and as many as 15 were killed.
The storage tank that caught fire at an oil refinery in northern Japan on Sunday as aftershocks jolted the region following a powerful earthquake two days earlier continues ravaging and company officials warned the blaze could spread to nearby oil tanks.
One the most prominent American film directors, Elia Kazan, has died at the age of 94. The son of a Greek immigrant, he won a number of awards as a stage director before extending his talents to writing and the cinema.
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