Prime Minister Ariel Sharon delayed a decision on the path of a contested security barrier cutting through the West Bank, a Cabinet minister said Wednesday, a day after the United States warned Israel might forfeit part of a USD 9 B loan guarantee package
A new audiotape claimed to carry the voice of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein was broadcast on Arab television Wednesday, demanding that U.S.
More than 100,000 people on the US east coast were urged to leave their homes and seek refuge inland as Hurricane Isabel heads for the US shores. Experts had predicted that the storm would be a Category Five one -- the most dangerous level -- but its top
Sweden's police will question Wednesday the man that was held over suspicion of committing last week's attack that killed Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. Forensic expertise is expected to clarify whether the suspect's genetic code matches the sample taken fr
The US vetoed September 16 a resolution opposing Israel's plan to expel Yasser Arafat, leaving the United Nations (UN) Security Council facing new divisions. Eleven states, including France, China and Russia, voted for a draft resolution presented by the
A top commander of the former Taliban regime who allegedly led rebel fighters in southern Afghanistan was killed in a shooting with Afghan forces, officials said Tuesday. The commander, identified as Hafiz Abdul Rahim, was killed late Sunday in Kandahar p
Yasser Arafat is willing to reach a truce with Israel, his national security adviser said, but Israeli officials rejected the truce offer and demanded that the Palestinian Authority crack down on militant groups. Israeli troops killed an Islamic militant
Swedish police denied reports that a man had already been arrested in connection to the killing of the Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. However, it was said that most probably the killer was hiding in Stockholm.
UK policemen held Monday night a 24-year-old man over the shootings of Bertram Byfield , 41 and his 7-year-old daughter Toni-Ann in an apparent gangland feud in London on September 14. Police believe Toni-Ann, who was shot in the back, saw her father bein
A fire swept Tuesday through Saudi Arabia's biggest prison Al-Hair, killing at least 67 inmates and injuring another 23, prison officials said. The cause of the blaze is still unknown.
Republicans in California, US reacted angrily to Tuesday's court ruling that delays the vote on the future of the state's Democratic Governor Gray Davis. The Ninth Circuit Federal Appeals Court ruled that the ballot should be put off because of concerns t
Drinking problem in Russia is reported to have a tendency toward affecting more and more of the country's women. Female liquor devotees in Russia range from harassed housewives drinking to ease up to stressed businesswomen trying to relax with a glass or
At least three people were reportedly killed in an explosion in the Japanese city of Nagoya where a disgruntled office worker had taken eight people hostage, fire officials said Tuesday. The man, said to be armed with a knife and a bow and arrow, had tak
At least 67 prisoners have been killed and another 20 inmates and three guards injured, the director-general of the prison service has said. The blaze at the Al-Hair prison, in the capital Riyadh broke out around midday (09:00 GMT).
DNA traces have been recovered from the baseball hat worn by the killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, Swedish police say. The breakthrough came five days after Lindh was fatally stabbed in a Stockholm department store.
WTO delegates headed home after talks aimed at galvanizing momentum toward a new multilateral trade accord failed, ravaged by a rift between rich and poor countries. The World Trade Organization (WTO) played down what it termed a "setback," the US blamed
A truck filled with explosives blew up Monday outside a government security building in a southern Russian region bordering Chechnya, killing two people and wounding 25. The explosion shattered all the glass in the Ingushetia regional headquarters of the
Swedish police have identified the suspected killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh by name, according to the on- line edition of the Swedish evening newspaper Aftonbladet. The report quoted one of the officers involved in the investigations as saying: "I
Libya denied American claims that it had tried to procure weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), AFP reported. The official news agency Jana cited foreign ministry official Hassuna al-Shaush as calling the allegations "no more than an invention".
Aaron Michael Hammer, aged 24, was arrested Monday by Los Angeles policemen in connection with the killing of the oldest sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, Yetunde Price. The woman, aged 31, died in hospital on Sunday following a confrontat
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