A mid-sized cargo plane crashed in northern Spain early on Monday, killing its three crew members, an executive of Ibertrans, the package-delivery company that operated the plane, told CNN. The Brazilian-made dual propeller Embraer 120 lost contact with t
British Prime Minister Tony Blair held telephone talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki on the deepening political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, officials said on Sunday. Leaders of the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) bl
Al Qaeda militants practiced carrying out a mass assassination of world leaders and an attack on a motorcade, according to a video obtained in Afghanistan and broadcast on Australian television. The Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The Indian military is reporting a new militant attack in Kashmir, despite Islamabad's new pledge to root out terrorism. Two suspected militants were shot to death after they allegedly tried to attack a paramilitary camp in Srinigar Sunday.
Responding to an ultimatum from President Andres Pastrana, Colombia's largest rebel group said Sunday it will give up its control of a 16,000-square-mile demilitarized zone. The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish acronym
A journalist working for a leading African newspaper has fled Zimbabwe and is in fear for his life after he was branded a terrorist on television by a minister in President Robert Mugabe's government. Dingilizwe Ntuli, a reporter working for South Africa'
Auditing firm Arthur Andersen instructed its employees in a memo to destroy most of their material relating to Enron just days before the energy trading company went bankrupt, according to a report in the latest edition of Time magazine. Enron markets ele
Israeli missiles fired from the sea hit Palestinian naval targets near Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's office in Gaza City on Saturday, Palestinian security sources said. They said one boat capsized and another was badly damaged, and a fue
Military sources in Kandahar said Sunday they are holding detainees who had "plans to one day travel to the United States and kill Americans." Bagram air base north of Kabul -- now holding roughly 50 detainees -- appears to be an increasingly important ar
Cyrus R. Vance, who resigned as President Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State over an ill-fated attempt to save American hostages from Iran, has died.
China has launched a massive 700 billion yuan ($84 billion) 5-year environmental protection plan to combat a worsening pollution problem. By 2005 China hopes to have reduced the total amount of pollutants in the air, water and soil by 10 percent of 2000 l
Welcoming Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's pledge to crack down on religious extremists, India says it will judge its neighbor's actions before it begins a military de-escalation or resumes dialogue. The statement marks the first Indian reaction to M
Twenty Afghan war detainees spent a "calm and peaceful" first night in a temporary detention center -- 6-by-8 chain-link cells on the U.S.
Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf roundly denounced terrorist fundamentalist Islamic elements in his nation in a highly anticipated speech as Pakistani police arrested dozens of people in Karachi on Saturday.
Police in Pakistan have arrested more than 200 suspected militants ahead of a key speech by President Pervez Musharraf, seen widely as an opportunity to satisfy Indian demands that he curbs Islamic extremism.
Israeli missiles fired from the sea early Saturday struck Palestinian naval targets near Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat's office in Gaza City, according to Palestinian security sources. The strikes were the latest Israeli military and law enfo
Twenty Afghan war detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba January 11 and were led off a C-141 transport plane in shackles by U.S.
The Singapore government has released a chilling videotape it says shows details of a planned attack by a broken terrorist cell on U.S.
Ford Motor Co. said Friday it is cutting 35,000 jobs worldwide and closing five plants in North America as the No.
On the same day as the first group of detainees from Afghanistan arrived at a U.S.
India is ready for war with Pakistan, its army chief says, and would use its nuclear weapons if its neighbor were to launch a nuclear strike first. India blames Pakistan for backing Kashmiri militants and terrorist groups who have conducted an ongoing gue
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