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Israel gave Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in Gaza 48 hours Friday to avoid an Israeli military operation in the strip, government officials said.
For the first time in 10 days, it opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Friday morning to allow in essential humanitarian supplies.
If Hamas, the radical...
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Seven US soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed west of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the US army said Thursday.
The Chinook helicopter, which had been en route from Kuwait to the military base in Balad north of Baghdad, had not come under fire and the crash appeared to have been an accident, the army said in a...
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Five people, including an army officer, were killed Wednesday in India's Jammu and Kashmir state by suspected Islamic militants who had infiltrated across the border from Pakistan, police said.
Security forces had killed one of the militants who were holed up in a house in a residential area on the outskirts of Jammu city, the...
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Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.
Police earlier arrested three prominent separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, to foil a major...
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A huge fire destroyed Managua's landmark
Oriental Market, wiping out 1,500 vendor stalls and causing an
estimated 100 million dollars in damage, local media reported early
Saturday. The conflagration raged Friday for 11 hours,
destroying most of the sprawling Mercado Oriental, reputedly Central
America's largest market hall. No...
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According to officials, thousands of
workers continued search and rescue operations Saturday after Tropical Storm
Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday.
The tropical storm, which was upgraded to
typhoon level, brought heavy rain on central and southern Taiwan. The
National Fire Agency informs that up to 39 inches of rain fell in no more...
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 The governor of Istanbul
announced on Wednesday that three policemen and three gunmen had been killed
in a shootout near the United States Consulate in the Turkish city.
The identity of the attackers remains unknown, but they are
said to have commenced the gunfire at police standing outside the main entrance
at about 11.00 a.m....
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Two French students were found
stabbed to death in a burned-out apartment situated in London. They were the victims of a
"frenzied, brutal, horrific attack," authorities said.
The victims were identified as
Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both aged 23. Mick Duthie, a police officer
from London's
Metropolitan...
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A Palestinian driving a bulldozer
went on a downtown Jerusalem street
Wednesday, plowing into a bus, cars and pedestrian people. The regrettable
episode finished up with the death of at least 3 individuals and the injuring
of minimum 45.
Traffic was brought to a
standstill, and countless terrified people ran off on the...
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John Horn, aged 62, shot two men
which he suspected of burglarizing his neighbor’s home on Nov. 14, after he
called 911 and told the authorities he was on the verge of killing the
intruders with his shotgun. After the shooting, the perpetrator was both admired
and slandered.
Some neighbors from Pasadena supporting...
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On Tuesday, Israel
sealed its crossings with the Gaza Strip, in return to a rocket assault across
borders, says The Associated Press.
On Monday, late afternoon, Palestinians fired a missile, but
the occurrence had no damages and nobody was hurt.
As a consequence of gun attacks, the border crossings will
be closed for five...
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 The center of Seoul has been
taken with assault by thousands of people revolted against the government’s
recent agreement with Washington
related to beef imports. The major fear for the citizens of South Korea is the high risk that
the imported meat could carry mad cow disease.
The protests against the April 18 agreement started...
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31 people were killed and several others injured in western India
in two days of violence between police officers and members of a farming caste
demanding job quotas for their community.
According to G.C. Kataria, the state's home
minister, the clashes started on Friday when Gujjar protesters a police officer
in Bharatpur district...
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the 136th day of 2008 with 230 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include author L. Frank Baum ("The Wizard of Oz") in 1856; French chemist Pierre Curie in 1859; author...
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the 132nd day of 2008 with 234 to follow. This is Mother's Day. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, in 1854;...
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the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
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 A powerful earthquake was registered in west Indonesia’s Sumatra Island
on Monday. Even though no great damages were discovered, the government
issued a tsunami warning. However, the warning was lifted just 45 minutes
later.
Hassanudin, a police officer in Bengkulu town, told Reuters
that “There are no reports of damages or...
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 According to the US army, a US Army helicopter crashed in
northern Italy on Thursday, killing at least five people on board
Eleven US service members were on board the UH-60 Army
Blackhawk helicopter, US Army Europe said in a statement released by its
headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany.
Earlier, the Italian fire department said...
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 A rather large steel bucket gave pedestrians quite a scare
as it fell to the ground 53 stories below. The steel bucket toppled from the
roof of a skyscraper under construction in Midtown yesterday afternoon, banging
along the side of the building and trailing a shower of glass and metal. Eight
people were injured, the Fire Department...
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 Coming up this month is the 20th anniversary of the Montreal save the atmosphere’s
ozone layer treaty. The anniversary will be honored by 191 nations involved in
the pact.
This does not only mark the a break through in removing the use of ozone
depleting chemicals like those found in coolants, but it also provides a model
for...
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the 258th day of 2007 with 107 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Saturn, Mars and Venus. The evening stars are Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date in history are under the sign of Virgo. They include novelist James Fenimore Cooper in 1789; William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United...
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 At least 14 people were killed and more than nine were
wounded when US strike
forces raided the west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The attack took place over night; several houses were
destroyed in the attack, which took place at about 03:00 (23:00 GMT) in the
Washash neighborhood of the city's Mansour district.
The...
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 The Vancouver suburb of Surrey is in mourning since they witnessed one of the
most terrific hot air balloon accidents in the last decade.
The balloon belonging to Fantasy Balloons Charters caught
fire shortly after take off. Exact cause is still unknown but officials are
investigating the case.
Apparently the fire started...
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 Two major forest fires in the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece have killed more than 15 people. The exact death toll is unknown because officials were unable to enter some danger areas to confirm all those presumed dead. Most of the casualties were burned to death but there were other types of deaths related to the fires. One of these was...
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 Four Palestinians were killed and another twelve were
injured in a clash with the Israeli ground forces while the latter were in a
raid on the Gaza Strip, region controlled by Hamas. One Hamas militant and one
40-year-old bystander were shot during the raid, nearby the Qarara and Abassan
villages, according to hospital...
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the 191st day of 2007 with 174 to follow.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Protestant theologian John Calvin in 1509; American painter James Whistler in 1834; brewer...
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 ic The Danish island of Aeroe is like something out of a picture-book. The sea is never far away and the countryside has been blessed by gently rolling hills.
Aeroe is a relaxing place without room for fast paced modern life. In the summer, elderberry blossoms decorate the countryside and with a bit of luck you might spot a Fire...
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...the 166th day of 2007 with 199 to follow.
The moon is new. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Prince Edward of England, son of Edward III and known as the "Black Prince," in 1330;...
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Israel on Friday gave Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in the Gaza Strip 48 hours to reduce ongoing rocket and mortar attacks from the salient or risk an Israeli military operation into the strip.
For the first time in 10 days, Israel opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Friday morning to allow in essential...
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Palestinian militants showered southern Israel with rockets Wednesday, causing Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak to reverse a decision to open Gaza Strip crossing points to allow an aid convoy to enter the salient.
By Wednesday evening, more than 70 rockets and mortar shells were launched from Gaza, causing no injuries but damage...
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West
Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continued their back-and-forth arrests
of top party leaders Friday, capping a week of detentions sparked by a
car explosion in the Gaza Strip that killed five Hamas militants and a
girl. Hamas blamed Fatah for the blast; Fatah said the explosion was due to...
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Released prisoner Samir Kuntar accused Israel
late Thursday of fabricating the story of how he killed the
four-year-old daughter of an Israeli man in 1979. 'Israel has
fabricated the story about how I killed the child during the attack I
carried out in 1979,' Kuntar told the Hezbollah- run Al Manar
television. He said that he...
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A cautious calm prevailed over the northern
city of Tripoli early Thursday as weary citizens waited for the army
and security forces to carry out a redeployment plan and halt clashes
that have killed five people and wounded more than 80. The
Mufti of Tripoli, Sheikh Malek Shaar, told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa
that an 'agreement...
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Clashes raged in the northern Lebanese city of
Tripoli Wednesday between followers of the ruling minority and the
majority led by Hezbollah, leaving at least two people dead and more
than 39 wounded, according to police and hospital records. Police reports said four Lebanese soldiers and a police officer were also wounded by sniper...
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 11 Afghanistan
policemen were killed after an attack set by some Taliban insurgents. According
to Deputy provincial police chief Amanullah Khan, the attack occurred Saturday at
a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.
Apparently, the insurgents opened fire in the policemen in the Arghandab
district of Kandahar province. Some reports...
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 Four U.S.
soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad
on Sunday, bringing the overall American toll in the Iraq war to 4,000. The roadside
bomb exploded next to the four troops’ vehicle in southern Baghdad,
causing their death and injuring another soldier, the U.S. military
reports.
The U.S.-protected Green Zone...
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 Two Palestinian militants were killed and four wounded in an
explosion at a beachfront facility of the militant Hamas organization in
southern Gaza City, witnesses and Palestinian doctors
said on Thursday.
Security officials claim the explosion was probably caused
by a “work accident” which led to premature detonation of...
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 Israeli police released the identity of the gunman who shot the eight students inside the library of a well-known religious school in Jerusalem, The New York Times wrote on its Web site.The gunman’s name was released the same day the families of the eight students killed in the attack attended the funerals of their children. The man...
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 At least eight people were killed and 10 other were wounded on Thursday as a Palestinian militant opened fire inside a renowned Jewish religious school in Jerusalem. The shooting was labeled as a “slaughterhouse" by Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of the Zaka emergency service according to Reuters. He made that statement after...
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 Despite intense peace efforts, the violence in Israel and Gaza persists. Two Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday by an Israeli air strike, Reuters wrote on its Web site. One of the victims was a rocket squad member according to militant and medical sources. The strikes determined Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend...
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 The latest attacks carried out by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip led to the killing of at least 20 Palestinians, including four children aged between 9 and 16. At least six Palestinian militants were killed in the fire exchange and five Israeli troops suffered minor wounds after tanks entered three areas in northern Gaza.The...
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 During an Israeli army raid carried out early Thursday morning on the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city, two Palestinian gunmen were killed in a fire exchange in Nablus according to the local hospital officials.Several other Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air strikes.The sound of gun fire broke the silence of...
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 At least six Palestinian militants were killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in air strikes.Five of them died as the vehicle they were in was attacked from the air near the southern town of Khan Younis. All of them were reportedly senior members of the Islamist Hamas movement that controls the Gaza Strip. Locals said they had just...
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During his visit to Egypt on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas asked Hamas group to cease the rocket fire on Israel,
hoping that this would lead to Israel
lifting the embargo on Gaza Strip.
President Abbas told reporters
that he believes Israel is
using rocket attacks as a pretext to keep the siege on Gaza, Xinhua...
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 Three Shiite pilgrims were killed
and 15 were injured in a roadside bomb attack Monday morning, in Iraq,
during a Shiite festival, police said.
The roadside bomb exploded on the
outskirts of Baghdad while pilgrims were heading
on foot to the annual Arbaeen festival, in the southern city of Karbala, Reuters...
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Hamas asked the European Union on
Friday to pressure on Israel
to put an end to the economic and military blockade of the Gaza Strip. Gaza has been ruled by
Hamas Islamists since June, when Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas were expelled.
“We urge the European Union not
to limit its action to purely...
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 A long-expected report on Israel’s second war with the Lebanese
Hezbollah militia was released Wednesday, both the military and government
being heavily criticized for several flawed decisions.
Although Ehud Olmert’s government is blamed for entering the
conflict before deciding “which option to select and without an exit...
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 Iraq’s capital Baghdad was rocked Tuesday by three powerful
explosions that injured at least 18 people, but didn’t cause any fatalities,
security officials informed.
Police said 10 of the injured in two of the blasts were
police officers and the rest were civilians, the Kuwait News Agency reported.
The third explosion caused no...
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 Five US soldiers were killed Monday by a roadside bomb in the northern city of
Mosul, US military officials informed.
A vehicle of the US forces was hit by a powerful explosion in the
capital of Nineveh province and then came under small arms fire, before additional
security forces arrived in the area.
Monday’s attack came...
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 At least seven opposition supporters were shot dead in
Beirut during streets clashes with security forces, media reports said Monday.
Violence escalated in the Lebanese capital on Sunday after
demonstrators began throwing stones and setting vehicles on fire.
Dozen more demonstrators who had set fire to tires and
closed major...
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 Israel announced Sunday it will allow fuel shipments to reach the power station in Gaza. But Israeli officials did not mention when the badly needed fuel will arrive at the power plant producing electricity for the Hamas-ruled salient.A half-million gallons of fuel per week will be shipped to the Gaza Strip in response to a petition...
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 Israeli security officials said Monday evening that the military would
allow industrial diesel fuel to enter the Gaza Strip for one day only
on Tuesday, allowing the enclave's sole power plant to resume
operations following a four-day Israeli lockdown.
"On a one-time basis, Israel will allow in industrial diesel,"...
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 Israel Saturday continued its military operation against targets in the
Gaza Strip, killing two Hamas operatives and wounding four in an air
attack on northern Gaza.
Acting Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad meanwhile called on
Hamas to stop provoking Israel with rocket attacks, saying these only
brought "disaster"...
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 Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of tourists in south-eastern Yemen on
Friday, killing two female Belgian tourists and two Yemenis, police
officials said.
Another Belgian tourist and three Yemenis were wounded in the attack, the officials said.
They said the assailants opened fire on four Land Cruiser vehicles
carrying 15 tourists...
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 Israel launched three more airstrikes Friday, targeting also Gaza
City's Hamas-run Interior Ministry, in response to three days of
escalating violence during which Palestinian militants fired at least
130 rockets and mortar shells at the Jewish state.
A 52-year-old woman was killed and at least 46 people were injured
in the strike...
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 Five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were killed in two Israeli Israeli
airstrikes Thursday, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that Israel
will not continue to "suffer unending Qassam rocket fire" from the
salient.
The second airstrike, in the evening, killed three people,
including a mother and her son, as well as a...
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 Israel killed three Palestinian civilians in a botched strike
Wednesday, while militants launched 42 rockets and mortars at the
Jewish state, in response to bloody Israeli-Palestinian fighting
Tuesday which left 18 Gazans dead.
Israeli troops in the West Bank also killed a senior leader of the
radical Islamic Jihad, who had been...
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 Militants in police uniform killed at least five foreigners and two
Afghan guards in a brazen suicide bomb and gun attack at the Kabul
luxury hotel, Afghan authorities and a victim said on Tuesday.
At least three militants carried out a multi-pronged attack in the
city's most fortified area, which is some 300 metres from...
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 Israeli troops rolled into northern Gaza Tuesday, sparking the
deadliest fighting with local militants in more than a year and killing
at least 19 Palestinians, including two killed in the evening in an
airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip.
Another 45 people were injured, 12 of them seriously, hospital officials said.
Taher...
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 A suicide attack in a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital on Monday left
at least six people dead and another six injured, Afghan Interior
Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said late Monday.
The former ruling Taliban, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for
the attack, which took place during a visit by Norway's foreign
minister....
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 The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday
accused US President George W Bush of violating United Nations
resolution 194 on the return of Palestinian refugees and the payment to
them of compensation.
According to Azzam al-Ahmad, the chief of the Fatah parliamentary bloc, Bush has offered just to...
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 Admitting that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Premier
Ehud Olmert faced some "tough choices," US President George W Bush
nonetheless expressed optimism Thursday that the sides would be able to
reach a peace deal by the year's end.
"I believe there will be a signed peace treaty by the time I...
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The Pentagon released a video Tuesday showing small Iranian boats
speeding around three US naval warships in the Gulf and a voice over a
radio that warned the US sailors "you will explode."
At one point one of the five Iranian boats came within less than
200 metres of a destroyer, the USS Hopper, despite requests by...
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 Israel will intensify its actions against rocket attacks launched from
the Gaza Strip, Premier Ehud Olmert said Sunday, as an Israeli raid
into the central salient killed at least three people after militants
fired 42 mortars and 16 rockets at the Jewish state over the weekend.
The Israeli raid on the vicinity of the el-Bureij...
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 Israeli troops rolled into southern Gaza early Thursday, sparking
fierce fighting with local militants and killing at least seven
Palestinians, among them five members of the same family whose house
was shelled, hospital officials said.
A seventh Palestinian, a Hamas militant, was also killed and two
others injured in eastern Gaza...
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 Tensions surrounding the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip heightened Wednesday,
as Israel killed six Palestinian gunmen in a military raid, and also
expressed fury at Egypt for opening its border with Gaza to allow the
return of hundreds of stranded pilgrims.
The Gaza-Egypt border crossing of Rafah has been shut down since
the radical...
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 Palestinian gunmen shot dead two Israeli settlers near the southern
West Bank city of Hebron Friday, before one of them was shot dead
himself and the second wounded in an ensuing fire- fight, Israel Radio
reported.
The two gunmen opened fire at a group of Israelis as they were
hiking in a valley near the city, police spokesman...
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 Five Palestinian militants were killed in two separate Israeli strikes
late Thursday in the southern and central Gaza Strip, medics in the
enclave said.
Four of the gunmen were members of the radical Islamic Jihad and one was from Hamas, witnesses said.
Two militants were killed when an Israeli plane fired a missile at
a car...
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 At least 31 people were killed and around 100 wounded Tuesday in a wave
of violence in Iraq. The US army said it killed 13 militants during
operations that began a day earlier.
In one incident, 23 people were killed when a suicide attacker
detonated his bomb-riddled car simultaneously when another two suicide
bombers detonated...
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 Saying Israel was engaged in a "war" with militant organizations in the
Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected Sunday feelers by Hamas
to discuss a ceasefire and said the Islamist group first had to
recognize the Jewish state.
He told ministers during Sunday's weekly cabinet session in
Jerusalem that Israel had...
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 Israel said Friday that it had sent a message to US Ambassador Richard
Jones in Tel Aviv, reassuring him that it will not build a new Jewish
neighbourhood in a northern area of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel, meanwhile, denied that it was holding indirect contacts
with the radical Islamic Hamas movement over a truce in Gaza, as...
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 The Turkish military on Wednesday continued its offensive against
rebels of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) on Wednesday by bombarding
targets in northern Iraq with artillery fire, Kurdish and Turkish
security sources reported.
The sources also said Turkish ground troops that had entered
northern Iraq on Tuesday had mostly...
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 Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday ruled out Israeli
negotiations with Hamas, and dismissed as "pathetic and misleading" an
announcement by the Islamist group that it was prepared to discuss a
ceasefire with the Jewish state.
The ceasefire call by Hamas leader Ismail Haniya was nothing more
than "an attempt...
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 Taliban fighters ambushed a fuel convoy destined for a US military base
in western Afghanistan Tuesday, killing 15 Afghan guards of a private
security firm and wounding nine others, while the US-led coalition
killed several militants in separate clashes, officials said.
The guards were escorting the fuel convoy when they came...
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 Three Israeli airstrikes overnight and early Tuesday targeting
militants involved in rocket attacks against Israel killed at least
eight Palestinians, most of them members of the radical Islamic Jihad
faction, Voice of Palestine Radio reported.
Israeli soldiers also killed an Islamic Jihad commander in the
northern West Bank early...
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 Deadly attacks on Awakening Council members and police patrols were
reported Saturday, as the US military said it had continued large-scale
raids across Iraq, killing four militants.
Two members of the anti-al-Qaeda Awakening Council in the area of
Azamiya, northern Baghdad, were killed while 10 more were reported
wounded on...
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 The first formal negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians in
seven years got off to a tense start in Jerusalem on Wednesday
afternoon as each side aired complaints about the other.
The teams, led by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and former
Palestinian premier Ahmed Qureia, met to relaunch peace talks. But
their...
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 Israel and the Palestinians are due to end a seven-year freeze in their
peace process Wednesday with the formal launch of new negotiations.
A new, joint "steering committee" that will lead the negotiations,
announced by President George W Bush at last month's Middle East
conference in Annapolis, Maryland, is scheduled to...
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