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Syria's decision, revealed in a terse dispatch by its official news agency SANA, came as the interrogation of pro-Syrian Lebanese generals named by top U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis as suspects in Hariri's ...

Wildlife experts are celebrating the sightings of two groups of rare Asiatic cheetahs in central Iran during recent months, raising hopes that one of the world's fastest moving creatures could be saved from ...

The U.S. Air Force will send 300 airmen home from Iraq and Afghanistan to help their families cope with emergencies on an air base devastated by Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Miss., a spokesman said Saturday.

Iran faced a deadline Saturday to freeze work that could enable it to make an atomic weapon.

The U.S. military has dropped plans to boost its presence in Iraq by more than 20,000 soldiers to safeguard elections, a senior U.S. commander said Friday, as Iraq, Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina stretched ...

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Energy-hungry India said on Saturday it would push on with plans to build a $7 billion gas pipeline from Iran The International Atomic Energy Agency U.N. Security Council When asked what effect such political ...1.3

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By Norman Solomon The men and women of the National Guard shouldn't be killing in Iraq.2.7

Hundreds of thousands of people are finding themselves out of work and their livelihoods in limbo after hurricane Katrina.

A week after the draft constitution was declared final, discreet talks were under way to refine language in a bid to win Sunni approval and ease fears of Iraq's Arab neighbors that the charter will loosen the ...

The funeral for a soldier killed in Iraq became a celebration of faith Friday when his mother told other mourners that God now filled any voids in her son's life.

Al-Amady group in Forodhni Gardins with three Masai from Kenya. Far left: Ahmah Al-Ahmady standing.2.9

SPARTANBURG - Earlier this year, Vince Kimbrell and Craig Bradley left jobs as policemen with the Spartanburg Public Safety Department to work security for a private company in Iraq.

John Enstrom of Ramsey is not a veteran, but he always has admired them. On Sunday, he's proving that by hosting a gathering he hopes attracts as many as 5,000 people at a manmade lake he is dedicating to ...

Talks were under way to refine language in the draft to make it acceptable to Sunnis ahead of an Oct.

A major Iraqi crude oil pipeline was hit by an explosion on Saturday and was on fire, a guard on the pipeline, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.

The following interview with the Polish ambassador, Tadeusz Strojwas, is one in a continuing series of interviews the Yemen Observer is conducting with foreign ambassadors in Yemen.2.7

A judge questioned three of four pro-Syrian generals Friday named by the United Nations as suspects in the slaying of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and calls for Lebanon's president to resign reached ...

Katrina-Happy Talk: Add "Help is on the way' to the long list of White House rhetoric that doesn't match reality.

Around the world, the irony was too deep to ignore. In teeming Mexico City, the newspaper Ovaciones took a break from its daily diet of kidnappings and gore to splash across its front page images of an American ...

The Ministry of Public Health and Population is providing YR 27 million to fund the expansion of Ali A. Al-Mughni Hospital in the Saddah district of Ibb.2.7

Fifteen soldiers from Fort Benning have died in either Iraq or Afghanistan since February.

A decorated Marine who saw harrowing duty in Iraq before being accused of firing a shotgun into a noisy crowd outside his Lawrence apartment last month was released on $5,000 cash bail yesterday and ordered to ...

Iraqis mourned yesterday and buried more of the 1,000 killed in a stampede, but while the country struggles to come to terms with the tragedy, a march aimed at reconciling Sunni and Shiite Muslims did not go ...2.7

According to many history books, it's shown that the first two centuries of Islam produced nothing like a political entity called Yemen.2.7

Heart disease spotted, treated too little in women Cardiovascular disease in women is under-diagnosed and under-treated compared to cases in men, an expert said.2.7

Defining the ancient measurement of the cubit may seem a matter of mere Bible trivia, but in theory the answer could affect a potentially calamitous modern-day religious confrontation.

"Sippur al ahava vehoshekh" by Amos Oz, translated into English by Nicholas de Lange, Harcourt, 544 pages, $17.16 As is his wont, Amos Oz found an elegant metaphor to describe the unprecedented success of his ...2.7

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The racket was revealed at the Lower Criminal Court when the 27-year-old nurse confessed.2.7

Fifty Arabs who were abducted and then secretly transferred to prisons in Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq have been released as part of an agreement between Kurdish and Arab political leaders and the U.S. ...

TALL AFAR, Iraq, Sept. 2 - It was a clear and quiet dusk, with only the call to prayer echoing from minarets across this city, when a roadside bomb blasted an M1-A1 Abrams tank, shaking nearby buildings and ...2.1

The World Health Organisation has sent aid shipments to several hospitals in Baghdad to help them cope with the aftermath of the stampede which left at least 960 people dead and 800 injured this week, a ...2.9