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Most Wanted Insurgent Injured

Most Wanted Insurgent Injured

May 24, 2005 / 3:00 pm

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- the Jordanian-born insurgent leader in Iraq -- has been wounded, several Islamist militant Web sites reported Tuesday. The message --...

Eight U.S. Soldiers Killed

Eight U.S. Soldiers Killed

May 24, 2005 / 9:00 am

Insurgent attacks during the past 24 hours have killed eight U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the military said Tuesday. Three soldiers died in a car bombing in central...

U.S. Honour Canadian Soldiers

U.S. Honour Canadian Soldiers

May 23, 2005 / 8:43 am

Four Canadian soldiers who died in Afghanistan after a U.S. military pilot dropped a bomb on them will be honoured Monday at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. The...

Bird Flu Found In Wild Geese

Bird Flu Found In Wild Geese

May 22, 2005 / 9:36 am

Chinese authorities have ordered nationwide emergency measures to stem the spread of bird flu after the discovery of wild geese killed by the virus. Agriculture...

Romanian Hostages Freed

Romanian Hostages Freed

May 22, 2005 / 8:07 am

Three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq were freed on Sunday after two months in captivity, one of only a few bits of good news since insurgents launched...

More Hussein Photos

May 21, 2005 / 8:48 am

A British tabloid published more surreptitious photographs of Saddam Hussein in U.S. custody along with two former members of his regime on Saturday, a day...

Saddam Will Sue Over Pics

Saddam Will Sue Over Pics

May 21, 2005 / 7:30 am

Saddam Hussein's lawyer says the former Iraqi dictator plans to take legal action after a British and an American newspaper published front page photos of him...

Military Denies Releasing Saddam Photos

Military Denies Releasing Saddam Photos

May 20, 2005 / 8:15 am

The U.S. military has denied giving photos of Saddam Hussein in captivity to the popular British tabloid that published them -- contradicting the newspaper's...

Guatemala Waiting On Tropical Storm

Guatemala Waiting On Tropical Storm

May 19, 2005 / 2:30 pm

Guatemala and El Salvador are calling fishermen back to shore and governments are preparing to evacuate towns as the first tropical storm of the season headed...

Powerful Shiite Cleric Shot

Powerful Shiite Cleric Shot

May 19, 2005 / 8:25 am

An aide to Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric was shot to death Thursday in Baghdad, police said, the second of his aides killed this week. The attack is part...

Suspected Taliban Ambushed Workers

Suspected Taliban Ambushed Workers

May 18, 2005 / 1:00 pm

Suspected members of the Taliban killed five Afghans working on an American-funded project in southwestern Afghanistan Wednesday. The attackers ambushed the...

Galloway Denies Profiting From Regime

Galloway Denies Profiting From Regime

May 17, 2005 / 10:05 am

British Parliament member George Galloway on Tuesday angrily denied profiting from Saddam Hussein's regime and criticized the Senate panel probing alleged...

Iraqi Police Find Corpses

Iraqi Police Find Corpses

May 16, 2005 / 11:20 am

Iraqi police found at least 46 corpses during the weekend, including those from a dozen men executed Sunday, police said. Eight of the Iraqi bodies with bound...

Rice Visits Iraq

Rice Visits Iraq

May 15, 2005 / 7:20 am

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made a surprise visit to Iraq for talks with U.S. and Iraqi authorities trying to quell an insurgency that has...

Hundreds Dead In Uzbekistan

Hundreds Dead In Uzbekistan

May 14, 2005 / 8:32 am

Outraged protesters braved gunfire to gather in the battle-scarred centre of Andijon yesterday as security forces roamed body-strewn streets in search of...

Military Installations Closing

Military Installations Closing

May 13, 2005 / 4:29 pm

The Pentagon on Friday recommended closing 33 major military installations and many smaller facilities across the United States, sparking fierce reactions from...

Millions For Oil Allocations

Millions For Oil Allocations

May 12, 2005 / 9:55 am

A U.S. Senate committee probing the defunct U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq alleges that two politicians from Britain and France received millions of dollars...

Evacuations At White House

Evacuations At White House

May 11, 2005 / 9:50 am

An apparent airspace violation over Washington on Wednesday prompted evacuations of the White House and the U.S. Capitol as military fighter jets scrambled to...

Holocaust Memorial Unveiled

Holocaust Memorial Unveiled

May 10, 2005 / 10:05 am

Berlin has unveiled a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, ending 17 years of charged debate over how Germany should remember that grim period of its...

Bush Gets Seat Of Honor

Bush Gets Seat Of Honor

May 9, 2005 / 11:20 am

In a once-unthinkable setting for a U.S. leader, President Bush took a place of honor on Red Square amid symbols of Soviet power Monday and saluted the greatest...

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