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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...

Prince Enters Army

Prince Enters Army

May 8, 2005 / 7:01 am

Prince Harry joins Britain's Army Sunday as he begins his new life as a career soldier. The 20-year-old's time since leaving secondary school at the private...

Bombs In Myanmar/Iraq

Bombs In Myanmar/Iraq

May 7, 2005 / 7:25 am

Near simultaneous explosions tore through two crowded supermarkets and a convention center in Myanmar's capital on Saturday, killing at least three people and...

Militants Threatening To Kill Hostage

Militants Threatening To Kill Hostage

May 6, 2005 / 12:45 pm

Militants are threatening to kill an Australian hostage unless his country withdraws all its troops from Iraq within 72 hours, an Arabic-language TV network has...

Will Blair Win Third Term?

Will Blair Win Third Term?

May 5, 2005 / 11:28 am

Tony Blair is facing his toughest test since becoming British prime minister, with voters casting their ballots in a general election today. Public opinion...

Critical Victory War On Terror

Critical Victory War On Terror

May 4, 2005 / 10:35 am

The alleged number three man in al Qaeda -- believed responsible for the terror group's global operations -- has been captured in Pakistan's frontier province...

Iraqi Insurgents Low Morale

Iraqi Insurgents Low Morale

May 3, 2005 / 11:35 am

The U.S. military said Tuesday it has seized a letter from Iraqi insurgents believed to be intended for Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi complaining...

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