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Warning Against Assault
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has sent a letter to the governments of the United States, Britain and Iraq warning that an all-out assault on...
Marines Prepare For Falluja
Insurgents stepped up their attacks in the restive Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday as U.S. Marines prepared for an all-out assault on the rebel stronghold of...
Attack On Fallujah Under Way
The invasion of Fallujah began Friday as air strikes and artillery shells softened up the rebel-held city in Iraq for a major attack. There are reports that a...
Arafat Slips Into Coma
A gravely ill Yasser Arafat reportedly slipped into a coma and anxious Palestinian officials held an emergency meeting Thursday on how to prevent unrest while...
Yasser Arafat Dead?
There are mixed reports about the health of Yasser Arafat this hour. It started when Israeli television reported that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had died...
Bush Promises Change
President George W. Bush claimed election victory on Wednesday, pledging to do whatever he could to heal the bitter rifts in a country deeply divided over the...
Kerry Concedes Election
Sen. John Kerry will publicly concede the presidential election this afternoon after a victory in the battleground state of Ohio appeared hopelessly out of...
Election Still Too Close To Call
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said Wednesday he is convinced President Bush has defeated Sen. Kerry, but that Bush will not make a statement until...
Sudanese Army Surrounds Camps
The Sudanese army and police surrounded several refugee camps in the war-torn region of Darfur on Tuesday and denied access to humanitarian groups, the United...
Bush - Kerry Neck And Neck
President Bush edged into a one-point national lead over Democratic Sen. John Kerry one day before a cliffhanger presidential election, according to a...
U.S. Election Looms
The U.S Presidential election is in two days and Americans have to decide between incumbent George W. Bush or Democratic Senator John Kerry. No matter who wins,...
Schwarzenegger Behind Bush
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared at a Bush event Friday night, injecting some star power into the presidential campaign's final few days. "Today I...
New Osama Video
The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired a video of Osama bin Laden on Friday directly admitting for the first time that he carried out the Sept. 11 attacks...
Arafat In Paris Hospital
Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be taken to a hospital in Paris for treatment, according to his doctors. Earlier, a Palestinian official has...
Arafat On Death Bed
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's health deteroriated late Wednesday, with aides confirming that he collapsed into unconsciousness for a short while,...
Cassini Unveils Saturn""s Moon
The international Cassini spacecraft began unveiling Saturn's mysterious sidekick Titan with a stream of increasingly sharp pictures of the surface taken during...
Cuba Banning Greenback
Cuba is moving to end circulation of the widely used U.S. dollar, a response to tighter American sanctions on the Caribbean island. A decree issued by Cuba's...
Tonnes Of Explosives Missing
Hundreds of tonnes of high explosives are missing and probably looted from a former Iraqi military facility, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday....
Army Recruits Ambushed
Almost 50 soldiers in the new Iraqi army have been shot and killed in a remote area of eastern Iraq near the Iranian border, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The...
Flu Shot Frenzy
Hundreds of Americans are driving and ferrying their way to Canada to get their flu shots. A shortage of the vaccine in the U.S. means Americans are taking...