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IGC nominates Iyad Allawi to be Iraqi PM 
The US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council has nominted council member Iyad Allawi, who has long-time links to the CIA, to be prime minister in Iraq's interim government....
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 9:07am PDT
IGC member survives 'ambush' Iraqi Governing Council member Salama al-Khufaji survives an ambush as violence claims Iraqi and foreign lives elsewhere in the country....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 5:33pm PDT
Hundreds dead in Haiti flood town As many as 1,000 people are feared missing in a remote Haitian town after last weekend's disastrous floods....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 5:30pm PDT
One Day of War: Why is Ahmed Zia fighting for the New Afghan Army? Across the world today, millions of people are caught up in conflict. BBC filmmakers follow 16 different characters in 16 different war zones over a 24-hour period....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 11:40am PDT
Najaf siege ends in truce US occupation forces have suspended their offensive against Iraqi militiamen in the city of Najaf....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 10:50am PDT
Lebanese demonstrators shot dead Lebanese soldiers have shot at demonstrators in a Beirut suburb, killing three and wounding many more....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 8:59am PDT
Al-Sadr army pullout from Najaf on hold Iraq Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr's offer to withdraw his troops from the holy city of Najaf is on hold until US occupation authorities agree to truce terms....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 8:58am PDT
Coalition to accept Najaf truce The US-led coalition says it is ready to play its part in ending the fighting with the radical Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 8:57am PDT
Second Conference of the Trotskyist Faction-International Strategy read more in www.ft.org.ar...
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 7:22am PDT
Israel’s terror in Gaza "I HARDLY recognized my own street. I don’t think an earthquake could do what the Israeli army did to this area." Those were the words of Abdel Rahim Abu Jazer, after Israeli troops left Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp--after a six-day siege by Israeli forces that left 42 Palestinians dead....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:21am PDT
U.S. allegedly kills 20 militants in Afghanistan American troops caught in a gunfight with Afghan militants called in air strikes, the U.S. military said yesterday, in fighting that an Afghan commander said killed some 20 Taliban rebels at a newly discovered camp in the south....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:19am PDT
Iraqi Cleric Sadr Pulls Fighters from Holy City NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen began pulling out of strongholds in the holy city of Najaf on Thursday after rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered a truce to U.S. forces surrounding him....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:14am PDT
Haiti and the insanity of ‘official’ denial As many as nine peaceful demonstrators were killed in Haiti on May 18, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets despite the risk - and reality - of violent repression by international forces and a militarized Haitian police force. These demonstrators were calling for an end to the illegal occupation by U.S., Canadian and French forces and for the return of overthrown President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:11am PDT
New photos show Abu Ghraib tactics 
WASHINGTON - A series of photographs obtained exclusively by NBC News depicts what sources said was the aggressive interrogation of three naked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the detention facility outside Baghdad that is at the center of the scandal over U.S. mistreatment of Iraqi detainees....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:00am PDT
Al-Sadr's army to withdraw from Najaf Iraq Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr began pulling his fighters from the holy city of Najaf after making an offer to end a bloody standoff with US occupation forces that has left hundreds dead....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 12:53am PDT
Two Palestinians killed by IDF in Gaza; army destroys 3 houses in Dir el-Balah Two Palestinians were killed by Israel Defense Forces fire over the past 24 hours in the southern Gaza Strip. Three IDF tanks and a bulldozer early Thursday entered the Gaza town of Dir el-Balah, destroying three Palestinian houses, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 4:55pm PDT
Shin Bet arrests U.K. journalist who interviewed Vanunu Peter Hounam, the British journalist who has been covering the Mordechai Vanunu affair for years and is considered to be one of the closest people to the nuclear-whistle blower, was arrested Wednesday evening by the Shin Bet security service....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 4:53pm PDT
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (video/x-pn-realvideo 31.1MB) "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal," says firebrand journalist Christopher Hitchens. "He's a liar. And he's personally responsible for murder, for kidnapping, for torture." What is Hitchens on about? He could be talking about the lawsuit currently under way in Washington DC, in which Kissinger is charged with having authorised the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970. Or he could be referring to the secret bombing of Cambodia which, arguably, Kissinger engineered wit...
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 2:46pm PDT
Turkey undecided on recalling ambassador to Israel Israel`s ambassador to Ankara, Pini Aviv said on Wednesday that according to Turkey's foreign ministry, Ankara had not yet decided whether to recall its ambassador to Israel....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 12:31pm PDT
Amnesty slams Israeli killings ISRAELI forces killed more than 600 Palestinians last year, including 100 children, Amnesty International said today, as Israel faced continuing criticism over a weeklong military offensive in Gaza that left 45 Palestinians dead and dozens of buildings razed....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 12:28pm PDT
1923 of 1987