Nation May 04 Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens in Northern Iraq A suicide bomber posing as a job applicant at a police recruiting center in the city of Irbil blew himself up Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and wounding some 100 others. An Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility for the…
World May 04 Pakistan Captures Top Al-Qaida Leader Pakistani authorities announced the capture of a top level al-Qaida leader Wednesday, Abu Farraj al-Libbi, who has been blamed for two assassination attempts on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
Nation May 03 Iran Says It Will Resume Nuclear Activity On the opening day of a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran announced Tuesday that it will continue pursuing all "legal" nuclear activities.
Politics May 03 Iraq's First Elected Government Takes Office Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari was sworn in as prime minister in Baghdad Tuesday as Iraq's first democratically elected government took office.
Nation May 02 Trio of Car Bombs Mark Latest Violence in Iraq Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least eight people in the latest surge in violence since a new Iraqi government was named last week.
Nation May 02 Types of Nuclear Bombs In an atomic bomb, the energy or force of the weapon is derived only from nuclear fission - the splitting of the nucleus of heavy elements such as plutonium or highly enriched uranium into lighter nuclei.
Nation Apr 29 Insurgents Unleash Multiple Bomb Attacks in Iraq Insurgents set off some 11 bombs in Iraq Friday, killing at least 24 people including seven Iraqi civilians and one American soldier. More than 100 people were wounded in the attacks.
Politics Apr 29 Chinese Leader, Taiwanese Opposition Chief Discuss Thaw in Relations In a historic move, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Taiwanese opposition leader Lien Chan met Friday in Beijing to discuss a roadmap to reconciliation after nearly six decades of hostility between communist China and democratic Taiwan.
Nation Apr 26 Syrian Military Leaves Lebanon After 29 Years Syria's 29-year military presence in Lebanon ended Tuesday when the last Syrian soldiers crossed back over the border, completing a withdrawal brought by international pressure and massive Lebanese street protests.
Nation Apr 25 Iraq Postpones Naming Government; Insurgents Launch More Attacks Iraqi politicians failed again Monday to break a three-month deadlock over naming a transitional government, as the death toll from a weekend of coordinated insurgent attacks targeting police and civilians reached 29.