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SAUDI ARABIA
Shootout leaves 6 militants, 2 policemen dead
JEDDAH, JULY 28. Six suspected militants armed with guns and grenades were killed on Monday in a firefight after Saudi police raided their farm hideout. Two policemen also were killed. The shootout, which came amid an anti-terror crackdown in ...

Iraqis furious over raid
BAGHDAD, JULY 28. Caked pools of blood and a bullet hole in the window of Baghdad's al-Sa'ah restaurant are the only remaining signs of a U.S. raid that killed five Iraqi civilians as they unwittingly drove into a firestorm. Meanwhile, it is ...

U.S. changes tack on Iraq
NEW YORK, JULY 28.In what appears to be a new spin on what is taking place in Iraq, a senior Pentagon official has said that what is going on in that country is the "central battle" in the "war on terrorism". The Deputy Secretary of Defence, ...

Arroyo vows to hunt down conspirators
SINGAPORE, JULY 28. Jubilant after quelling Sunday's mutiny by some heavily-armed soldiers, without firing a shot in the process, the President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, began a reality check on Monday. In her annual State of ...

LTTE to send 'counter proposals'
COLOMBO, JULY 28. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last night termed Colombo's latest Provisional Administrative council offer as one that "fails to meet expectations" but maintained that it was "keeping the doors to peace wide open" ...

North Korea celebrates 'war victory'
SEOUL, JULY 28.The centre of North Korea's capital lit up with fireworks as thousands danced and acted out battle scenes to celebrate what the communist country calls its victory in the Korean War. North Korean authorities used the massive ...

Other Stories

Sharon in U.S. to pursue peace

Shelling continues in Monrovia

Anti-Blair faction steps up attack

Junta rules out release of Suu Kyi for now

MMA's deadline to Musharraf

Globescan

Rebel leader offers to hold talks
HONIARA (Solomon Islands): Australia boosted its military might in the Solomon Islands on Monday, as one of the rebel leaders who plunged this impoverished nation into near-anarchy approached Australian officials with an offer to talk. The ...

Tremors jolt Bangladesh
Dhaka: At least 50 people, including children, were injured and several houses damaged as a series of tremors jolted the south-eastern port city of Chittagong and its adjoining districts within a span of 16 hours. Hundreds of people jumped out of ...

Mass grave
MEMICI (Bosnia-Herzegovina): Human bones came to light as excavators scraped away topsoil on Monday, the first day of forensic work at what experts believe is the largest mass grave found to date in Bosnia. The bones — believed to be those ...