A letter bomb addressed to a local politician exploded in the southern German town of Regen on Monday - the first device to explode in what police say they suspect is a four-month campaign by

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Gunmen opened fire on Monday at a US diplomatic car near the US consulate in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia but there were no injuries, a Western diplomat said. The

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Four people were arrested and 56 people, including the local mayor, were injured when police clashed with protesters trying to stop the construction of a incinerator near Naples, police said on Monday. Between 10,000 and

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Croatia is considering a request to prosecute a former Macedonian interior minister over the murder of seven Asians who were made to look like Islamic militants bent on attacking Western targets. "We received an official

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A French court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for former leftist Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti after he failed to report to police for regular checks. Battisti, now a widely published crime novelist, faces extradition

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Australian punters are defying opinion polls and backing Prime Minister John Howard to retain power in an October 9 election expected to become one of the country's major betting events in 2004, bookmaker Centrebet said

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German judges at the retrial of a Moroccan man accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks will consider how to proceed on Tuesday after one of the defence lawyers was critically injured in a

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The African Union chairman, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, said Monday that AU cease-fire monitors had confirmed reports of a recent attack on civilians by Sudanese forces in Darfur. A statement released by Obasanjo's office

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Typhoon Chaba tore across south-western Japan on Monday, killing at least five people and knocking out electricity for thousands as it swirled its way north, dumping heavy rain and whipping up huge seas. Four were

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon failed on Monday to persuade his security cabinet to speed up a Gaza withdrawal agreed in principle by the government two months ago, political sources said. In a sign of

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