The US Defence Department on Wednesday told Congress it had approved the sale to Greece of 40 Lockheed Martin Corp F-16C/D fighter jets and associated equipment, in a deal valued at up to $3.1 billion.

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Four men linked to al Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, hurled abuse at a German court Wednesday as they were convicted and jailed for planning attacks against Jewish interests. The defendants railed against

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Sunni Arab leaders formed an alliance to fight Iraq's next elections on Wednesday, as the US death toll marched past 2,000 and intensified pressure on Washington. Three Sunni parties joined a coalition to contest the

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The alleged ringleader of the July 7 London bombers was recorded in an intelligence operation last year, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, was secretly filmed and recorded speaking to a British-based

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Iran is permitting around 25 high-ranking al Qaeda members to roam free in the country's capital, including three sons of Osama bin Laden, a German monthly magazine reported on Wednesday. Citing information from unnamed Western

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A French court found a former aide to President Jacques Chirac guilty of corruption and handed him a four-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday for his role in a public contracts scam linked to the

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An Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jet crashed Wednesday on take-off in Bangalore in the southern state of Karnataka killing the pilot, a military spokesman said. The aircraft caught fire during take-off showering the runway

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Lebanon charged two men with a role in the killing of ex-Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, judicial sources said on Wednesday, less than a week after they were named in a UN probe into the murder.

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Arms are still flowing across the Syrian border to Palestinian groups and others in Lebanon, although the Beirut government is trying to crack down and assert its authority, a new UN report said on Wednesday.

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Up to 10 children were killed and 45 injured when students yelling "ghost" sparked a stampede on a darkened elementary school staircase in China's Sichuan province, officials and reports said Wednesday. The accident occurred Tuesday

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