Report: Hijacker Went to al-Qaida Camp

"ANKARA, Turkey — One of the hijackers of a Turkish plane received training at an al-Qaida camp and wanted to be flown to Iran so he could eventually join al-Qaida in Afghanistan, the state-run Anatolia news...

Abdul Gayoom leads Meldives` presidential election

Mali (ANTARA News) - The political party of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of the Maldives, has taken an early lead in a poll to decide which democratic model to adopt, results showed. The Indian Ocean...

King Abdullah washes Holy Kaaba

Makkah (ANTARA News) - Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz performed the customary washing of the Holy Kaaba yesterday evening. He washed the Kaaba with Zamzam water mixed with...

Bullet-Riddled Body of S. Korean Found

"The bullet-riddled body of a South Korean hostage was found by police Wednesday in central Afghanistan after a purported Taliban spokesman said the militants had killed one of the captives. The male victim had 10 bullet holes in his head, chest and stomach, and was...

Profile: Abdul Rashid Ghazi

He is bespectacled and articulate - an alumnus of one of Pakistan's most prominent universities, the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. This may not fit one's mental image of a militant Islamist, a...

Nigerian Opposition Points to Dirty Tricks on Eve of Poll

As twenty-five presidential hopefuls prepare for the big day, evidence is mounting of yet more irregularities in Nigeria's drawn-out poll. "Nigeria's opposition accused the government of detaining its activists and stuffing ballot boxes in the north on Friday, a day before a...

Stolen rocket launchers 'hidden in Vic'

"Federal police fear five stolen rocket launchers may have been hidden in Melbourne by a terrorist group. An Australian Federal Police spokesman told Fairfax newspapers it was "common sense" to assume agents were in Victoria searching for the rocket launchers because the...

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