Amitai (12) ble truet på livet. Julie (19) fikk røsket av seg halskjedet med davidsstjernen på.
The United Nations launched an appeal Monday for $115 million in humanitarian aid for the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan, where the U.N. humanitarian chief says a scorched-earth campaign of ethnic cleansing is taking place.
Eight Russian civilians were the latest foreigners kidnapped in Iraq and three Japanese were still missing on Tuesday, but China's official Xinhua news agency said seven Chinese had been freed.
U.S. troops arrested a representative of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in a hotel in central Baghdad on Tuesday.
A top US military commander has requested the equivalent of two mobile combat brigades to help the campaign to put down Iraqi insurgents.
American troops have discovered US military uniforms and suicide explosive belts in an insurgent cache hidden in a house, raising concerns of a new rebel tactic of slipping close to the troops and blowing themselves up.
Indonesian police today admitted they had few clues about the identity of three masked "ninja" gunmen who sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of Easter worshippers in central Sulawesi, sparking fears of renewed religious bloodshed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin came out today against a controversial new bill that would curb the right to hold public protests for the first time in post-Soviet Russia.
Police deployed in the central Shiite Muslim holy city of Najaf Monday following an agreement, involving the US-led coalition, for the pullout of armed militiamen from the streets, police said.
A THAI boy who was partially raised by a dog was found dead at a welfare centre where he had been taken for protection, police and welfare officials said today.