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Israel Shin Bet uses torture
Israel's Shin Bet security service uses torture in its interrogation of Palestinian prisoners, violating a 1999 court ruling outlawing such practices, two Israeli human rights groups charged in a report Sunday. The physical abuse includes "beating, painful binding, back bending, body stretching and prolonged sleep deprivation," according to the report... More -
French rivals clash in TV debate
The two candidates vying to be French president have gone head-to-head in a highly anticipated TV debate. Conservative frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Segolene Royal clashed over employment, the economy, the environment and law and order. The only debate of the campaign was a heated confrontation, and continued beyond the expected two-hour.. More -
Experience of Dutch Muslim woman
Rabi'a Frank is a 31-year-old Dutch woman who converted to Islam in 1994, changing her first name from Rebecca. She is married to a Moroccan man who grew up in the Netherlands, and they have three sons. In 2005 she began to wear the niqab face veil and is one of about only 50 women in total to do so in the Netherlands, according to estimates by the.. More -
Pakistani president pays respects to Srebrenica victims
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday paid his respects to victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, the worst mass slaughter in Europe since World War II. "I don't have any words to express my sorrow and grief over what you have suffered. My heart is with you," Musharraf told the massacre victims relatives at a memorial cemetery in Potocari,.. More -
Bin Laden alive, says Taliban commander
Mullah Dadullah, a senior Taliban commander, has told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview that Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaeda's leader, is alive. Dadullah said Bin Laden planned and supervised the "suicide" operation which targeted Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, in Bargam air force base during his visit to Afghanistan in February. Dadullah said:.. More -
Turkish foreign minister to stand for presidency
Abdullah Gul, the Turkish foreign minister, has been chosen as the ruling party's presidential candidate for a series of parliamentray elections beginning this week. Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, announced Gul's candidacy, ending speculation that he would enter the race himself. He had come under intense pressure from the country's secular.. More -
Huge win for Nigeria's Yar'Adua
Nigeria's ruling party candidate Umaru Yar'Adua has won controversial presidential elections by a landslide, according to official results. He gained 70% of the vote but European Union observers say the elections were a "charade" and any administration that resulted would not have any legitimacy. The EU says at least 200 people have died in poll.. More -
Drive For Central Asia Strategy Could Shape Uzbekistan Policy
EU foreign ministers will hold their first debate on the bloc's evolving Central Asian strategy in Luxembourg next week. That blueprint is being pushed by the current holder of the rotating EU Presidency, Germany, and could be adopted at an EU summit in June. But critics in Brussels fear the drive to bring coherence to the EU's approach to energy-rich.. More -
US to make biggest arms sale to Israel since 2006 Lebanon war
According to Reuters, the Pentagon has informed Congress of a military sale worth $65 million to Israel. The sale includes bombs, spares, repair parts and US technical assistance. This deal will be the first publicly announced sale of US military equipment to Israel since the end of the war with Lebanon in 2006. The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation.. More -
Palestinians want prisoners freed
Palestinians commemorate the Day of the Political Prisoner on 17 April, as statistics reveal one in five Palestinians have been imprisoned at some point by Israel throughout the 40 years of Israeli occupation. To Palestinians, the 10,000 people currently in Israeli jails are political prisoners held illegally by the occupation. This year's rally.. More -
New bid to promote global Islamic markets
The International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM), an international market development institution focused on the development of the global Islamic capital and money markets, has announced a high-profile event to be held in Bahrain this month. THE IIFM has organized a high-level technical workshop intended to gauge industry opinion on the need for.. More -
UN highlights Iraq refugee crisis
The UN is holding a major conference to highlight the Iraqi refugee crisis, which it says has been largely ignored by the international community. The UN refugee agency estimates 50,000 people are fleeing the violence in Iraq each month and that up to four million Iraqis are now living away from home. Most refugees go to neighbouring Syria and.. More -
US excessive in Afghan attack
US marines violated international humanitarian law by using excessive violence in reaction to a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, a report says. At least 12 civilians died and 35 were injured during the incident which took place on 4 March in Nangarhar province. The report, published by Afghanistan's Human Rights Commission, said the reaction.. More -
Algeria in shock after suicide bombs kill 24
Algeria reeled Thursday from the aftershock of two suicide bombings that killed at least 24 people and fuelled fears of an increasingly powerful Al-Qaeda front in the North Africa region. Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem had struck a defiant pose in the immediate wake of the deadly blasts in Algiers and vowed that national elections scheduled.. More -
US used neutron bombs in Iraq
The former commander of Iraq's Republican Guard has accused the US of using non-conventional weapons in its war against the Middle East country. Saifeddin Fulayh Hassan Taha al-Rawi told Al Jazeera that US forces used neutron and phosphorus bombs during their assault on Baghdad airport before the April 9 capture of the Iraqi capital. Al-Rawi is one.. More
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