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  • Gaddafi men given extra week to surrender

    Libya's ruling National Transitional Council has given one extra week to Muammar Gaddafi loyalists to lay down weapons. The council, known by its acronym NTC, has extended the deadline for surrender of Gaddafi's last bastion Sirte by one week, Mohammad Zawawi, an NTC spokesman, said on Thursday. "We are not in a rush to get in to Sirte. It has.. More

  • Leaders gather in Paris for Libya summit

    Representatives of the Libyan revolution who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi are to sit down with world leaders in Paris to map out the country's rebuilding, 42 years to the day after the former leader seized power in a coup. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose gamble to spearhead the West's intervention in Libya.. More

  • Syrian official resigns over crackdown

    An attorney general in the central Syrian city has resigned from his post, in protest of what he called repression exercised by the Syrian regime. Adnan al-Bakkour, speaking in a video footage posted on the internet on Wednesday, claimed to have witnessed over 70 executions and hundreds of civilians tortured while held in custody at Hama central prison.. More

  • Israel mulls arming 'trained' settlers

    The Israeli army is planning to provide tear gas and stun grenades to settlers in the occupied West Bank who have been trained to repel any violent protests when the Palestinians seek statehood at the United Nations next month, an Israeli newspaper says. According to Haaretz, the Israeli army has also conducted a strategy to determine a "red line".. More

  • Tripoli blast kills Libyan fighters

    At least four Libyan fighters have been killed in the capital, Tripoli, in a blast that went off as residents, already rejoicing at the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's regime, celebrated Eid-al-Fitr. Some residents said it was a car bomb and the blast was carried out by Gaddafi loyalists. "At 5:30am local time [03:30GMT] exactly, I heard an explosion,".. More

  • Syrian protesters 'killed' after Eid prayers

    Syrian security forces have shot dead at least seven protesters on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, activists say. Protests erupted in many towns and cities on Tuesday morning, after Muslims performed morning prayers marking the end of Ramadan. The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC) activist network said six of the deaths occurred.. More

  • Fresh deaths in Syria crackdown

    Syrian security forces have shot dead two people and wounded nine others in the northwestern province of Idlib, activists from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "Two people were killed and another nine wounded in the Khan Sheikhun area near Idlib (city) during an incursion by security forces and the army," Observatory head Rami.. More

  • Deaths as hurricane batters US coast

    At least five people have died in storm-related incident as Hurricane Irene begins its destructive run along the US eastern seaboard. On Saturday, one man died of a heart attack while boarding up his windows, another crashed his car into a tree, Tom Mather, a public affairs officer with the North Carolina emergency mangement office, said. A third.. More

  • Syria security forces 'storm Damascus mosque'

    Syrian security forces have reportedly killed one person and wounded several others protesting at a mosque in the capital, Damascus. Activists said "thousands" of people took to the streets in Kafarsouseh, a western suburb, to protest against President Bashar al-Assad's rule after early morning prayers on Saturday. A witness told Al Jazeera.. More

  • African Union pledges drought aid

    An African donors conference has pledged $356m to help more than 12 million people across the Horn of Africa suffering from the region's worst drought in 60 years. The African Development Bank offered $300m while African countries and other private donors raised the rest, the African Union Commission chief Jean Ping announced on Thursday. The fund-raising.. More

  • Dozen killed in Iraq violence

    A series of bomb attacks and shootings across Iraq has killed at least 12 people, including six security force members, and wounded 87 others, medical and security officials said. In the deadliest attack on Thursday, a vehicle packed with explosives detonated near a police station in the town of Al-Gharma, just west of Baghdad in the Sunni Anbar.. More

  • New Libya leaders seek to unfreeze funds

    The head of Libya's revolution cabinet has launched a European diplomatic tour, hoping to project an image of a government-in-waiting and secure the release of billions of dollars in UN-frozen Libyan assets as Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year autocratic regime seems near its end. In wide-ranging remarks on Wednesday about his country's future, Mahmoud Jibril.. More

  • UN orders probe into Syria rights violations

    The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has launched a new commission of inquiry into Syria's crackdown on anti-government protesters, including possible crimes against humanity. The announcement came as rights activists on Tuesday claimed that 18 more people have been killed in the country over the past 24 hours, including seven in the city of Homs. By.. More

  • Libyan revolution forces seize Gaddafi compound

    Libyan opposition fighters have overrun the fortified compound of Muammar Gaddafi in Bab al-Azizyain the capital, Tripoli, following intense fighting with forces loyal to the Libyan leader. The rebels "broke through the gates of Bab al-Azizya [and] some opposition fighters managed to enter the government's stronghold in the Libyan capital,".. More

  • Hurricane Irene hits the Caribbean

    The first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season has developed in the Caribbean. Irene, the ninth storm of the season, developed over the Leeward Islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica and strengthened as it barrelled west towards Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. As the storm crossed Puerto Rico, the winds topped 120kph, and Tropical Storm Irene.. More