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  • Israeli navy boards Gaza-bound boat

    The Israeli navy has boarded a French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists intending to sail to the blockaded Gaza Strip and forced it to go to Ashdod port, a military spokeswoman says. "I can confirm that the yacht has been boarded and that everything went smoothly, there were no casualties," the spokeswoman said on Tuesday. There were.. More

  • French 'aid ship' sails towards Gaza

    A French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists which set sail from a Greek island at the weekend, is expected to reach the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, organizers said. The Dignite Al Karama left the Greek island of Kastellorizo late on Saturday following a troubled stay in Greece after Athens imposed a ban on the departure of any ships planning to join.. More

  • Iraq: US 'trainers' after December

    Reports today suggest that the Iraqi government is set on not requesting the Obama Administration to keep “troops” on the ground beyond the end of the Status of Forces Agreement in December, instead asking for thousands of “trainers.” The move appears to solidify comments by Vice President Hashimi over the weekend, when he insisted.. More

  • Thousands rally in Morocco over reform plan

    Both supporters and opponents of constitutional changes offered by Morocco's king have protested in their thousands, indicating debate over the country's future sparked by the "Arab Spring" uprisings has not ended. Sunday’s opposition protests organized by the youth-based February 20 Movement took place in three cities and passed off.. More

  • NATO jets destroy Libyan military depot

    NATO jets have struck a military storage facility and other targets in the eastern outskirts of the capital, Tripoli. Sunday's attacks came two days after major international players recognized Libya's opposition leadership as the country's legitimate representative. Opposition advances on the eastern oil city of Brega, meanwhile, stretched into their.. More

  • Egypt's new cabinet to be sworn in

    Egypt's new cabinet will be sworn in on Monday after a reshuffle that protesters say have partially satisfied their demands for deeper political and economic reforms. Protesters, who have camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square since July 8, say they want further measures, including a quicker trial of Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted as president on February.. More

  • Deadly violence continues in Syria

    Armed men under the watch of Syrian security forces looted shops and fired on crowds in the central city of Homs, killing at least one person and wounding many others, witnesses have said. The fresh violence on Saturday night follows what is reported to have been one of the deadliest crackdowns on protesters since the anti-government uprisings began.. More

  • UN makes first supply drops in Somalia

    The United Nations has delivered food and medicine to displaced and malnourished Somalis for the first time in territory held by the al-Shabab movement. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) airlifted emergency nutrition supplies and water equipment to the town of Baidoa, in south-central Somalia, after the movement, which controls most of the country, lifted.. More

  • Egypt dismisses almost 600 police officers

    Egypt has fired almost 600 top police officers as part of a clean up the discredited and widely unpopular police force. The decision, announced on Wednesday by Interior Minister Mansour el-Issawi, meets a key demand by protesters camping out at Cairo's central Tahrir Square. El-Issawi said that the move was the biggest reshuffle in the history of.. More

  • UN council votes for S Sudan as newest member

    The United Nations Security Council has unanimously voted to recommend the admission of the Republic of South Sudan as the newest member of the UN. After a five-line resolution adopted on Wednesday by the 15-nation council, the General Assembly is expected to admit the new African country as its 193rd UN member on Thursday. The move comes after South.. More

  • Somalis flee to Kenya in search of food

    Somali refugees have become the victims of the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in nearly 60 years. Faced with starvation and caught in conflict, thousands of Somalis are fleeing their country and heading for Kenya. They have travelled through harsh conditions with little food or water, and no humanitarian assistance. Many head across the.. More

  • Egyptian protesters call for end to army rule

    Thousands of Egyptians marched on the cabinet headquarters in central Cairo on Tuesday to demand the removal of the ruling military council. The march, reminiscent of protests that forced former president Hosni Mubarak to step down on February 11, followed a warning by the military council that it would use all legitimate means to end a five-day-old.. More

  • Suspected drone strikes kill 13 in Pakistan

    At least 13 people have been killed in less than 24 hours in missile strikes by suspected US drone aircraft in Pakistan's northwest region on the Afghan border, according to local intelligence officials. At least eight people died in a missile strike in South Waziristan on Tuesday morning, officials told Al Jazeera. Five people were also killed in.. More

  • Bosnians to mark Srebrenica anniversary

    Tens of thousands of Bosnia Muslims are expected at a remembrance ceremony where the remains of 613 people will be buried near Srebrenica to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the killings. The massacre is the worst single atrocity on European soil since World War II and the only episode of the 1992-95 Bosnian war that international courts have called.. More

  • Syrian forces 'raid central city of Homs'

    Syrian troops killed at least one civilian in overnight raids in the city of Homs, activists said, a day after the authorities held a "national dialogue" meeting boycotted by the opposition. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that 20 people were injured as residents tried to take shelter from armored vehicles firing machineguns.. More