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  • Syria death toll 'surpasses 1,000'

    Syrian government forces are being blamed for the deaths of more than 1,000 civilians in a nine-week crackdown on nationwide anti-government demonstrations. Amar Qurabi, head of the Egypt-based National Organization for Human Rights, said on Tuesday that his group has documented the names of 1,062 people killed since mid-March, along with the locations.. More

  • Ash cloud disrupts Europe travel

    The spread of dense ash from the erupting Iceland volcano could force the cancellation of up to 500 commercial flights in Northern Ireland, Scotland and parts of Scandinavia, the European air traffic agency has said. Between 200 and 250 flights had already been cancelled, Brian Flynn, head of network operations at Eurocontrol, said on Tuesday. Britain's.. More

  • Bashir says Abyei belongs to the north

    Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, has said that Abyei belongs to the north and that his forces will not withdraw from the disputed region. "Abyei is northern Sudanese land," Bashir said in a speech in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday. "We will not withdraw from it." He said he had given the green light to the northern.. More

  • NATO steps up Libya airstrikes

    NATO warplanes have hammered Tripoli with some of the heaviest airstrikes yet, as US president Barack Obama and British prime minister David Cameron said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would "inevitably" be forced from power. At least 12 huge explosions rocked the capital in the early hours on Tuesday. Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said.. More

  • Tornado leaves scores dead in US city

    At least 116 people have been killed following a massive tornado that swept through the Midwestern US city of Joplin in Missouri. Emergency officials announced the latest death toll on Monday, saying that about 400 other people were injured in the twister. Many of those wounded were reported to have massive internal injuries, according to local officials. T.. More

  • Pakistani naval base under attack

    Pakistan navy has declared that the operation involving an attack by armed men on a military base in the Pakistani city of Karachi has come to an end, according to Al Jazeera's sources. According to a navy spokesman, 11 navy officers and two paramilitary ranger have been killed and 14 others injured in the attack that lasted for hours before ending.. More

  • Moroccan police beat up protesters

    Police in Morocco have violently dispersed protesters who defied a ban on demonstrations, beating them up with batons and taking several into custody. Sunday’s police action in the capital, Rabat, and Casablanca seemed to suggest a tougher government response to the increasingly defiant protests that first erupted in February. "Protest.. More

  • Obama: US support for Israel 'ironclad'

    Barack Obama, the US president, has rejected Palestinian plans to seek statehood at the United Nations, and said Washington's commitment to Israel's security is "ironclad". Obama was speaking at the annual policy meeting of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the main pro-Israel lobby in the US, on Sunday amid unprecedented.. More

  • Syria mourners 'attacked by security forces'

    At least 11 mourners have been killed and at least 27 wounded in Homs after security forces opened fire on a massive funeral procession, according to human rights activists. More than 40,000 people gathered in Homs on Saturday for the funerals of protesters killed in the city on Friday and were walking back from the cemetery in Tal al Nasser on the.. More

  • Former PLO negotiator: Israel 'no partner'

    A former Palestinian peace negotiator has told Al Jazeera that Binyamin Netanyahu's government is "no partner for peace", after the Israeli prime minister rejected US president Barack Obama's call for a Middle Eastern settlement based on the 1967 borders. Palestinian leaders have welcomed Obama's call, in a keynote speech on Thursday, for.. More

  • Opposition signs Yemen transition deal

    Yemen's opposition has signed a deal brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to end the country's political crisis by easing Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, out of power after months of unrest. The deal, signed by the opposition in the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday, commits Saleh to leaving office within 30 days in return for 'immunity from.. More

  • Russia expels Israel's military attache

    Russia has expelled Israel's military attaché at its Moscow embassy after briefly detaining him for questioning on suspicion of spying, the Israeli army and the defense ministry said. "The military attaché and defense ministry representative in Russia, Colonel Vadim Leiderman, was last week surprisingly detained for questioning by.. More

  • US slaps sanctions on Syrian president

    The United States has imposed sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, and six senior Syrian officials for human rights abuses over their brutal crackdown on anti-government protests. The White House announced the sanctions on Wednesday, a day before Barack Obama, the US president, was to deliver a speech on the revolutions throughout the.. More

  • Deaths in Pakistan police post attack

    Around 100 fighters have attacked a security checkpoint near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, sparking a three-hour clash that killed two police officers and 17 gunmen, police said. The midnight attack on the Sangu Mera checkpoint comes amid Taliban threats to avenge the May 2 US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden near the Pakistani capital.. More

  • 'Dozens killed' in Syrian border town

    Syria's army and security forces killed at least 27 civilians in a three-day tank-backed attack on the border town of Tel Kelakh to subdue pro-democracy protesters, a rights lawyer told Al Jazeera. "There are 27 confirmed names. An unknown number of bodies were taken to the main hospital in Tel Kelakh and not handed over to their families,".. More