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  • UN: Gbagbo forces behind Abidjan 'atrocity'

    The UN peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has released a statement saying forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, the country's incumbent leader, opened fire on civilians in Abidjan on Monday, killing about a dozen people. The organization said that in another incident, a group of pro-Gbagbo youths put a tire around a young man and burnt him alive.. More

  • Scores killed in Iraq attack

    At least 55 people have been killed and 95 injured after armed men stormed a government building in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit immediately after a bomber detonated explosives that cleared the way for the attack. "A suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt outside the provincial council building in Tikrit, and immediately after that.. More

  • Syrian protesters dispersed after clashes

    Syrian security forces have fired tear gas and live ammunition into the air to disperse hundreds of protesters in Daraa calling for an end to emergency laws, witnesses said. The firing went on for several minutes on Monday, but the protesters - scores of whom have been killed in the ongoing protests - returned when the security forces stopped, the.. More

  • Japan on 'maximum' nuclear alert

    Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Plutonium was detected in soil at the facility and highly radioactive water had leaked from a reactor building. Officials in China, South Korea and the United States have recorded traces of radioactive material in the.. More

  • Egypt's Mubarak 'under house arrest'

    Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's ousted president, has been put under house arrest along with his family, according to an Egyptian military statement. Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Monday said that the former leader and his family would not be allowed to leave the country and denied reports that Mubarak had fled to Saudi Arabia. "There.. More

  • Pakistani soldiers 'killed in ambush'

    At least 11 Pakistani soldiers have reportedly been killed after armed men ambushed a military convoy travelling close to the Afghan border. A government official told the Associated Press news agency that those killed on Monday included a colonel and a captain in the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary unit that is being trained by a small contingent of.. More

  • Scores killed in Yemen arms factory blasts

    A series of blasts at an ammunition factory has left at least 100 people dead and injured dozens more near the southern Yemeni town of Jaar, a day after the plant was looted by masked gunmen. A local official said on Monday that the death toll could still rise significantly as bodies were recovered from the factory. Witnesses said the blasts, possibly.. More

  • Syria deploys troops after clashes

    Syria has deployed security forces to the northern city of Latakia after violent protests left there at least 12 people dead and more than 150 injured amid calls for reform. Troops patrolled the streets of Latakia - a religiously diverse port city 350km northwest of the capital, Damascus - in force on Sunday, in response to a wave of unrest that has.. More

  • Libya revolution forces seize Sirte

    Libyan revolutionary forces are claiming to have captured the town of Sirte, the home of embattled Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Shamsi Abdul Molah, a spokesman for the opposition's National Council, told Al Jazeera that the revolutionary forces had moved into the city at approximately 11.30 pm last night (local time). "They found it an unarmed.. More

  • Two killed in Israeli air raid on Gaza

    Two people have been killed and three others wounded in an Israeli air strike early on Sunday, hospital officials told Al Jazeera. The raid hit targets east of Jabaliya, Adham Abu Senmya, a spokesman for Gaza emergency services, told the AFP news agency. An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed the raid. Islamic Jihad, an armed Palestinian group,.. More

  • Deadlock in Yemen power transfer talks

    Abubakr al-Qirbi, Yemen's foreign minister, has said he hopes a deal to transfer power peacefully from Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, could be negotiated soon, but the opposition says that there is still a large gap between opposition demands and what the government is prepared to offer. At a meeting with tribal leaders on Saturday, Saleh vowed.. More

  • Deaths in Syria protests as crisis grows

    At least three people are reported killed in clashes between Syrian anti-government protesters and security forces in the coastal city of Latakia, where mourners attending a funeral set fire to the local Baath Party building and a police station. Syrian officials said Saturday's killings in the port city 350km northwest of the capital, Damascus, were.. More

  • NATO air raid kills Afghan civilians

    A number of civilians have been killed and wounded in southern Afghanistan following a NATO air raid targeting two vehicles that foreign forces believed to be carrying Taliban fighters. In a statement on Saturday, Nato said that it was investigating the incident, but did not release the number of dead and wounded. Nato said the International Security.. More

  • Japan struggles to cool nuclear reactors

    Battle to stabilize Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are being hampered by radioactive water that is apparently leaking from the reactors, delaying efforts to cool reactors to safe levels. Engineers have been frantically attempting to pump out puddles of radioactive water at the earthquake-crippled complex on Saturday, which exposed.. More

  • Libyan opposition forces take Ajdabiya

    Libyan opposition forces have taken the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiya from Gaddafi control, Al Jazeera's correspondent there reported. "There is no doubt about it, you can probably hear some of the celebrations behind me, Ajdabiya is in opposition hands," Al Jazeera's James Bays said from the city on Saturday. "Gaddafi forces have.. More