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  • Scores killed in Brazil flooding

    Floods and landslides have devastated towns in a mountainous area near Rio de Janeiro, killing at least 257 people, according to local media. The town of Teresopolis, about 100km north of Rio, was worst hit, with at least 122 people killed, officials said on Wednesday, after hillsides and riverbanks buckled under the equivalent of a month's rainfall.. More

  • Brisbane braces for massive floods

    Thousands of residents have begun evacuating the outskirts of Australia's third-largest city as other people piled sandbags outside their homes and stockpiled food amid rising floodwaters and more heavy rain. The streets of Brisbane in the state of Queensland were largely deserted, with 80 suburbs expected to be flooded if the Brisbane river bursts.. More

  • Tunisia unrest spreads to capital

    Police have fired into the air to disperse rioters ransacking buildings in a suburb of Tunisia's capital. The violence in the predominantly working class neighborhood of Ettadem late on Tuesday was the first in Tunis since a wave of unrest that has killed at least 23 people, according to officials. A reporter for the Reuters news agency said that.. More

  • Pakistan drone attack kills several

    At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone missile strike in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district. Senior Pakistani security official said that the latest missiles struck a compound at Haiderkhel village, some 25km east of Miranshah on Wednesday. Miranshah is the main town of North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan... More

  • South Sudan vote continues smoothly

    Voting has opened for the third day in southern Sudan's historic referendum to determine whether the region will secede from Sudan to become an independent state. Jubilant voters had flooded polling stations for a second day on Monday, but tensions remained high in the border region of Abyei with reports of at least 30 people being killed in violence.. More

  • More floods ravage Australia

    At least nine people have been killed and 66 others are missing after the latest downpour hit Australia's flood-wrecked Queensland state. Raging torrents rushed through several towns, washing away cars and houses. Rescuers on Tuesday rushed to reach residents trapped on their roofs overnight as the onslaught of muddy water tossed cars like toys, carried.. More

  • Israeli troops 'shoot Gaza farmer'

    A 65-year old Palestinian farmer has been killed by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical and security officials say. Adham Abu Selmiya, a spokesman for the Hamas-run medical services, named the farmer as Shaaban al-Qarmoot, and said his body has been transferred to the nearby Kamal Adwan hospital. He said the man had died.. More

  • South Sudan secession vote resumes

    Polls have opened for the second day of voting in southern Sudan's historic referendum to determine whether the region will become an independent nation or continue to be part of Sudan. On Sunday, the first day of voting passed off largely peacefully but more clashes in the disputed border region of Abyei left at least six dead. In the southern capital.. More

  • Protesters killed in Tunisia riots

    Several people have been killed in clashes with police in different parts of Tunisia. Union sources told Al Jazeera that six people were killed and another six wounded in the city of Tala, 200km southwest of the capital Tunis, on Saturday after security forces opened fire on protesters. Another 14 people were killed in similar clashes in the Kasserine.. More

  • Scores killed in Iran air crash

    Up to 70 people on board an IranAir passenger jet have been killed and more than 30 injured after it crashed in the country's northwest, IRNA, the Iranian news agency, says quoting an Iranian Red Crescent official. The aircraft crashed near Orumiyeh at around 16:15 GMT on Sunday, an official in West Azerbaijan province was quoted by state television's.. More

  • Voting begins in S Sudan referendum

    There is an air of celebration in Juba as southern Sudanese begin voting in an historic referendum to decide whether they want to secede from Sudan or remain united. The week-long poll started on Sunday at 8:00 local time [05:00 GMT] across Sudan. It is also being held in eight other countries that have substantial numbers of southern Sudanese. Among.. More

  • Violent clashes continue in Tunisia

    At least four people have been killed in clashes with police in a provincial town in Tunisia, witnesses have said. Six other protestors were seriously wounded. The clashes are said to have taken place late on Saturday in Tala, about 200km southwest of the Tunisian capital Tunis, and near the border with Algeria. Belgacem Sayhi, a teacher and trade.. More

  • Several killed in Nigeria attacks

    Nigerian soldiers have fired into the air to disperse youths burning vehicles and tires in the central city of Jos in protest at the killing of seven Muslims in a nearby village, residents have said. The Muslims were on their way back from a wedding when they were attacked late on Friday after their bus got lost near a predominantly Christian village.. More

  • Algeria protests turn violent

    Algerian government officials are set to meet on Saturday to finds ways to halt a rise in the costs of basic food items that sparked protests in the capital and other towns this week. An inter-ministerial council would in particular look at laws related to competition and commercial practice, and the definition of profit margins, Mustapha Benbada,.. More

  • Bashir warns of unstable south

    Sudan's president has warned that south Sudan would struggle as an independent nation were it to vote to secede from the north. Speaking just days before a referendum, which is expected to see southerners vote to establish a separate country, Omar al-Bashir told Al Jazeera that he was concerned about possible instability in the south following.. More