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  • Israeli soldier killed near Gaza

    An Israeli soldier has been killed and four others injured when they fired on each other in the buffer zone between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Gaza City, said that a so-called "friendly fire" incident had occurred. "The soldiers fired on each other, but initial clashes began when Palestinian.. More

  • Yemeni soldiers killed in ambush

    Ten soldiers have been killed by fighters who attacked three military vehicles in southern Yemen, security officials say. The army patrol cars were attacked on Friday in Lawdar, a city in the province of Abyan where several military raids against suspected fighters took place last year. The fighters used rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.. More

  • Civilians killed in Afghan blast

    A suicide attack in a public bathhouse in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and a police commander, officials have said. More than 20 others were injured in the blast, which occurred on Friday in the town of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province, on the border with Pakistan. "A suicide bomber blew up explosives strapped to his.. More

  • Palestinian killed in Israeli raid

    Israeli troops have shot dead a sleeping Palestinian man during a dawn raid in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Family members found Suliman al-Qawasmeh, 66, in a pool of blood in the bedroom after soldiers broke into several homes in the city's al-Sheikh neighborhood on Friday. The raid came less than 24 hours after six Hamas fighters.. More

  • Algerian youth protest high prices

    Algerian youth throughout the country have protested against living conditions and the rising prices of basic commodities. Demonstrations fuelled by young people began on Wednesday night. In Algiers, the capital, protesters threw rocks and other debris at police, and lit garbage bins and tires on fire. Riot police responded with tear gas. The Quotidien.. More

  • UN seeks troops for Cote d'Ivoire

    The UN is calling for up to 2,000 peacekeepers to bolster existing forces in Cote d'Ivoire, as the world body continues to press disputed leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down. The additional troops would reinforce the 9,800-strong UN force currently in the West African country, Alain Le Roy, the UN peacekeeping undersecretary-general, said on Wednesday. He.. More

  • Passengers foil Turkey 'hijacking'

    A hijack attempt on a Turkish Airlines flight from Norway to Istanbul has been foiled by passengers. Turkish media, citing security officials, said a Turkish passenger on board the Boeing 737-800 stormed the cockpit less than an hour before arrival in Turkey on Wednesday. Officials said the man claimed to have a bomb and demanded the aircraft return.. More

  • Pakistani Governor assassinated in Islamabad

    Governor Salman Taseer, member of the ruling Pakistani Peoples Party and governor of the Punjab Province, was assassinated today by one of his guards in the capital city of Islamabad. The assassin, Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, was a personal bodyguard and a member of Punjab’s Elite Forces. He confessed to the assassination and said he was prompted.. More

  • Ivory Coast's rivals agree to meet over crisis

    Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to further talks over a bitter election dispute and has promised to lift a blockade around the temporary headquarters of rival Alassane Ouattara, regional bloc ECOWAS said on Tuesday. "Mr. Laurent Gbagbo agreed to negotiate a peaceful end to the crisis without any preconditions. He also pledged to immediately.. More

  • Bashir in 'historic visit' to Juba

    Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has arrived in the southern regional capital of Juba to deliver what could be his final address in the region. He will also meet with local ministers ahead of his country's upcoming vote on secession. With polls indicating that southerners favor breaking away from the north, Tuesday's remarks could be Bashir's.. More

  • Iran offers visit to nuclear sites

    Iran has invited Russia, China, the European Union and its allies among the Arab and developing world to tour its nuclear sites, in an apparent move to gain support ahead of a new round of talks with six world powers. In a letter made available on Monday to The Associated Press, senior Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh suggests the weekend of January.. More

  • Migrants drown off Yemen

    More than 40 African migrants trying to reach Yemen by boat have drowned in heavy seas off the coast and a second boat with up to 40 Ethiopians aboard is missing, Yemeni and UN officials said. Yemen's interior ministry said on its website on Monday that three Somalis were rescued after a vessel carrying 46 people, mostly from Ethiopia, capsized, and.. More

  • Strong 7.1 magnitude quake hits Chile, no injuries

    A strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Sunday, driving panicked residents from their homes due to fears of a tsunami but causing no injuries or damage, officials said. Last February, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake caused tsunami waves that devastated coastal towns in the same area of the South American country, killing more than 500 people.. More

  • Australia floodwaters set to rise

    Residents of the city of Rockhampton, in the Australian state of Queensland, face a nervous wait as floodwaters continue to rise. Rockhampton is one of 20 towns and cities hit by the flooding that now covers an area larger than France and Germany combined, with about 200,000 people affected. While the rain has stopped, rivers are still surging to.. More

  • Israeli warplanes hit besieged-Gaza, two Palestinians wounded

    Israeli warplanes carried out two raids on the Gaza Strip early Sunday, wounding two people, Palestinian emergency services said. The strikes were confirmed by the Israeli army. Two people were wounded in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The other raid, on the Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City, did not result in any casualties. A.. More