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  • Twin blasts kill seven in Iraqi town of Ramadi

    Two blasts have killed at least 14 people in the Iraqi town of Ramadi, say officials and police. The attacks were the second targeting a government compound in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, this month. Reports suggest one bomber blew up a vehicle, and minutes later another detonated an explosives vest as people gathered at the scene. At.. More

  • Israeli leaders differ on apology

    Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's foreign minister, has vowed that Israel would not apologize to Turkey for a commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship that killed nine Turkish activists. Speaking in Jerusalem at a meeting of Israel's ambassadors on Sunday, Lieberman said Ankara's demand for an apology before normalizing relations between the former allies.. More

  • US tourists die in Egypt bus crash

    Eight American tourists have been killed and 21 injured when their bus collided with a truck near the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, police officials say. The bus carrying 37 tourists from the US was headed to the ancient Egyptian Abu Simbel temples on Sunday when it collided with a damaged truck parked on the side of the road, the official MENA.. More

  • Turkey insists on Israel apology

    Turkey's foreign minister has said that the country wants improved ties with Israel, but that this would be contingent on Israel apologizing and offering compensation for its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. "We have the intention of making peace with Israel," Ahmet Davutoglu told state media on Saturday. "Why should we want.. More

  • Israeli troops kill Gaza fighters

    Two members of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, were killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire in the Gaza Strip. Israel has launched multiple air raids aimed at what they say are Hamas facilities over the past week. Hamas's military wing has accused Israel of "playing with fire". Fighters in Gaza have fired back.. More

  • Thousands flee Cote d'Ivoire crisis

    About 14,000 people have already fled Cote d'Ivoire for neighboring Liberia, the UN says, as fears continue to mount that an election dispute in the West African state could rekindle a civil war. "UNHCR has registered a total of 14,000 Ivorian refugees in eastern Liberia who fled in the wake of post-electoral instability," the UN's refugee.. More

  • Hamas: Israel 'playing with fire'

    Hamas has warned that it would escalate hostilities against Israel unless tensions along the Gaza-Israel border were defused. Abu Obeida, the group's spokesman said on Saturday that they would respond aggressively to Israeli attacks, adding that Israel was "playing with fire". Tensions have risen along the border in recent days. Over the.. More

  • Pakistan bomb attack kills dozens

    At least 42 people have been killed and some 70 others injured after a suspected bomber attacked a crowd of people receiving food aid in northwest Pakistan. Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said that the incident took place on Saturday morning at a World Food Programme (WFP) distribution centre in the town of Khair, in Bajaur agency. &quo.. More

  • Many dead in Pakistan clashes

    Dozens of fighters in Pakistan have attacked five checkpoints in a region near the Afghan border, sparking a clash that killed three soldiers and 24 fighters, the Pakistani military said. The fighting occurred in the northwest's Mohmand tribal area overnight on Thursday. A statement from the Frontier Corps security force, a paramilitary division of.. More

  • Russia poised to ratify START

    Russia's parliamentary speaker has said that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with the US could be ratified in the country within days. The statement from Boris Gryzlov comes a day after the US senate approved the nuclear arms-reduction deal, in what was seen as a major foreign-policy victory for Barack Obama, the US president. Gryzlov.. More

  • S Korea stages major military drill

    North Korea has criticized major land and sea military exercises staged by the South, but stopped short of threatening a retaliatory strike as tension remained high on the divided peninsula. In a show of military might, South Korea started a major land drill in the Pocheon region on Thursday (0500 GMT), between Seoul and the heavily armed demilitarized.. More

  • Settlement-building soars in the West Bank

    It has only been three months since the Israeli government announced the formal end to its partial freeze on settlement construction, but that was all the time it took for the construction to not only begin anew, but to escalate into a full on boom. The West Bank land rush is on, and Israel seems to be putting an enormous amount of effort into the.. More

  • Cote d'Ivoire standoff deepens

    The World Bank has frozen finance to Cote d'Ivoire amid a political crisis in the West African country whose incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo, insists on asserting his leadership. Robert Zoellick, the World Bank head, confirmed on Wednesday that the loans were stopped. The World Bank's aid commitment to Cote d'Ivoire was $841.9 million as of January.. More

  • S Korea to hold 'mega drill'

    South Korea will hold its largest-ever live fire drill near the military border with North Korea in a show of force just as tension on the peninsula was easing after Pyongyang's attack on a southern island. The drill on Thursday, involving the largest number of personnel in a peace-time exercise, comes after the South's artillery exercise on Monday.. More

  • NATO kills five civilians in attack on Afghan home

    NATO officials confirmed today that they are investigating the latest killing of Afghan civilians by coalition troops, after forces opened fire on a house in Sangin District, Helmand Province, killing at least five. Terming the killings a “tragedy,” officials insisted that fighters had tricked them into killing the civilians by shooting.. More