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  • India offers "reviewing" deployment in Kashmir after troops killings

    India on Saturday offered to hold a "sustained dialogue" with Kashmiris and look at only limitation of security forces in the region where troops killing sparked a new wage of mass protests against New Delhi ruling. Palaniappan Chidambaram also said the government will soon announce a team to begin a dialogue with a broad section of Kashmir,.. More

  • Iran 'attacked' by computer worm

    Iran's nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites throughout the country and is capable of taking over the control systems of power plants, Iranian media reports have said. Experts from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran met this week to discuss how to remove the malicious computer code, or worm,.. More

  • Italy abuse victims in crime plea

    A group of Italian victims of child sex abuse by the Roman Catholic clergy have called for the widespread abuse to be declared a crime against humanity. The international appeal was launched on Saturday in Verona during the first public gathering of such victims in Italy. Salvatore Domolo, a former victim and an ex-priest, said the group was looking.. More

  • Japan refuses to apologize to China

    Japan has refused to apologize to Beijing for detaining a Chinese boat captain in disputed waters after Tokyo gave ground and released him. China's foreign ministry said it was angry at the detention of the captain, arrested by Japan over two weeks ago after his trawler collided with two Japanese patrol boats in waters near islands that both sides.. More

  • Nigeria floods displace millions

    Almost half of the population in Nigeria's central-northern Jigawa state has been displaced after authorities had to open floodgates on two swollen rivers. "We have about two million people affected," in a state which has 4.3 million people, Umar Kyari, the spokesman of Jigawa state, said on Friday. He said the flooding was caused after.. More

  • Ahmadinejad defends 9/11 remarks

    Iran's president has defended remarks he made on 9/11 attacks during his speech at the UN General Assembly. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that the background to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US in 2001 was "suspicious". A day earlier US and several Western diplomats walked out of the UN summit as Ahmadinejad.. More

  • IAEA rejects Arab move over Israel

    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, has rejected an Arab-proposed resolution calling on Israel to join a global anti-atomic arms treaty. The general assembly of the 151-member IAEA blocked the resolution at its meeting in Vienna on Friday. Fifty-one member states voted against the resolution while 46.. More

  • Israeli navy kills Gaza fisherman

    A Palestinian fisherman has been shot dead by the Israeli navy off the Gaza Strip. "Fisherman Mohammed Bakr died by a bullet by the Israeli navy today in the sea north of the Gaza Strip," Adham Abu Selmiya, heading the Palestinian territory's medical services, said on Friday. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the fisherman was in restricted.. More

  • 'Israel flotilla raid was unlawful'

    The UN Human Rights Council's fact-finding mission has accused Israeli forces of violating international law when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. The three UN-appointed human rights experts said in a report released on Wednesday that Israeli forces showed "incredible violence" during and after their raid on the aid flotilla that left.. More

  • Millions affected by Indian floods

    More than 3 million people in northern India have been affected by floods that have washed away homes, swept through holy sites and damaged crops as the authorities step up efforts to contain the damage. Heavy monsoon rains have swelled mighty Himalayan rivers, which broke their banks in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Uttarakhand. The waters.. More

  • Russia bans Iran missile delivery

    Citing UN sanctions, Russia has cancelled a planned sale of advanced missiles to Iran. Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has issued a decree prohibiting the delivery of S-300 air defense missile systems and other weapons to Iran. Reuters news agency reports that the presidential decree, issued on Wednesday, brings trade rules for Russia and its.. More

  • East Jerusalem clash turns deadly

    A Palestinian has been killed after a Jewish settlement guard opened fire at a group of men in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The incident occurred after clashes broke out between Jewish settlers and a number of local Palestinians in the Silwan neighborhood, Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan reported from Jerusalem. Israeli policemen fired rubber-coated.. More

  • Pakistan drone attacks kill scores

    Three strikes by US drones have killed at least 28 people in the tribal region in South Waziristan. Reporting for Al Jazeera from Islamabad, Kamal Hyder said that the first attack took place near Angor Adda along the Pakistan Afghan border. "We have reports that at least seven people, who were killed in that strike, were moved to another location.. More

  • UN translators let Ahmadinejad down

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, has addressed the UN General Assembly on the second day of the world body's millennium development goals summit. But it is not what he said on Tuesday that has made the news but what happened during the simultaneous translation of his speech, which has caused controversy. Right from the start, his speech was overshadowe.. More

  • Nine killed in Afghan helicopter crash

    Nine foreign troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan's south, the International Security Assistance Force [Isaf] has said. Four others were also injured in Tuesday's crash, including two Nato troops, an Afghan soldier and a US civilian. "The cause of the crash is under investigation," Isaf said. "There are no reports.. More