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  • New Yorkers rally over mosque plan

    Hundreds of supporters and opponents of the proposed Islamic cultural centre near the World Trade Centre site in New York have staged rallies, kept apart by police and barricades. Opponents in downtown Manhattan shouted "Enough is enough" on Sunday as supporters yelled "say no to racist fear". No violence or arrests were reported. Unifo.. More

  • Pakistanis flee as more towns flood

    About 150,000 Pakistanis have been forced to flee their homes in southern Sindh province after floodwaters submerged more towns and villages in the region. A stream of lorries, tractors and donkey carts transported people away from the newly-affected areas on Saturday as the floods spread the rice-growing areas in the north of the province. "We.. More

  • Iran 'powers up' nuclear plant

    Iran has started loading fuel into its first Russian-built nuclear power plant. After decades of delay, engineers finally began loading the Russia-supplied fuel into the Bushehr plant in southern Iran on Saturday. The development is a major milestone in Iran's atomic program despite UN sanctions. The transfer took place under the scrutiny of International.. More

  • 'Al-Qaeda fighters' killed in Yemen

    Government forces are said to have killed five fighters of al-Qaeda's regional affiliate in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan. Saturday's incident came a day after suspected al-Qaeda fighters attacked a Yemeni security patrol in a market in Abyan and killed 13 people, including 10 soldiers. Al-Qaeda has stepped up its attacks on Yemeni government.. More

  • US ends combat operations in Iraq

    The last brigade of US combat has withdrawn from Iraq, bringing combat operation to an end in a war that has lasted more than seven years and claimed the lives of more than 4,000 US troops. The brigade left the country in the early hours of Thursday morning, two weeks before an August 31 deadline for the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom pledged by Barack.. More

  • Security fears shutter Afghan polls

    The Afghan government has decided not to open more than 900 polling stations during next month's parliamentary election, citing security concerns. The closures will affect nearly 15 per cent of the country's 6,835 polling stations, and could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters. Many of the affected locations are in southern and eastern.. More

  • US military denies Wikileaks talks

    The US military has denied having direct contact with whistle-blower website Wikileaks ahead of the expected release of about 15,000 leaked documents on the war in Afghanistan. Responding to claims by Julian Assange, Wikileaks' founder, that military lawyers had been in touch with the group, the Pentagon said on Wednesday that it was not interested.. More

  • Bomber strikes Iraqi army recruits

    At least 57 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at an army recruitment centre in the Iraqi capital. Iraqi officials said at least 120 other people were wounded in the blast on Tuesday, when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb as men queued outside the centre in central Baghdad. The attack occurred at the historical site of the country's.. More

  • UN appeals for more Pakistan aid

    The United Nations has urgently appealed for more funds for Pakistan, where only a small fraction of the flood victims desperately in need of food and clean water have received any help. "We cannot spend pledges. We cannot buy purification tablets, we cannot support Pakistan with pledges," Daniel Toole, the South Asia regional director for.. More

  • Turkish embassy standoff ends

    A Palestinian man, who broke into the Turkish embassy in Israel and tried to take hostages, has been taken to a hospital after being shot. Turkish officials told Al Jazeera that the man, identified as Nadim Injaz, had been shot in the leg by embassy security guards late on Tuesday. The man was subdued and Turkish diplomats questioned him for more.. More

  • Storm over Israeli 'abuse' photos

    A former Israeli soldier has sparked controversy after posting pictures of herself on Facebook posing with bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. The photographs show Eden Abergil positioned provocatively with the men, prompting lurid comments from other users of the popular social networking site. The pictures, which were uploaded into a folder.. More

  • Karzai bans private security firms

    Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has given private security firms working in Afghanistan four months to end their operations. Karzai has repeatedly called for banning private security companies, saying they undermine government security forces. "Today the president is going to issue a four-month deadline for the dissolution of private security.. More

  • Timescale set for Iran atomic plant

    Iran has announced that the construction of the first of 10 new uranium enrichment facilities in the country will start early next year. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's nuclear program, told state television that the search for sites for the facilities "is in its final stages". "Construction of a new uranium enrichment site will.. More

  • UN chief: Pakistan needs more aid

    Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has said that the Pakistan floods are the worst disaster he has ever seen and has issued a fresh call for international aid to help those affected by the crisis. Speaking alongside Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's president, after a tour of the disaster zone, Ban said on Sunday it had been "heart-wrenching day.".. More

  • Al-Qaeda tirade against Turkey

    Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, has slammed Turkey's government for co-operating with Israel and "killing Muslims in Afghanistan". In a 20-minute Arabic audio message posted on an Islamist website on Sunday, al-Zawahiri also offered condolences to the families of Turkish activists killed by Israel during a raid on a Gaza.. More