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  • Delay warning over south Sudan vote

    The electoral body tasked with organiZing next January's referendum on south Sudan's independence has said that the vote might be delayed. Mohamed Kahlil, who heads the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that meeting the January deadline appeared "difficult". "Even if we had the initial voters registration.. More

  • UAE concerned over Brodsky release

    The United Arab Emirates has voiced concern over Germany's decision to release on bail an alleged Israeli spy suspected of being linked to the murder of a Hamas leader in Dubai. State media quoted UAE officials as saying that they want evidence that Uri Brodsky, who was released from detention in the German city of Cologne on Friday, has no connection.. More

  • Deaths in Pakistan drone attack

    At least 13 people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike on a compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan district, close to the Afghan border. At least five other people were wounded in the strike on Saturday in Essori, a village 20km east of Miranshah, the main town in the tribal district, local officials said. The strike occurred during.. More

  • Iraqi policemen killed in attacks

    At least six policemen have been killed and two of their bodies burned in public in an attack on two police checkpoints in the Iraqi capital. In the first incident, an unidentified attacker approached a checkpoint on Saturday in eastern Baghdad and shot two of the officers dead, an Iraqi interior ministry official said. The attackers then put the.. More

  • Deadly attack on Pakistan bus

    Armed men have attacked a bus in Pakistan, killing at least 10 people. The bus was attacked on Friday night in Aab-e-Gum in the southwest of the country, 75km from the border city of Quetta. "A group of 30 to 35 gunmen stopped the bus in Aab-e-Gum area, off-loaded passengers at gunpoint and shot dead 10 of them," Akbar Hussain Durrani, a.. More

  • Obama backs 'Ground Zero mosque'

    Barack Obama, the US president, has backed a proposed mosque and Islamic community centre near the site of the former World Trade Centre in New York that was destroyed in the September 11 attacks. He said the country's founding principles demanded no less for the project which has sparked debate around the country. For several weeks, opponents of.. More

  • Pakistan's Sindh faces more floods

    Pakistan's Sindh province is bracing for a second round of heavy flooding, with authorities warning it could be as big as the first wave, which displaced millions and destroyed thousands of homes. Authorities said waters have unexpectedly begun to rise at the Kotri barrage along the Indus river in southern Sindh, and now threaten to overrun the embankments.. More

  • Omar Khadr frightened into giving false confession: Attorney

    The first “confession” of Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr was the words of a scared and wounded child whose interrogators frightened him into giving a false confession by making up a tale of a young boy gang-raped and killed in prison, his attorney said in the Guantanamo tribunal on Thursday. "It is only after that story is told to Omar.. More

  • UN launches Pakistan aid appeal

    The United Nations has launched an appeal for $459m to help the victims of devastating floods that have affected more than 14 million people across Pakistan. The call from the UN's humanitarian agency on Wednesday came as food prices skyrocketed after huge areas of crops were destroyed by the waters. "We have a huge task in front of us to deliver.. More

  • Lebanon defiant over US aid freeze

    The Lebanese defense minister has said that the country will refuse military assistance from the US should any aid come with conditions that weapons not be used against Israel. The comments from Elias Murr were made on Wednesday, after it was revealed that $100 million in US military assistance to Lebanon had been suspended last week. Aid was halted.. More

  • Russia fires ignite radiation fears

    Wildfires are threatening to stir radioactive particles left over from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster back into the air over western Russia, authorities have said. Environmentalists and forest experts warned that the radioactive dust could be harmful, even though doses would be small. "The danger is still there," Vladimir Chuprov of.. More

  • Soaring food prices hit Pakistan

    Food prices have skyrocketed in Pakistan at the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, after vast stretches of crops were destroyed by flooding. The rising prices threaten to amplify misery in a country where many residents were already mired in poverty before some of the country's worst flooding in 80 years struck. The prices of basic items.. More

  • UN launches Gaza flotilla probe

    The UN has begun its inquiry into Israel's deadly attack on the Gaza aid flotilla with a first session on Tuesday to determine the scope of its task. A statement on the inaugural meeting between the four-member team and Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said the inquiry was "not designed to determine individual criminal responsibility". Inste.. More

  • 'Booby trap' kills Iraqi soldiers

    A bomb exploded in a house in central Diyala province being raided for gunmen by the Iraqi military, killing eight soldiers. Gunmen lured the soldiers into a booby-trapped house in Diyala province following clashes at a security checkpoint, Captain Mohanned Ibrahim, an army officer, told the AFP news agency. Wednesday's blast, which wounded four.. More

  • Landslides hamper Pakistan relief

    Landslides have cut off large portions of Pakistan's Swat Valley and hampered efforts to help the 15 million people affected by Pakistan's worst flooding in decades. Many roads and bridges have been washed away by the floodwaters, and heavy rains are preventing helicopters from taking off. The United Nations has described the flooding, that has killed.. More