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  • Israel implicated in Hariri murder

    Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has implicated Israel for the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister. In a video address to journalists from an undisclosed location on Monday, Nasrallah said he had evidence to prove Israel's complicity in al-Hariri's assassination in a bomb explosion in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. "H.. More

  • Deaths in Ramadi car bomb blast

    A car bomb has exploded in the centre of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, killing at least eight people and wounding another 32, an Iraqi police source has said. The explosion occurred outside a restaurant in a busy area of Ramadi, which is about 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. Sources told Al Jazeera that the bomber targeted a police.. More

  • Hundreds missing in China landslide

    Rescue workers are hunting for an estimated 1,300 people who are still missing after landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 127 in flood-hit northwest China, state media has reported. Authorities have sent nearly 3,000 soldiers and about 100 medical experts to help in search and rescue effort in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.. More

  • Landslides cut off Swat Valley

    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 prevented helicopters from taking off. Nine people were confirmed dead on Sunday in the northwestern Khyber.. More

  • WikiLeaks to publish new documents despite US threats

    The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks said it will continue to publish more secret files from governments around the world despite U.S. demands to cancel plans to release classified military documents. An online whistle-blower's threat to release more classified Pentagon and State Department documents is raising hard questions of what the U.S. government.. More

  • Gazans in dark as pay dispute shuts only power plant

    Gaza's only major power station that provides a third of the territory's electricity stopped its generators on Saturday due to a dispute with the Palestinian government in the West Bank over fuel payments, officials said. Officials from Hamas party that runs the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, blamed the disruption on the rival Western-backed.. More

  • Twin blasts rock Iraqi city

    At least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after at least two blasts rocked a market in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Initial reports said that a car bomb, followed by a secondary explosion, hit the busy al-Ashaar marketplace in Basra city on Saturday. But police officials insisted the blasts were caused by a power generator.. More

  • Iran denies attack on president

    Iranian officials have denied that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was targeted in an assassination attempt. A conservative Iranian website had said an explosive device was thrown at his convoy in the western city of Hamedan, where he was to deliver a speech, but later removed the report from its site. State-run Press TV said "no such attack had.. More

  • Pakistan floods trigger mass exodus

    Thousands of people in Pakistan's Punjab province are fleeing their homes as the worst floods in the country's history threaten more areas in the south. Floodwaters have submerged numerous villages and begun to pour into major urban centres like the city of Kot Addu in Punjab. UN and Pakistani officials say 3.2 million people are affected by the floods.. More

  • UN: Israel did not cross border

    The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon has confirmed that Israeli troops did not cross into Lebanon during Tuesday's deadly border skirmish. The clash started after an Israeli army unit tried to cut down trees near the Blue Line, the UN-administered border between Israel and Lebanon. Both countries said the trees were on their side.. More

  • Troops die in Israel-Lebanon clash

    At least three Lebanese and one Israeli soldier have been killed during an exchange of rocket and gunfire along the border between the two countries. A journalist was also killed, and four more Lebanese soldiers wounded by Israeli shelling on Tuesday. The Israeli army did not say how the Israeli soldier was killed. "The Israelis fired four rockets.. More

  • Car bomb blasts rock Iraqi city

    At least 22 people have been killed after cars laden with explosives were placed at a number of locations in the Iraqi city of Kut. Scores of people were also wounded when at least one of the car bombs exploded in the commercial district of the city, about 160km south of Baghdad, the capital. Police sources told Al Jazeera that they dismantled two.. More

  • Karachi killing triggers clashes

    Up to 46 people have been killed in the Pakistani city of Karachi after clashes broke out following the killing of a local politician, local media has reported. More than 100 people were also said to have been injured after Raza Haider and his bodyguard were shot dead outside a mosque on Monday. Haider's killing prompted his supporters to erect barricades.. More

  • Deaths in Kashmir curfew protests

    At least seven people have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir, bringing the death toll from recent weeks of violence to 30. Government troops fired into crowds of protesters on Monday as thousands of Kashmiris demonstrated against a round-the-clock curfew imposed across the region. The deaths, reported in the Pulwama, Anantnag, Pulgam and.. More

  • Disease outbreak feared in Pakistan

    Fears are growing about outbreaks of disease among up to 2.5 million people affected by floods in Pakistan that have killed up to 1,500 people in the northwest. Officials warned on Monday that a lack of drinking water is spreading disease, including cholera. Syed Zahir Ali Shah, the health minister in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, said about.. More