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  • AU nations to boost Somalia force

    Guinea and Djibouti are planning to send troops to bolster an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force charged with protecting the transitional government in Somalia, the AU has said. The pledge was announced on Friday before an AU summit in Uganda, which is expected to be dominated by the issue of security in Somalia. Kampala, Uganda's capital, was.. More

  • Hamas slams UN over aid deliveries

    Hamas has said the United Nations call for aid groups to send supplies to the Gaza strip over-land rather than by sea amounts to "collaboration with the Israeli occupier". "The UN call to international organizations to use the over-land road to Gaza instead of the sea is unacceptable and illegal," Sami Abu Zahri, a Hamas spokesman,.. More

  • Taliban captures two US soldiers

    The Taliban has captured two US soldiers in Logar province in eastern Afghanistan. The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) confirmed on Saturday that two of its soldiers were captured. "Two International Security Assistance Force servicemembers departed their compound in Kabul City in a vehicle on Friday afternoon and did.. More

  • ICJ says Kosovo statehood 'legal'

    The International Court of Justice has said that Kosovo's declaration of independence did not violate international law, in a case that could have significant implications for separatist movements around the world. Hisashi Owada, the presiding judge of the UN's highest court in the Hague, the Netherlands, read out the statement, which is not legally.. More

  • 'UN court to implicate Hezbollah'

    The Hezbollah leader has said that members of his group are expected to be charged by a UN court probing the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri, a former prime minister of Lebanon. "I was personally informed by Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri before his visit to Washington (in May) that the [Hariri]tribunal will accuse some undisciplined members" of.. More

  • Afghan handover plan endorsed

    Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has received international backing for plans that would see Afghan forces to take over security across the country in four years. Karzai outlined the plans at an international conference in Kabul attended by ministers and diplomats from around the world. "I remain determined that our Afghan national security.. More

  • Al-Zawahiri slams Arab leaders

    Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number two, has branded Arab leaders "Zionists" for helping Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip. In an audiotape posted online on Monday, al-Zawahiri said Arab government leaders allied to the West were more harmful to the Palestinians than Israel. "These Arab Zionists with whom we live and exchange smiles.. More

  • Scores dead in India train crash

    At least 61 people have been killed and more than 130 injured in a train collision in eastern India, according to hospital officials. The crash happened at about 2am (20:30GMT) on Monday when an express train slammed into a stationary train at Sainthia, about 200km north of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal. Several local television channels.. More

  • Suicide bombers target Iraq militia

    A suicide bomber has killed at least 43 people and wounded another 40 in western Baghdad, Iraqi police told Al Jazeera. The attack on Sunday occurred when members of the government-backed Sahwa militia lined up to be paid at an office in the Sunni district of Radwaniya. In a seperate incident, a suicide bomber stormed a local Sahwa headquarters in.. More

  • Taliban stage daring jail break

    Taliban fighters have freed 14 inmates from a jail in western Afghanistan after staging a daring prison break, police have said. Mohammad Faqir Askar, a provincial police chief, said the fighters blew up the main gates of the prison in Farah city after planting a bomb on Sunday. "Twenty prisoners escaped but we arrested six of them soon after.. More

  • Netanyahu: US easily manipulated

    A recently-revealed tape has shown Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, discussing ways to undermine the Oslo Accords and calling the United States "easy" to manipulate. The video was filmed in 2001, apparently without Netanyahu's knowledge, during a meeting with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. It aired on Friday night.. More

  • Hundreds killed in Darfur fighting

    Nearly 400 people have been killed in recent clashes between the Sudanese army and Darfur's main rebel group, according to Sudanese state media. Most of the people killed - more than 300 - were members of the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem). Eighty-six soldiers were also reportedly killed in the fighting earlier this week. United Nations peacekeepers.. More

  • Iran blames West over mosque attack

    Iran has blamed the West and Israel for the twin suicide bombings on a mosque two days ago that killed at least 27 people and left scores wounded. As funerals for the victims of Thursday's attack got under way, Iranian police also arrested 40 people for "creating disturbances", local media reported on Saturday. The Jundallah (Soldiers of.. More

  • Deadly ambush in northwest Pakistan

    At least 18 people have been killed by armed men who attacked a convoy of passenger buses in northwest Pakistan. The buses were passing through the village of Char Khel in the Kurram tribal agency when a group of men, armed with assault rifles, opened fire on them on Saturday. The buses were travelling from the border town of Parachinar to Peshawar,.. More

  • Gaza aid ship docks in Egypt

    A Libyan aid ship originally bound for the Gaza Strip has been diverted to a port in Egypt after the Israeli navy warned the vessel against trying to break an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian coastal territory. An Egyptian official said the Amalthea arrived in El Arish, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, about 45km south of the border with Gaza, in.. More