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  • U.S. drone strike kills five in Pakistan

    Three missiles fired by U.S. drone aircraft struck a site in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the Afghan border on Monday, killing five, intelligence officials said. The strike took place about 24 km (15 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan. "We have got confirmed reports of five dead but the number could be higher,".. More

  • Five Palestinians wounded in East Jerusalem

    Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that at least five Palestinians, including a medic, were wounded by rubber-coated bullets fired by the Israeli army at protestors in Al Bustan neighborhood in Silwan town, in East Jerusalem. Dozens of protestors closed the entrances Silwan with stones and tires while the police and undercover forces attacked.. More

  • North-south Sudan clashes kill 58, injure 85

    Clashes between south Sudan's army and Darfuri Arab tribes killed 58 people, raising tensions along the north-south border as results of the first open elections in 24 years are released, officials said on Sunday. Sudan's oil-producing south was allowed to keep a separate army and form a semi-autonomous government in a 2005 peace deal ending more than.. More

  • Clashes as settlers march in Israel

    Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces have clashed after Jewish settlers marched in the Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem. The rightwing settlers, who staged the march on Sunday, want Palestinians removed from the area and their homes pulled down. Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland in Silwan said the demonstration was "extremely.. More

  • Deadly tornadoes hit US states

    A tornado nearly a mile (1.6 km) wide ripped through central Mississippi on Saturday, killing 10 people, including three children, and injuring dozens of others, state authorities said. The tornado struck at least 13 counties, destroying scores of homes and trapping people inside, damaging businesses, blocking highways and knocking out power to thousands,.. More

  • Nato tankers attacked in Pakistan

    Twelve Nato oil tankers have been set alight and four policemen killed when unknown gunmen opened fire in Talagang, a town in Pakistan's Punjab province. Aslam Tarin, a Pakistani policeman, told Geo TV that the gunmen opened fire on the tankers and escaped after police returned fire, Tarin said a nearby petrol station also caught fire due to Saturday's.. More

  • Somali fighters seize three towns

    Somalia's al-Shabab group, which has vowed to topple the UN-backed government, has seized three towns in the central Galgudud region from the pro-government Ahlu Sunna movement, witnesses said. Al-Shabab took control of the towns of El Der, Masagaway and Galad towns on Friday reportedly without any resistance from the rival group. The three towns.. More

  • Palestinians deported to Gaza

    Two Palestinians have been deported to the Gaza Strip from Israel, raising fears that more expulsions could follow under a controversial new Israeli military order. After nine years in Israeli jail, Ahmad Sabah, a 40-year-old Palestinian, was sent to Gaza, instead of being released to the West Bank where his family was waiting for him. Israelis sent.. More

  • Armenia halts ratification of protocols with Turkey

    Armenia's ruling coalition on Thursday said it had decided to freeze the ratification in parliament of accords with Turkey aimed at normalizing ties. Turkey and Armenia which have no diplomatic ties or economic relations since Turkey closed its border with Armenia since it invaded the Upper-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in 1992, signed two protocols.. More

  • Sudan parties in poll agreement

    The ruling party of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, and the largest party in the semi-autonomous south have agreed to accept the results of last week's elections. Ballots are still being counted from the country's first multi-party polls in 24 years and the results, originally expected on Tuesday, have been delayed indefinitely. But,.. More

  • NATO troops kill four students in Khost

    Afghan government officials confirmed that an overnight NATO shooting in the Khost Province left four students, one of them as young as 11 years old, dead. The Afghan Education Ministry confirmed that all four were students, but other reports suggest the eldest, an 18 year old, may have been working as a police officer as well. NATO confirmed the shooting.. More

  • Israeli settlers install illegal outpost on Palestinian land

    A group of armed, extremist, Israeli settlers occupied on Monday a Palestinian agricultural land in Wadi Al Hasseen area, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and installed several tents. Local sources reported that the settlers came from the illegal Keryat Arba settlement in Hebron, and installed tents at the land of Al Botty Jaber after.. More

  • China quake death toll passes 2,000

    The death toll from last week's earthquake in China's northwest Qinghai province has climbed to 2,039. Another 195 people are still listed as missing following the magnitude 6.9 quake which struck Yushu county last Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said. The quake also injured 12,135 people and left several thousand people homeless in the.. More

  • Deadly clashes erupt in Kyrgyzstan

    At least one person has been killed and 11 others injured in clashes on the outskirts of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, an emergency service official has said. About 1,000 men armed with sticks clashed with police and landowners in a suburb of Bishkek on Monday. "Six people received gunshot wounds and one person died in the unrest in the village.. More

  • Deadly earthquake hits Afghanistan

    A powerful earthquake has struck central Afghanistan, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 30, officials said. The quake of 5.3 magnitude hit the highly mountainous Samangan province, northwest of the capital, Kabul, early on Monday. The earthquake was felt in Kabul as well as neighboring countries of Uzbekistan and Tajikstan. Ghulam.. More