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  • Somali clashes kill 24, thousands flee Mogadishu

    Violence in Mogadishu killed at least 24 people on Wednesday, and thousands of Somalis fled the capital fearing a government offensive against fighters. Al Shabaab fighters fired mortar shells at the Villa Somalia presidential palace, prompting African Union (AU) guards to respond with a deafening barrage of artillery. At least 16 people died in the.. More

  • UK releases 'US torture evidence'

    A British court has ordered the government to disclose classified information about the treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who said he was tortured in US custody. The information, contained in seven paragraphs redacted from a high court judgment, described the treatment of Binyam Mohamed by US authorities as "at the very least cruel,.. More

  • Afghanistan tunnel avalanches kill 150 in Salang Pass

    At least 150 people have been killed in a series of avalanches that have blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul, Afghan officials say. Rescuers are trying to reach hundreds more people who are trapped in their vehicles in the Salang Pass. Some 2,500 people have been rescued so far, but scores more are feared buried following several days of heavy.. More

  • Sudan, Chad agree "to turn page"

    Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir said on Tuesday that Sudan had "completely turned the page" in its conflict with Chad and was ready to fully normalize relations with its neighbor. "I say to our people in Sudan and in Chad, we have completely turned the page on problems between us," Beshir said during a joint press conference with.. More

  • Nigeria brutal killings caught on video

    Nigerian police and military units carried out extra-judicial killings last year in the aftermath of clashes with members of a Muslim group in the north of the country, footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to confirm. An estimated 1,000 people were killed as Nigerian government forces fought Boko Haram in Borno, Yobe, Kano and Bauchi states in July.. More

  • Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood leaders

    The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s biggest opposition group, said police rounded up several of its top leaders, including Deputy General Guide Mahmoud Ezzat and spokesman Essam El-Erian. Police also detained Abdel-Rahman El-Berr, who is a member of the Guidance Council, the Brotherhood’s top executive body. The group reported the detentions.. More

  • New sanctions urged over Iran move

    The United States and France have called for fresh sanctions against Iran after Tehran said it would begin enriching higher-grade nuclear fuel to a level of 20 per cent. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Robert Gates, the US defense secretary, said Iran should face "strong sanctions" over its nuclear program, a French official said.. More

  • Israeli forces raid West Bank camp

    Israeli forces have raided a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, arresting at least 40 people. The arrests on Monday at the Shuafat camp in annexed east Jerusalem were part of an operation that Israeli police said was aimed at "putting order" in the area. Al Jazeera's Elias Karram, reporting from the camp, said: "The raid was.. More

  • HRW says Israel failed UN demand on Gaza war crimes probe

    Israel has failed to show it will conduct an impartial investigation of a report that it committed war crimes during its Gaza offensive last winter, an international human rights group said Sunday. The UN General Assembly in November called on Israel and Palestinian armed groups to investigate alleged war crimes detailed in a UN report by the former.. More

  • Ahmadinejad orders nuclear work

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has instructed Iran's Atomic Energy Organization to begin enriching uranium for use as nuclear fuel, casting doubt on the prospect of a deal with the West. Ahmadinejad's comments on Sunday, carried on state television, were directed at Ali Akbar Salehi, who heads the atomic energy body and who was sitting.. More

  • Deaths in US power plant blast

    At least five people have been killed and a dozen others injured in a huge explosion at a gas-fired power plant in the US state of Connecticut. Fire officials said a leak of natural gas was thought to have caused the blast during testing at the Kleen Energy Systems plant, under construction outside the town of Middletown. The blast occurred around.. More

  • Heavy snowfall hits North America

    Stormy weather and snow have paralyzed parts of the US east coast, with hundreds of thousands of people left without electricity. Transport links were disrupted and forecasters warned that chilly temperatures on Sunday would mean the wet snow could swiftly turn icy. The storm stretched hundreds of kilometers from eastern Indiana into Pennsylvania.. More

  • Afghan police kill "seven civilian boys" in border town

    Seven Afghan boys were shot dead on Saturday by police who "mistook them for fighters", a provincial police official said. The boys were collecting firewood when police opened fire on them in the border town of Spin Boldak, southern Kandahar province, Abdul Raziq, police commander for the town, said. The police had been detained and were.. More

  • Taliban rejects Karzai's offer

    The Afghan Taliban has rejected the offer of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, to get fighters to reconcile with the government. In a statement posted on the Taliban's alemarah.info website on Sunday, the group called the attempt "futile" and "farcical", but said it was open to talks to achieve its goal of an Islamic state. "Th.. More

  • Somali pirates hijack Libyan ship

    Somali pirates have hijacked a Libyan-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, taking its crew of 17 Romanians and Libyans hostage. The MV Rim was seized outside the internationally recommended transit corridor patrolled by the anti-piracy naval coalition, the European Union Naval Force (Navfor) said on Thursday. Kenya-based Ecoterra, which monitors.. More