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  • German convicted of Muslim murder

    A man who stabbed a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a German courtroom in front of her husband and three-year-old son has been sentenced to the maximum penalty of life in jail. Alex Wiens, 28, stabbed Marwa al-Sherbini, who was wearing a hijab, at least 16 times on July 1, in the same courthouse in the eastern city of Dresden where the trial took.. More

  • Troops on alert after Koreas clash

    South Korean troops have been placed on high alert for possible retaliation from the North following Tuesday's brief naval clash along their disputed western sea border. The clash was the first such engagement in seven years, reportedly leading to the death of at least one North Korean sailor and stoking fresh tensions between the rival Koreas. Kim.. More

  • Car bomb strikes northwest Pakistan

    A car bomb explosion has killed at least 30 people outside a crowded market in northwest Pakistan. The bomb tore through a busy traffic intersection on Tuesday in the city of Charsadda, north of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP). More than 40 other people were wounded in the blast, Hameedullah Khan, Al Jazeera's.. More

  • Saudi 'to keep up Houthi offensive'

    Saudi Arabia has imposed a naval blockade along the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen in an attempt to cut off supplies to Houthi rebels along its border with Yemen. The kingdom's warships were ordered on Tuesday to search any ship suspected of carrying weapons or fighters near the Yemeni coast, a government adviser said, as Riyadh vowed to continue.. More

  • Uighurs condemn China's first executions in East Turkistan

    China has executed nine people over ethnic protests in East Turkistan, regional authorities said Monday, the first executions since July. Four months later, the region is still under heavy security, with Internet access cut and international direct dialing calls blocked. China convicted 21 defendants in October -- nine were sentenced to death, three.. More

  • Palestinians remind "shame wall", world marks Berlin Wall fall

    Palestinian activists tried to get rid of at least a portion of Israel's "shame" wall in occupied West Bank on Monday. The efforts come as world leaders converged on the German capital to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the toppling of the Berlin Wall. Around 100 demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and wearing fluorescent jackets reading,.. More

  • Koreas in naval border clash

    North and South Korea have blamed each other's armed forces for triggering a brief naval clash along their disputed western sea border. The exchange of fire on Tuesday morning occurred after a North Korean ship crossed the disputed border line in the Yellow Sea, South Korean military officials said, stoking fresh tensions between the rival Koreas. "A.. More

  • Al-Bashir cancels Turkey OIC trip

    The president of Sudan has cancelled a visit to Turkey amid an EU push to arrest him for "war crimes" charges. Omar al-Bashir told Abdullah Gul, his Turkish counterpart, on Sunday that he would not attend a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Istanbul on Monday, the state-run Suna news agency said. The cancellation.. More

  • Floods ravage storm-hit El Salvador

    At least 124 people have been killed by floods and mudslides in El Salvador after the central American nation was battered by Hurricane Ida. Humberto Centeno, the country's interior minister, said on Monday that the toll was likely to rise since dozens of people were still missing. "There are 60 people missing in just the province of San Vicente.. More

  • Nato probes deadly Afghan air raid

    An investigation has begun on whether a Nato air raid was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and foreign troops during a joint operation in the northwest of Afghanistan. Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said the attack on Friday killed or injured more than 25 foreign and Afghan soldiers in the province of Badghis. Nato.. More

  • Deadly blast hits Pakistan town

    At least 13 people have been killed and nearly 30 others wounded following an explosion on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. The attack occurred on Sunday in the village of Matni, with reports saying a bomber blew himself up in a livestock market. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad reported that Abdul Malik, the mayor.. More

  • Lebanon nears unity government

    Lebanon's opposition has agreed to a proposed national unity government line-up, paving the way to end four months of political deadlock in the country. Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri, will announce a new national unity government in the next two days, politicians on both sides said on Saturday. Lebanon's Hezbollah movement said its alliance.. More

  • Italy convicts CIA rendition agents

    An Italian judge has convicted 23 US secret agents over the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam from a Milan street in an extraordinary rendition by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The trial was the first in the world to centre on the agency's controversial program, in which "terror" suspects are thought to have been transferred to.. More

  • Settlements 'end two-state hopes'

    Palestinians may have to abandon the goal of an independent state if Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, the chief Palestinian negotiator has said. Speaking to reporters in Ramallah on Wednesday, Saab Erekat said it may be time for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to "tell his people the truth, that.. More

  • Saudi soldier killed in Houthi raid

    One Saudi soldier has been killed and 11 others injured in an attack by armed infiltrators from Yemen, Saudi Arabia's SPA state news agency has reported. The SPA said on Wednesday that the attack took place in the mountainous border region of Jabal al-Dukhan, near an area where Yemen's army has been battling Houthi rebel fighters from the Zaidi sect. ".. More