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  • Iran fires rockets in show of force

    Iran has tested two short-range missiles in a show of force just two days after the US and its allies warned Tehran over a newly revealed nuclear facility it had been secretly constructing. General Hossein Salami, the head of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force, said the missiles successfully hit their targets on Sunday and Iran had perfected its short.. More

  • US transfers Guantanamo detainees

    Three detainees held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been transferred to Ireland and Yemen, the justice department has said. Yemeni Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed was sent home, while two other detainees, whose identities were not released at the behest of the Irish government, were sent to Ireland on Saturday. Ireland previously.. More

  • Venezuela hosts Afro-Latino summit

    Venezuela's president has urged leaders from Africa and South America to help form a "multipolar" world to counter Western economic dominance. Hugo Chavez told the second South America-Africa (ASA) summit, currently being held at the Venezuelan resort of Isla Margarita, that the summit would help the mainly poor nations improve ties and rely.. More

  • Scores killed in Philippines floods

    At least 50 people have been killed and 40,000 forced to flee their homes amid widespread flooding after tropical storm Ketsana lashed the Philippines. Manila and 25 other provinces were declared by the government to be in a "state of calamity" on Saturday as heavy rains caused the worst flooding seen in the capital in some 20 years. Five.. More

  • Blasts hit Pakistan's northwest

    At least 10 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in two separate car-bomb attacks in northwestern Pakistan. The first attack on Saturday morning targeted a police station in the district of Bannu. The toll is expected to rise as several buildings collapsed from the force of the blast, according to police on Saturday. Muhammad Farid, the.. More

  • Rival Koreas resume family reunions

    About 100 South Koreans have crossed the border to the North to meet relatives they have been separated from since the Korean peninsula was divided after the 1950-1953 war. A six-day reunion started on Saturday in the Mount Kumgang resort in the North. Most of the participants were in their 70s or older, eager to meet their family members before they.. More

  • Gaddafi attacks major powers

    Libya's president has attacked the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council during his first ever address to the UN General Assembly. In a one-and-a-half hour speech in New York on Wednesday, Muammar Gaddafi said the veto-wielding nations of the Security Council were ignoring the views of the full 192 members of the General Assembly.. More

  • Iran hits out at Western 'terror'

    Iran's president has launched a scathing attack on Western powers, accusing them of spreading "war, bloodshed, aggression, terror and intimidation" in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that Tehran was "prepared to warmly shake all those hands which are honestly extended to.. More

  • Dust storm blankets Sydney as drought bites

    A huge outback dust storm swept eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport, forcing people indoors and stripping thousands of tons of valuable farmland topsoil. The dust blacked out the outback town of Broken Hill on Tuesday, forcing a zinc mine to shut down, and swept 1,167 km (725 miles) east to shroud Sydney in a red.. More

  • Al-Qaeda warns Obama in new video

    Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second man in charge, has warned the US administration that it will be defeated at the hands of the Muslim world. In a new video released on Tuesday, al-Zawahiri said the government of Barack Obama, the US president, would be brought down by the Mujahid youths of the Muslim Ummah (nation). "God willing, your end.. More

  • UN talks fail to set climate target

    China has pledged to put a "notable" brake on its rapidly rising carbon emissions, but disappointed those hoping for a firm numerical commitment. Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that Beijing would pledge to cut "carbon intensity", or the amount of carbon dioxide produced for each dollar.. More

  • French police began clearing migrant camp

    French police have begun clearing hundreds of mainly Afghan immigrants from a makeshift camp known as "the jungle" near the port town of Calais. About a dozen vehicles carrying riot police arrived at the site on Tuesday morning and began moving the migrants to detention centers. The move to take down the makeshift housing around the port.. More

  • Scores killed in Sudan clashes

    More than 100 people have been killed in clashes in the Jonglei state in southern Sudan, officials have said. The extent of the clashes, which erupted one day earlier when fighters from the Lou Nuer tribe raided a rival village, emerged on Monday after officials reached the remote settlement. Kuol Diem Kuol, a spokesman for the South's Sudan People's.. More

  • Deaths in west Somalia fighting

    At least 17 people have been killed in fighting between government forces and opposition fighters in western Somalia. Both sides claimed victory in the battle that broke out when the opposition al-Shabab attacked the military in the town of Yet, on the Ethiopian border. "We are getting that 17 people, mainly combatants, died in the fighting and.. More

  • Israeli guards 'humiliated inmates'

    A group of female former Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have accused prison guards of carrying out "humiliating" internal body searches in violation of Israel's prison code. In an exclusive report, former detainee Sabreen Abu Amara told Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh that she spent six years living in fear of intrusive and degrading.. More