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  • Dozens killed in Kenyan clashes

    At least 24 people have been killed and dozens more wounded amid tribal clashes in drought-stricken northern Kenya, local officials have said. Gunbattles between the Samburu and Pokot tribes began early on Tuesday, said Raphael Lentimao, a member of parliament in the Samburu East district. "A good number of those shot dead were women and children,".. More

  • Iraq shoe-thrower freed from jail

    Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush, was finally freed on Tuesday, ending a nine-month stint in prison. Zaidi has been behind bars ever since he shouted "it is the farewell kiss, you dog," at Bush on December 14 last year, seconds before hurling his size-10s.. More

  • Countrywide cholera outbreaks in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan has reported outbreaks of potentially lethal cholera in 10 provinces across the impoverished country, the health ministry said on Sunday. The ministry "has so far recorded 673 cases countrywide" of the highly contagious disease in almost a third of the country's 34 provinces, including in the capital Kabul. No deaths have been.. More

  • US strike kills four in Pakistan

    A US missile slammed into a car killing four militants at dawn Monday in Pakistan's remote tribal belt near the Afghan border in the third attack in a week, Pakistani officials said. The strike from a suspected US spy plane was similar to an August 5 attack that killed Baitullah Mehsud, the head of Pakistan's Taliban. It was the third such strike.. More

  • Bin Laden warns US over Israel ties

    Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, has released an audio address to the American people, warning them over their government's close ties to Israel. Reports on Monday from two separate monitoring groups said that in his latest recording, bin Laden blamed the wars on the "pro-Israel" lobby and corporate interests. "The time has.. More

  • Kunduz raid 'killed 30 civilians'

    Thirty Afghan civilians were among nearly 100 people killed after Nato aircraft destroyed two stolen oil tankers in the north of the country earlier this month, an Afghan government investigation has concluded. About 69 other people who died in the bombardment in Kunduz province on September 4 were Taliban fighters, an investigator told the AFP news.. More

  • 'Heavy losses' in Yemen fighting

    The Yemeni government says it has inflicted "heavy losses" on Shia fighters in the latest fighting in the north of the country. At least 17 suspected Houthi fighters, named after the group's leader, were killed overnight in clashes in the mountainous province of Saada, local news agencies reported on Thursday. "The army and security.. More

  • Deadly blasts hit northern Iraq

    A bomber in a lorry has killed at least 19 people in a Kurdish village near Mosul, the northern Iraqi city. The attack, which also wounded 13 people, occurred just after midnight on Thursday (2100 GMT on Wednesday) in Wardak, Mohammed Jalal, a police officer, said. A second attack on the village, located 30km east of Mosul, was averted when Kurdish.. More

  • Deadly flash floods hit Istanbul

    At least 31 people have been killed in flash floods in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, which has left cars and lorries stranded across highways after the heaviest rains in the region in 80 years. The dead included seven women who drowned in a minibus taking them to work on Wednesday, the Anatolian news agency said. Mustafa Demir, Turkey's procurement.. More

  • Deaths in Pakistan drone attack

    At least 10 people have been killed after a suspected US drone fired missiles into Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, Pakistani intelligence has said. The attack late on Tuesday targeted a Taliban residential compound in Dargamandi village in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan. It was not immediately clear whether any Taliban fighters were.. More

  • Fraud claims mar Karzai poll 'win'

    Incumbent Hamid Karzai appears to have won Afghanistan's presidential elections, with nearly all the votes counted, but a UN-backed commission says it has "clear and convincing evidence of fraud". The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Tuesday that with 91.6 per cent of polling stations tallied, Karzai had 54.1 per cent of the.. More

  • Lebanon PM's cabinet plan rejected

    Lebanon's opposition groups have rejected the proposed cabinet of Saad al-Hariri, the prime minister-designate, after he submitted his proposal without seeking their agreement. The opposition's move, announced on Tuesday, raises the possibility that al-Hariri might step aside. Al-Hariri handed the names of his proposed cabinet ministers to Michel.. More

  • Bombs across Iraq kill 19, wound 39

    Two separate bomb attacks killed 10 people in Iraq Monday evening, police said, bringing the death toll from bomb attacks across the country to 19. In one attack, a bomber wearing a police uniform killed six people and wounded 18 others when he detonated an explosive vest at the entrance of a Shi'ite mosque in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northwest of.. More

  • Blast reported at Kabul airport

    At least two people have been killed in an explosion outside the international airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul, sources have told Al Jazeera. Afghan police confirmed the Tuesday's blast, but said they did not yet have other details. According to reports, the blast rattled windows in the centre of the city and smoke was seen rising from a part.. More

  • Libya "to probe police massacre of Islamists in prison"

    Libya will begin an investigation this month into violence at a Tripoli prison 13 years ago that left more than 1,000 people dead, the judge investigating the case said on Sunday. Human rights activists say Islamist and political prisoners were massacred by government forces at Abu Salim prison in June 1996 in an example of Libya's grim record on.. More