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  • Fresh violence strikes Baghdad

    At least two people have been killed in a bicycle bombing in Baghdad, a day after a series of bombings left 101 people dead and 500 more wounded in the Iraqi capital. Police and medical officials said at least 10 people were injured in Thursday's bombing, when an explosive attached to a bicycle went off in a market near the commercial Al-Rasheed.. More

  • Scotland to rule on Lockerbie case

    A court in Scotland is set to announce whether it will release a Libyan man jailed for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish government's justice secretary, was expected to announce his decision on Thursday (12:00GMT) in the case of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who.. More

  • Afghans vote amid security fears

    Afghans have begun voting in the country's national elections amid tight security fear. About 17 million people are eligible to vote, with 6,500 polling stations open in 364 districts across the country. But even before the presidential and provincial polls opened at 7am (02:30 GMT) on Thursday, four loud explosions were heard in the early hours in.. More

  • Hamas to release 100 detainees as Ramadan gesture

    Hamas decided on Tuesday to release 50 Fatah-affiliated detainees and 50 more criminal prisoners in the Gaza Strip as a goodwill gesture ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan, Palestinian news agency said. The decision came during the government's 122th meeting headed by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. PHOTO CAPTION A Palestinian inmate stands behind.. More

  • Central Baghdad blasts kill dozens

    At least 45 people have been killed and 300 injured in a series of attacks near the government and diplomatic "Green Zone" in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the police said. Witnesses said that the first suspected bomb blast on Wednesday went off near the foreign ministry and minutes later the second took place near the.. More

  • Rockets hit Afghan presidential palace, police HQ ahead of vote

    A rocket struck the presidential palace in Kabul and a second hit the Afghan capital's police headquarters on Tuesday, just two days before the presidential election, a police source said. No one was hurt. The first rocket caused some damage inside the heavily fortified palace compound in the city centre. The second hit the main police headquarters.. More

  • US proposes northern Iraq patrols

    US troops could be deployed alongside Iraqi and Kurdish forces after a series of bombings in disputed areas in the north of Iraq, the senior US military commander in the country has said. Hassan al-Sineid, a Shia MP close to al-Maliki, welcomed the plan. "This is a type of solution for the tense situation in the disputed territories between Kurds.. More

  • Data from 130m credit cards stolen

    Three men have been indicted in the US for allegedly stealing information from at least 130 million credit and debit cards in the largest hacking and identity theft case in the country's history. Albert Gonzales, a former government informant, was indicted on Monday along with two unnamed Russians for allegedly hacking into computer networks between.. More

  • Afghan rivals begin final poll push

    Rivals for the Afghan presidency have entered their final day of campaigning, with the threat of violence looming over the polls. Hamid Karzai, the incumbent president, and Abdullah Abdullah, his main rival, began wrapping up their campaigns on Monday, the last official day of campaigning, ahead of the election on August 20. "Both of these two.. More

  • Nigeria widens raids into Islamic groups, hundreds detained

    Police in the western Nigerian state of Niger have raided an Islamic community and detained hundreds of its members, weeks after a crackdown into a group killed almost 800 in the remote northeast. Niger state police commissioner Mike Zuokumor said officers backed by reinforcements from the capital Abuja had surrounded the compound of the Darul Islam.. More

  • Deadly blasts hit Iraq market

    Two bomb blasts in a crowded Baghdad market have killed at least eight people and wounded 21, Iraqi officials say. Explosives-laden bags left among a pile of rubbish near a falafel stand at the market were detonated late on Sunday evening. Police and hospital officials said five children were among those killed in the incident which also damaged several.. More

  • 4,000 still stuck in Taiwan as foreign aid arrives

    The first shipments of foreign aid arrived Sunday as Taiwan struggled to reach more than 4,000 people still stranded a week after the country's deadliest typhoon in half a century. As plastic sheeting for makeshift housing arrived from the U.S. and water purification tablets came from Australia, taxi drivers in the capital, Taipei, pitched in as well,.. More

  • UK marks 200 deaths in Afghanistan

    Britain has suffered its 200th military death in the war in Afghanistan, when a soldier injured by a roadside explosion died in a hospital in central England. The soldier, who died on Saturday, was wounded in Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan, on August 13, the defense ministry said. Gordon Brown, the prime minister, said that the passing.. More

  • Scores die in Kuwait wedding fire

    At least 41 people, all women and children, have died after a fire broke out in a tent being used at a wedding in Kuwait City. At least 50 other people are believed to have been injured in Saturday's incident in Jahra, west of the Kuwaiti capital, Saad al-Enezi, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kuwait, said. "Many of them are in a very, very serious.. More

  • Religious leaders killed in Somali Puntland

    Five Pakistani Muslim religious leaders have been shot dead at a mosque in Somalia's Puntland region, officials and witnesses say. Masked men dragged the Pakistanis out of the mosque after dawn prayers on Wednesday and opened fire on them, a police official said. Authorities had launched a manhunt for the killers, he said. It was unclear why the.. More