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  • Blast in Iraqi city claims lives

    At least three people have been killed and dozens injured in a car-bomb blast in Ramadi in western Iraq - the city's second attack in a week. The device exploded outside the local government offices, killing two policemen and one civilian, officials said. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, had seen a sharp drop in violence over the past 18 months,.. More

  • Coup leader wins Mauritania poll

    The man who ousted Mauritania's first democratically elected leader in a coup has achieved a landslide win in the country's presidential election, amid opposition claims of fraud. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz took 52.6 per cent of the vote, enough to avoid a run off vote, Mohamed Ould Rzeizim, the nation's interior minister, announced on Sunday. Just hours.. More

  • Displaced Pakistanis return to Swat

    People displaced by the military's offensive against the Pakistani Taliban are returning to their homes in Swat valley in the country's northwest. Many of the two million internally displaced people arrived in Swat and surrounding areas in the North West Frontier Province on Sunday. Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Mingora, Swat's main city,.. More

  • U.S. State Dept helicopter crashes in Iraq, two dead

    A helicopter contracted to the U.S. State Department crashed near Baghdad, killing two crew members and injuring two other people on board, the U.S. embassy said on Saturday. The helicopter went down on Friday on the Butler Range Complex, a U.S. military training ground just east of Baghdad, it said. "The crash of the helicopter is under investigation.. More

  • Thousands back trial of coup plotters in Turkey protest

    Several thousand people demonstrated in Istanbul on Saturday in support of an investigation into an alleged coup plot against Turkey's current government. "We want freedom! Try coup leaders," read banners held aloft by the protestors, who wore white gloves, blew on whistles and banged on drums, an AFP photographer said. Police estimated.. More

  • Indian and Pakistani PMs hold talks

    The prime ministers of India and Pakistan have met on the sidelines of a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (Nam) in Egypt. The meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh on Thursday was the second high-level talks between the two nations since last year's attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, which New Delhi blamed on a Pakistan-based group. Manmohan Singh, the Indian.. More

  • Iran plane crash victims mourned

    Armenia has declared a national day of mourning after a Caspian Airlines jet flying to Yerevan, the Armenian capital, crashed in northwest Iran killing all 168 people on board. Of the 153 passengers on the flight from Tehran, the Iranian capital, 147 were Iranian, of whom 31 were of Armenian origin, officials said. There were also four Armenians and.. More

  • Sudan: Progress on southern peace "satisfactory"

    Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir described as "satisfactory" on Wednesday the implementation of a faltering north-south peace deal that ended over two decades of civil war. Sudan's north and south fought a civil war that ended in a 2005 peace agreement. But former southern rebels have said there was no concrete progress in recent.. More

  • Zawahiri: Pakistanis must fight US

    Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, has urged Pakistanis to rise up against US forces, which he said had occupied their country. The message comes as Pakistani forces continue to battle al-Qaeda-linked fighters in the country's Swat valley, with the army killing six fighters in the latest attack, according to officials. Al-Zawahiri.. More

  • All feared dead in Iran air crash

    A Caspian Airlines passenger jet carrying 168 people has crashed in northwest Iran and all on board are feared dead, Iran's state media says. State television said the airliner was headed from Tehran, Iran's capital, to Yerevan, the Armenian capital on Wednesday when it crashed near the city of Qazvin. "The passenger plane was completely destroyed.. More

  • Nigeria's main rebel group declares truce

    Nigeria's main militant group waging an "oil war" against the government declared a 60-day truce after the release of its leader Henry Okah under an amnesty deal. "Effective, 0000 hours (2300 GMT) Wednesday July 15, 2009, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) will be observing a temporary ceasefire for a 60 day.. More

  • Saudi court sentences hundreds

    A Saudi court has sentenced 323 people for links to anti-government groups in the first publicly reported trials in the kingdom since the attacks in 2003. The court gave verdicts against 289 Saudis and 41 foreigners, the state news agency SPA said on Monday, without disclosing their nationalities. Sentences ranged from a few months to 30 years. Seven.. More

  • Helicopter downed in Afghanistan

    Amilitary helicopter carrying civilian contractors has been shot down in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, Nato officials say. Officials told Al Jazeera that "possibly more than two" passengers were killed in the crash in Sangin district on Tuesday. The number of casualties could not be independently confirmed. Fazlul Haq, the district.. More

  • Nigeria rebels say 'open to talks'

    The main Nigerian rebel group in the Niger Delta has said it is open to peace talks with the government after its leader was released from detention as part of a government-backed effort aimed at ending violence in the oil-rich region. Hours before Henry Okah was released by the government on Monday, his Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) fighters.. More

  • Blast in Pakistan Islamic school

    At least nine people, including seven children, have been killed and dozens wounded after a bomb exploded in an Islamic seminary in Pakistan, police said. More than a dozen mud-built houses collapsed after the powerful explosion shook the village near Mian Channu in Punjab province on Monday. The seminary was based in a house in which children were.. More