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  • US and Seoul raise alert over North

    South Korean and U.S. troops raised their alert Thursday to the highest level since 2006 after North Korea renounced its peace treaty with the allied forces and threatened to strike any ships trying to intercept its vessels. The move was a sign of heightened tensions on the peninsula following the North's underground nuclear test and its firing of.. More

  • Cyclone Aila leaves hundreds dead

    Some 200 people have been killed after Cyclone Aila swept across eastern India and Bangladesh, flooding villages and leaving millions of people marooned or forced to live in shelters. The toll in Bangladesh rose to more than 130 following the recovery of dozens of bodies on Tuesday, local media reported. And in India's West Bengal state, there were.. More

  • N Korea 'not bound by armistice'

    North Korea has declared an end to its half-century-old armistice with the South, saying that it sees Seoul's move to join a US-led anti-proliferation initiative as a "declaration of war". The warning carried on state media on Wednesday comes two days after North Korea conducted a second nuclear test and also follows a series of missile launches. .. More

  • Several dead in Lahore blast

    At least five people have been killed in a suspected car bombing outside a police station and a building housing the country's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. A police official said at least five people had died of their injuries from Wednesday's blast, and that at least 50 other people had been hurt. ".. More

  • Pakistan risks 'human catastrophe'

    Thousands of civilians trapped in Pakistan's Swat valley, where the military is battling Taliban forces, face a "humanitarian catastrophe" unless help reaches them soon, a rights group has said. Human Rights Watch says the military must lift its curfew of the area, which has been in place for a full week, and airdrop essential food, water.. More

  • France opens UAE military base

    France has opened its first military base in the Gulf Arab region, with French officials saying the facility will strengthen efforts to battle piracy and defend trade. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, inaugurated the base, dubbed Peace Camp, in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. Located in Abu Dhabi, the facility will host up to 500 troops.. More

  • Dozens killed in Afghan floods

    At least 94 people have been killed in and thousands of families have been left homeless after days of flooding and landslides in northern Afghanistan, the United Nations has said. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) some 8,000 houses have been destroyed across five provinces, with more flooding expected. The.. More

  • Fighting rages in Pakistan's Swat

    Street battles are continuing to rage in the Pakistani town of Mingora in the Swat valley, where troops are engaged in an all-out offensive against Taliban fighters. As the fighting continued on Monday, a Pakistani military spokesman said that six Taliban fighters had been killed in an explosion in the town of Kabal, 20km west of Mingora. The spokesman.. More

  • North Korea conducts nuclear test

    North Korea has announced it has conducted a successful nuclear test, as it steps up what it says are moves to strengthen its nuclear deterrent. The underground test on Monday morning local time was followed shortly afterwards by reports from South Korea that the North had also tested three short-range missiles. Barack Obama, the US president, has.. More

  • Netanyahu: Settlements to expand

    Israel's prime minister has said that Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to be expanded. "I have no intention to construct new settlements," Binyamin Netanyahu was quoted by officials as telling his cabinet on Sunday. ..." but it makes no sense to ask us not to answer to the needs of natural growth and to stop.. More

  • Somali fighters attack AU troops

    Opposition fighters in Somalia's capital Mogadishu have fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace and attacked African Union (AU) peacekeepers. Fighting raged on Saturday night leaving three people dead near Makara Market. At least 45 people had been killed in clashes a day earlier. A senior Burundian officer told the Reuters news agency: "Opposit.. More

  • Battles rage in Pakistan's Swat

    Pakistani soldiers have entered the main town in the Swat valley and engaged in fierce street battles with Taliban fighters, the military has said. Major-General Athar Abbas, a Pakistani military spokesman, said on Saturday that troops had killed at least 17 Taliban fighters as they moved into in Mingora. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from the.. More

  • Palestinians rescued from tunnel

    Three Palestinians have been found alive, and two dead, after being trapped for several days in a Gaza smuggling tunnel that collapsed above them, Al Jazeera has learnt. The men were found on Saturday in the collapsed tunnel on the Egyptian side of the border with Gaza. The tunnel, which is near the border town of Rafah, collapsed five days ago. Four.. More

  • Aid groups demand Sri Lanka access

    The Red Cross and the United Nations have called on the Sri Lankan government to allow them unrestricted access to refugee camps near the former conflict zone. At least 280,000 people have been displaced due to fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the military, and many of them have been sent to overcrowded camps in the.. More

  • Obama dealt Guantanamo setback

    The US senate has denied funding for Barack Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre by January, voting instead to keep it running indefinitely. The senate voted on Wednesday to block any transfer of prisoners to facilities on the US mainland, saying they wanted to first see a detailed plan from the president on what would happen to.. More