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  • Baghdad bomb kills 35 people

    A bomb in a parked car ripped through the poor mostly Shi'ite district of Shula in northwest Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 35 people and wounding 72 others near a popular restaurant, police said. The U.S. military said 13 people were killed, and the director of Baghdad's hospitals put the death toll at 26 with 38 wounded, adding that women and children.. More

  • Humanitarian crisis worsens in Swat

    Two million people have been displaced in northwest Pakistan and fears are raised more could be fleeing after the president said the offensive against the Taliban would be expanded to include Waziristan. The government has set up camps, but a vast majority of the displaced are staying with relatives or in private accommodation. Asif Ali Zardari, the.. More

  • Israeli aircraft bomb Gaza targets

    Israeli aircraft have bombed several targets in the Gaza Strip several hours after a rocket was fired at an Israeli town. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza city, said at least four people, including two civilians, were injured in the Israeli raids. The Israeli military confirmed the air raids on Tuesday. The air raids came as Binyamin.. More

  • Dozens dead in Indonesia air crash

    At least 78 people have died after an Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a village in East Java, air force officials have said. The crash, during what the military says was a routine training mission, occurred on Wednesday morning near the town of Madiun in the Gaplak district of East Java. The C-130 Hercules aircraft, carrying more.. More

  • Many dead in Philippines landslide

    Dozens of homes were buried in the Pantukan township on the southern island of Mindanao after the area was saturated by days of rain. Arthur Uy, the governor of Compostela Valley province, told the Associated Press that a 50-member police and military rescue team had been sent to the remote area on Tuesday to help search for at least six people missing.. More

  • Israeli government approves construction of new settlement

    Shortly after the meeting between US President, Barack Obama, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli sources said that a new Jewish only settlement would be constructed in the Jordan Valley, less that 20 kilometers away from the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The new settlement plan was seen by several Palestinian and international.. More

  • Somali fighters seize another town

    Hizbul Islam, a Somali opposition group fighting government forces and African Union peacekeepers, have closed in on Somalia's capital, after seizing a strategically important town north of Mogadishu. Hizbul Islam fighters marched into the town of Mahaday on Monday, a day after fighters from another group captured the nearby town of Jowhar. "We.. More

  • Iraq sets provisional January 30 election date

    Iraq on Monday set a provisional date of January 30 for a national election, which will be the second since the fall of Saddam Hussein six years ago but the first to be organized and secured by Iraqis. The date was proposed by Iraq's federal court, which deals with government disputes, and must now be agreed by parliament, the office of Iraq's first.. More

  • Sri Lankan rebel leader 'is dead'

    The leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, Velupillai Prabhakaran, is dead, Sri Lankan state television has said. The announcement came shortly after the military said it had surrounded Prabhakaran and about 200 rebels in a tiny patch of jungle in the north-east. The claim cannot be verified as reporters are barred from the war zone. Sri Lankan forces.. More

  • Somali fighters capture key town

    Somali fighters have captured a strategically important town near the capital, Mogadishu. Witnesses said there were two hours of heavy fighting on Sunday before members of the al-Shabab group took Jowhar. The clashes 90km north of Mogadishu come as human rights workers say at least 68 people have been killed in fighting in the capital during the past.. More

  • U.S. strikes killed 140 villagers: Afghan probe

    U.S. air strikes earlier this month killed 140 villagers, an Afghan government investigation concluded on Saturday, putting Kabul starkly at odds with the U.S. military's account. The official death toll, announced by the Afghan Defense Ministry, makes the bombing the deadliest incident for civilians since U.S. forces began fighting the Taliban in.. More

  • Sri Lanka 'cements' LTTE defeat

    The Sri Lankan army says at least 70 Tamil Tiger fighters have been killed just hours after the country's president declared victory over the separatist movement. The group were killed on Sunday morning as they tried to leave the pocket of land in the northeast of the country, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, a military spokesman, said. "Troops observed.. More

  • Palestinians resume talks in Cairo

    Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have begun a fifth round of talks aimed at forming a deal to share power, the latest session in months of fruitless negotiations. Egyptian intelligence chief General Omar Suleiman, the top mediator in the talks, met with the two delegations on Saturday and gave them a deadline of July 5 to reach an agreement,.. More

  • Pakistan 'shells Taliban bases'

    Pakistan's military has continued its offensive against Taliban fighters in the country's northwest, amid reports that the US has for the first time shared data from its unmanned drones with Islamabad. The army shelled suspected Taliban bases in the districts of Swat and Lower Dir on Thursday, marking the 18th successive day of attacks by the military.. More

  • Obama retreats on releasing dozens torture photos

    In a reversal, President Barack Obama objected on Wednesday to the release of dozens of photographs showing the abuse of suspected detainees in illegal military prisons. The Obama administration had said last month it would comply with a court order to release the pictures by May 28. A U.S. official said Obama told his legal team last week that.. More