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  • Ethnic violence erupts in Karachi

    At least 20 people have been killed and 24 others injured in clashes in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, local hospital officials say. Waseem Ahmed, the city police chief, said the clashes on Wednesday were the result of a dispute between the city's ethnic groups Mohajirs and Pashtuns. Violence erupted in different parts of the port city after an.. More

  • Roadside bomb kills 9 Turkish soldiers

    Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb that killed nine soldiers Wednesday in a U.S.-made armored personnel carrier in southeastern Turkey, the Turkish military said. The bomb exploded near the town of Lice in Diyarbakir province in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, military chief Gen. Ilker Basbug said. The targeted vehicle and a tank.. More

  • Pakistan troops move into Buner

    Pakistani troops, backed by fighter jets and helicopters, have launched an offensive against Taliban fighters in the northwestern town of Buner. Troops moved into the area on Tuesday, marking an escalation of a conflict that began on the weekend in nearby Lower Dir, where thousands of people have fled the fighting. Major-General Athar Abbas, a Pakistani.. More

  • US 'losing control' in Afghanistan

    Richard Armitage, a former US deputy secretary of state, has told Al Jazeera that the conflict in Afghanistan may be "spinning out of control". "The situation in Afghanistan may be spinning out of control more quickly than we are gaining control and it's of course exacerbated by their next-door neighbor Pakistan," Armitage, who.. More

  • Fatah and Hamas set for unity talks

    Delegations from Fatah and Hamas are in Egypt to resume talks aimed at reviving a national dialogue agreement between the two groups. Members from the two factions headed to the Egyptian intelligence headquarters on Monday to begin the latest round of reconciliation talks. The delegates will also hold talks with Omar Suleiman, Egypt's intelligence.. More

  • 'Too late' to contain swine flu

    A deadly swine flu virus first detected in Mexico can no longer be contained, a World Health Organization (WHO) official has said. WHO Assistant Director General Keiji Fukuda said countries should now focus on mitigating the effects of the virus. The WHO has raised its alert level from three to four, two steps short of declaring a full pandemic... More

  • Venezuelan-Palestinian ties opened

    Venezuela and the Palestinian Authority have established diplomatic relations. Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan foreign minister, and his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki signed agreements creating diplomatic ties on Monday in Caracas. "The people of Palestine can count on our eternal and permanent solidarity with their just and humane cause,".. More

  • Yemen tanker seized from pirates

    Yemeni special forces have freed an oil tanker captured by Somali pirates, Yemeni officials say. Eleven pirates were arrested in the operation, they said. The Qana was seized on Sunday but was not carrying cargo at the time. It was one of four tankers attacked off Yemen's coast but coastguards freed the other vessels after a fierce battle. On.. More

  • 'Civilians flee' Pakistan clashes

    Thousands of people are flooding out of Lower Dir as the Pakistan army takes on Taliban fighters in the district. Civilians were streaming out of the area due to the army's "accurate" and "spread out" assault a source told Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pakistan, on Monday. Government forces started a series of raids.. More

  • Swine flu epidemic fear grips world

    The threat of a flu pandemic gripped the world on Monday, as a virus that has killed 103 people in Mexico and shut down chunks of the capital spread to the United States and as far as New Zealand. The dollar weakened along with Mexico's peso as Asian markets were rattled by an outbreak that ballooned over the weekend, prompting the World Health Organization.. More

  • Pakistan blast hits family of 10

    Six family members have been killed after a hand-grenade exploded in a pick-up truck in Pakistan's northwest border region with Afghanistan. Both parents and four of their children were killed and four other siblings were wounded in the blast near the village of Asar Madakhel, about 45kms west of Miranshah, the main town of the restive North Waziristan.. More

  • Mortars fired at Somali parliament

    Mortars fired towards Somalia's parliament have missed their target but instead killed seven people in the surrounding area, witnesses and officials said. Residents said one school was hit in the attack on Saturday. "I saw the dead bodies of four children who were killed by the mortar which destroyed one of the classrooms and four other children.. More

  • Swine flu outbreak spreads

    Mexico has raised the probable death toll from an outbreak of swine flu to 81, including 20 already confirmed. Jose Angel Cordova, the country's health minister, said on Saturday that since April 13, "there have been 81 registered deaths which are probably linked to the virus of which only 20 cases have virological checks." A total of 1,324.. More

  • More than 100,000 civilians flee Sri Lanka warzone

    The flight of more than 100,000 people from Sri Lanka's war zone is beginning to overload the system, the United Nations said on Thursday, after the Security Council warned those still trapped remain in grave danger. The military said that a four-day exodus was beginning to slow down with more than 103,000 people having come to army-held areas since.. More

  • Pakistan urges British apology over 'terror' arrests

    Pakistan's high commissioner to London urged Britain to apologize over the arrest of 11 Pakistani men in anti-terror raids this month, after the men were all released without charge. Wajid Shamsul Hasan told the Financial Times that the men, who were arrested in raids across northwest England on April 8 and are now facing deportation, should be allowed.. More