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  • Several killed in Pakistan bombing

    At least 18 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who attacked a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan. The assailant drove a car loaded with explosives into the Hari Chand checkpoint in the Charsadda district on Wednesday, police said. "Bodies of two civilians were found near the site of the attack, raising the death toll in the attack.. More

  • Heavy fighting resumes in Sri Lanka

    Sri Lankan troops resumed their all-out offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the island following a brief holiday ceasefire, officials said. A military official said government forces were involved in "normal operations" aimed at finishing off the last of the separatist rebels. The pro-rebel Tamilnet website said both sides.. More

  • Pirates attack US-flagged vessel

    Somali pirates have attacked a US-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Somalia with rockets and automatic weapons, the ship's owner say. The pirates on Tuesday failed to board the Liberty Sun and all crew of were unharmed, the Liberty Maritime Corporation (LMC) said. "We are grateful and pleased that no one was injured and the crew and the ship.. More

  • Guantanamo detainee claims abuse

    An inmate in the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told Al Jazeera that he has been beaten while in custody and had tear gas used on him after refusing to leave his cell. Mohammad al-Qurani, a Chadian national, said in a phone call to Al Jazeera that the alleged ill-treatment "started about 20 days" before Barack Obama became.. More

  • Israeli troops kidnap eight Palestinian youths near Nablus

    Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday at dawn Madama village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, kidnapped eight youths and took them to an unknown destination. Hasan Ziyada, member of the Madama village council, stated that more than ten military jeeps invaded the village two hours after midnight, and that soldiers broke into several homes,.. More

  • Lebanese soldiers killed in ambush

    At least four Lebanese soldiers have been killed, and one wounded, near the town of Riyaq, close to the Syrian border, in a suspected revenge attack by local tribes, a military official said. Armed men ambushed the army unit on the Riyaq-Baalbek highway on Monday. "The army is chasing the gunmen and calls on citizens not to shelter them,'' the.. More

  • North Korea to quit nuclear talks

    North Korea has said it will boycott six-party nuclear disarmament talks and restart work on its weapons program to bolster its nuclear deterrent in protest at a United Nations statement condemning its rocket launch early this month. The statement from North Korean state media on Tuesday came hours after the UN Security Council condemned the North's.. More

  • US sergeant goes on trial for murder of Iraqis

    US Master Sergeant John E. Hatley went on trial in a court martial Monday on murder charges for what a prosecutor termed "execution-style" shootings of prisoners in Iraq. Hatley, 40, is charged with premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit premeditated murder and obstruction of justice, according to an army statement. He is the most senior.. More

  • Captain freed from Somali pirates

    A US merchant vessel captain has been freed from captivity and three Somali pirates reportedly shot dead in an operation in the Indian Ocean. Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama, was freed after an operation against the pirates on Sunday, Laura Tischler, a spokeswoman for the US state department, said. "I can confirm that Captain.. More

  • Thai troops crack down on protests

    Scores of people have been injured in a military crackdown on anti-government protesters in the Thai capital, Bangkok. Shots were fired and petrol bombs and stones hurled as soldiers and demonstrators clashed in the early hours of Monday near a major intersection in the city, and the government has vowed to "increase the momentum" of its.. More

  • Nato lorries set ablaze in Pakistan

    Suspected Taliban fighters in Pakistan have destroyed 11 lorries loaded with supplies for Nato forces in neighboring Afghanistan, police say. Police officials on Sunday said as many as 60 fighters attacked two lorry terminals outside the northwestern city of Peshawar armed with petrol bombs, starting off huge blazes at both points. "There were.. More

  • Iran claims nuclear advances

    Iran's president says his country has mastered the "entire cycle" required to produce nuclear energy, the latest step in its controversial nuclear program. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the remarks on Saturday, just two days after the official opening of a facility which produces uranium oxide fuel pellets for a planned heavy-water reactor. "Toda.. More

  • Bomber strikes Iraqi town

    At least nine people have been killed and 31 wounded in a bomb attack on a security post in Iraq, police say. The men, US-allied Sunni paramilitaries, or Sahwas, were killed in Iskandariya, 40km south of the Iraqi capital, while queuing to collect their wages on Saturday. Muthana Khalid, an Iraqi police spokesman, said the bomber mingled into a crowd.. More

  • Riots as Baloch chiefs found dead

    A policeman has died in riots that have broken out following the discovery of the bodies of three ethnic leaders in Pakistan's Balochistan province. The policeman was killed by protesters' gunfire in the town of Khuzdar. Protesters say the three Baloch nationalist leaders were detained by security forces last Friday and had been missing since. There.. More

  • Iraqi protesters call for US exit

    Thousands of people loyal to an Iraqi Shia leader have gathered in Baghdad to protest against the US continued presence in the country, six years to the day after the capital fell to American troops. Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr rallied on Thursday in Firdous Square, where the statue of then-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was pulled down on April.. More