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  • US intervention behind Palestinian disunity, Hamas leader says

    Leading Hamas member Mahmoud Zahar said on Tuesday some Palestinian officials, backed by the United States, were obstructing the dialogue due to open between Palestinian groups in Cairo on Wednesday. "There are people who want this dialogue not to take place because they will lose their positions and their privileges," he told Reuters in.. More

  • Sudan to release 24 Darfur prisoners as gesture

    Sudan's justice minister on Saturday announced the release of 24 Darfur prisoners as part of a goodwill agreement with rebels from the region. The release was linked to a deal signed in Qatar this week between Khartoum and the insurgent Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) designed to pave the way to peace talks, minister Abdel Basit Sabderat told.. More

  • NKorea preparing to launch satellite

    North Korea said Tuesday it was readying to launch a satellite, a move that the United States and its allies believe could actually be a long-range missile test that would deepen global tensions. Just days after new US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Pyongyang to avoid any provocations, the secretive country said preparations were under way.. More

  • Kyrgyzstan shuts U.S. base

    Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on Thursday to close the only U.S. air base in Central Asia, removing one of the U.S. military's supply routes into Afghanistan as it prepares to send more troops. The United States also faced reluctance from its NATO allies to provide more soldiers to complement the extra 17,000 troops it is sending to Afghanistan to.. More

  • US to expand prison in Afghanistan

    The US military is about to complete a $60m expansion to its prison at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where it holds more than 600 so-called enemy combatants. The near doubling of the prison size comes as human rights group Amnesty International urged Barack Obama, the US president, to give better legal protection to the detainees there. Obama.. More

  • Argentina to expel Holocaust bishop

    Argentina has ordered a Roman Catholic bishop who denied the extent of the Holocaust to leave the country or face expulsion. The country's interior ministry on Thursday gave Bishop Richard Williamson, who headed a seminary near Buenos Aires until earlier this month, 10 days to leave the country. "The interior minister ... orders Richard Nelson.. More

  • Bangladesh mutiny 'spreading'

    Bangladeshi paramilitary forces have begun mutinying over pay at barracks across the country after fighting with border guards in the capital Dhaka subsided. Military sources said sporadic fighting had broken out on Thursday at dozens of barracks for the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), the border security force. "There's 46 barracks across.. More

  • Iraqi shoe-thrower due in court

    The Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at George Bush, the former US president, last December will go on trial in Baghdad. Muntazer al-Zeidi's trial opens on Thursday and the reporter faces up to 15 years in prison "if found guilty of assaulting a foreign leader". Al-Zeidi's legal team will argue that the charges should be dropped and for.. More

  • Tamil Tiger planes attack Colombo

    Two rebel Tamil Tiger aircraft have attacked the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, hitting a government building and wounding scores of people, officials have said. "Two aircraft came and still the engagement is going on," Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara, the air force spokesman, said on Friday. Another Sri Lankan official later said that.. More

  • Kashmiris protest "India killing of two Muslim youth"

    Kashmiris protested India on Sunday over the army killing of two Muslim youth, police and witnesses said, Reuters reported. In occupied Kashmir, India have imposed curfew in Sopore, Tujjar Sharief, Bumai, Seelu and adjoining areas after the people held massive protests against killing of three youth. Authorities "have ordered a probe".. More

  • Many dead in Mogadishu fighting

    At least 20 people have been killed and 50 others injured in clashes between government troops and opposition fighters in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Witnesses said that fighting broke out on Tuesday after an armed group attacked police and African Union peacekeepers in the capital's southern Taleh district. The fighting came a day after Sharif.. More

  • Swat Taliban extends ceasefire

    Taliban fighters in Pakistan have declared an indefinite ceasefire in the Swat valley in the northwest of the country, the group's spokesman has said. The declaration on Tuesday came after the army said it was ceasing operations in the troubled region. "We have agreed on an indefinite ceasefire," Muslim Khan, the Taliban spokesman in Swat,.. More

  • Hamas: Fatah helped Israel in war

    Hamas on Monday accused Fatah of spying for Israel during Israel's three-week offensive against the Gaza Strip in December and January, and released videos of alleged confessions by men they claim were from Fatah. It said the Israelis were able to do massive damage and hit targets with such precision because of inside information from what Hamas said.. More

  • Ceasefire agreed in Pakistan's Swat

    Pro-Taliban fighters in Pakistan have agreed to a "permanent ceasefire" in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley, a senior government official has said. Saturday's development follows talks between local officials and a group headed by Maulana Sufi Mohammad, a cleric favoring the implementation of Sharia, or Islamic law, in the area. "They.. More

  • Ex-Guantanamo inmate returns to UK

    Binyam Mohamed, an ex-UK resident held at Guantanamo Bay, has arrived back in Britain amid calls for an independent inquiry into allegations he was tortured by captors working in collusion with British intelligence agents. Ethiopian-born Mohamed, 30, arrived at RAF Northolt in London on Monday after spending seven years in US captivity without charge,.. More