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  • Turkey protests Israel comment

    Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned Israel's ambassador to complain about a comment made by a senior Israeli general, accusing Ankara of killing Armenians in 1915, and of oppressing Kurds and occupying Cyprus. Major General Avi Mizrahi, commander of the Israeli army headquarters made the remarks at a military base in Israel on Tuesday. He was quoted.. More

  • Israel: No truce without Shalit

    Israel's prime minister has said that no long-term ceasefire will be agreed with Hamas unless an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 is released. "Israel will not reach any understandings regarding the calm before the release of Gilad Shalit," a statement from the office of Ehud Olmert said on Saturday. The call for the release of Shalit,.. More

  • Deaths as train derails in India

    At least 15 people have been killed and scores more injured after a passenger train derailed in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials have said. Many people are feared to be trapped in the wreckage of 14 carriages of the Cormandel Express, which was carrying up to 1500 passengers when it crashed, Murlidhar Sahoo, a spokesman for eastern railways,.. More

  • Suspected US missile kills 20 in Pakistan

    A suspected U.S. missile strike by a drone aircraft killed 20 local and foreign fighters, intelligence officials said. At least 15 fighters were also wounded in the attack in the restive South Waziristan tribal region. The Taliban surrounded the targeted house and transported the dead and wounded out, said three intelligence officials who spoke.. More

  • Hamas 'close to truce' with Israel

    Officials from the Palestinian group Hamas have said that an 18-month ceasefire with Israel will be announced within three days. The officials, speaking in Egypt on Thursday, said the agreement would ensure the end of violence in Gaza and the opening of the territory's border crossings. Moussa Abu Marzouq, the Hamas deputy political leader, told.. More

  • New Zimbabwe cabinet to be sworn in

    Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's new prime minister, is preparing to swear in a new cabinet as part of a power-sharing deal with Robert Mugabe, the country’s president. Mugabe has yet to name the ministers that he will bring to the 15 portfolios reserved for his Zanu-PF party under the unity accord, which it is hoped will end nearly a year of.. More

  • 'Scores dead' in New York air crash

    All 48 people on board a commercial aircraft that crashed into a house in New York state are reported to have been killed. Forty-four passengers and four crew members were on board Continental Airlines flight 3407 which was arriving from Newark, New Jersey, when it crashed in Clarence Center, about 16km from an airport. There were no survivors,.. More

  • Israeli results dismay Palestinians

    Palestinians say they are concerned about the future of the Arab-Israeli peace process after a strong showing by right-wing parties in Israel's parliamentary elections. With hardline leaders gaining a greater say in Israeli politics, officials in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are of the view that a new Israeli government - be it under Tzipi Livni.. More

  • Sudan dismisses Bashir arrest move

    Sudan's ambassador to the UN has vowed his country will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) amid reports it has issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president. His comments came after an unnamed diplomat at the UN told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday that the ICC had "decided it wants [al-Bashir].. More

  • Quake rocks Indonesian island

    A powerful earthquake has struck in waters near an eastern Indonesian island, triggering a tsunami warning that sent residents running for higher ground. The Indonesian meteorology agency said Thursday's 7.2 magnitude quake occurred at a depth of about 10km near the Talaud islands north of Sulawesi. There were no reports of deaths but more than a.. More

  • Taliban mounts deadly Kabul raids

    At least 20 people have been killed and several others wounded after suicide bombers and armed men attacked government offices in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say. Wednesday's attacks on buildings of the justice ministry and the department of prison affairs took place near the presidential palace and the US embassy. Two suicide bombers.. More

  • Oil tanker on fire off Dubai port after collision

    An oil tanker carrying around $9 million worth of petroleum products was in collision with a container vessel off the Dubai coast on Tuesday, setting both vessels on fire and sending up a thick plume of black smoke. The tanker, called the Kashmir, was built in 1988. It was carrying some 30,000 tons of oil condensates from Iran to the United Arab Emirates.. More

  • Patients die in Sri Lanka shelling

    At least 16 people have been killed at a makeshift hospital in Sri Lanka's northern conflict zone after the facility was shelled, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. The 16 victims - all believed to be patients - died in the clinic in Putumattalan on Monday, Red Cross officials said on Tuesday. The hospital - the last functioning.. More

  • Palestinians see no hope as Israel election underway

    Israelis voted on Tuesday in a tight election race, with right-wing opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu bidding to oust the centrist party of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. The election comes after Israel's December assault on Gaza that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians, a third of them children in the 22-day military aggression and wounded 5,300.. More

  • Death toll in Australia's wildfires at 181

    Authorities searching for answers to the carnage from the worst wildfires in Australia's history said Tuesday they would rethink policies that allow residents to decide for themselves whether to evacuate their homes. Officials defended their preparation and actions during the fires that swept unchecked across southeastern Australia last weekend and.. More