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  • Iran says ready for fair talks, wants real U.S. change

    The Iranian president said on Tuesday that Iran would welcome a fundamental change in approach from the United States and was ready for dialogue provided talks were based on mutual respect. U.S. President Barack Obama said in his first White House news conference on Monday that he saw the possibility of diplomatic openings with Iran in the months ahead,.. More

  • Blast hits NATO convoy in Afghanistan

    An explosion hit a convoy of NATO-led troops in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said, and residents said they saw three victims being carried away from the wreckage. The private Tolo TV channel said two U.S. soldiers were killed and one wounded in the attack, which it said was carried out by a suicide bomber. A NATO official in Kabul.. More

  • Hamas returns all UN aid supplies seized "by mistake"

    A U.N. aid agency said on Monday that Hamas has returned all of the aid supplies that it seized "by mistake" from U.N. warehouses in the Gaza Strip last week. Ahmed al-Kurd, welfare minister in Gaza's Hamas government, said the supplies were taken by mistake. "It was a misunderstanding between drivers," Kurd said. "We.. More

  • 4 US soldiers killed by suicide car bomb in Iraq

    A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. patrol on Monday, killing four American soldiers and an interpreter in the northern city of Mosul, the military said. It was the deadliest single attack against U.S. forces in more than nine months.. The explosion took place near a police checkpoint in a Sunni area of Mosul, according to Iraqi police. The U.S. military.. More

  • Suicide bomber kills five in Pakistan: police

    A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a police and frontier corps checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan early Monday, killing five of them, a local police official said. The official said the attack occurred at Baran Pul, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. .. More

  • Bomber 'kills Sri Lanka civilians'

    A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber has killed 24 people and injured scores more after blowing herself up among a group of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka's war zone, according the country's military. "A female suicide cadre who came with civilians exploded herself while the military was checking them ... 60 civilians are injured," a spokesman.. More

  • Australia PM: Fires are mass murder

    Australia's prime minister has called the country's deadliest bushfires, believed to be the result of arson, "mass murder". The toll from the fires in the country's southeast hit 130 on Monday as Kevin Rudd said he feared the "numbing" number would rise further. "This is of a level of horror that few of us anticipated. There.. More

  • Dozens die in Brazilian air crash

    At least 24 bodies have been pulled from a river in the Amazon jungle by rescue workers after a small aircraft crashed in Brazil. Divers retrieved the corpses from inside the airplane, which came to ground about 50 miles from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, on Saturday afternoon, Jair Ruas Braga, a firefighter, said. Paulo Roberto Pereira,.. More

  • 'Dozens die' in Madagascar protests

    At least 30 people have been killed after police opened fire on a protest in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, according to local reports. Supporters of Andry Rajoelina, an opposition leader and former mayor of the city, were marching towards offices used by Marc Ravalomanana, the president, when the shooting began on Saturday, witnesses said. Fa.. More

  • Dozens dead in Australia wildfires

    At least 35 people have been killed by wildfires blazing through Victoria in Australia as the southeastern state suffers its worst blazes for 25 years. Many people are believed to have died in their cars as they tried to escape the fires, which have destroyed hundreds of homes and 100,000 hectares of forest and farmland. More than 3,000 firefighters.. More

  • Hamas says order to release UN aid seized by mistake

    Gaza's welfare minister said on Friday that UN supplies were taken by mistake and UN aid agency could come to take the goods. He added that no one came. The Gazan social affairs minister ordered "the aid to be returned to the agency if it turns out it is indeed its property," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said. UNWRA said it suspended.. More

  • Policemen killed in Pakistan attack

    At least seven police officers have been killed in a bomb attack on a checkpoint in Pakistan's Punjab province, officials say. Malik Tassadaq Hayyat, the district police chief, said suspected fighters shot dead two policemen and blew up a checkpost killing five other officers, in the attack near the town of Mianwali on Saturday. "Seven of.. More

  • Israeli air raids hit Gaza

    Israel has launched several air raids against targets in southern Gaza near the border with Egypt, causing damage but no injuries, Palestinian security sources say. The attacks targeted "open areas" near the town of Rafah and tunnels along the border with Egypt, residents said. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that the "Israeli.. More

  • Thousands of civilians flee war zone in Sri Lanka

    More than 2,500 civilians are said to have fled Sri Lanka's war zone in the last two days as government forces step up pressure on the Tamil Tiger separatists. Fighting is concentrated around a shrinking circle of jungle in the Indian Ocean island's northeast, where the military said it has all but surrounded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.. More

  • Somali president urges 'dialogue'

    Somalia's new president has vowed to hold talks with the al-Shabaab movement, one of several armed opposition groups fighting for control of the country. "I believe the best way to approach them is dialogue and trying to convince each other," Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed told Al Jazeera. Ahmed, who led the Islamic Courts Union when it.. More