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  • Somali pirates release arms ship

    Somali pirates have freed a Ukrainian ship carrying battle tanks and other arms they had held since September after receiving a ransom of more than $3m. The release of the ship and its crew of 20 seamen - a Latvian, two Russians and 17 Ukrainians - marked the end of one of the longest and most dramatic hijackings in recent years. Sugule Ali, a.. More

  • Egypt prevents Hamas official with cash from entering Gaza

    Egyptian authorities prevented senior Hamas member Ayman Taha from returning to the Gaza Strip on Thursday because he had more than $11 million in cash in his bags, police sources said. Taha was part of a Hamas delegation which has been in Cairo this week for talks with Egyptian intelligence on a long-Term truce between Israel and armed Palestinian.. More

  • Israel navy fires Lebanese aid ship to Gaza

    The Israeli navy opened fire on Lebanese vessel carrying medical supplies, food, clothing and toys away from the blockaded Gaza Strip on Thursday and assaulted some of the people on board the ship carrying humanitarian aid, Al Jazeera television reported. The Israeli military did not have an immediate comment on the incident. "They (Israeli.. More

  • Sudan army takes key Darfur town

    Sudan's army says it has captured a strategic Darfur town after three weeks of clashes with rebels that have left 30 people dead and displaced thousands. An army spokesman said his forces had entered the town of Muhajiriya and were pursuing fleeing Jem rebels there. Peacekeepers stayed to help protect the town's 30,000 civilians, many of whom sought.. More

  • Seized Pakistani policemen freed

    Thirty Pakistani policemen, seized by suspected Taliban fighters in the restive Swat Valley, have been freed, officials say. The AFP news agency quoted a security official as saying that the policemen were freed on Wednesday on the condition that they would quit their jobs. The policemen were captured a day earlier after Taliban fighters laid.. More

  • Kyrgyzstan to close US air base

    Kyrgyzstan has announced that it is to close a United States air base on its territory which is vital for Washington's military operations in Afghanistan. The closure would interfere with US plans to send additional troops to Afghanistan in the coming months. Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the Kyrgyz president, announced the decision on Wednesday after securing.. More

  • 'Taliban seize' Pakistan policemen

    Thirty Pakistani policemen are reported to have been captured by Taliban fighters in the northwest Swat Valley after they laid siege to a police station. "Taliban kidnapped 30 policemen and blew up the police office after a day-long fight," Dilawar Khan, a regional police commander, said on Wednesday. Army troops were sent to the Shamozai.. More

  • Ethiopia troops 'enter Somali town'

    Ethiopian troops have reportedly returned to a Somali border town, just over a week after they ended their two-year presence in the strife-torn country. Local residents in the town of Kalabeyrka, a few kilometers from the border, said Ethiopian troops and military vehicles arrived on Monday and set up a checkpoint charging a "tax" to some.. More

  • Israeli planes hit Gaza

    Israeli aircraft bombed targets in southern Gaza after dark on Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties after Israeli warplanes struck at smuggling tunnels connecting Gaza with Egypt on Tuesday and fired a missile at a training camp of the armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had warned Hamas of.. More

  • Zimbabwe cholera crisis 'worsening'

    Zimbabwe's cholera crisis has reached unprecedented levels with nearly 63,000 people being infected by the epidemic, according to a report. The epidemic, which began in August, has already killed more than 3,000 people - the deadliest outbreak in Africa in 15 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Lack of awareness about the disease,.. More

  • Iran puts first home-built satellite into orbit

    Iran has launched its first home-built satellite into orbit using a homegrown rocket, in a move that is certain to set alarm bells ringing in the international community. "Dear Iranians, your children have put the first indigenous satellite into orbit," a jubilant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in remarks broadcast on state television.. More

  • 'AU firing' kills dozens of Somalis

    Somali officials say at least 18 people died after African Union troops opened fire in response to a roadside bomb targeting their convoy in southern Mogadishu. However, the peacekeeping force's spokesman denied the charge. The officials and a witness said the soldiers opened fire on buses after an AU vehicle hit a landmine on Monday. Yusuf Dhumal,.. More

  • Pakistan-Taliban Swat battle rages

    Pakistan's prime minister has pledged to "restore peace" to the country's troubled Swat valley where Al Jazeera has found Taliban fighters to be firmly in control. "We are finding a way out. We do not want to disclose the strategy right now, but soon Swat will be peaceful, like the rest of the country," Yusuf Raza Gilani said on.. More

  • Israeli strike kills Gaza fighter, violating truce

    A missile from an Israeli aircraft struck a car traveling in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, killing a Palestinian fighter and further straining a truce with the territory's Hamas rulers. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, one of three candidates in the running to become prime minister in Feb. 10 elections and an architect of the Israeli onslaught.. More

  • Police die in Afghan suicide blast

    The Taliban has told Al Jazeera it was responsible for a suicide bombing on a police training centre in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province that left 21 people dead. Officers at the reserve unit in the provincial capital Tirin Kot were getting ready for morning exercises on Monday when the bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body, Juma Gul Himat,.. More