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  • Deaths as Sri Lanka hospital bombed

    At least 13 people have been killed after a hospital in northern Sri Lanka was hit in three artillery attacks, United Nations officials have said. Staff were struggling to retrieve bodies after the children's ward of the Puthukkudiriruppu hospital in Mullaittivu district was struck at about midnight, Gordon Weiss, a UN spokesman, said on Monday. "The.. More

  • Israeli jets bomb Gaza targets

    The Israeli military has bombed several targets in the Gaza Strip hours after the prime minister vowed a "disproportionate response" to fresh rocket fire from the Palestinian territory. Palestinian witnesses reported huge explosions on Sunday and the Israeli military confirmed strikes on half a dozen locations, including an abandoned police.. More

  • At least 12 killed by floods, waves in Indonesia

    Three Indonesians died after huge waves washed them away on a beach on Java island, while nine people were killed in floods and landslides in other parts of Java and Sulawesi, officials said on Sunday. The bodies of three high-school students had been found on Parangtritis beach south of the city of Yogyakarta, a rescue official said, while two people.. More

  • North Korea says two Koreas on path toward war

    North Korea warned on Sunday that the downward spiral of relations with the South has pushed the peninsula to the brink of war, two days after it said it was scrapping all pacts with its rich capitalist neighbor. Analysts say the rhetorical volleys are aimed at changing the hardline policies of the South's president and are meant to grab the attention.. More

  • Afghans die in Nato shootings

    At least three civilians, including two children, have been killed in two separate incidents involving international troops in Afghanistan, according to the Nato force. The two children died after troops from Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) clashed with Taliban fighters in Helmand province, it said in a statement on Sunday. In.. More

  • Egypt begins to install cameras, sensors at Gaza border

    Egypt has begun installing cameras and motion sensors along its border against the Gazan tunnels, security sources said on Saturday. Gazans live under heavy Israel siege for a long time and Egypt still insists on not to opening the only Gaza border crossing in a move condemned by Muslims around the world in protests, leaving Gazans desperate to digging.. More

  • Syria seeks "better ties" with US

    Syria's president has called for "positive" dialogue with Washington after years of strained relations, Syria's official Sana news agency has reported. Bashar al-Assad was quoted as telling a visiting US congressional delegation on Saturday that Damascus's ties with Washington had soured under George Bush, the former US president. Al-Assad.. More

  • Kenya oil blaze 'leaves 100 dead'

    More than 100 people are reported to have died after an oil spill from a crashed lorry caught fire in central Kenya as locals were trying to scoop up free fuel, police said. The lorry crashed near the town of Molo, spilling oil that later burst into flames as hundreds of locals were crowded around trying to help themselves to the goods. "We counted.. More

  • Taliban warns US over Afghan plan

    The Taliban has warned Barack Obama, the new US president, that his plans to send more troops to Afghanistan will lead to more bloodshed. In remarks broadcast on Al Jazeera on Saturday, Mullah Mohamad Rasul, a Taliban leader, said that fighters of the group were ready to take on the US troops. "Just as they are bringing more troops, so too.. More

  • New Somali president sworn in

    Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been sworn in as the new president of Somalia just months after his Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) signed a peace deal with the transitional government. The ceremony in neighboring Djibouti on Saturday came after Ahmed, who also led the Islamic Courts Union, won a run-off parliamentary vote. The.. More

  • Iraqis vote amid tight security

    Iraqi security forces have banned traffic from the streets of major cities and will search all voters as the country holds provincial elections. About 15 million Iraqis are eligible to vote in the polls being held in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces on Saturday. More than 14,000 candidates are competing for 440 seats. The polls, which are seen as.. More

  • Ethiopia says 4.9 million people need food aid

    Ethiopia said on Friday that 4.9 million of its people will need emergency food aid in the first six months of 2009 due to drought and appealed for $390 million from donors to pay for it. That figure represents a fall of 1.5 million from last October, when the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said 6.4 million people needed urgent help to.. More

  • Somalis to pick new president

    Somali lawmakers began electing a new president Friday, with the current premier and the Islamist opposition leader clear frontrunners in the battle to take the helm of the war-ravaged country. The newly-enlarged parliament including the more moderate wing of the Islamist-led opposition started its vote in Djibouti on a replacement for Abdullahi.. More

  • Turkey's Erdogan storms out of Davos over Gaza debate

    The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has stormed out of a heated debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos over Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. "For me, Davos is over," he said, walking off stage in the final moments of the session. "They would not let me speak," he later added to reporters. He said Israel.. More

  • US academicians launch national campaign for Israel boycott

    Israeli massive offensive in the Gaza Strip triggered the various campaigns of boycott across the world from Middle East to Latin America, including United States. A group of American university professors has for the first time launched on Thursday a national campaign calling for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, following the boycott.. More