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  • Israeli raid injures Gaza children

    At least nine people, seven of them school girls, have been injured by an Israeli air attack in the southern Gaza Strip, sources tell Al Jazeera. The raid on Thursday in Khan Younis also injured a Hamas policeman, the AFP news agency reported, quoting witnesses and medics. Israel seemed to be targeting a Palestinian fighter on a motorcycle, witnesses.. More

  • Iraq ends license of US security firm Blackwater

    Iraq will not renew the operating license of controversial US security firm Blackwater Worldwide, an interior ministry official said Thursday. "The contract is finished and will be not be renewed by order of the minister of the interior," ministry spokesman Major General Abdel Karim Khalaf told AFP. "The contract has already expired,".. More

  • Israel bombs southern Gaza

    Israeli jets have bombed the southern Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian territory into Israel. There were no immediate reports of any injuries from either the bombing early on Thursday or the rocket fire on Wednesday. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the air attack, saying it had targeted a weapons production site in.. More

  • Carter says Hamas must be included

    Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has said any future permanent Israeli-Palestinian agreement has to include Hamas, the Palestinian movement that controls the Gaza Strip. Carter also told Al Jazeera's Riz Khan on Wednesday that US presidents were unable or unwilling to take on Israel's supporters in the US, but said he had high hopes for George.. More

  • Massacred bodies found in DR Congo

    At least 100 bodies linked to a massacre by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army fighters have been found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN peacekeepers have said. "The attack was reportedly carried out by 13 rebels. At least 100 bodies were recovered by local self-defense forces," Jean-Paul Dietrich, a spokesman for the UN mission in Congo.. More

  • Iran says U.S. must change policy not tactics

    The new U.S. administration needs to show a "fundamental" change in policy not just tactics, Iran's president said on Wednesday after U.S. President Barack Obama offered to extend a hand of peace to the Islamic Republic. Obama, speaking in his first formal television interview as president, said his offer required Iran to "unclench its.. More

  • Israeli jets strike Rafah tunnels

    Israeli jets carried out fresh air raids on tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, reportedly sending hundreds of people fleeing their homes in panic. Local residents and Hamas security officials said three air attacks took place before dawn on Wednesday, but no casualties have yet been reported. The raids came just hours before the newly appointed.. More

  • Ex-Serb general tried on war crimes

    A former Serbian general accused of taking part in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" against Albanians in Kosovo has gone on trial at the United Nation's Yugoslav war crimes court in The Hague. Vlastimir Djordjevic, 60, is accused of murdering hundreds of ethnic Albanians and deporting 800,000 others from Kosovo between January and June 1999... More

  • Israeli air strikes wound Gazans

    Two people have been wounded in an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Palestinian medical officials have said. An Israeli air strike hit a motorcycle in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The raid came after an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian were reported to have been killed in a clash near the Kissufim border crossing. The.. More

  • 'Many civilians dead' in Sri Lanka

    A senior UN official in Sri Lanka says "many civilians" have died in the last two days of clashes between the army and Tamil Tiger fighters in and around the port of Mullaitivu in the country's northeast. Neil Buhne, the UN resident coordinator in Sri Lanka, said reports indicated an estimated 150,000 civilians were still trapped in the jungle.. More

  • Clashes erupt on Israel-Gaza border

    An explosion has killed an Israeli soldier amid clashes along the border with the Gaza Strip. An Arab television station reported that Tuesday's explosion wounded at least three Israeli soldiers in addition to the fatality. The Israeli military offered no confirmation of any casualties, but said an attack on a military patrol had taken place. Israeli.. More

  • BBC, Sky keep on embargo on Gaza aid appeal

    The BBC and Sky kept on their embargo on Monday on air a charity appeal, a civilian initiative, for the victims of Israel's offensive in Gaza. The accusations brought more than 2,000 to the streets of London, protesting the BBC decision to refuse air time for the appeal. The DEC is an umbrella organization for British non-profits like the British.. More

  • Abducted Muslim by CIA sues Macedonia for €50000

    German man of Lebanese descent who says he was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA has sued Macedonia for 50,000 euros, saying their agents wrongly imprisoned and abused him, officials said on Monday. The civil lawsuit was the latest international legal battle by Khaled el-Masri, who said he was abducted in Macedonia in December 2003 and later flown.. More

  • Al-Shabab overruns Somali town

    Fighters from the al-Shabab group have captured the Somali town of Baidoa and seized the parliament building just hours after Ethiopian troops pulled out of the country, witnesses said. Mohammed Sheikh Nur, a journalist based in Mogadishu, told Al Jazeera that al-Shabab fighters had also taken control of the airport and the presidential palace. "Th.. More

  • Two U.S. aircraft crash in Iraq, four killed

    Two U.S. military aircraft crashed in northern Iraq in the early hours of Monday, killing four soldiers, the U.S. military said. "Four coalition forces members were killed when two aircraft went down in northern Iraq at approximately 2:15 a.m.," U.S. military spokesman Major Jose Lopez said. "The cause of the incident is unknown and.. More