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  • Hamas outlines proposed Gaza truce

    Hamas officials have proposed a year-long ceasefire with Israel, including an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip and an opening of all border crossings in the latest round of peace talks brokered by Egypt. The proposal was made during a meeting on Sunday between Palestinian factions and Egyptian mediators and contrasts with an 18-month truce called.. More

  • Sri Lanka rebels 'lose last town'

    Sri Lankan troops have seized the last town held by separatist Tamil Tiger fighters, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, the army chief, says. "We have completely captured Mullaittivu," he said in a televised address to the nation on Sunday. He said the Tamil Tigers now controlled an area of just 300sq km in the northeast of the island. "The.. More

  • "State protection" for Israeli soldiers over Gaza war crimes

    Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday promised military personnel "state protection" from foreign prosecution over war crimes despite international calls to investigate Israel over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip. "The commanders and soldiers sent to Gaza should know they are safe from various tribunals and Israel will.. More

  • AU troops 'shell Somali civilians'

    African Union troops in Somalia have been accused of indiscriminately shelling a Mogadishu neighborhood after an attempted suicide bomb attack on their base. At least 22 people were killed in the car bomb blast and an ensuing firefight on Saturday, witnesses and medics said. Several homes were hit by artillery fire just minutes after the vehicle.. More

  • Hamas to pay victims of Gaza war

    Hamas is set to hand out money to Gazans afflicted by Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip. The territory's government was due to start giving out the money, expected to total about $45m, on Sunday - a day after a Hamas committee was established to oversee relief efforts. Ahmed al-Kurd, the Hamas-appointed minister of social affairs, also heads the.. More

  • Palestinians taken from Gaza being held as "illegal combatants"

    Head of Prisoners Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, Abdel Nasser Ferwana, reported Friday night that detainees from Gaza are being held in horrific conditions at Al Naqab. Forty-one Palestinians are being held in the Israeli desert prison in isolation. They are not allowed contact with anyone and are being held by the Israeli military as “illegal.. More

  • Parisians march in support of Gaza

    Thousands of demonstrators have marched in Paris for a fourth straight weekend to show their support for Palestinians, following Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. The march towards the presidential Elysee Palace on Saturday drew some 20,000 people according to organizers and 9,500 according to police. A heavy police presence surrounded the rally,.. More

  • Suicide car bomb, gunfight kill 22 civilians in Somalia

    At least 22 civilians were killed Saturday in Mogadishu by a suicide car bomb targeting African Union peacekeepers and the ensuing gunfight, an official and medics said. The explosives-laden car was heading to a control point manned by the AU forces in Mogadishu's southern K4 intersection when a policeman opened fire at the vehicle which then rammed.. More

  • Gaza children return to school

    Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip have gone back to school for the first time since the 22-day Israeli offensive that killed more than 1,300 people, at least 410 of which were children. About 200,000 children returned on Saturday as the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) reopened its 221 schools in the devastated territory. Three schools.. More

  • Suspected U.S. strikes in Pakistan kill at least 14

    Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles into Pakistan on Friday killing at least 14 people, intelligence officials and residents said, in the first such strikes since Barack Obama became U.S. president. There were separate strikes in the northwestern border regions of North and South Waziristan. In the first attack, three missiles hit a house in.. More

  • Israel takes steps to avoid evidences of war crime charges

    Israel has given the justice minister the work to avoid the calls of war crimes during its 22-day Gaza assault and also banned identifying Israeli soldiers involved in offensive. Israeli army said it would not reveal the names of the battalion commanders who oversaw the assault in the overcrowded slums and cities of Gaza "on the ground that.. More

  • Iraqi family members die in attack

    Eight members of the same family have been killed in a gun attack at their home in the northern Iraqi province of Diyala, police say. Six women were among those killed in the raid at the house in Maamil, a village near Balad Ruz, 90km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Lieutenant Abdul Jabbar Raheem of Balad Ruz police said. Two people, a man.. More

  • Chinese milk scam pair face death

    Two men have been sentenced to death by a Chinese court after being convicted of playing a key role in a tainted milk scandal that led to six children dying and 300,000 falling ill. The two men facing execution include Zhang Yujun, who was convicted of making and selling more than 600 tons of "protein powder" laced with melamine, the industrial.. More

  • Obama orders Guantanamo closure

    Barack Obama, the US president, has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp within one year and a review of the military tribunals set up by the Bush administration to try them. Obama also signed an order ending the harsh interrogation of prisoners held by the US and requiring investigators to comply with the Geneva Conventions. On.. More

  • UN releases Gaza attack photos

    The United Nations has released images of what it believes are white phosphorus munitions raining down on one of its compounds during Israel's war on Gaza. The pictures, broadcast by Al Jazeera on Thursday, show what appears to be flame-generating munitions, thought to be white phosphorus "wedges" falling into a UN compound in Gaza. Israel.. More