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  • Bolivia cuts Israel ties over Gaza

    Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, says he is breaking off ties with Israel in protest against its war in Gaza, which has left more than 1,000 Palestinians dead. Morales said on Wednesday that he would seek to get top Israeli officials, including Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, charged with "genocide" in the International Criminal.. More

  • Gaza battles rage, toll nears 1,000, UN chief arrives in region

    Israeli troops battled Palestinian fighters on Wednesday in Gaza, where nearly 1,000 people have now been killed in the war on Gaza, and rockets slammed into northern Israel from Lebanon for the second time in less than a week. UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo at the start of a regional tour aimed at stopping the "unacceptable" war that.. More

  • Israel accused of Gaza 'genocide'

    The president of the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians in its Gaza offensive as "genocide". Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann also told Al Jazeera he had never believed that the UN Security Council would be able to stop the violence in Gaza and that Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, had practically told the.. More

  • Israeli massacres continue in Gaza

    The continued Israeli assault has entered its 18th day of its continued aggression, devastating the public health system and the cost for the civilian population intensified. In the last 24 hours there were a total of more than 50 Palestinians martyred—approximately 42% of whom were women and children and 520 injured. Totals as of 13 January (14:30PM),.. More

  • Egypt rejects Arab summit call

    Egypt has rejected a Qatari request to hold an emergency Arab League summit in Doha on Friday to discuss the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The Egyptian foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Cairo had told the Arab League that the presence of Arab leaders in Kuwait on January 18 for an economic summit "may pose an appropriate occasion for consultations.. More

  • Ethiopian troops 'quit Mogadishu'

    Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's Western-backed government have vacated their main bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, witnesses say. The soldiers began to pull out of the bases on Tuesday as local residents cheered and celebrated the withdrawal. Ethiopia had announced plans to withdraw its estimated 3,000 troops from Somalia last November. .. More

  • Offensive continues in Gaza; 930 killed, more than 4300 wounded

    The Israeli army continued its offensive against the Gaza Strip for the seventeenth day on Monday, killing twenty-six Palestinians, including 23 civilians, and wounding dozens of residents. At least 930 Palestinians have been killed and more than 4300 injured since the army initiated its attack. On Monday evening, the Israeli air force shelled several.. More

  • UN watchdog condemns war on Gaza

    A resolution condemning Israel's military offensive in Gaza has been adopted by the UN Human Rights Council. The non-binding resolution, approved in Geneva on Monday, said Israel's operation had "resulted in massive violations of human rights of the Palestinian people". More than 900 Palestinians have died during the fighting, many of.. More

  • Rights group: Israel uses incendiary bombs in Gaza

    Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn victims who had skin peeling off their faces and bodies. Researchers in Israel from the rights group witnessed hours of artillery bombardments.. More

  • Turkey's PM urges Israel to abide by UN resolution over Gaza

    The prime minister of Turkey urged on Sunday the United Nations (UN) to take action regarding the Middle East tension. Turkey's Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the UN and the Security Council should assume a stance and push Israel to abide by recent UN resolution aiming to end the massacres in Gaza. "Around 835 Gazan lost their lives,.. More

  • Blasts rock Iraqi capital

    At least five people have been killed and 15 others injured in a series of blasts in Baghdad. A roadside bomb killed three civilians and left 10 people injured in the first of four separate attacks in the Iraqi capital on Monday. The first blast was immediately followed by a car bomb explosion in Jadidah, an eastern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital,.. More

  • Gaza: Entire families killed, while 30,000 people wander Rafah looking for safety

    The number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip reached 857 on the morning of the sixteenth day of the current Israeli operations. The injured number at approximately 3,600. Warplanes, ships and tanks continue to fire in crowded Strip. Medical sources report that three Palestinians were killed at midnight Saturday in Israeli attacks on the city.. More

  • Italian minister uneasy with Muslim support for Gaza

    Italy's defense minister got uneasy with the support of Muslims for Gazans after thousands held prayers in public squares in Milan over the past week. Ignazio La Russa, from the far right-wing National Alliance, said he called the public prayers a challenge to peace. "I say enough of the provocations of Islamists in Milan," La Russa.. More

  • Storm sinks Indonesian ferry

    More than 260 people are feared dead or missing after an Indonesian ferry sank off Sulawesi island. According to a port official, the Teratai Prima, with more than 260 people on board, had radioed that it was "in the middle of a bad weather and hit by a storm" shortly before capsizing on Sunday night. A maritime official in western Sulawesi.. More

  • Convoy from Turkey protests Israel, planned to reach to Golan

    The car convoy demonstration started on Saturday. Turkish people left from Istanbul for Golan Heights with cars to support Gaza. The convoy has planned to protest Israel at Golan Heights where is the border between Syria and Israel. According to numbers that police announced, 1873 cars passed on Bosphorus, joining the convoy. The number of cars from.. More