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  • Five Iraqi police killed in bombing

    Five Iraqi policemen were killed when their convoy was hit by roadside bomb in the town of Tarmiyah north of Baghdad on Tuesday, local police chief colonel Towfiq Ahmad al-Janabi said. The bomb targeted the convoy of Faisal Ismail, the police chief in the nearby town of Mashaada, Janabi told AFP. Iraq's security forces are a constant target for attack.. More

  • Ethiopia set for Somalia pull out

    Ethiopia has refused to reverse its decision to withdraw its forces from Somalia by the end of the year, despite a plea from the African Union (AU) to delay the move which it fears may result in a security vacuum inside the country. The government in Addis Ababa said last month that it would pull its troops out by the scheduled time amid fears the.. More

  • Palestinians agree to 24-hour lull

    Hamas and other factions have agreed to halt the firing of rockets into Israel for 24 hours to allow aid to be delivered to Gaza, a Hamas official has said. An Egyptian convoy carrying food and medical supplies worth $1m is expected to be let into the Gaza Strip, after Hamas agreed to the unilateral temporary Egypt-mediated truce on Monday. The five-lorry.. More

  • 'No apology' from Iraq shoe-thrower

    Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush, the US president, has said that he will not apologize for his act, amid reports from his lawyer that he has been severely beaten in custody. Dhiya'a al-Sa'adi, al-Zaidi's lawyer, told Al Jazeera on Monday: "Muntazer al-Zaidi considers what he did when he threw his shoes.. More

  • Pakistan military on 'red alert'

    Pakistan media is reporting that the country's military is on high alert over a possible strike by India. Monday's reports come after a ratcheting up of tension between the two countries following attacks in Mumbai last month which killed 163 people. Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pakistan, said the local media attributed its reports.. More

  • Israel prepares diplomatic ground for Gaza strikes

    Israel has launched a diplomatic campaign to gather international support for a major offensive on Hamas-ruled Gaza following the expiry of a truce with the Islamists, officials said on Monday. In a letter to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, Israel's envoy to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev said the Jewish state would respond to continuing rocket fire, foreign.. More

  • Nigeria 'to join AU Somalia force'

    Nigerian troops are likely to be added to an African Union (AU) force in Somalia in January after Ethiopian soldiers pull out of the country, the African bloc has said. The commitment by Umar Yar'Adua, Nigeria's president, comes as Addis Ababa prepares to withdraw its 3,000-strong contingent from Somalia. "The president of Nigeria has confirmed.. More

  • Deaths in Pakistan 'US strikes'

    A suspected US missile strike has killed at least seven people in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region. One missile hit a vehicle in the village of Wana killing four people, while another strike killed three in a nearby village, both in South Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. "Tribesmen opened fire on the drones after.. More

  • Clashes erupt in Israeli-run prison

    At least seven Palestinian detainees and three Israeli guards have been injured in a prison riot, according to Yaron Zamir, a prison service spokesman. The clashes in the Ofer detention centre near the West Bank town of Ramallah erupted on Saturday when dozens of Palestinian inmates started throwing objects at guards who had entered to search a prison.. More

  • Tigers claim 60 soldiers killed in Sri Lanka counter-attacks

    Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels mounted counter-attacks against government troops and killed at least 60 soldiers besieging their political headquarters, the guerrillas said Sunday. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said they had re-taken positions from government forces who have been closing in on the northern town of Kilinochchi, the Tiger's.. More

  • Somali group seeks Sharia expansion

    Fighters with Al-Shabab, an armed group that has taken control of the southern city of Kismayu, have told Al Jazeera they plan to impose Islamic law across Somalia. Kismayu, Somalia's third biggest city, was once one of the most dangerous places in the south of the country. However, relative calm has been restored to Kismayu after the Al-Shabab Mujahideen.. More

  • Lebanon appoints ambassador to Syria

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had issued a decree in October to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon. Lebanon appointed an ambassador to Syria on Saturday, the first time the Arab neighbors will have full diplomatic relations since gaining independence from France in the 1940s. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had issued a decree in October.. More

  • Aid boat breaches Gaza blockade

    Activists from Qatar and Lebanon have defied Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip by docking an aid boat in the territory. The ship delivered medical aid to the Hamas-controlled territory on Saturday, a day after leaving from Larnaca port in Cyprus. It is the first boat to reach Gaza's shores since the end of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.. More

  • Gazan killed by Israeli air strike

    A Palestinian man has been killed in an Israeli missile attack in the first death since the end of a six-month-old ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Ali Hijazi, 22, and two other men who were wounded were members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, eyewitnesses said on Saturday. The air strike targeted a group of militants firing rockets towards.. More

  • Nato troops killed in Afghanistan

    Three Danish soldiers and one from the Netherlands have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan. The Danish army said that three of its soldiers were killed and a fourth was injured when their armored vehicle drove over a bomb or a land mine in Helmand province. "Today we lost three Danish soldiers in a tragic way," Anders Fogh.. More