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  • Oil price sinks to four-year low

    The price of oil has sunk to under $34 a barrel for the first time for more than four and a half years, in the face of slumping demand. The oil price fall came on Friday, as Britain's prime minister called for action to reduce huge swings in oil prices that he said had damaged the world economy. "We will need a new partnership between oil-producing.. More

  • Somali fighters warn Western powers

    An armed group battling Ethiopian forces in Somalia has told Al Jazeera it will take its fight beyond the country once it defeats its rivals. "We are fighting to lift the burden of oppression and colonialism from our country ... We are defending ourselves against enemies who attacked us," Abu Mansoor, the leader of al-Shabab, said. "Once.. More

  • Hamas declares end to Israel truce

    Palestinian group Hamas has declared that the six-month ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza Strip is over. The ceasefire officially ended at daybreak in Gaza on Friday and came after armed Palestinian groups admitted that they had been using the truce to train and better arm themselves. The Izz-al-din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the.. More

  • Nato supplies face Pakistan hurdle

    Nato and US forces in Afghanistan face further disruption to their supplies as activists in Pakistan say they will not allow any convoys to cross the border from Thursday. Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's oldest religious party, planned to hold a protest on Thursday against the use of terminals around the northwest city of Peshawar to supply foreign forces.. More

  • Rwanda's Bagosora sentenced to life for genocide

    A U.N. court sentenced a former army colonel accused of masterminding the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda in 1994 to life in prison on Thursday. The Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) had accused Theoneste Bagosora, 67, of being in charge of the troops and Interahamwe Hutu militia who butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis.. More

  • Iraq 'arrests officials over plot'

    About 35 Iraqi interior ministry officials have been arrested in recent days, some accused of plotting the return of Saddam Hussein's Baath party, the New York Times newspaper says. The report on Wednesday, citing senior security officials in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, said the arrests had taken place over the last three days. Four generals, including.. More

  • UK troops 'to leave Iraq by May'

    British forces will wrap up their 'mission' in Iraq in the first half of next year, Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has announced during a surprise visit to Baghdad. "By the end of May, or earlier, the mission will be completed," Brown said at a joint press conference with Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, on Wednesday.. More

  • Opec agrees record oil output cut

    A record cut in oil output of two million barrels a day has been announced by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec). The cut, which is Opec's largest ever, was agreed on Wednesday following a meeting of the organization's ministers in the Algerian city of Oran. The reduction in output will mean that Opec is taking 4.2 million.. More

  • Pirates seize four ships in Gulf of Aden

    Somali pirates seized four ships in the Gulf of Aden on the same day the United Nations Security Council authorized countries to pursue the gunmen on land. A Kenyan maritime group said pirates hijacked an Indonesian tugboat, a Turkish cargo ship, a Chinese fishing vessel and a yacht on Tuesday, all in one the world's busiest shipping lanes. Rampant.. More

  • Italian police smash Mafia ring

    Nearly 100 people have been arrested in police raids that have crushed an attempt to revive the Sicilian Mafia, the authorities in Italy say. Tuesday's blitz ordered by Palermo prosecutors was one of the largest in recent years and was billed as striking at the heart of attempts to form a new command structure and strategy. Police said they prevented.. More

  • Guantanamo detainees back in Bosnia

    Three Algerian-born prisoners have returned to their adopted homeland of Bosnia in the first release under court order from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The three were among five Algerians ordered to be released last month by a US judge who ruled that the administration of George Bush, the US president, had failed to support its claim that.. More

  • Bush shoe-thrower 'tortured'

    An Iraqi journalist arrested after throwing his shoes at the US president has been tortured during his detention, his brother has said. Muntazer al-Zaidi, who called George Bush "a dog" during his attack, was beaten by security guards after his arrest, Durgham al-Zaidi told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. "We know that [Muntazer] has been.. More

  • Deaths in Israeli tourist bus crash

    More than 20 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a tourist bus plunged down a ravine near the southern Israeli city of Eilat. Rescue teams were working to reach people trapped inside the wreckage of the vehicle which crashed off a desert road on Tuesday. About 60 tourists from St. Petersburg in Russia are reported to have been.. More

  • Palestinian fighter killed in Jenin

    Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, a military spokeswoman and Palestinian security sources have said. Palestinian witnesses said undercover troops shot at Jihad Nwada, a fighter from the Islamic Jihad group while he was outside a shop in the village of Yamoun, near the town of Jenin on Tuesday. He died of his wounds. Pa.. More

  • Zimbabwe cholera toll reaches 1,000

    The United Nations has called on African countries to do more to exert pressure on Zimbabwe to end a political stalemate blamed for a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 1,000 people. Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general told UN Security Council members in a closed-door briefing on Monday that the situation in Zimbabwe had become unbearable. The.. More