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  • Israel stops Gaza aid delivery

    The United Nations is to suspend its food distribution effort to the Gaza Strip after Israel said it would not allow emergency supplies into the Palestinian territory, a UN spokesman has said. Israel had initially permitted the UN Relief and Works Agency to send 30 lorries of supplies to Gaza on Thursday but later reversed the agreement, citing a.. More

  • Afghans die in attack on US convoy

    At least 20 people have been killed in an attack on a US convoy passing through a busy Afghan market. More than 55 other civilians were hurt in the attack in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday morning, officials said. One 13-year-old child died in hospital from his injuries and the toll is expected to rise. A US military spokesman.. More

  • Deadly bombings rock Iraqi capital

    At least 21 people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to police and the Iraqi interior ministry. In the most severe attack on Wednesday, at least 12 people were killed and 60 others injured when a booby-trapped car and roadside bomb exploded nearly simultaneously in eastern New Baghdad, an Iraqi interior.. More

  • Oil 'could soon reach $100'

    The cost of a barrel of oil could soon head towards $100 because crude reserves cannot be exploited fast enough to keep pace with global demand, the International Energy Agency has said. Energy companies also face a challenge in meeting the world's energy needs over the next 30 years, the IEA report, released on Wednesday, said. "Current.. More

  • Blast at Afghan intelligence centre

    A bomb has ripped through a compound of government offices in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. The blast on Wednesday appeared to target the city's intelligence agency and the provincial council offices. A police officer at the scene said that it looked as if a car bomb had been used to carry out the attack. It is not clear whether it.. More

  • Sudan initiative urges Darfur ceasefire

    Sudan should call a fresh ceasefire in Darfur and release political prisoners as part of a new peace push, according to a report from a forum backed by the country's president. The Sudan People's Forum -- made up of ministers and opposition figures but boycotted by Darfur rebels -- also recommended Sudan's government should pay compensation to displaced.. More

  • UN: 100,000 without aid in DR Congo

    More than 100,000 refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been cut off from humanitarian aid behind rebel lines, the UN secretary-general says. Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate ceasefire between government troops and rebels in order to send desperately needed help to trapped civilians on Tuesday. Tens of thousands of people have been.. More

  • Israel eases Gaza fuel blockade

    Israel has partially renewed fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip, ending a week-long suspension of supplies that led to blackouts in the homes of Palestinian families. Palestinian workers said the first delivery was received at the Nahal Oz fuel depot on Tuesday and was sent on to Gaza's only power plant. The plant shut down on Monday due to what.. More

  • Suicide blast hits Pakistan stadium

    A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a packed sports stadium in the northwest of Pakistan, killing at least three people and wounding nine others, police said. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack on Tuesday in Peshawar city. The bombing took place at the closing ceremony of a sports event attended by senior government officials,.. More

  • Somali pirates hijack ship

    Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo ship off the Gulf of Aden, defying security patrols by several warships in the region, a Kenyan maritime official has said. The Philippine-flagged Stolt Strength, managed by a Panama company, was seized on Monday, Andrew Mwangura who runs the Kenya chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Program, said. "The.. More

  • Baghdad reopens bridge closed since deadly stampede

    Authorities in Baghdad on Tuesday opened a major bridge that was closed for more than three years after nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims perished in a deadly stampede. The move is expected to ease traffic in the bustling capital and help repair the deep sectarian divisions that have plagued the city since the eruption of Sunni-Shiite violence in 2006. Score.. More

  • Fears rise of DRC cholera epidemic

    A cholera outbreak in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to the eastern provincial capital of Goma, aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres says. The rising fears of an epidemic come amid warnings from rebels that they would fight any foreign forces sent to help government troops as they continued their standoff with the army. Al.. More

  • Karzai condemns killings by US

    Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, has criticized US-led troops for killing 14 private security guards in the eastern province of Khost. Karzai said in the statement on Monday that the deaths late on Sunday would widen the gap between Afghanistan and Western allies. "Carrying out such attacks will only expand the gap between the.. More

  • Gazans plunged into darkness

    Thousands of Gazans have been left without electricity following Israel's suspension of fuel shipments to the Hamas-controlled territory's only power plant. The power station was shut down on Monday evening after Israel refused to restart deliveries, despite warnings by fuel supplies were almost exhausted. Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, reporting.. More

  • Dozens die in Iraq blasts

    At least 28 people have been killed and scores wounded in twin bombings in a market in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, security officials have said. Defense and interior ministry officials said that a car bomb went off in Adhamiyah on Monday. A suicide bomber then blew himself up among the crowd that had gathered around the blast scene. Al Jazeera sources.. More