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  • Violence at West Bank olive harvest

    Jewish settlers have been caught on camera punching and kicking two news photographers and a British woman who was helping Palestinians pick olives near a West Bank town. The Israeli police responded to the situation on Saturday by stopping the harvest. The scuffle near the town of Hebron was the latest in a series of incidents blamed on settlers.. More

  • Clashes over water kill 4 in drought-hit Kenya

    Fighting over boreholes in arid northern Kenya has killed at least four people as competition for resources mounts in the drought-hit region, the Kenyan Red Cross said on Friday. Locals said the death toll was higher after two days of clashes between the Murulle and Garre clans in Elwak, Mandera District. "We have confirmed the killing.. More

  • US sanctions for Mauritania junta

    The US has imposed a travel ban on some members of the military government in Mauritania, who overthrew President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in August. The state department said the unnamed officials would not be allowed to visit the US because they were undermining the "return to constitutional rule". It also reiterated past calls.. More

  • Zimbabwe talks fail again

    Power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe between Robert Mugabe, the president, and Morgan Tsvangirai, his rival prime minister, have ended without an agreement over the formation of a cabinet. After four days of lengthy negotiations, Mugabe and Tsvangirai failed again on Friday to agree on who should control powerful ministries, leaving their proposed unity.. More

  • Iran 'to stop executing youths'

    Human rights campaigners have welcomed an announcement by Iran that appears to end the execution of juveniles. Iran is believed to be the country that executes the largest number of juvenile offenders - defined as those aged under 18 - in the world. At least six youths have been executed in Iran this year alone. The development came in the.. More

  • Hamas: Crisis divine punishment for US occupations

    The leader of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas said on Friday that the global financial meltdown was God's way of punishing the United States for its support of Israel and its occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. "We see it as God's punishment for the criminals (U.S. and its Western allies). Nothing is more unjust than occupying an Islamic.. More

  • Oil price fall prompts Opec meeting

    Opec (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) has brought forward an emergency meeting to discuss the effect of the global financial crisis on oil markets. The organization announced the decision on Thursday, as oil prices plunged below $67 a barrel from a peak of $147 in July. An Opec statement said: "Following consultations with.. More

  • Afghan mayor turns Taliban leader

    The former mayor of Afghanistan's Herat province is now the most powerful local Taliban commander. Ghullam Yahya Akbari told Al Jazeera that he will not negotiate with the Afghan government as long as foreign troops are on Afghan soil. Given exclusive access to one of his 20 mountain bases hidden deep inside rugged terrain that Akbari says were.. More

  • Thai-Cambodia border patrol agreed

    Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to conduct joint military patrols after Wednesday's border clashes left two Cambodian soldiers dead. The move comes after both sides held lengthy emergency talks in the aftermath of skirmishes at the disputed border area near the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple. General Wiboonsak Neeparn, the Thai regional commander,.. More

  • Turkish soldiers die in PKK clashes

    At least four Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with fighters from the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) in the southeast of the country near its borders with Iran and Iraq, the military has said. The Turkish military said on Thursday that five PKK fighters were also killed in separate fighting. Clashes on Wednesday in the town of Kavakli.. More

  • Palestinians killed in West Bank

    Two Palestinian youths have been killed in overnight clashes in the West Bank city of Ramallah, emergency services have said. Aziz Beerat, 20, from Kafr Malik village, east of Ramallah, was shot dead by Israeli troops in the early hours of Thursday. The other man, identified by Palestinian doctors as 21-year-old Mohammed al-Ramahi, died from injuries.. More

  • Suicide bombing kills three in NW Pakistan

    Asuicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed vehicle into a police station in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley Thursday, killing three policemen and wounding 15, officials said. Suicide bombings and attacks on security forces are becoming increasingly common after the military began offensives in August against al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in.. More

  • US 'to stay in Iraq until 2011'

    Iraq and the US have finalized a draft agreement that would permit the US military to remain in the country until 2011. The proposed deal, announced on Wednesday, would also allow - with certain conditions -Iraq to try American troops charged with committing crimes in the country. Baghdad will be given the initial chance to prosecute US personnel.. More

  • Gunfight on Thai-Cambodia border

    Thai and Cambodian soldiers have exchanged gunfire along a disputed section of their border, leaving two Cambodian soldiers dead. Cambodia's foreign minister also said 10 Thai troops had been captured, but Bangkok has not confirmed this. The clash, near the ancient Preah Vihear temple, has prompted Thailand to urge its nationals to leave Cambodia... More

  • Hijack drama on Turkish plane

    A hijack attempt on a Turkish Airlines flight traveling to the Russian city of St Petersburg has been foiled, an aviation official has said. Passengers disarmed the unknown assailant and the aircraft continued towards its scheduled destination, Orhan Birdal, the head of Turkey's airports management authority, said. The aircraft later landed as.. More