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  • Scientists start 'big bang machine'

    Scientists in Switzerland have started up a machine designed to accelerate sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light and then smash them into each other in a bid to find out how the universe began. The project began operations on Wednesday, but its critics fear that it could go wrong and create a black hole that would destroy the Earth. The.. More

  • Pakistan 'al-Qaeda leaders killed'

    Three al-Qaeda commanders in Pakistan, including a newly appointed leader, have been reported killed in North Waziristan province, sources have told Al Jazeera. Abu Hamza and Abu Qasim, believed to be two Saudi nationals, and leader Abu Haris, who was believed to be Syrian, were reportedly killed when a drone aircraft fired a missile on a housing compound.. More

  • Russia deploying in Georgia regions

    Russia has said it will permanently station 7,600 troops in Georgia's two breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. About 3,800 troops will each be based in the two provinces - a far larger presence than before last month's war - Anatoly Serdyukov, Russia's defence minister, said on Tuesday. Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said.. More

  • Saudi says oil prices 'in balance'

    Saudi Arabia has expressed satisfaction with recent steep falls in oil prices and indicated no signs of approving a cut in output by the Opec group despite fears among some members of oversupply. "We have worked very hard since June's meeting to bring prices to where they are now. I think everything is in balance," said Ali al-Nuaimi, Saudi.. More

  • Pakistan's Zardari sworn in

    Asif Ali Zardari has been sworn in as the new president of Pakistan, replacing Pervez Musharraf. Zardari, widower of the former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, was inaugurated at a ceremony at President House in Islamabad on Tuesday as Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, looked on. Reciting the oath of office, Zardari said: "I will bear.. More

  • Sudan 'retakes' rebel strongholds

    Sudanese government troops have moved in to control rebel strongholds in North Darfur state after two days of heavy fighting, fighters from the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) have said. The fighters said on Monday that assaults on rebels' positions began on Saturday. Government and militia forces battled the rebels, backed by attack helicopters and Antonov.. More

  • US troops in Iraq to be shifted

    George Bush, the US president, will reduce troops in Iraq only modestly over the rest of his term, pulling out 8,000 soldiers by February, when his successor takes over. Bush is expected to make this announcement on Tuesday. Some of the troops will be shifted to Afghanistan, where attacks by the Taliban have increased over the past two years. No.. More

  • Hundreds feared missing after China mudslide

    Hundreds of people may be missing after a mud slide triggered the collapse of a reservoir of iron ore waste in northern China, burying houses and sweeping away cars in a wall of thick sludge, killing at least 34 people. Monday's landslide, caused by torrential rain, injured 35 people at the Tashan iron ore mine in Shanxi province. More than 1,100.. More

  • AU chairman backs Sudan's Bashir over court

    The chairman of the African Union affirmed support for deferring any war crimes indictment against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir during a visit to Khartoum on Monday. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked judges to issue an arrest warrant for Bashir for war crimes committed in Sudan's western Darfur.. More

  • Russia agrees Georgia withdrawal

    Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has said Moscow will withdraw its forces from Georgia after the deployment of European Union monitors in the country. Medvedev made the announcement in a joint news conference with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Jose Manuel Barroso, the EU commission president, with whom he had held talks in Moscow. Sa.. More

  • India to sell nuclear deal to world, soothe critics

    India will take its civilian nuclear deal with the United States to the world looking to secure fuel supplies and reactor technology, analysts said, while seeking to soothe critics with a strong non-proliferation pitch. But it is unlikely India will launch formal nuclear trade negotiations ahead of the new deal's ratification by the U.S. Congress,.. More

  • Suspected US raid in N Pakistan

    Suspected US drone aircrafts have killed at least three people in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border, witnesses and officials say. A religious school founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a Taliban leader, was the apparent target of the attack on Monday in Miranshah, capital of North Waziristan. Witnesses said two unmanned aircraft fired six missiles.. More

  • Hurricane Ike hits Cuba

    Hurricane Ike has hit northeastern Cuba with 120kph winds, torrential rain and massive waves. State-run television showed waves surging as high as nearby five-storey buildings before flooding the streets of the city of Baracoa near the eastern tip of the island on Sunday. The Cuban Meteorology Institute said the storm slammed into the coast near Punta.. More

  • Iran to hold three-day war games: report

    Iran's armed forces will begin three days of war games on Monday involving anti-aircraft defense systems, Iranian media said on Sunday. The exercises will be held amid persistent speculation about a possible U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, which the West and Israel say are part of a clandestine bid to build atomic bombs, despite.. More

  • Cairo rockslide search continues

    Rescuers are still looking for hundreds of people feared trapped in the rubble of homes crushed in a massive rockslide at a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo. The death toll from Saturday's rockslide stands at 31, with 47 injured. Witnesses said on Sunday that workers and residents shifted mounds of rubble and rocks during the night in a bid.. More