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  • Karadzic extradited to The Hague

    The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has been flown from the Serbian capital Belgrade to the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. He was moved from a court building where he had been held since his arrest last week, after 13 years on the run. He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide relating to the Bosnian conflict.. More

  • Israeli troops kill West Bank boy

    Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian boy during a protest near the separation wall in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian medics and witnesses. Hammad Hossam Mussa was hit by a bullet fired by Israeli soldiers in the village of Ni'lin on Tuesday, Salah Al Khawaja, a member of Ni'lin's Committee Against the Wall, said. He died of.. More

  • Turkish jets attack PKK hideout

    Turkish warplanes have attacked a hideout of the rebel Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in Northern Iraq, the Turkish army says. Turkish jets destroyed a PKK base in the operation, killing an unspecified number of militants, the army said. The militants were based at a cave in the Qandil mountain region of Iraq. The airstrikes come two days after a bomb.. More

  • Iraqi forces launch new offensive

    Iraqi forces backed by US troops have launched a major assault against fighters in the northeastern province of Diyala. "The operation began in Diyala early this morning and we have begun raids in some neighbourhoods of the city of Baquba," Ragib al-Omeiri, chief of the operations bureau in Baquba, said on Tuesday. "Iraqi police and.. More

  • Hardliners rally in anger at looming Karadzic transfer

    Belgrade was bracing Tuesday for an ultra-nationalist protest rally in defiance of Radovan Karadzic's arrest and impending transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The rally in the Serbian capital, where Karadzic is being detained, has been organised by the hardline Radical Party and backed by the party former nationalist prime minister.. More

  • Taliban kill Pakistani officers

    Pro-Taliban fighters have killed three Pakistani army intelligence officers and taken 30 police officers hostage in the northwestern Swat valley. The security officials were killed in retaliation for the torture of Taliban prisoners in custody, Taliban officials told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. They said they had encircled the Swat valley police station.. More

  • Israeli court orders dismantling of wall part

    The Palestinian residents of two West Bank villages yesterday won a legal victory, after a five-year battle, when the Israeli High Court of Justice ordered the Israeli defense establishment to dismantle a 2.4-kilometer stretch of the separation wall north of Qalqilyah, a report said yesterday. The move will return 2,600 dunams of agricultural land.. More

  • Iran 'seeks common ground' with US

    The Iranian president has said he is willing to seek "common ground" with the US if Washington takes a new approach over the country's nuclear program. Speaking to US television channel NBC, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said such an approach should be rooted in "mutual respect" not "confrontation". "If the [US] approach changes,.. More

  • Turkish officials link bombings to rebel Kurds

    Turkish officials suggested Monday that Kurdish militants were the main suspects in bomb blasts that killed 17 people in a crowded square, with Turkey's prime minister saying it could be a reprisal for air raids on guerrilla positions in northern Iraq. The rebel Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, immediately denied involvement and attributed Sunday.. More

  • Hun Sen claims Cambodia vote win

    Cambodia's ruling party has claimed a landslide victory in parliamentary elections held at the weekend. Hours after polling stations closed on Sunday, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), led by the prime minister, Hun Sen, appeared to be "leading everywhere", a party spokesman said. Estimates from party agents nationwide indicated the CPP.. More

  • Spate of suicide attacks in Iraq kill at least 51

    Three women bombers blew themselves up on Monday in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, one of a string of attacks in Iraq that killed at least 51 people, undermining hopes of a drop in violence. Scores of people were also wounded in the attacks, which follow a relative lull in the sectarian violence that has ravaged the country since February 2006,.. More

  • Suicide blasts hit Iraqi pilgrims

    Twenty-five people have been killed and about 52 wounded in suicide attacks against pilgrims in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say. The three attacks, carried out by women, targeted Shia pilgrims heading for the Kadhimiya shrine in the north of the city for annual ceremonies. The bombers struck as pilgrim convoys passed through the Karrada district... More

  • 'Missile' kills six in Pakistan

    At least six people have been killed in a missile strike in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan, near the Afghan border, officials have said. The missile, reportedly fired from Afghanistan, hit a house next to a mosque in the village of Azam Warsak. A Pakistani security official said it was not clear if the missile had been launched by.. More

  • Deadly bombings hit Istanbul

    At least 15 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in two explosions on a busy shopping street in Istanbul, according to the city governor. The first device exploded by a telephone booth in the residential Gungoren district on Sunday evening and a second bomb went off a few meters away about 10 minutes later. Muammer Guler, the governor.. More

  • Iran executes 29 in jail hangings

    Reports from Iran say 29 people have been executed by hanging in Tehran. Among them were convicts found guilty of murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking, state television IRIB reported on its website. All the executions took place on Sunday morning in Tehran's Evin prison, the report said. Amnesty International, the human rights group,.. More