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  • Gaza rocket hits Israeli mall

    A rocket has hit a shopping centre in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, injuring at least 14 people. The attack on Wednesday was launched from the Gaza Strip, police said. Media outlets were reporting extensive damage to the shopping centre, called the Hutzot mall. Several Palestinian resistance groups within Gaza have claimed responsibility for the.. More

  • Lebanon cabinet cancels crackdown

    Lebanon's cabinet has endorsed a decision to revoke two measures that cracked down on Hezbollah and sparked fierce gun battles in Beirut last week. The violence was sparked when the government issued an order to dismantle Hezbollah's communications system and to sack the head of airport security. Wednesday's decision appeared to be a major victory.. More

  • Sudan want rebels on terror list

    Sudan has asked the international community to list the Darfur rebel that led the weekend attack near the capital as a terrorist group. It wants Justice and Equality Movement leaders living abroad to be handed over to the authorities in Khartoum. Meanwhile, the officer heading Darfur's peace force says Saturday's raid in which.. More

  • Over 50,000 dead, missing or buried in China quake

    More than 50,000 people are dead, missing or buried under rubble after China's devastating earthquake, officials said Wednesday as the full horror of the disaster began to emerge. Rescue teams who punched into the quake's stricken epicentre reported whole towns all but wiped off the map, spurring frantic efforts to bring emergency relief to.. More

  • Palestinians killed in Gaza attacks

    Two Palestinian civilians and three fighters have been killed in Israeli military raids on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials have said. Israeli troops pushed into southern Gaza to target rocket-launching squads at dawn on Wednesday, the Israeli army said. Two Palestinian fighters were also killed in air raids near the town of Khan.. More

  • Arab mediators seek to defuse Lebanon conflict

    A high-level Arab League delegation starts a mediation mission in Beirut on Wednesday to try to pull Lebanon back from the brink of a new civil war. The delegation will seek to defuse tension between the U.S.-backed governing coalition and Hezbollah, which routed its rivals in the worst spate of violence among Lebanese since the 1975-90 civil war... More

  • China quake toll soars as full horror begins to emerge

    The full horror of the devastating China earthquake began to emerge Wednesday as rescuers discovered whole towns all but wiped off the map, pushing the death toll well above 20,000. Military and police teams punched into the heart of the disaster zone, with 100 troops parachuting into a county that was previously cut off while planes and helicopters.. More

  • Dozens killed in India bomb blasts

    At least 80 people have died in a series of bomb blasts which ripped through the crowded streets of India's western city of Jaipur. Police say seven bombs, many strapped to bicycles, exploded within minutes of each other inside Jaipur's old walled city on Tuesday evening. The blasts targeted busy markets and Hindu temples, leaving hundreds injured.. More

  • Bush heads back to Mideast amid fading peace hopes

    President George W. Bush heads back to the Middle East on Tuesday facing broad skepticism over his chances of securing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before he leaves office in less than nine months. His second trip to the region this year will get under way in Israel where celebrations of its 60th anniversary have been marred by a bribery scandal.. More

  • Lebanon army ready to use force to halt fighting

    Lebanese troops were ready to use force on Tuesday to disarm gunmen and enforce law and order after six days of deadly sectarian gunbattles that have plunged the nation into fear and chaos. US President George W. Bush, on the eve of a trip to the Middle East, warned Iran and Syria that the international community would not allow Lebanon to fall.. More

  • Aftershocks rock China quake zone

    Powerful aftershocks have shaken China's southwestern province of Sichuan a day after a deadly earthquake killed at least 12,000 people, many of them children buried in the rubble of collapsed schools. Thousands more are reported to be missing after the magnitude 7.9 quake hit on Monday afternoon and officials have warnedthe death toll is likely.. More

  • Violence erupts in Sadr City

    At least 11 people have been killed and 20 others wounded after US troops and Shia fighters clashed in Baghdad's Sadr City, hospital officials have said, despite a truce being agreed at the weekend. The US military on Tuesday confirmed clashes had taken place but said only three fighters had been killed. The fighting erupted late on Monday, just hours.. More

  • Scores die as Bangladesh boat sinks

    At least 42 people have died and scores more are missing after a ferry carrying nearly 150 passengers capsized in Bangladesh, a police official has said. Mohammad Jahangir Alam, the officer in charge of Nikli police station in Kishoreganj district, said the ferry was caught in a storm on Monday and capsized in the Ghorautura river, nearly 180km from.. More

  • Pakistan ministers set to resign

    Ministers belonging to one of the main parties in Pakistan are set to hand in their resignations, just three months after landmark general elections. Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif says his PML-N is quitting the government because of differences over the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Musharraf. Sharif wants the judges, who became a focus of opposition.. More

  • Death toll in China earthquake rises to 7,600

    A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 7,600 people and trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school, state media reported. The official Xinhua News Agency said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the 7.8-magnitude quake, raising fears the overall death.. More