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  • Fresh clashes in north Lebanon

    Fierce fighting has broken out in the northern city of Tripoli between supporters of Lebanon's government and the political opposition, witnesses and security officials have said. One person was killed and four woundedin Monday's clashes in the Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen neighbourhoods of the city, a security official said. Leban.. More

  • Commonwealth re-admits Pakistan after six-month suspension

    The Commonwealth re-admitted Pakistan as a full member on Monday after a six-month suspension triggered by a clampdown by President Pervez Musharraf, the grouping's secretary general said. The suspension was lifted after a meeting of key ministers of the 53-nation Commonwealth in London. The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG).. More

  • Strong quake hits southwest China

    The magnitude 7.5 quake struck 92 km northwest of the Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, at 1448 local time (0628 GMT) on Monday. The quake was powerful enough to sway buildings as far away as Beijing, Shanghai and the Thai capital, Bangkok. Al Jazeera's China correspondent Melissa Chan said residents in Chengdu reported that the quake lasted.. More

  • Darfur rebel leader vows more attacks on Khartoum

    Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Monday he would launch more attacks on Sudan's capital Khartoum until the government fell. "This is just the start of a process and the end is the termination of this regime," Ibrahim, whose Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) attacked Khartoum at the weekend, told Reuters. "Don't expect just one more attack... More

  • Pro-West bloc claims Serbia win

    Boris Tadic, Serbia's president, has declared victory in elections over ultra-nationalists who had hoped to capitalize on public disaffection over Kosova's independence declaration. The proclamation came after an independent monitoring group said Tadic's bloc had won 39 per cent - about 10 per cent more than the Serbian Radical Party. The state poll.. More

  • At least 18 said dead in Missouri, Oklahoma tornadoes

    At least 18 people were killed on Saturday in Missouri and Oklahoma after tornadoes swept through the area, authorities in the two states said. There were at least 12 storm-related deaths in Missouri, 10 of those in Newton County on the border with Oklahoma, according to Susie Stonner of the Missouri Emergency Management Agency. "There's a lot of.. More

  • Fighting rocks north Lebanon city

    At least one person has been killedinclashesbetween supporters of Lebanon's government and the Hezbollah-led opposition in the northern city of Tripoli. The fighting, which began late on Saturday and continued throughout the night, came hours after Lebanese opposition forces started to withdraw from the streets of Beirut, Lebanon's capital. An.. More

  • Cyclone death toll more than 28,000

    Myanmar's state television says the death toll in last week's cyclone has jumped by about 5,000 to 28,458. It said Sunday that the number of missing now stands at 33,416. International aid groups, however, say the death toll could eventually top 100,000 as conditions worsen. Though international aid has started to trickle.. More

  • Calm returns to Beirut's streets

    Lebanon's opposition has begun withdrawing its fighters from the streets of Beirut, handing control to the army, after seizing much of the city in battles with government supporters. Hezbollah, which heads the opposition, vowed to end its takeover of west Beirut on Saturday, after the army overturned government measures against them. "The opposition.. More

  • Sudan 'repulses' rebel attack

    Sudan's government says it has halted an attack on the country's capital by hundreds of rebels from Darfur. The claim came after a curfew was clamped on Khartoum following clashes between government forces and fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) in an area north of the city. It was the first time that fighting raging in western.. More

  • Gaza power plant shuts down

    A power plant in Gaza City has shut down, affecting 500,000 local inhabitants and forcing local hospitals to run on reserve fuel. Large parts of the Gaza Strip, particularly Gaza City, were in darkness after the main power station shut down its generators on Saturday. The Hamas government's energy department said that about 55 per cent of Gaza City.. More

  • Tsvangirai to fight Mugabe in Zimbabwe election runoff

    Zimbabwe's opposition leader said Saturday he would contest a presidential runoff poll in his violence-wracked country, but he called for peacekeepers and observers to ensure a fair vote. Morgan Tsvangirai, who beat veteran President Robert Mugabe in a first round of voting in March by 47.9 to 43.2 percent, also demanded an end to violence to enable.. More

  • Iraq agrees truce with Sadr bloc

    Iraq's government on Saturday agreed a truce with the movement of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to halt weeks of fighting in eastern Baghdad between Shi'ite militia and security forces, officials said. The truce could end violence that has killed several hundred people, trapped the 2 million residents of Sadr City in a battle zone and prompted aid.. More

  • Lebanon PM calls for action by army

    FouadSiniora, the Lebanese prime minister,has called on the army to impose security throughout thecountryin his first public response tothe opposition'stakeover of west Beirut. He accused Hezbollah, the Shia opposition group, of carrying out an "armed coup" against Lebanon and called on the military to remove armed men from the streets and.. More

  • US welcomes N Korea nuclear move

    The US has described the handing over of documents by North Korea detailing the country's nuclear programme as an "important first step". A US envoy crossed into South Korea on Saturday with documents about North Korea's nuclear activities, as part of efforts to disarm the state. The State Department said the 18,000 pages covered some three.. More