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  • Turkey PM in Syria on peace mission

    Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, is in Damascus to discuss the possible resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria. Before his departure from Ankara on Saturday, Erdogan said that improving ties with regional countries had allowed Turkey to step up efforts to facilitate peace in the Middle East. "The atmosphere of trust.. More

  • Dozens die in Morocco factory fire

    At least 55 people have been killed in a fire at a mattress factory in the Moroccan coastal city of Casablanca, police say. Twelve others, including a police officer, were seriously injured in the blaze which broke out on Saturday morning on the ground floor of the building where about 150 people are employed. More than 100 firefighters were.. More

  • Iraqi oil pipeline blown up again

    An oil pipeline south of Baghdad has been blown up, wounding at least eight security guards, Iraqi police say. The blast, near the town of Iskandiriya, caused a large fire and disrupted the flow of crude oil to refineries in the south of Iraq. The pipeline carries fuel south from Baghdad's Doura oil refinery. It was the second time in the.. More

  • US vessel fires at boats in Gulf

    A ship contracted by the US Navy has fired warning shots in the direction of two unidentified speedboats in the Gulf, US military officials say. The incident took place in international waters dozens of miles from the Iranian coast, the US said. In January, the US said speedboats from Iran had harassed US Navy ships in the Gulf - Iran denied.. More

  • Bomb explodes on Sri Lankan bus

    At least 23 people have been killed in a bomb blast near Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, police say. Thirty more people are said to have been wounded in the explosion which ripped through a crowded bus on Friday. Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, a spokesman for the military, said: "There is an explosion in [the suburb of] Piliyandala. The explosion.. More

  • Deadly bomb blast in Pakistan

    At least five people have been killed and up to 30 wounded after a car bombing outside a police station in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), police say. The blast in the town of Mardan on Friday came the day after the leader of a group of anti-government fighters in the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan announced a ceasefire. I.. More

  • Israel rejects Hamas truce offer

    Israel has dismissed a conditional six-month truce proposed by Hamas, saying that it was a ruse to allow the Palestinian group to recover from losses after recent clashes with the Israeli military. Hamas offered to halt cross-border rocket attacks if Israel opened crossing points into the Gaza strip and ended military incursions. "Hamas is biding.. More

  • Syria denies N Korea nuclear link

    Syria has denied US claims that North Korea is helping it to build a nuclear reactor, as US legislators met in Washington for a briefing on the issue by intelligence chiefs. Co-operation between the two countries was mainly economic and had "nothing" to do with building such a facility, Sami al-Khiyami, Syria's envoy to the UK, told Reuters. The.. More

  • Pakistan Taliban in truce call

    A pro-Taliban Pakistani commander has ordered his followers to halt attacks, after Pakistan's new government initiated peace talks. Betullah Mehsud, who is accused of masterminding last year's assassination of Benzair Bhutto, the former prime minister, ordered the ceasefire in a leaflet, a government official said on Thursday. "For the sake of.. More

  • UN walkout over Gaza 'Nazi' remarks

    The US, Britain, France and other members have walked out of a closed meeting of the UN Security Council after Libya compared the situation in Gaza to Nazi concentration camps in World War II. Diplomats said France's UN ambassador walked out, followed by his Western colleagues, after the Libyan envoy made the remarks during a debate on Gaza. Council.. More

  • Ethiopian troops 'took children'

    Amnesty International has accused Ethiopian troops of capturing 40 Somali children during a raid on a mosque last week, and called for their release. The rights group condemned the killing of more than 20 people, including some religious scholars, during the raid. It quoted witnesses as saying that many of the dead were unarmed civilians, and that.. More

  • Israel 'ready to return Golan'

    Syrian media reports say Turkey's prime minister has told President Bashar Assad that Israel would withdraw from the Golan Heights in return for peace. The al-Watan newspaper quoted "informed sources" as saying Recep Tayyip Erdogan had telephoned Assad on Tuesday morning to inform him of the offer. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.. More

  • Scores killed in Sri Lanka fighting

    At least 67 people have been killed amid heavy fighting between government soldiers and Tamil Tiger separatists in the north of Sri Lanka. Wednesday's fighting in Jaffna peninsula is the deadliest clash between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) since Colombo pulled out of a six-year ceasefire pact in January. Br.. More

  • Sudan: UN exaggerating Darfur toll

    Sudan has accused the United Nations of exaggerating the death toll from five years of conflict in the country's western Darfur region. Mohamed Ali al-Mardi, Sudan's former justice minister, told Al Jazeera that the UN is manipulating figures in order to raise money for its own operations. The reaction by the former minister comes after.. More

  • Suicide bombings, attacks in Afghanistan kill 13, wound 24

    A spate of suicide bombings and other attacks on security forces in southern Afghanistan Wednesday left 13 people dead and 24 others wounded, officials said. In Kandahar province, a suicide bomber blew himself up next to a vehicle carrying intelligence agents in the border town of Spin Boldak, killing three civilians, Kandahar Gov. Assadullah Khalid.. More