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  • Indonesians demand ban on Ahmadiyya sect

    About 2,000 people have gathered in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, to protest against the Ahmadiyya sect. Speakers outside the presidential palace demanded the group be banned. That was what a government panel recommended last week, saying the Ahmadiyya's beliefs went against Islam. But the Ahmadiyya argue that, like other minorities, they are.. More

  • Call for action on food prices

    Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has called for concerted international action on rising food prices as a five-day conference on globalisation gets under way in the west African nation of Ghana. More than 3,000 delegates from 193 nations are due to attend the 12th session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). The.. More

  • Iraqi cleric threatens 'open war'

    Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has threatened to wage "open war" on the Baghdad government if it does not halt operations against his supporters. Moqtada Sadr said he was giving the government a "last warning", and urged it to take "the path of peace". His statement came as Iraqi troops, with US and UK support, clashed with his forces in.. More

  • Missing Pakistani diplomat in video

    A video has emerged apparently showing Tariq Azizuddin, the Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan who went missing in February. In the video, Azizuddin is heard saying: "We were on our way to Afghanistan in our official car on February 11th when we were kidnapped in the region of Khyber ... by the mujahidin of the Taliban." Azizuddin went missing.. More

  • Restaurant hit in Somalia fighting

    Ethiopian soldiers in the Somali capital have fought members of the Islamic Courts Union leaving at least 16 people dead, witnesses say. Residents in Mogadishu on Saturday told Al Jazeera that four Ethiopian soldiers and four civilians caught in crossfire were among the dead. Ten other people are thought to have been wounded and children are.. More

  • Israeli soldiers wounded in attack

    The Israeli military has accused Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip of launching an attack on a border crossing with Israel in which several of its soldiers have been injured. Witnesses and the Israeli military said five soldiers were wounded by a Palestinian suicide car bomber in Saturday's attack. The fighters were attempting to infiltrate.. More

  • Pakistan test fires long-range missile

    Pakistan successfully test fired a long-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead on Saturday, the military said. The Shaheen-2 missile was launched from an undisclosed location and has a range of 1,245 miles. The military said the missile has the capability to carry conventional and non-conventional warheads. Saturday's.. More

  • Zawahri: 'Iraq war a failure'

    Ayman Zawahri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader, has in a new audiotape said that the US occupation of Iraq has brought only "failure and defeat". The authenticity of the recording posted on a website late on Thursday could not be independently verified, but it appears to be the second recording in April by Zawahri. Zawahri, considered to be.. More

  • Yemeni MP shot dead

    A member of parliament from Yemen's ruling General People's Congress party has been killed in the country's northwest region of Saada, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Yemen says. Witnesses said Saleh al-Hindi was shot dead on Friday, along with two bodyguards, when armed men sprayed his car with bullets before escaping. Reuters news agency reported.. More

  • Carter defends right to meet Hamas

    Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has defended his right to meet Hamas leaders during his trip to the Middle East. Carter arrived in Syria on Friday and held talks with Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, before preparing to defy US and Israeli opposition by meeting with Khaled Meshaal, the Damascus-based Hamas leader. Details on the.. More

  • Iran shows off its military might

    Iran has been displaying its military power at a ceremony to mark the country's annual army day. Speaking at the parade, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was the most powerful nation in the world. The country's strength was such that no major power would dare to challenge its security, he said. Official media claimed the ceremony.. More

  • Bomb kills many at Afghan mosque

    A suicide bomb attack has killed at least 20 people and injured about 30 in the south-west Afghan city of Zaranj, according to officials. A district police chief and a border reserve police commander were among the dead, said Ghulam Dastgir Azad, governor of Nimroz province. The device went off outside a mosque in a popular market.. More

  • Suicide bomber slaughters 45 Iraqi mourners

    A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, a police officer told AFP. The man detonated an explosives vest in the crowd in the Sunni Arab village of Bu Mohammed, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of the oil city of Kirkuk at around 11:00 am (0800 GMT), Captain Abdullah Jassim said. Doctor.. More

  • Bangladeshis seek war crimes trial

    There are growing calls in Bangladesh for a war crimes tribunal to look into atrocities that occurred during the country's 1971 war of independence. Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan, accuses Islamabad of unleashing a brutal crackdown during its independence struggle that left up to three million people dead in a span of nine months. Last.. More

  • S.Korea culls 3 mln birds as bird flu spreads fast

    South Korea said on Thursday it had culled three million farmed birds and was probing seven fresh cases of suspected bird flu, as the country grapples with its worst avian influenza outbreak in four years. In just two weeks, South Korea has confirmed 12 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain, raising alarm as the highly virulent virus is spreading at its.. More