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  • Israel kills 17 in Gaza after troops die in clash

    Israeli forces killed 17 Palestinians, most of them civilians including a Reuters cameraman, in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medical officials and witnesses said. The attacks came after three Israeli troops died in a Hamas ambush near a border fuel pipeline. But despite the bloodiest day's toll in more than a month, Israel allowed.. More

  • Afghan refugees stranded at border

    Hundreds of Afghans returning home after the closure of a refugee camp in northwest Pakistan have been left stranded because of a roadblock, the United Nations refugee agency has said. About 70,000 Afghans are being forced to either return to Afghanistan or relocate elsewhere in Pakistan after the closure of the Jalozai refugee camp. Kamal.. More

  • Turkish warplanes hit Iraq targets

    Turkish warplanes have attacked a group of Kurdish rebel fighters in northern Iraq, the military has said. The fighters were reportedly trying to cross the border into Turkey on Wednesday. A Turkish military statement said the group was "rendered ineffective" in the raid, which took place in the Avasin-Basyan area, near the Turkish border town of.. More

  • Many dead in India bus accident

    At least 39 people have been killed after a bus plunged into a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat, a local official has said. Most of the dead are children who were travelling to a school in Baroda when the bus fell into the Narmada river. Four children have been rescued, the local official said. The Narmada, one of India's largest.. More

  • Bush welcomes 'ashamed' pope

    The Roman Catholic pope has begun his six-day visit to the United States by saying he was "deeply ashamed" of sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests in the US. Benedict XVI, who was greeted by George Bush, the US president, on arrival at an air force base just outside Washington DC, also vowed to keep paedophile priests out of the clergy. "We.. More

  • Dozens dead in Iraq bombings

    A spate of bombs have gone off in cities across Iraq killing more than 60 people. In Diyala, 60km north of Baghdad, province a car bomb exploded near a crowd of people outside a courthouse killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, according to Iraqi officials. Women and children were present "when a car bomb exploded outside the main courthouse.. More

  • Egypt jails Brotherhood leaders

    Dozens of senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been jailed for up to 10 years in Egypt for financing a banned organization. Six members who were tried in absentia were imprisoned for 10 years and others received between three and five years on Tuesday. Fifteen of the 40 members of the group on trial were acquitted. Khayrat al Shater, the.. More

  • Scores killed in DR Congo plane crash

    Scores of people were killed when a passenger plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after take-off Tuesday at Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, airport sources said. An official working in the control tower at Kinshasa airport said he had received information from Goma that of about "100 people on board, there were six.. More

  • Unrest simmers in Ethiopia's Ogaden

    Ethnic Somali "separatists" have been fighting government forces in the east of Ethiopia for more than 13 years now, but the long-running conflict has been largely invisible as Addis Ababa has restricted access to the region. There have been numerous clashes between the Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLF) and the military in recent months, with.. More

  • Israel launches Gaza raid

    The Israeli army has entered the south of the Gaza Strip and carried out searches accompanied by exchanges of fire and explosions, the AFP news agency reports quoting Palestinian security officials and witnesses. The incursion comes hours after an Israeli missile strike killed a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (DFLP),.. More

  • 28 killed in spate of violence in Iraq

    Aspate of violence killed 28 people in the past 24 hours in Iraq, among them 12 members of the Kurdish peshmerga forces who died in a bomb blast near the Syrian border, officials said on Monday. The country's north bore the brunt of the violence, with the attack on the peshmerga troops at the town of Rabiyah, three car bombs exploding in separate.. More

  • Arab world sees U.S. in poor light: poll

    Eight out of 10 Arabs have an unfavorable view of the United States and only six percent believe the U.S. troop build-up in Iraq in the last year has worked, said a poll of six Arab countries released on Monday. The poll by the University of Maryland and Zogby International, also found most Arabs did not see U.S. foe Iran as a threat and they sympathized.. More

  • Berlusconi 'wins' Italy election

    Italy's conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi is set to win Italy's general election, according to projections from partial results. The projected results showed Berlusconi's coalition ahead for both the lower house and the Senate. The 71-year-old's main rival, the centre-left leader Walter Veltroni, 52, has conceded victory. The vote was.. More

  • Mauritania mulls ending Israel ties

    Mauritania, one of three Arab League countries with diplomatic relations with Israel, has said it will review its relations with the Jewish state. President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has come under mounting domestic political pressure to sever ties, following a recent gun attack and protests in support of the Palestinian people. Mauritania followed.. More

  • Sudanese sides agree on census

    North and South Sudan have reportedly agreed to carry out a national census. The decision on Monday came after a meeting between Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, and the Salva Kiir, the country's vice-president. The South had pulled out of the census, scheduled for April 15, citing ethnicity and religion. The census is aimed at defining constituenc.. More