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  • Brotherhood holds protests in Egypt

    Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members have demonstrated across northern Egypt, accusing the government of preventing them from participating in upcoming local elections. Nine Brotherhood members were arrested on Tuesday, four in the town of Tanta, were supporters clashed with police, and five more in Qalyubiya province. The arrests have drawn.. More

  • N Korea told to stop verbal attacks

    South Korea's defence ministry has told North Korea to stop its verbal attacks on the South's president. The North has criticised Lee Myung-bak, calling him a sycophant of the US for his tougher policies on the North, which includes linking aid to nuclear disarmament. It was Seoul's first official reaction to a series of recent hostile moves and.. More

  • Iraqi death toll climbs sharply

    The monthly figure of people killed in Iraq rose by 50% in March compared with the previous month, according to official government counts. A total of 1,082 Iraqis, including 925 non-combatant civilians, were killed, up from 721 in February. The figures come from the combined counts of the health, defence and interior ministries. March also.. More

  • Al-Qaeda suspects held in Turkey

    Forty-five people have been detained by Turkish police on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda and planning attacks. Local media reported that the suspects were rounded up in simultaneous operations in eight districts of Istanbul on Tuesday and were being questioned by police. A court is to decide whether they should be charged, jailed and.. More

  • Yemen sends tanks to crush riots

    Yemeni authorities have ordered tanks and troops onto the streets in the south of the country to prevent further rioting by disaffected youths, retired military officers and their supporters, witnesses said. Dozens of people were arrested on Tuesday, the fourth day of protests against the alleged refusal to admit them into the army. Relatives.. More

  • UK to delay troop withdrawal from Iraq

    Britain has postponed a plan to withdraw around 1,500 troops from Iraq after a surge in violence swept the southern city of Basra and other Shiite areas, Britain's defense secretary said Tuesday. Defense Secretary Des Browne said military commanders are putting on hold a plan to reduce British troop numbers from 4,000 to 2,500, as outlined.. More

  • Palestinians killed in Israeli raid

    Israeli forces have killed two Hamas fighters in exchanges of fire during a brief army incursion into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said. Theshooting started after several Israeli armoured vehicles and tanks crossed several hundreds of metres east of the town of Bir el-Balah in central Gaza on Tuesday, the sources said. Two members of.. More

  • Ukrainians protest over Bush visit

    Thousands of protesters gathered in Ukraine's capital to denounce Washington and Nato ahead of a visit by George Bush, the US president. Bush arrived Kiev on Monday for a two-day visit before this week's Nato summit in Romania, where Ukraine hopes to win approval for the first step in their country's bid to join the military alliance. Around.. More

  • Basra returning to normal after Sadr truce

    Residents buried their dead after calm returned to the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, but fighting broke out in Baghdad despite a truce called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end a week of bloodshed. Sadr called his Mehdi Army fighters off the streets on Sunday, nearly a week after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki launched a crackdown.. More

  • Fighters capture Somali town

    Fighters of the Islamic Front in Somalia (IFS) have taken control of a town in the Hiran region in central Somalia. Abu Bakr Khalifa, spokesman for the armed group, told Al Jazeera it had captured Buulo Burte after clashes with Ethiopian-backed transitional government forces. Witnesses said 11 people were killed in the fighting on Monday. .. More

  • Turkey orders trial of ruling party

    Turkey's highest court has agreed to hear a case calling for a ban on the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP). The 11-member Constitutional Court said on Monday it had decided to hear the full case for shutting down the AKP on grounds that it is trying to scrap secular principles enshrined in the country's constitution. Osman Paksut,.. More

  • Baghdad Green Zone hit by mortars

    A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down. The Green Zone has come under intense mortar and rocket attack over the past week as Mehdi Army fighters loyal to Sadr have battled Iraqi and.. More

  • Zimbabwe opposition claims victory

    Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has claimed an irreversible lead in the country's presidential election although official results have yet to be announced. Official results are expected to be announced early on Monday but the delay is already fuelling tensions as well as accusations from the opposition. The first results.. More

  • Hamas chief invites Abbas for talks, says Israeli soldier alive

    Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal invited Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to Gaza for unconditional talks on the two factions' divisions, in a television interview Monday. He also told British broadcaster Sky News that Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Palestinian militants in June 2006, is still alive and being treated well. "We invite.. More

  • Sadr orders fighters to stand down

    Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shia leader, has ordered his fighters to withdraw from the streets of several provinces, six days after Iraqi forces mounted a crackdown against Shia armed groups. "We want the Iraqi people to stop this bloodshed and maintain Iraq's independence and stability," al-Sadr said in a statement released on Sunday. "For that.. More