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  • Bin Laden attacks EU over cartoons

    Osama bin Laden has threatened the European Union with grave punishment over "insulting drawings" of the noble Prophet Muhammad as the Muslim world marked the Prophet's birthday. He says in an audio internet posting that the "wise men" of the European Union had gone "overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and.. More

  • Arrests made at US war protests

    At least 32 people have been arrested during protests in Washington DC marking the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, police said. About 100 Protesters in the US capital blocked the entrance to the Internal Revenue Service, the US tax collection agency, as campaigners attempted to focus attentions on funding for the war. The activists were.. More

  • Deaths in US raid on Afghan home

    At least six people have been killed after US forces raided an Afghan home near the border with Pakistan, officials say. Khyber Pashtun, a spokesman for the governor of Khost province, said one woman and two children were among the dead. The raid began early on Wednesday in the village of Hom, and lasted for about an hour. According to Mirza Gul,.. More

  • Serbia neighbors recognize Kosova

    Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary have recognized Kosova's declaration of independence, the latest blow to neighboring Serbia's attempts to resist the province's breakaway. Serbia warned the three nations that their relations with Belgrade would suffer following their joint statement on Wednesday. "The decision on the recognition of Kosova is based on.. More

  • Western Sahara talks end in failure

    Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have ended a fourth round of talks on Western Sahara with no substantial progress achieved, trading blame for the deadlock. The two sides, however, have agreed to consider easing restrictions against people travelling by road to visit their families in the disputed territory. Currently, families must.. More

  • US marine charged in Falluja deaths

    A third US marine has been charged with murdering a prisoner during fierce fighting in the Iraqi town of Falluja four years ago. Sergeant Ryan Weemer, 25, was charged with murder and dereliction of duty over the November 9, 2004 incident. The case centres on allegations that a marine squad shot a group of unarmed captives. Newspaper reports have.. More

  • China: Tibet protesters 'surrender'

    China's government says 105 protesters involved in last week's riots against Chinese rule in Tibet have surrendered, following a pledge of leniency towards those who turned themselves in. Those who surrendered had been "directly involved in the beating, smashing, looting and arson last Friday", according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency. Foreign.. More

  • Shooting rocks main Afghan prison

    Afghan security forces have sealed off the country's main high-security prison after days of unrest there. Gunfire has been heard from the Pul-e-Charkhi prison, a huge complex built in the 1970s on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul. Inmates are in control of parts of the prison and say they have taken two Afghan soldiers hostage. Pul-e-Charkhi.. More

  • Al-Hajj's Guantanamo cartoons banned

    The US army has banned the publication of four cartoons drawn by Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera camera held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to his lawyer. The pieces, called Sketches of My Nightmare, include a drawing depicting al-Hajj, who has been on hunger strike for eight months, as a skeleton being force fed by US guards. The.. More

  • Many injured in Yemen blasts

    At least one Yemeni guard has been killed and several other people injured, including about 15 schoolchildren, in two separate attacks in Yemen, according to officials. The guard died in an explosion at a girls' school near the US embassy in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday. Four other police officers were reportedly wounded in that blast. Five.. More

  • NATO holds line in tense north Kosova after riots

    NATO troops secured a hostile strip of north Kosova on Tuesday after Serb riots in Mitrovica killed one Ukrainian U.N. police officer and forced the pullout of U.N. personnel from the Serb stronghold. The violence was the worst since Kosova's ethnic Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia on Feb 17, and highlighted the risk of the new state's.. More

  • Tibet isolated after Chinese lockdown

    Tibet remained largely cut off from the outside world Tuesday after a crackdown by China, which said violence there was backed by the Dalai Lama and aimed at undermining the Olympic Games in Beijing. With the remote region under virtual lockdown by Chinese security forces, it was not known what had happened after an overnight deadline for protesters.. More

  • Olmert vows to continue building settlements

    Ehud Olmert has said that Israel will not stop building on occupied land in and around Jerusalem sparking protests from Palestinians during renewed negotiations. The Israeli prime minister said his government would continue to build hundreds of new apartments in Har Homa in east Jerusalem. "There will be places where there will be construction, or.. More

  • Suicide attack kills 36 near Iraq Shiite shrine

    A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives-laden vest near a Shiite shrine killing at least 36 people on Monday in the central Iraqi city of Karbala, police and health officials told AFP. The attack came as US Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad on a surprise trip and met several US and Iraqi leaders to discuss the recent improvement.. More

  • Cheney pays surprise visit to Iraq

    The US vice-president has arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit at the beginning of a nine-day trip to the Middle East. Dick Cheney's unheralded visit marks the first stop on a tour of the Middle East and beyond, with scheduled landings in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and Turkey. High oil prices, Israeli-Palestinian talks, Iran.. More