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  • Kosova Serbs take UN courthouse

    Hundreds of Serbs have stormed a UN courthouse in northern Kosova, taking control of the site and hoisting a Serbian flag to replace the UN's. The Kosovan Serbs broke through two entrance gates and pushed aside UN riot police, who did not intervene, in the Serb-dominated city of Mitrovica. Most of the protesters left the yard of the building in.. More

  • Move to ban Turkey's ruling party

    A state prosecutor has asked Turkey's highest court to shutdown the ruling AK Party for anti-secular activities. Turkish television channels quoted Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, the court of appeals chief prosecutor, as saying he wanted senior party members, including the president and prime minister, banned from politics for five years. Yalcinkaya.. More

  • Deaths reported in Tibet protests

    At least two people have been killed in protests that have erupted in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, local emergency officials say. A Tibetan source said that police fired live ammunition into a crowd after hundreds of people joined protests on Friday led by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule. An official with the city's emergency medical centre told.. More

  • Iranians vote for new parliament

    Iranians are voting in polls expected to consolidate conservative control of parliament after the mass disqualification of reformist candidates by a hardline vetting body. Some 4,500 candidates are running for 290 seats in parliament in Friday's vote, in which an estimated 44 million Iranians of over 18 years of age are eligible to vote. Polls opened.. More

  • Al Qaeda gives 3-day ultimatum on Austria hostages

    Al Qaeda's North African wing threatened on Thursday to kill two Austrian hostages it had abducted in Tunisia if Vienna failed to secure the release of some of the group's members jailed in Tunisia and Algeria. The three-day ultimatum starts at midnight on Thursday, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said in a statement posted on a web site. Austrian.. More

  • Sudan and Chad sign peace deal

    The presidents of Sudan and Chad have agreed in principle to prevent armed groups from operating along their shared border area, including the conflict-ridden Darfur region. In signing the peace deal on Thursday Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, and Idriss Deby, his Chadian counterpart, committed to implement past accords that have previously failed.. More

  • Gold hits $1,000 as dollar slides

    Gold prices have topped $1,000 an ounce for the first time after the dollar plunged to record lows against the yen and euro. Stock markets in Asia, Europe and the United States slid on Thursday as fears of a looming recession continued to spread panic among investors. After reaching the milestone of $1,000.45 dollars, gold stood at $994.05 per ounce.. More

  • Pakistanis 'killed by US fire'

    Four Pakistani civilians, including two children, were killed when US-led forces fired across the border from Afghanistan, according to a spokesman for Pakistan's army. Local officials said that a house belonging to a tribesman in the town of Lwara Mundi in North Waziristan, about 2km from the border, was hit by artillery fire on Tuesday. "They.. More

  • Raid claim clouds Chad-Sudan pact

    Chad has accused Sudan of sending "heavily armed columns" of fighters into its territory even as the two countries consider signing a peace accord. The Chadian government announced over national radio on Thursday that "these mercenaries crossed the border in the area of Moudeina", north of the town of Ade. The claim, if true, would be a repeat of.. More

  • Israel jets hit northern Gaza

    Israeli fighter jets have hit targets in the northern Gaza Strip after a dozen rockets were fired towards southern Israel, the Israeli military says. Thursday's developments effectively ended a tacit truce since March 8 respected by both sides, and came a day after the deaths of several Palestinian fighters at the hands of Israeli forces. The rockets,.. More

  • Kabul suicide blast claims lives

    A suicide attack aimed at foreign soldiers near the airport in Kabul has killed at least six Afghan civilians and wounded 20 more, according to officials. General Salim Ahsas, the Afghan capital's police chief, said Thursday's blast did not kill or injure multinational forces who were traveling on the road to Kabul's international airport. Six Afghan.. More

  • Iraqi police raid Mehdi Army strongholds

    Iraqi police raided strongholds of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army in the southern city of Kut on Wednesday after the militia broke a ceasefire and clashed with security forces a day earlier. The city's police chief said at least 11 people were killed in Tuesday's gun battles in which U.S. special forces called in air strikes after Iraqi.. More

  • UK-ordered air strike kills four Afghan civilians

    Four civilians died in an air strike in Afghanistan, Britain's defense ministry said on Wednesday, and a military expert said the tide of the war against “insurgents” was running against the United States and its allies. Tuesday's strike was called in after Taliban fighters ambushed British troops operating in the southern province of Helmand,.. More

  • Hamas sets terms for Israeli truce

    Hamas has publicly laid out its conditions for a ceasefire with Israel, calling for a break in fighting that has left dozens dead in recent weeks. Ismail Haniya, the Hamas leader, on Wednesday demanded an end to Israeli raids in Palestinian territory and the re-opening of Gaza's border crossings, which have been sealed since June. The terms mirrored.. More

  • Several killed in Emirates pile-up

    In one of the worst road accidents ever seen in the Middle East, up to 200 vehicles crashed into each other on a busy highway between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Reckless driving and thick fog have been blamed for the pile-up during the morning rush-hour, and an investigation is now underway. At least eight people were said to have been killed in Tuesday's.. More