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  • Israel kills 100 Palestinians in Gaza continuing massacres

    Israeli air raids brought the total death toll over four days to at least 100 people, at least a third of which have been children, according to medical sources. Witnesses said Israeli aircraft attacked the office of Ismail Haniya, the ousted Palestinian prime minister, in Gaza City in the early hours of Sunday morning. No casualities.. More

  • Kosova suspends rebel Serb police

    Some 150 Kosova Serb police officers have been suspended for refusing to take orders from the ethnic Albanian authorities in Pristina. All are based in the same area of the south-east and they are asking to be put under the direct command of the local United Nations mission. The Kosova Police Service (KPS) said talks were under way with Serb officers.. More

  • Israeli raids claim more Gaza lives

    Israeli forces have killed three Palestinians, two fighters and a 17-year-old girl, during fresh clashes in the Gaza Strip, medical workers say. The killings on Saturday brought to 37 the number of Palestinians killed in a four-day period. The air raids follow the death of an Israeli civilian in a Palestinian rocket attack on Wednesday. Another.. More

  • Turkey pulls troops out of Iraq

    Turkey has ended its ground offensive against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and is withdrawing its forces from northern Iraq. In a statement on Friday, Ankara said troops were returning home after the Turkish military had "achieved its initial targets". The PKK was shown "that northern Iraq is not a safe haven" for them, it said. Turkey sent.. More

  • Dozens killed at Pakistan funeral

    Up to 30 people have been killed and more than 50 injured after a suicide bomber attacked a funeral in North Western Pakistan. The bomber blew himself up among mourners attending the funeral for one of three policemen killed earlier when their van struck a roadside bomb in the northwestern town of Lakki Marwat, police and medical workers said. Authorities.. More

  • Israel warns of Gaza invasion

    The Israeli defense minister has said that the military would step up its operations against Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza and is "not afraid" of launching a "major ground" invasion. Ehud Barak told Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, and David Miliband, the British foreign minister, in phone conversations that Israel would step up its.. More

  • UN holds final Iran sanctions talks

    Members of the UN Security Council are to continue discussing a draft resolution imposing further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, in the run up to a vote. The 15-member council agreed on Thursday to hold talks on the text for a third round of sanctions against Tehran early Friday. "Our intention is to vote on the resolution as soon.. More

  • US positions warships near Lebanon

    The US has sent three warships, including the USS Cole, to take up positions off the coast of Lebanon in a show of force over the ongoing political deadlock in the country. A senior US official said Washington was "very concerned" about the situation in Lebanon and the move was a "support for regional stability". The US declined to say whether the.. More

  • 'Chemical Ali' execution approved

    Iraq's presidency council has approved the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin and senior official under executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a senior Iraqi official says. Al-Majid was nicknamed "Chemical Ali" for overseeing the gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during the Operation Anfal campaign in 1988. The.. More

  • Kenya signs power-sharing pact

    Mwai Kibaki, the Kenyan president, and Raila Odinga, the opposition leader, have signed a power-sharing agreement after weeks of nationwide violence and political unrest which followed a disputed election. Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general who has been mediating the talks between the government and the opposition, said on Thursday that.. More

  • Dozens killed in Israeli raids

    Israeli aircraft have struck a series of targets throughout the Gaza Strip, killing at least 27 Palestinians, including four youths and the son of a Hamas leader, in the past 24 hours. More than 60 Palestinians have also been injured in the raids that intensified on Thursday following the death of an Israeli due to rocket fire a day earlier. Four.. More

  • 29 Taliban fighters killed in southern Afghanistan

    At least 29 Taliban fighters were killed in southern Afghanistan when they tried to attack a government-backed poppy eradication mission in the area, police said. According to General Mohammad Hussein Andiwal, police chief of Helmand province, the clashes had gone on for six hours on Wednesday in the Marja district, leaving 25 fighters dead. Four.. More

  • Many die in Pakistan missile strike

    At least 10 people have been killed in a missile strike in the south Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, witnesses have said. The missile hit a house killing suspected fighters and civilians. Wednesday's attack took place near the Kaloosha village. Sources in Peshawar said that least 10 people were killed. Some of the dead.. More

  • Al-Zawahiri vows revenge in video

    Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, has vowed revenge for the killing of Abu Laith al-Libi, a top commander of the group in a suspected US attack in Pakistan. "No chief of ours had died of a natural death, nor has our blood been spilled without a response," al-Zawahiri said in a new video posted on the internet. Al-Libi was reportedly.. More

  • Israel continues deadly air raids

    Israeli forces have killed at least 10 Palestinians in Gaza, while a rocket launched from the strip has killed an Israeli man and wounded another in southern Israel. The Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, claimed responsibility for the rocket fire on Wednesday. The group said it had launched more than 20 rockets at Israel, including eight at.. More