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  • Chinese ship sinks with 28 on board

    The Philippine coastguard is searching for 28 Chinese fishermen after their ship sank off the northwest coast of the country. A coastguard ship with a medical team and rescue swimmers was dispatched on Sunday night after receiving a report from Chinese authorities that the Jinshan had sunk with 28 crew members on board. The fishing boat had passed.. More

  • Kosovo declares independence

    A special session of Kosovo's parliament has voted to declare independence from Serbia, with thousands of ethnic Albanians jamming the streets of Pristina, the main city, for the historic moment. After deputies voted on Sunday for a formal proclamation, Hashim Thaci, the prime minister, said "from today onwards, Kosovo is proud, independent and free". He.. More

  • Pakistan tense on eve of key vote

    Security is high in Pakistan as voters gear up for crucial parliamentary elections overshadowed by violence and fears of rigging. Monday's polls are set to end an era of military-led rule, but there are fears they could trigger further unrest. The two major opposition parties say President Pervez Musharraf's allies are planning massive fraud. They.. More

  • Scores killed in Afghan blast

    Reporting from Kabul, Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith said that about 80 people may have died in the blast that went off at a popular picnic spot on Sunday. The leader of a local tribe was said to be among the many victims. Assadullah Khalid, Kandahar's provincial governor, said the blast was triggered by a suicide bomber. "Sixty of the martyrs were.. More

  • Arrests follow Denmark violence

    Forty three people have been arrested after a sixth consecutive night of violence in immigrant neighbourhoods in Danish cities, police officials say. On Saturday police arrested groups of youths in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Ringsted, Slagelse and other cities after they set fire to schools, cars and rubbish bins and threw rocks at frefighters. Michael Hoejer,.. More

  • Palestinian killed in Gaza raid

    Israeli troops backed by aircraft and tanks have clashed with Palestinian fighters in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, killing one man and wounding nine others, medical sources have said. The man, a member of the Hamas movement, was killed when Israeli troops, supported by helicopter fire, moved into the sector. The Israeli military said the operation.. More

  • Kosovo prepares for historic day

    Thousands of Kosovans have massed in anticipation of becoming the world's newest country, hours before a possible declaration of independence by the breakaway province. Car horns blared and fireworks lit up the sky as people waving Albanian flags poured into the capital Pristina on Saturday night, in expectation that the territory's parliament would.. More

  • Deadly blast at Pakistan meeting

    A suicide bomber has killed 37 people after a meeting of supporters of murdered ex-PM Benazir Bhutto's party, Pakistan's interior ministry says. The attack, on the last day of campaigning ahead of general elections on Monday, also wounded 90. It took place in Parachinar, the main town of the tribal region of Kurram in north-west Pakistan. Violence.. More

  • Syria 'to name Mughniyeh killer'

    Syria has said it will soon present "irrefutable" proof of who was behind the killing of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in the capital, Damascus. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem would not discuss the ongoing investigation, but insisted the world would "soon hear the results of this mighty effort". Meanwhile, Iranian TV has broadcast a video.. More

  • Several killed in Gaza blast

    A senior member of Islamic Jihad and at least seven other Palestinians have been killed in a blast in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, according to doctors and witnesses. Ayman al-Fayed, also known as Abu Abdallah, was killed when an Israeli missile struck his home in Bureij Palestinian refugee camp near Gaza City on Friday, Islamic Jihad said. But.. More

  • No date set for Kosovo independence

    Kosovo's ethnic Albanian prime minister has refused to confirm a date for its declaration of independence from Serbia, despite high expectations that it will do so this Sunday. Hashim Thaci was asked at a news conference on Friday what the date would be. But Thaci, who had just finished making a statement about defending the rights of Kosovo's minority.. More

  • Several dead in US campus shooting

    An armed man has opened fire at an American university outside the city of Chicago, killing five people and himself. At least 16 people were injured after the unidentified man started shooting at students from a stage in a lecture hall on Valentine's Day. Officials said four people died at the scene and two in hospital. The man, armed with a shotgun.. More

  • Hezbollah chief threatens Israel

    Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has warned that the militant group is ready for "open war" with Israel, after the killing of one of its leaders in Syria. Nasrallah made the declaration during a fiery speech at the funeral of Imad Mughniyeh in Lebanon's capital, Beirut. There is huge tension in the city, where thousands are attending Mughniyeh's.. More

  • Prophet Cartoon Reprinted in Danish Papers

    At least 17 Danish newspapers reprinted on Wednesday, February 13, a drawing of a man described as Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam with a ticking bomb in his turban, a move slammed by Danish Muslims as 'naive'. "Their plans to kill Kurt Westergaard…are not just an attack on Westergaard but an attack on our democratic culture,".. More

  • Kosovo preps for 'independence Sunday'

    The president of Kosovo has said the breakaway Serbian province is poised to approve laws to underpin its independence declaration, expected this Sunday. The European Union and Russia said they have failed to narrow differences on this. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, after talks with EU counterparts, said Moscow was not planning sanctions.. More