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  • Taliban denies kidnapping Pakistan ambassador

    Pakistan's Taliban militants yesterday said they would not attack next week's general election and denied involvement in the disappearance of the country's ambassador to neighbouring Afghanistan. "Our central leadership have decided that as we have nothing to do with the elections, there would be no attacks from our people," spokesman Maulvi Omar said. "Nei.. More

  • Hezbollah mourns senior leader

    Hezbollah has announced the death of one of its senior military commanders in a car bomb in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Tuesday. The Lebanese Shia group in a statement on Wednesday accused Israel of killing Imad Moghaniyah, who had been accused by the US of planning attacks on Western targets during the Lebanese civil war. Hezbollah's al-Manar.. More

  • Iraqi medic detained over blasts

    A psychiatric hospital official has been detained in Baghdad in connection with bombings by two allegedly mentally disabled women, says the US military. The man is suspected of supplying patient information to al-Qaeda in Iraq, spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory Smith told a news conference. Twin bombings of crowded pet markets on 1 February killed.. More

  • Obama hammers Clinton in primary clean sweep

    Barack Obama Tuesday swept a trio of Washington D.C-area nominating contests, carving into White House rival Hillary Clinton's powerbase of white and women voters and sending shockwaves through her faltering campaign. The surging Democrat coasted to emphatic victories in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C, to take his win streak over the last week.. More

  • Australia 'apology' to Aborigines

    The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs caused by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament to all Aborigines for laws and policies that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss". He singled out the "Stolen Generations" of thousands of children.. More

  • Troop deployment begins in Pakistan

    Deployment of army troops for maintaining peace in different parts of the country during the elections began on Tuesday and the government declared over 19,000 polling stations ‘sensitive’ and imposed a complete ban on carrying and display of weapons in the vicinity of the stations.“Army has started mobilising and moving to the areas and the deployment.. More

  • 'Plot' to kill Denmark cartoonist

    A Danish citizen of Moroccan descent and two Tunisians have been arrested in connection with a plot to murder a cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad caused an uproar in 2006. The Danish security service said on Tuesday the arrests were made after lengthy surveillance to prevent a "terror-related killing" that was being planned. The arrests.. More

  • Israel: Iran building nuclear arms

    Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, says he is certain Iran is engaged in a secret operation to build nuclear weapons. "We are of the view that the Iranians are continuing to pursue their plans to create a capacity for non-conventional weapons," he said in Berlin on Tuesday at a news conference with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor. "Nothing.. More

  • Charges over Lebanon riot deaths

    Lebanese prosecutors have charged 19 soldiers, including three officers, over the fatal shooting of opposition protesters during riots last month. Seven protesters were killed on 27 January in a mainly Shia suburb during protests over power cuts. Correspondents say the shootings raised tensions in Lebanon, already in a deep political crisis, to.. More

  • Obama rides hot streak into next round

    Barack Obama on Monday rode a weekend hot streak into the next round of presidential contests, but rival Hillary Clinton shrugged off the setbacks and expressed confidence about her prospects. Obama is favored over Clinton on Tuesday in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, the latest battlegrounds in a tight back-and-forth struggle between.. More

  • Pakistani ambassador goes missing

    Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan has gone missing before he was due to cross into Afghanistan from Pakistan. Sources have told the BBC that the ambassador, Tariq Azizuddin, was kidnapped in the Khyber tribal agency close to the Afghan border. The Pakistani embassy in Kabul says contact was lost with Mr Azizuddin at around 1045 local time (0645.. More

  • Doctors hopeful for Timor leader

    East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was Tuesday in a serious but stable condition after surgery overnight for gunshot wounds from an assassination attempt that plunged the nation into a fresh crisis. The new round of surgery, the second in 24 hours, came amid international outrage at the coordinated attack on the Nobel peace laureate by rebels at.. More

  • Six men face 9/11 charges

    The US government has announced charges against six Guantanamo Bay detainees over the September 11 attacks, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The charges are the first from the court at Guantanamo alleging direct involvement in the 2001 attacks and the first in which the US has sought the death penalty. "These charges allege.. More

  • Taliban commander 'captured'

    Pakistani security forces have captured Mansour Dadullah, a senior Afghan Taliban commander, in the country's southwest, according to officials. Dadullah was seized on Monday near the village of Gawal Ismail Zai in Baluchistan province, close to the Afghan border, along with four other fighters. Ahmed Zeidan, Al Jazeera's Islamabad bureau chief, reported.. More

  • Iran stands firm on nuclear row

    Iran's president has warned that his government will not back down one iota in its nuclear dispute with the West. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was speaking at a rally marking the 29th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. He said Western pressure over the nuclear issue was just "playing with pieces of paper". He said it would be a serious mistake for.. More