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  • Abbas wins Egypt backing on border

    Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has won support from Egypt and the EU for a plan that would see the Palestinian Authority, rather than Hamas, take control of the Rafah crossing. The move comes as Egyptian and Hamas security forces repaired breaches to the border, in a sign the crossing between and Gaza will close after six days. Several.. More

  • Army moves to quell Kenya violence

    Kenyan troops have moved into the town of Naivasha in the western Rift Valley province in an attempt to quell tribal fighting. But hundreds of people from rival tribes, wielding machetes, clubs and rocks, confronted each other on Monday on a main Naivasha road. Katee Mwanza, the district commissioner, said at least 22 people were killed in the Naivasha.. More

  • Scores die in Sri Lanka fighting

    Fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger rebels has killed at least 55 in the north of the country over the weekend, the army says. The dead included at least 13 rebels and two soldiers, the military said. The fighting took place in some northern districts. This month the government formally pulled out of a truce, which rising violence.. More

  • Iraq troops prepare for Mosul push

    Iraqi troop reinforcements are being sent to the northern city of Mosul for an operation against al-Qaeda fighters, security officials have said. Major-General Riyadh Jalal Tawfiq, commander of military operations in Ninawa province, said on Sunday that the extra Iraqi troops would arrive from Baghdad within hours, without giving figures. The reinforcements.. More

  • Talks focus on Gaza border control

    The rare freedom that tens of thousands of Palestinians have enjoyed for nearly a week may soon be curbed again. Egyptian forces, the Palestinian president and the Israeli government are all maneuvering for control of the Rafah border. It's now five days since the fence running between Gaza and Egypt was brought down by explosives, allowing Palestinian.. More

  • Renewed Kenya clashes claim lives

    Scores of people have been killed in Kenya's western Rift Valley province as the unrest over the disputed re-election of Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent president, continues. The latest flashpoint is in the town of Naivasha, 90km northwest of the capital Nairobi, where at least 14 people were burnt to death in their homes, officials said on Sunday. "We.. More

  • Deaths reported at Beirut protest

    At least three people have been killed and five others injured after armed men opened fire on Lebanese soldiers trying to break up a demonstration in the capital Beirut, according to witnesses and a security official. The incident occurred on Sunday during a protest over power cuts in Beirut's southern suburbs. One of those killed was Ali Hassan.. More

  • Indonesia's Suharto dies

    Suharto, Indonesia's former president, who ruled for more than 30 years, has died. He died from multiple organ failure on Sunday. Suharto, 86, was taken to hospital on January 4 suffering from various heart, lung and kidney problems. The former president suffered his first multiple organ failure a week after he was admitted, but had improved in.. More

  • Palestinians agree to border talks

    Both Hamas and Fatah have accepted invitations to hold separate talks with the Egyptian government to discuss the Gaza border, which has been breached to allow blockaded Palestinians into Egypt. Egypt is under pressure to seal the border, but is reluctant to be seen as shoring up a seven-month-old blockade imposed on Gaza to cripple Hamas. Ahmed Abul.. More

  • Deaths in Mogadishu bomb blast

    Three people, including a policeman, have been killed in a bomb blast near the palace of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Somalia's president, witnesses have said. The explosion killed the officer and two passers-by when it struck a police vehicle on Saturday in the Elgab neighborhood of the capital Mogadishu, Farah Hasan Sahal, a witness, said. "My nephew.. More

  • Hamas prevents Egypt sealing border

    Hamas fighters have defied Egyptian attempts to reseal the border with Gaza by using a bulldozer to smash through the chain and concrete fence. Riot police on Friday watched as hundreds of Palestinians entered Egypt via the Rafah crossing for the third consecutive day in search of supplies, denied them by an Israeli blockade of Gaza. Despite their.. More

  • Lebanon mourns after Beirut blast

    Lebanon is observing a day of mourning a day after a police captain and at least three other people were killed in a bomb blast in eastern Beirut. Security forces were to hold a memorial for Captain Wissam Eid, the target of the attack, and his body guard at a police station just outside of Beirut on Saturday. The men's bodies were to be taken to.. More

  • Iraq prepares for Mosul battle

    The Iraqi prime minister has announced that his government is preparing to strike back against al-Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul after two explosion killed almost 40 people. "Today, our troops started moving toward Mosul … and the fight there will be decisive," Nuri al-Maliki said in Karbala on Friday. The US military says that Mosul is the.. More

  • Gazans continue to pour into Egypt

    Thousands of Palestinians are continuing to pour into Egypt from the Gaza Strip a day after explosions created holes through the walls of the Rafah crossing. The influx of people streaming into Egypt comes on the seventh day of an Israeli fuel blockade of Gaza. Al Jazeera's Amr El-Kahky, reporting from the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, said.. More

  • Bomber kills Mosul police chief

    A suicide bomber dressed in police uniform has killed the police chief of Mosul while he was touring the scene of a blast that has so far claimed at least 36 lives. Brigadier-General Salih Mohammed Hasan was killed on Thursday as rescue teams searched through the rubble of a residential building destroyed in a blast a day earlier. Hasan's death in.. More