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  • Misery mounts amid Gaza closure

    Gaza's one-and-a-half million residents have been struggling to cope without electricity and other basic necessities on the fourth day of an Israeli blockade. As hospital began to run short of fuel for generators and sewage spilled out onto the streets, Israel's prime minister said he would "not allow a humanitarian crisis in Gaza". On Monday evening,.. More

  • Iran sanctions accord 'imminent'

    A draft UN Security Council resolution seeking fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program is imminent, a French diplomat has said. Foreign ministers of the five permanent Security Council members - the US, UK, France, China and Russia - plus Germany, meet in Berlin on Tuesday. They are expected to agree the draft, which will be sent to.. More

  • Worldwide anger over Gaza plight

    The Arab League and European Union have led worldwide calls for Israel to end its four-day blockade of the Gaza Strip that has caused untold suffering to more than a million people. After an emergency meeting in Cairo on Monday, delegates from the 22 Arab states called on the UN "to carry out an international inquiry into Israeli crimes". In a statement,.. More

  • Explosion kills NATO soldier in Afghanistan

    An explosion killed a soldier from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in southern Afghanistan and wounded five others, the force said on Monday. More than 760 foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban in 2001. Last year was the most violent yet as the Islamist.. More

  • Kosovo is key as hardliner wins first leg of Serb poll

    An extreme nationalist won the first leg of Serbia's presidential election last night, raising the prospect of international isolation and increasing the chances of more Balkan conflict over the looming declaration of independence by Kosovo. With the Albanian leadership of the breakaway southern province due to declare independence within weeks,.. More

  • Israel keeps up raids amid blackout

    Gaza City has been plunged into darkness after its only power plant was shut down on the third day of a crippling Israeli fuel blockade of the Palestinian territory. But the blackout did not stop Israel from continuing its military offensive, launching air raids in northern Gaza that killed at least two Palestinians late on Sunday. Arabs urged.. More

  • Blackout in besieged Gaza City

    Lights have gone out in Gaza City after the territory's only power plant was closed down due to a fuel shortage. Darkness descended on Gaza late on Sunday as the second of the plant's two working turbines was switched off on the third day of a crippling Israeli blockade of the territory. The shutdown has prompted fears of a humanitarian crisis in.. More

  • Lebanon vote delayed again

    A parliament session scheduled for Monday to elect Lebanon's president has been postponed to February 11, despite Arab mediation to break the deadlock. The latest delay brings to 13 the number of sessions that have had to be postponed since September 25 to pick a successor to Emile Lahoud, the president who stepped down in November. "Monday's session.. More

  • At least three killed in fresh Kenya clashes

    Clashes between rival tribes in the Kenyan capital killed at least three people on Sunday in a fresh flare-up of ethnically-motivated violence after President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election this month, witnesses said. All of the bodies bore scars of machete attacks. "I saw three people dead, killed by pangas (machetes), slashed on the head, cuts.. More

  • Hamas says it has foiled Fatah plot to kill leader

    A senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip on Saturday accused rival Fatah of plotting to assassinate Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as he prayed and said the would-be suicide bomber had been arrested and had confessed. Tension between Islamist Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction has increased since Hamas took control.. More

  • Hezbollah leader taunts Israel

    Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, has taunted Israel saying his group possessed the remains of its soldiers left on the battlefield in Lebanon after the 2006 war. Nasrallah made his comments on Saturday in his first public appearance in over a year, taking part in the annual Shia religious ceremony of Ashura in Beirut. In a speech transmitted.. More

  • UN urges Israel to end Gaza closure

    The UN has said Israel should not collectively punish the Gaza population while responding to security threats. The organization has also criticized Israel's decision to close all border crossings with Gaza, preventing delivery of aid shipments to the 1.5 million people living in the territory. At the same time, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general,.. More

  • Many dead in southern Iraq clashes

    The Iraqi government says it has seized full control of Basra and Nasiriya after bloody clashes between the police and armed men from a messianic cult, that left nearly 50 people dead and another 100 wounded. Iraqi authorities said at least 36 people were reported killed in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, and up to 10 in Nasiriya, where witnesses.. More

  • Hezbollah chief appears in public

    Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah chief, has appeared in public in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, for the first time in more than a year. Amid heavy security, he took part in an event for the Shia religious commemoration of Ashura in the city's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold. "God protect Nasrallah," chanted the crowd, carrying portraits of.. More

  • Kenya protesters to mount boycott

    Kenya's opposition says it will change tactics to protest against the outcome of last month's presidential election, following three days of mass rallies. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) says it will boycott companies run by senior allies of President Mwai Kibaki. At least 600 people have died in violence since the poll. In the latest unrest.. More