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  • African migrants drown off Yemen

    About 180 African migrants are believed to have died in the Red Sea in the last few days while trying to reach Yemen, a Somali diplomat in Yemen has said. Hussein Haji Ahmed said two boats had capsized off the Yemeni coast. Earlier, the aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres said it had found the bodies of 56 Africans who had drowned as their.. More

  • Palestinians suffer Israeli abuse

    One in four Israeli troops serving at checkpoints scattered across the occupied West Bank have engaged in or witnessed abuse of Palestinians, an Israeli army-commissioned survey says. Twenty-five per cent of the respondents said they had taken part in, seen or heard from colleagues about acts of physical or verbal abuse at the 500 roadblocks. The.. More

  • Al-Zawahiri: British 'fleeing' Iraq

    Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy leader of al-Qaeda, has said the British handover of security in Basra province proves fighters in Iraq are gaining the upper hand. In a video statement published online on Sunday, al-Zawahiri said: "Reports from Iraq point to the increasing power of the mujahideen and the deteriorating condition of the Americans. "And.. More

  • Turkey bombs 'PKK bases' in Iraq

    Turkish military aircraft have attacked Kurdish fighters across the border in the mountains of northern Iraq, Turkey's General Staff has said in a statement. Iraqi officials said 10 villages were bombed early on Sunday morning, leaving at least one woman dead and two others wounded. Several homes and a school were destroyed, they said. The mayors.. More

  • Israel deplores US report on Iran

    An Israeli minister has criticised what he calls misguided US intelligence-gathering on Iran's nuclear programme, saying that the assessment could lead to a regional war that would threaten the Jewish state. The harshest criticism yet of a US intelligence report that said Iran is no longer developing nuclear arms, came on Saturday. Avi Dichter, Israel's.. More

  • Basra set for security handover

    British forces in Iraq are set to formally transfer control of security in Basra province to the Iraqi army within a few hours. Located in the south, the province is Iraq's main oil export hub and home to the country's only major port. Basra is the last of four British-controlled provinces in Iraq. Factional-fighting has recently declined but a.. More

  • Musharraf ends emergency rule

    Pakistan's president has lifted a nationwide state of emergency amid mounting criticism that general elections scheduled for next month will not be free and fair. Pervez Musharraf cancelled the six-week long emergency law on Saturday, a day after he made changes to Pakistan's constitution. In a televised address on Saturday evening, Musharraf said.. More

  • Five dead in Kabul rocket attack

    A rocket attack near the Kabul governor's residence has killed five people and injured five more. The blast, which happened at 0820 (0350GMT) on Saturday, was heard throughout the Afghan capital. A car parked near the house, contained five rockets, but only two detonated, firing up to 20 metres across the street and falling short of buildings. The.. More

  • Hamas rally draws tens of thousands

    Hamas has marked 20 years since it was founded with a huge rally in Gaza City, attended by what was estimated to be a crowd of between 150,000 and 300,000 supporters. Saturday's rally was the biggest show of support for the movement since it took control of the Gaza Strip in June. Hamas was created in Gaza in December 1987, from an offshoot of the.. More

  • Adviser to Palestinian PM abducted

    A senior adviser to the Palestinian government has been abducted in the Gaza Strip, officials have said. Omar al-Ghoul, who advises Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, was taken from his home in Gaza at about 4am (0200 GMT) on Friday by armed men wearing civilian clothes, relatives said. Al-Ghoul's seizure is the highest-profile abduction.. More

  • Al-Qaeda tape rejects Annapolis

    Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has purportedly said Arab leaders have betrayed the Palestinians by attending US-hosted Middle East talks last month. In an internet audio message attributed to Ayman al-Zawahiri, Muslims are urged to reject the talks. The Annapolis conference has kicked off the first major Israeli-Palestinian peace drive in seven years... More

  • Lebanon mourns army leader

    Lebanon is observing a day of national mourning as it holds a funeral for a senior army general whose death has raised fears of deepening a political crisis in the country. A coffin holding Major-General Francois al-Hajj, who was killed on Wednesday by a car bomb, was taken to his family home in Baabda, Beirut, on Friday. A funeral mass is being.. More

  • China remembers Nanjing massacre

    The Chinese city of Nanjing is marking the 70th anniversary of one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War in Asia. On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops entered what was then the capital of China's nationalist Kuomintang government, beginning a campaign of mass murder and rape that lasted for six weeks. The exact number who died in what became.. More

  • Bomb blast hits Indian train

    At least five train passengers in India have been killed and four injured after a bomb has exploded under a train carriage in the country's northeast. The blast hit the Rajdhani Express, bound for New Delhi from Dibrugarh in Assam state, just after a station near Chungajan, T Rabha, a railway spokesman said. "A car near the luggage van took the whole.. More

  • Emissions goals bedevil Bali climate talks

    Delegates at climate talks in Bali tried to break a deadlock on Thursday over U.S.-led opposition to tough guidelines for rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The non-binding range of 25-40 percent cuts from 1990 levels by 2020 remains in draft text but the United States, Canada, Australia and others are opposed to these numbers,.. More