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  • Baghdad mortar attack kills seven

    At least seven people have been killed and 31 injured by a mortar attack on a mainly Shia eastern suburb of Baghdad, security officials say. Women and children are said to be among the dead and wounded and a number of houses were damaged in the area, close to the giant Shia slum of Sadr City. Police said the mortars were fired during clashes between.. More

  • German woman kidnapped in Kabul

    An armed man has walked into a fast food restaurant in the Afghan capital and abducted a German woman. Afghan officials said that four men allegedly pulled up to a restaurant, and one went inside, pulled out a pistol, walked up to a table where the woman was sitting with her husband, and took her from the restaurant. Ahmad Fahim, who works in a nearby.. More

  • Eritrea rejects US terror charge

    Eritrea has responded angrily to a threat by Jendayi Frazer, the US assistant secretary, to place it on a list of state sponsors of terrorism. On Friday, Frazer said the US was considering putting the Red Sea state on the terrorist list for allegedly funneling weapons and aid to Somalis fighting the US and Ethiopian-backed interim government. "We.. More

  • Iraq political talks to resume

    Iraq's political leaders are to hold another round of talks to prevent the unity government from collapsing. The development comes after the country's top Shia and Kurdish leaders formed a new political alliance on Thursday, but without Sunni leaders. The talks are being attended by Nuri al-Maliki, the prime minister who is Shia; Jalal Talabani, the.. More

  • Hurricane churns up the Caribbean

    Haiti and the Dominican Republic are braced for potential flooding as Hurricane Dean passes to the south after gathering force in the Caribbean. Winds have hit 233km/h (145mph) and the storm may achieve the highest category, Five, with speeds of about 250km/h, by the time it reaches Mexico on Monday. Dean has claimed three lives on islands in its.. More

  • Turkish hijacking ends peacefully

    Two men who tried to hijack a Turkish plane have surrendered after all 136 passengers and crew escaped unharmed. The Atlas Jet plane was flying from Northern Cyprus to Istanbul when the two men tried to divert it to Iran. Instead, the pilot landed the plane in the southern city of Antalya, claiming it needed refueling. Turkey's interior ministry.. More

  • Israel allows Gaza fuel delivery

    The Israeli military has said it will open a border crossing with the Gaza Strip for a few hours on Sunday to allow fuel deliveries to the territory. The announcement comes a day after parts of Gaza were plunged into darkness because of fuel shortages. The territory relies on Israel for fuel but Israel says it stopped regular deliveries for security.. More

  • Iraq bomb death toll reaches 344

    The governor of the Sinjar region of north-western Iraq has said 344 people died in Tuesday's multiple bomb attacks against the minority Yazidi community. He said another 400 people had been injured by the blasts and that he believed 70 others were still buried in the rubble of destroyed buildings. About 600 local residents had been made homeless,.. More

  • Russia-China war games boost ties

    Russian and Chinese troops have staged a series of dramatic war games in Russia's Ural Mountains at the close of the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The event marks the culmination of a nine-day exercise dubbed "Peace Mission 2007" that began in the north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang. It brings together some 6,000.. More

  • Giuliani anti Palestinian state

    Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani has said he is not in favor of the creation of a Palestinian state, contradicting current US policy. In an essay, he said it was not in the US interest to help create a state that, he said, would support terrorism. He also said he would consider talks with Iran, so long as its rulers understood the US.. More

  • Dozens killed in Peru earthquake

    A strong earthquake and at least four aftershocks have struck off the central coast of Peru. At least 115 people have been killed and 200 injured in the southwestern cities of Ica and Pisco. Stuart Sipkin of the US Geological Survey told Al Jazeera at least four aftershocks had been recorded after the 7.9 magnitude quake. Al Jazeera's Gabriel.. More

  • US to sign Israeli arms package

    US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns is set to sign a deal that will provide Israel with $30bn (£14.8bn) of military aid over the next 10 years. The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has said the aid will preserve his country's military advantage over other countries in the Middle East. The new military aid package represents a 25%.. More

  • Iran Guards 'join US terror list'

    The US is preparing to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards force as a foreign terrorist unit, officials say. If confirmed, this will be the first time official armed units of a sovereign state are included in the list of banned terrorist groups. The classification would allow the US to target the force's finances. The US has repeatedly accused.. More

  • Al-Qaeda blamed in Iraq sect attack

    Rescue workers continue to dig through the wreckage from a series of suicide attacks in northern Iraq that US officials have blamed on al-Qaeda. Iraqi police and US soldiers worked alongside rescue workers on Wednesday, after four suicide bombs, that appeared to target Iraq's Yazidi sect, killed more than 250 people and left hundreds wounded. Lieutenant-C.. More

  • Hezbollah's leader warns Israel

    Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has warned Israel of launching new attacks against his Lebanon-based Shia Muslim group. His speech was broadcast at a mass rally in Beirut to mark the first anniversary of the end of the war between Hezbollah and Israel. Hezbollah regards the 34-day war as a "divine victory" for its forces. More than 1,000.. More