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  • Pakistan flood death toll rises

    Over 100 people have now died in floods after a cyclone and rain swept through Pakistan, relief officials have said. The storm and floods have affected two million people in 15 districts of Balochistan province, officials said. Poor communications and the remoteness of some affected areas means the true death toll since Cyclone Yemyin hit on Tuesday.. More

  • Israel releases Palestinian funds

    Israel has begun releasing tens of millions of dollars in tax funds that it has withheld from the Palestinian Authority during a 17-month boycott. The first transfer was made on Sunday but the initial amount was unclear. The move follows the dissolution of a Palestinian national unity government that was led by the Hamas group, which refuses.. More

  • US admits killing Afghan civilians

    US military officials have admitted civilians were among those killed in a US-led air raid on a village in Afghanistan. Local officials say more than 100 people, including scores of civilians, died in the US-led attacks on a village close to the frontline in Helmand province. Dur Ali Shah, Gereshk district mayor, said overnight air strikes on Friday.. More

  • UK raises alert level to 'critical'

    Britain has raised its security level to "critical", its highest level, after a burning car was crashed into Glasgow airport in Scotland. The police have arrested two men in connection with Saturday's events and linked the attack with two car bombs discovered and defused in London a day earlier. Two more people were arrested later. "I can confirm.. More

  • Gaddafi: Africa should unite or die

    Libya's president, Muammar Gaddafi, has told Africa it must "unite or die" and should become a federation with a single government, along the lines of the United States. Speaking on the eve of the African Union Summit in the Ghanaian capital Accra, the Libyan leader said the continent should unite so it could compete in a globalised world. President.. More

  • Many Afghans killed in air strike

    An air strike in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 30 civilians and 39 armed Taliban, a Helmand official said. Mohammed Daoud said that "30-37 civilians have been killed and tens of others have been injured" during an International Security Assistance Force attack in Helmand's Gereshk district. Dur Ali Sha, Gereshk district mayor, said.. More

  • Deadly US raids hit Sadr City

    The US military in Iraq says it has killed 26 people linked to "Iranian terror networks". A statement said they were killed in early morning raids on Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City area. Seventeen suspects have been detained, it said. "Coalition forces conducted two separate raids targeting suspected secret cell terrorists during pre-dawn hours.. More

  • Israel launches deadly Gaza attacks

    Three Palestinians have been killed in an attack launched by Israeli aircraft in the southern Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza reported that the dead on Saturday were all members of the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad and were killed when an Israeli strike hit their car in the town of Khan Younis. Samir Abu Shamala.. More

  • Israeli troops kill Fatah fighter

    Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian from the Fatah movement on the second day of a large-scale military raid targeting armed loyalists of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers had shot the Palestinian on Friday as he fled from the troops in a refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus. .. More

  • Car bomb found in central London

    Britain’s explosives officers have dealt with a suspected bomb in a vehicle parked near Piccadilly Circus in central London, making it "safe," police said.. Police did not offer any details about what they called a "potentially viable explosive device" or how they dealt with it. Terrorist police were investigating after explosives officers were.. More

  • Protests in Pakistan over relief

    Pakistani police have fired teargas to break up a protest by angry cyclone survivors as the onset of South Asia’s rainy season over the past week claimed more than 500 lives. Thousands of hungry villagers complained on Friday about the dearth of relief aid as they searched for missing family members. Rescuers struggled to reach communities cut.. More

  • Baghdad blast kills at least 20

    A car bomb has killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police said. The bomb was left in a parked car at a bus terminal in the mainly Shia district of Bayaa in south-west Baghdad, officials said. The explosion tore through crowds of commuters waiting for buses during the morning rush hour, tearing vehicles.. More

  • Hamas critical of Blair envoy role

    Hamas has condemned the appointment of Tony Blair as Middle East envoy after stepping down as Britain’s prime minister amid Israeli and some Palestinian support. The Islamic movement which seized control of the Gaza Strip 12 days ago, criticized Blair's new role on Wednesday saying it was "not acceptable to Hamas nor to the Palestinians". Blair.. More

  • Turkish general seeks Iraq raids

    The head of the Turkish armed forces has repeated his view that a military incursion into northern Iraq would help to defeat Kurdish rebels based there. General Yasar Buyukanit told reporters at a news conference that the military needed guidelines from the government for any such cross-border operation. Gen Buyukanit stressed the need for parliamentary.. More

  • Blair becomes Middle East envoy

    Tony Blair is to become a Middle East envoy working on behalf of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU. The announcement comes just hours after he stood down as UK prime minister and shortly before it was announced he was to quit as a member of parliament. Mr Blair said a "solution" to the problems in the Middle East was possible but that this would.. More