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  • US launches air strike in Somalia

    The US military has launched a strike against fighters in Somalia, saying they are suspected members of al-Qaeda. Abdirahman Dinari, a Somalia government spokesman, confirmed the offensive on Tuesday. A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said at least one AC-130 gunship was used in the attack.Dinari told AFP: "We know that a US gunship.. More

  • Bush to name Khalilzad for UN job

    President George W Bush is to nominate current US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad as new US envoy to the UN, it has been confirmed. Mr Khalilzad will succeed John Bolton, who stepped down last year after the Democrats refused to back him. This is one of several changes made by Mr Bush in the run-up to the announcement of a new Iraq policy on.. More

  • Somali leader arrives in capital

    Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf has arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, amid tight security. He flew in on his first visit since Islamists fled advancing Ethiopian forces and interim government soldiers. Gunmen fired at Ethiopian forces in Mogadishu overnight, after two died in anti-Ethiopian protests on Saturday. It is unclear if the.. More

  • Baghdad airport ambush kills nine

    At least nine people have been killed in an ambush on a bus carrying workers to Baghdad airport, medics said. Reports of the death toll vary, with one news agency putting the number of dead at 15. At least 11 people were also injured in the attack. Victims were mainly Shia Muslims from the Sadr City area. They were attacked outside the airport's.. More

  • Trial to resume without Saddam

    The genocide trial of six former Iraqi officials is due to resume in Baghdad without their co-defendant Saddam Hussein, who was hanged on 30 December. Saddam Hussein and the others were charged with crimes against humanity over a campaign against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s that left 100,000 dead. Saddam Hussein was hanged after an earlier trial over.. More

  • Fresh clashes erupt in Somalia

    Armed men have attacked Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, residents said.Hundreds of troops loyal to the Somali transitional government patrolled the streets on Sunday where a day earlier crowds had hurled stones and burnt tyres to demonstrate against the forces that ousted the Islamic courts.In the second day of violence in Mogadishu,.. More

  • Violent Dhaka protests continue

    Police have fired tear gas and used batons to disperse stone-throwing protesters amid a second day of violence in the Bangladeshi capital. A number of people were injured and several arrests were made in Dhaka as a three-day nationwide transport blockade called by opposition parties continued. The Awami League and its allies want elections set for.. More

  • Fatah supporters flock to rally

    Tens of thousands of supporters of the Palestinian president's Fatah movement have rallied in Gaza in a show of force to the governing Hamas party. The two factions have been clashing more and more often during a power struggle that some Palestinians fear may degenerate into civil war.Tayeb Abdel-Rahim, Mahmoud Abbas's aide, said in a speech made on.. More

  • Saudis confirm Eurofighter order

    Saudi Arabia has said it will start taking deliveries of 72 Eurofighter jets from UK defense company BAE Systems "very soon". The comments come a month after the Serious Fraud Office controversially dropped an investigation into a 1980s BAE Systems deal with Saudi Arabia. It was reported that the Saudis had threatened to cancel the Eurofighter deal.. More

  • At least 12 dead in Iraq violence

    At least 12 people have been killed in Iraq in a number of attacks a day after Prime Minister Nouri Maliki announced a new drive to boost security in Baghdad. Four civilians were killed in a mortar barrage in central Baghdad and an attack on an education ministry official killed two bodyguards. A car bomb in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killed one.. More

  • UN urges stay of Iraq executions

    New UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Iraq to postpone the execution of two of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's co-defendants. His appeal comes amid growing international criticism of the handling of Saddam Hussein's hanging, at which he was taunted and filmed. Mr Ban was criticized this week for failing to state the UN's policy of.. More

  • Polish archbishop quits amid row

    The controversial archbishop of Warsaw has resigned, less than an hour before he was due to be installed in his post, the Vatican has said. Stanislaw Wielgus has been at the centre of communist-era spying row. A special Mass had been planned for his installation on Sunday, despite his recent admission that he had collaborated with the secret police... More

  • Hamas defiant on 'illegal' force

    Ruling Palestinian movement Hamas has said it will double its armed force to 12,000 men, hours after President Mahmoud Abbas declared it illegal. Mr Abbas had demanded the militia's integration into existing security structures. Hamas and Mr Abbas's Fatah party have been locked in a power struggle since the Islamic group won parliamentary elections.. More

  • Iraq PM warns over Saddam hanging

    Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki has said his government could review relations with any country which criticized the execution of ex-leader Saddam Hussein. Mr Maliki said the hanging was a "domestic affair" for the benefit of Iraq's unity, adding that the former president had received a fair trial. Mobile phone images showing Saddam Hussein being taunted.. More

  • UN in new peace drive for Darfur

    The United Nations and African Union have announced a new drive for peace in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur. Jan Eliasson, the UN special envoy to Darfur, is to travel to the region to try to stop fighting between rebel groups and the Sudanese government. The UN wants to strengthen peacekeeping troops but there is conflict with Sudan over the.. More