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  • Somalis protest over Ethiopians

    Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the Somali capital Mogadishu in protest at the presence of Ethiopian forces backing the interim government. Witnesses said Ethiopian troops fired in the air to disperse the crowds, as youths burnt tires and threw stones. A BBC correspondent in Mogadishu says one person has died and at least 10 others.. More

  • Bomb hits second Sri Lankan bus

    A bomb has exploded on a crowded bus in south-western Sri Lanka killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens. Police say the incident took place near the tourist resort of Hikkaduwa, south of the capital Colombo. The attack comes a day after a similar incident which killed six people on a bus north-east of Colombo. Tamil Tigers rebels have.. More

  • 'Three dead' in Israeli raid

    At least three people have been killed during an Israeli incursion into the West Bank town of Ramallah.Palestinians threw stones at Israeli military vehicles as Israel carried out what it called a "routine arrest operation".A senior leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades said the incursion was aimed at capturing one of its members.Pictures from Al.. More

  • Al-Qaeda issues message on Somalia

    A message has appeared on the internet purportedly from the deputy leader of al-Qaeda, urging the Union of Islamic Courts fighters in Somalia to launch a campaign of suicide attacks against Ethiopian troops.Meanwhile, Western and African diplomats met in Kenya on Friday to discuss sending regional peacekeepers and more aid to Somalia. The audiotape.. More

  • Libya to build statue of Saddam

    Libya has said it will build a statue of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, executed in Baghdad on Saturday. It would show him standing on the gallows with a Libyan resistance leader who fought Italian occupation, executed in 1931, Libya's Jana news agency said. Libya declared three days of mourning after Saddam Hussein's death and cancelled.. More

  • Haniya and Abbas agree Gaza deal

    The Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya and the president, Mahmoud Abbas, have agreed to keep armed members of their rival Hamas and Fatah factions off Gaza's streets after six people were killed. The two leaders held the emergency meeting in Gaza City late on Thursday in their first meeting for two months.Speaking after the meeting ended early.. More

  • UN appeals to Iraq on executions

    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has appealed to Iraq not to execute two top officials from former president Saddam Hussein's rule. Ms Arbour said concerns she had about the fairness of Saddam Hussein's trial also applied to his co-defendants. Her appeal was backed by new UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. It follows speculation.. More

  • US Navy patrols Somalia's coast

    US naval forces have deployed off the Somali coast to prevent leaders of defeated Islamist militias escaping. Kenya has also significantly tightened border security to stop an influx of fleeing fighters, as aid agencies called for help for genuine refugees. Uganda's president is to travel to Ethiopia to discuss forming an African force to stabilize.. More

  • Five killed in renewed Gaza clashes

    Five people have been killed in the worst bout of fighting between the forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and the Hamas government in Gaza.At least nine people were wounded in separate incidents on Wednesday across the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said. Two weeks ago, Abbas's Fatah faction and Hamas had agreed on a ceasefire.. More

  • Official arrested over Saddam video

    The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein's execution on a mobile phone has been arrested. An adviser to Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, did not identify the person. But he said it was "an official who supervised the execution" and who is "now under investigation". Iraqi state television aired an official video of the hanging,.. More

  • Nato laments Afghan civilian dead

    Nato has said its biggest mistake in Afghanistan in 2006 was killing innocent civilians. A spokesman for the Nato-led force, said efforts were under way to reduce civilian deaths in military operations. But he said Nato had killed far fewer people last year than the Taleban, who launched more than 100 suicide attacks. President Hamid Karzai cried.. More

  • Kenyans deport Somali refugees

    Kenyan authorities have deported more than 420 refugees who fled fighting across the border in Somalia. The refugees fled Islamist militias driven from southern Somalia towards Kenya by Ethiopian and Somali soldiers. International law was broken when the refugees, mostly women and children, were driven in trucks from a border camp, the UN refugee.. More

  • Saddam aides' execution 'at dawn'

    Conflicting reports are coming out on when Saddam Hussein's half-brother and a former judge, convicted along with him for crimes against humanity, will be executed. While an unnamed official at the prime minister's office said he would be executed on Thursday, another said no date had been set.Sami Al-Askari, a senior aide to Nuri al-Maliki said: "Most.. More

  • Somali fighters flee towards Kenya

    Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts fighters have fled towards Kenya after abandoning their last stronghold on Monday in the southern town of Kismayo to government forces backed by Ethiopian troops, tanks and aircraft. The Somalian government has asked Kenya to close its border to the group crossing into the east of the country.Somalia's interim prime.. More

  • Many dead in Indonesia air crash

    Rescue workers have found the smouldering wreckage of an Indonesian passenger jet that went missing during a storm, and officials say at least 90 people were killed. The Boeing 737-400 Adam Air jet crashed in a mountainous region of Sulawesi island in the northeast of the country, Colonel Genot Hariyanto, the local police chief, said. "The plane is.. More