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  • Ethiopia urged to leave Somalia

    The African Union has called on Ethiopia to withdraw thousands of troops from Somalia immediately. The call, supported by the Arab League and the east African grouping IGAD, comes after Ethiopia intervened to support Somalia's interim government. In recent days, Ethiopian and Somali government forces have captured ground previously held by Islamic.. More

  • Pakistan to mine Afghan border

    Pakistan plans to fence and plant landmines along sections of its border with Afghanistan to stop militants, a foreign office official has said. Speaking at a press conference, Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan said the move would stop "militant activity from Pakistan inside Afghanistan". Afghanistan rejected the plan saying both countries.. More

  • Government troops move on Mogadishu

    Ethiopian troops supporting the forces of Somalia's transitional government are advancing towards the capital, Mogadishu, as the United Nations Security Council calls an emergency meeting on the conflict. Fighters from the Council of Islamic Courts have retreated from the main frontline after a week of artillery and mortar fighting.The Ethiopian.. More

  • Nigeria mourns pipeline victims

    Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he is "shocked and saddened" by the vandalization of an oil pipeline that led to at least 260 deaths. Hundreds of people in a Lagos suburb were scooping fuel from a pipeline punctured by thieves when it exploded. It took the emergency services hours to extinguish the flames and many of the bodies were.. More

  • Dozens killed by Baghdad blasts

    More than 30 people have been killed and scores hurt in a wave of car blasts in Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. An attack near a Sunni mosque in northern Baghdad killed at least 15 and wounded 35, medical officials said. Earlier, at least 15 people died and 60 were wounded in a triple bombing on a busy market street in the south-west of the capital,.. More

  • Death sentence for Saddam upheld

    An Iraqi appeals court has upheld the death sentence against ousted President Saddam Hussein. The court rejected an appeal by Saddam Hussein's lawyers and confirmed that he would be hanged, court spokesman Raed Juhi told the BBC. The appeal was launched after an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death on 5 November for the 1982 killings of.. More

  • Pakistan airport blast kills one

    One person has been killed in an explosion outside the airport in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Two other people were hurt when a bomb exploded in a car parked near the airport's entrance, the police said. The airport was crowded with a number of flights arriving from and departing for the Middle East,.. More

  • Jordan to host Palestinian talks

    Jordan will host talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniya after a surge in factional violence between Fatah and Hamas. Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government, said Haniya, the Palestinian prime mininster, had accepted an invitation from Jordan's King Abdullah to attend talks in Amman. It is thought that Haniya's visit.. More

  • Islamic Courts abandon strongholds

    Council of Islamic Courts fighters have retreated from the main frontline after a week of artillery and mortar duels and attacks by Somalian transitional government and Ethiopian soldiers, witnesses say.Ethiopian forces took control of Burhakaba early on Tuesday without any fighting, Jama Nur, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Mogadishu, reported. Transitional.. More

  • Dozens dead in Philippines blaze

    Police investigating a deadly blaze at a department store in the Philippines on Christmas Day say the store was illegally selling fireworks and emergency exits from the building had been padlocked.Twenty-four people died in the blaze in the Unitop Commercial Store in Omoc city, about 550 kilometers southeast of the Philippine capital, Manila.Police.. More

  • Saudis say 16 pilgrims hurt in Mecca hotel fire

    More than one million Muslims undertaking hajj, the annual week-long pilgrimage, have arrived in Saudi Arabia, according to Saudi authorities. The official Saudi Press Agency [SPA] quoted the Hajj Commission as saying that 1,526,603 people had arrived in the kingdom by Sunday to take part in the pilgrimage which begins officially on Thursday. More than.. More

  • Indonesian flooding kills 80

    Floods and landslides in Indonesia's Aceh and North Sumatra provinces have killed at least 80 people and forced tens of thousands to flee to higher ground. Aceh, still recovering from the tsunami that struck two years ago, was hardest hit. Ridwan Sulaiman, head of social affairs in the province, said the death toll in Aceh was now 42, although the.. More

  • British raid on Iraq police cells

    British forces have stormed the headquarters of a rogue Iraqi police unit where it was feared that police officers planned to kill up to 178 detainees, a military spokesman has said.Major Charlie Burbridge, said: "We've deployed a significant number of soldiers in Basra in the early hours of this morning with a view to disbanding the serious crimes.. More

  • Ethiopia attacks Somalia airport

    Ethiopian fighter jets have bombed Mogadishu international airport in Somalia, airport officials have said. It was not clear how many times the airport was struck but at least one person was reported injured. Mogadishu is held by an Islamist militia, which has been fighting the Ethiopia-backed interim government. Ethiopia's prime minister has.. More

  • Ahmadinejad rejects UN sanctions

    Iran's president has rejected UN Security Council sanctions against Tehran, insisting his country would press ahead with its nuclear program. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the resolution passed on Saturday was a "piece of paper" adding that the 15 countries who voted in favor would regret it. Iran said it would immediately begin installing 3,000 centrifuges.. More