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  • Gaza-Egypt Border Still Open

    Scores of Palestinians have continued to cross from the Gaza Strip into Egypt, despite the passing of a Palestinian-set deadline aimed at closing the border to prevent further entries. Groups of people on Wednesday continued to scale a high wall separating Egypt from Gaza and taxi-loads of Palestinians continued heading towards the Egyptian coastal.. More

  • Darfur Rebels Skip Talks

    The main rebel group inwestern Sudan's war-torn Darfur region has said it will not attend key peace talks with the Khartoum government due to open in Nigeria on Thursday. "Our position remains the same: We will not attend political negotiations on Thursday with the Sudanese government until we hold our general conference on September 25-27," said a.. More

  • Baghdad Bomb Attacks Kill more than 100

    Eleven bombings have rocked Baghdad, killing at least 110 people and wounding nearly 200 others, Aljazeera reports. The deadliest attack, at 6.30am (0300 GMT) on Wednesday, occurred in Uruba Square, in the Shia pilgrimage district of Kadhimiyah, where day labourers gather in the early morning as they wait to be hired. At least 80 people died and.. More

  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Addresses UN

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to make his maiden appearance at the UN on Wednesday, defending his country's nuclear programme against stepped-up US efforts to shut it down. Government officials said Ahmadinejad would make new proposals to defuse suspicion over Tehran's nuclear weapons ambitions when he addresses the opening day of a three-day.. More

  • New Hurricane Edges Toward North Carolina

    Hurricane Ophelia edged toward North Carolina early Wednesday, but many in the storm's path shrugged at the threat of flooding rain and wind even as officials urged them to evacuate. The National Hurricane Center upgraded the storm's status from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday, saying maximum sustained winds had reached 75 mph,.. More

  • Baghdad Green Zone shelled

    Two mortar rounds have exploded near a military hospital inside the Green Zone that houses the Iraqi government, parliament, and foreign missions. A plume of smoke could be seen rising from the area near the hospital after the attack on Tuesday and helicopters circled overhead. Sirens sounded the alarm and loudspeakers could be heard issuing instructions.. More

  • Pullout Does not End Occupation, Says Abbas

    The Israeli Gaza pullout is not the end to occupation and the conflict with Israel willcontinue until the creation of a Palestinian state, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said. "The withdrawal of the [Israeli] army and settlers from the Gaza Strip does not signal the end of the occupation", Abbas said in a televised address on Tuesday after.. More

  • Syria Rejects US Charges on Iraq

    Syria has rejected US accusations that it allows fighters to sneak into Iraq, describing what it called Washington's threat of using forceas part of its relentless pressure on Damascus. "It is regrettable that such language should come from the ambassador of a great power who is supposed to show more commitment to the norms of international relations,".. More

  • Five Workers Hurt in NATO-Bombed Belgrade Building

    Five workers were injured on Monday in the sudden collapse of a downtown Belgrade building damaged by a U.S. cruise missile during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia six years ago. Police said a floor of the former Yugoslav Army building gave way without warning, spilling members of a work crew onto the rubble below and shrouding the district in clouds.. More

  • Freed Indian, Pakistani Prisoners Cross Wagah

    Pakistan and India on Monday swapped the biggest-ever number of prisoners to bolster the ongoing peace process between the two countries. A total of 583 prisoners were exchanged at the Wagah border crossing in a festive environment on this side of the border amid back-piper tunes, drumbeating and national songs played on cassette players. “It is.. More

  • Niger Food Aid is Misdirected, Says MSF

    Large numbers of children have died as a result of the food crisis in Niger which began early this year, an aid agency estimates. France's Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says the death rate is several times over the international emergency level. On average more than 40 young children have been dying a day in one area surveyed in the east of the.. More

  • Palestinians Regain their Land in Gaza Strip

    The last Israeli soldier has left the Gaza Strip, 38 years and 67 days after Tel Aviv ordered occupation forces into the impoverished Palestinian territory. Gaza divisional commander General Avi Kochavi left through the metal gates on the Kissufim crossing on Monday where military bulldozers immediately dug up mounds of earth to block the entrance. "The.. More

  • Pakistan Air Force Jet Crashes, Pilot Killed

    A Mirage fighter plane of Pakistan Air Force crashed in eastern Punjab province today, killing the pilot, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said. "Pakistan Air Force announces with deep regret the crash of a Mirage Aircraft near Pai Khel (Mianwali)," a PAF statement said here. Mianwali is situated some 230 kilometers southwest of Islamabad. The aircraft.. More

  • Chinese Evacuate as Typhoon Threatens Shanghai

    China has evacuated hundreds of thousands of people living in the path of a typhoon which was forecast on Sunday to lash the east coast as it heads towards Shanghai, state media said. Typhoon Khanun, which spared the island of Taiwan on Saturday, would unleash its full force between coastal Cangnan and Dinghai counties in Zhejiang province. The.. More

  • Migrants Die in Bid to Reach Italian Shores

    The bodies of 11 would-be illegal immigrants have been found washed up on a beach in Sicily. The victims had been among a group of over 100 African migrants who had packed into a boat headed for European shores. Their remains were found on a beach close to Gela in the south of the island. It is thought they may have fallen from their boat as passengers.. More