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  • Al-Qaida Claims London Bomb Attacks

    Aljazeera has aired a clip from an al-Qaida video in which one of the London bombers explainshis reasons for the July attacks on the British capital. Al-Qaida's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, also appeared on the video on Thursday, promising similar attacks in the future. London bomber Muhammad Sadiq Khan, a 30-year-old British national fromWest.. More

  • Headscarf Ban Widens in Germany

    Germany’s most populous state plans to ban female Muslim teachers from wearing headscarves in schools from next August. Officials in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia told the newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung the ban was 'not targeting religious beliefs' and would be discussed with Muslim groups. "Female and male teachers are not allowed.. More

  • Pakistan, Israel Open Talks

    Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Kasuri have met in Istanbul, in the first-ever high level encounter between the two countries. The meeting, they hope, will help normalise bilateral relations. "Pakistan gives great importance to the developments in Israel and the Gaza Strip," Kasuri told reporters after.. More

  • Sudan Post-War Parliament Meets

    Sudan's first post-war parliament has held its first session as the country moves to implement a peace agreement that ended two decades of north-south conflict. Much of the session on Wednesday was devoted to procedural issues, such as election of a speaker and his first deputy for the 450-strong National Assembly - appointed in accordance with the.. More

  • Israel to Keep Large West Bank Outpost

    Israel will hold onto the largest West Bank settlement forever and will build homes to connect it to Jerusalem "at the appropriate time," Vice Premier Ehud Olmert said. Israel's current pullout from the Gaza Strip- which is slated to be completed by mid-September- has raised hopes among Palestinians that further land concessions will follow. Prime.. More

  • Indonesia Frees Hundreds of Aceh Prisoners

    Tears of joy and hope flowed in Indonesia as authorities freed more than 1,400 rebel Acehnese prisoners detained around the country, meeting a key condition of an historic peace pact. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a decree late Tuesday granting the amnesty to members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), as required under the August 15 peace.. More

  • Immigrants Call for Better Housing after Fatal Fires

    Authorities in Paris are facing growing protests over the living conditions of immigrants following a spate of fatal fires in rundown apartment blocks. In the latest incident, seven people, including four children, were killed in a blaze near the Marais district during the early hours of yesterday morning. All of the victims were from Ivory Coast. A.. More

  • Hundreds Killed in Iraq Stampede

    At least 965 Iraqishave beencrushed to death or drowned in a stampede on a Baghdad bridge after rumours of suicide bombers in their midst sent vast crowds of Shia pilgrims into panic. In Iraq's deadliest day since the US-led war of March 2003, hundreds of women, children and elderly people were trampled underfoot or jumped to their deaths from the.. More

  • Hundreds Dead along US Gulf Coast, Waters Rising in Hurricane's Wake

    Rescue crews pushed bodies aside to get to stranded victims of Hurricane Katrina as hundreds were feared dead in a humanitarian crisis that officials warned would intensify as flood waters rise further. "The devastation is greater than our worst fears," said Louisiana State Governor Kathleen Blanco said. "It is just totally overwhelming." Lake.. More

  • Iraqi Security Personnel Die in Attacks as US Air Strike Kills Dozens near Syrian Border

    Five people, including four security personnel, have been killed in separate rebel attacks in Iraq, police said. Mohammad Rashad, a lieutenant-colonel with the country's special oil protection force, was shot dead on Tuesday by armed men in front of his house in oil-rich Kirkuk in northern Iraq. His bodyguard was also killed, police said. Armed.. More

  • Sharon Faces Challenge in Likud Party

    Benjamin Netanyahu's challenge for leadership of Israel's right-wing Likud has raised the prospect of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's electoral defeat at the hands of a party ripped apart by the Gaza Strip disengagement. Tuesday's challenge from his political nemesis, 22 years his junior, leaves Sharon between a rock and a hard place in a party left.. More

  • Lebanon Ex-Security Chiefs Arrested

    Police have arrested former Lebanese security chiefs at the request of the UN investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri, security officials said. Chief UN investigator Detlev Mehlis wants to question the former security chiefs, who are pro-Syria, the Lebanese officials said on Tuesday, speaking on on condition of.. More

  • At Least 55 Dead as Hurricane Hits US Coast

    It is feared hurricane ‘Katrina’ has killed at least 55 people in the southern state of Mississippi as it sweeps through the US Gulf Coast. The city of New Orleans took a powerful blow but was spared the worst when the storm turned east at the last moment. Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco had this message: "The hurricane is by no means over... More

  • Jewish Settlers Return to Gaza Strip

    A group of Jewish settlers has returned to Gaza as Israeli forces begin to demolish houses at the Kfar Darom colony in the central Gaza Strip, witnesses and officials said. Abd Allah Maani, a resident of the enclosed area of Ma'ani adjacent to Kfar Darom in the town of Dair al-Balah, told Aljazeera.net on Monday that a number of settlers had returned. He.. More

  • Syrian President Vows UN Probe Cooperation

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has promised that Damascus will cooperate with the UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. "We will cooperate fully," al-Assad said in an interview with theGerman weekly Der Spiegel magazine. "We care about this investigation because we believe that we will be cleared-.. More