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  • Haiti Gun Battles Leave many Dead

    At least 10 men thought to be criminals, including two former soldiers, have been killed in skirmishes with police backed by UN forces in Haiti. Three people were killed on Saturday in a Port-au-Prince neighbourhood. The dead included Sergeant Ravix Remissainthe, the self-declared leader of former soldiers, a source close to the Haitian police said. At.. More

  • Indonesian Volcano Sparks Panic

    A volcano has coughed into life on Indonesia's disaster-blighted island of Sumatra, spreading new panic in the wake of recent tsunami and earthquakes and prompting thousands to evacuate. Mount Talang, 40km east of West Sumatra's coastal capital Padang began spewing volcanic ash shortly before dawn on Tuesday, but scientists said there was no immediate.. More

  • US Troops Raid Central Baghdad

    Hundreds of US and Iraqi forces have launched their biggest Baghdad raid in recent weeks, moving on foot through a central neighbourhood and rounding up dozens of people, the military said. About 500 members of Iraq's police and army on Monday swept through buildings in the Rashid neighbourhood along with a couple of hundred American soldiers, detaining.. More

  • Dhaka Factory Collapse Traps Hundreds

    Hundreds of factory workers are feared trapped under the rubble of a nine-storey building that collapsed like a house of cards near Bangladesh's capital, according to survivors and witnesses. Rescuers dug out 15 bodies and pulled 58 people alive from the debris, but narrow roads leading to the site hampered efforts to bring in cranes to help remove.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Troops Raid Nablus

    Israeli occupation troops have made an incursion into the centre of Nablus in the north of the West Bank. Early on Monday, the soldiers, who arrived in about 20 military vehicles backed by a helicopter, surrounded several buildings and called on their residents to get out, apparently looking for wanted Palestinian activists, witnesses said. The troops.. More

  • EU Nuclear Talks Improving, Says Iran

    Iran says it sees improved prospects in difficult negotiations with European states over its nuclear activities but has repeated its refusal to renounce uranium enrichment. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on Sunday that "the atmosphere" was better than before. "We hope to reach concrete results ... on 19 April," he said, referring.. More

  • Sudan seeks $2.6bn to Rebuild South

    Sudan has said it will seek 2.6 billion US dollar to rebuild its south devastated by Africa's longest civil war but donors are wary because of the continued conflict in Darfur. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, leaders of the Sudanese government and the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) will attend 60-nation talks in Oslo on Monday.. More

  • Strong Quake Jolts Tokyo, No Tsunami Warning

    A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Monday morning, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no reports of serious damage or injuries. Two runways at Narita International Airport near Tokyo were closed for checks but soon reopened, public broadcaster NHK said. Some high-speed bullet train lines.. More

  • Palestinians Gather to Defend Holy Site

    A political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has joined thousands of Muslim demonstrators for a rally in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound despite a ban by Israeli authorities, witnesses said. Shaikh Hasan Yusuf, who was recently released from Israeli prison, was not entitled to enter occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday. Thousandsof.. More

  • Egypt Frees Muslim Brotherhood Members

    Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the release on bail of 17 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The men are among more than 230 members of the group arrested after a 27 March demonstration against President Husni Mubarak that prompted a massive security crackdown in Cairo and four provinces in the northern Nile Delta. Police said 60.. More

  • Pakistani Diplomat Missing in Baghdad

    A Pakistani diplomat has gone missing in Baghdad, a Pakistani official and Iraqi police have said. Consul Malik Mohamed Javed went missing after evening prayers onSaturday in the western Amariya district and his family contacted the police, said Pakistan's Charges D'Affaires Muhammad Iftikhar Anjum. Police said Javed had failed to return from prayers.. More

  • South Africa Apartheid Party Dissolves

    The party linked to decades of white racist rule in South Africa has formally departed the political stage, with its leader admittingthe injustice of apartheid rule. The New National Party- the successor to the National Party that led apartheid- approved its dissolution at a meeting of its federal executive in Johannesburg. This followed a decision,.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Teenagers

    Israeli occupation troops have fired at a group of Palestinian youths in the southern Gaza Strip, killing three teenagers. The incident on Saturday in the Rafah refugee camp, located along the border with Egypt, shattered weeks of calm and added to tensions surrounding plans by Jewish radicals to march on a disputed holy site in Jerusalem. Ali Abu.. More

  • Iraqi Protest over US Presence in Iraq

    Tens of thousands of supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have marched in Baghdad to denounce the US presence in Iraq and call for a speedy trial of Saddam Hussein on the second anniversary of his overthrow. Chanting "No, no to the occupiers", tens of thousands of young and old men gathered in the poor Shia district of Sadr City on Saturday to.. More

  • Militia Accused of Darfur Village Attack

    More than 350 militia men mounted on horses and camels rampaged through a village in southern Darfur this week, the African Union and the United Nations said. "We condemn this senseless and premeditated savage attack", which destroyed everything in the rebel-held village of Khor Abeche but the mosque and the school, the organisations said in a joint.. More