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  • Hamas Rally over Israeli Protest Plan

    About 10,000 members and supporters of Hamas demonstrated yesterday against plans by Israeli opponents of the planned Gaza Strip evacuation to rally at a disputed Jerusalem holy site. Jerusalem Police chief Ilan Franco has said he would block the April 10 rally at the site, known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif, because the.. More

  • Blast Hits Lebanese Resort

    A bomb has severely damaged a shopping and residential centre in a mountain resort northeast of Beirut, lightly injuring seven people, police and witnesses said. Several other people were treated at the scene on Friday and released. The injured included an American and a Kuwaiti national, police said. Aljazeera said that the blast occurred in the.. More

  • Iraqi Police Chief Killed in Car-Bomb Blast

    Armed men have killed the chief of police in a town northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi security officials said. Colonel Hatim Rashid Muhammad was killed along with an aide during an ambush in Balad Ruz, 50km northeast of the capital. Balad Ruz lies in the mixed Sunni and Shia Muslim province of Diyala, wherefighters frequently attack US-backed security.. More

  • US Military Plane Crashes in Albania

    A US military plane has crashed into a mountain in an isolated, snow-covered area of Albania, exploding on impact with nine military personnel aboard. Albanian officials said the plane, a C-130 transport plane, struck a mountain after apparently flying too low in an uninhabited region near the town of Gramsh, 150km south of the Albanian capital Tirana... More

  • Commission finds US wrong on Iraq

    US intelligence agencies were "dead wrong" inassessing Iraq's weapons programmes and still know dangerously little about current nuclear and biological threats, apresidential commission has said. After a year-long inquiry, the panel on US intelligence capabilitiessaid in a scathing report on Thursday that the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003.. More

  • Zimbabwe Opposition Wins Urban Seats

    Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change has won nine out of the first 10 parliamentary seats for which votes have been tallied, electoral officials said. Elections on Thursday for the 120 contested seats in Zimbabwe's parliament were largely peaceful. But opposition leaders said the vote was skewed in favour of President Robert Mugabe's.. More

  • Arab Sunnis Name Candidate

    After several delays, Iraqi Sunni political parties have nominated a candidate for the speakership of the country'sNational Assembly. Aljazeera learned that a number of Sunni Arab political parties in Iraq chose Mishaan al-Jiburi as their candidate on Wednesday. Al-Jiburi was nominated at a meeting attended by representatives of the Iraqi Islamic.. More

  • UN Debates Al-Hariri Probe

    UN diplomats have begun talks on a new draft Security Council resolution to set up an international inquiry into last month's assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. The draft, backed by Britain, France and the United States, calls for the "full cooperation of Lebanese authorities" with an investigation commission to be set.. More

  • Zimbabwe Polls Open

    Polls have opened for Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections, with long lines forming in the capital Harare hours before voting started at 7am (0500 GMT) on Thursday. At stake are 120 elected seats, withPresident Robert Mugabe appointing an additional 30 seats. "We have come to make a statement," said one young man, grinning as he headed towards a polling.. More

  • Playground Scenes in Russian Parliament

    There were startling scenes in the Russian State Duma - the lower house of parliament - when a brawl broke out between rival politicians over regional election results. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the far-right Russian Liberal Democrat Party, struck out at Andrei Saveliev. He is a deputy with the far-left party, Rodina. Zhirinovsky claimed there.. More

  • Thousands Demand Egypt Reforms

    Thousands of protesters have staged a series of pro-reform demonstrations across Egypt in defiance of the government's warning. Protesters demonstrated in Cairo, Alexandria and at a Nile Delta university, but large numbers of police officers stopped theparticipants from reaching the parliament, their main target. About 400 protesters, including members.. More

  • Karami Postpones Decision to Quit

    Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Omar Karami has put off his decision to quit, saying he will decide after more political consultations. Karami's earlier announcement that he would resign came after he was unable to form a new cabinet. "I made a promise that if I reach a dead end, I will go back to the Ein Tineh gathering," Karami said on Wednesday,.. More

  • Afghan Police Killed in Taliban Attack

    Suspected Taliban fighters have killed four border policemen in an ambush in western Afghanistan. The police in western Farah province were attacked on Tuesday while patrolling in Anar Darah district, about 700km west of the capital Kabul, governor Assadullah Falah said. Farah shares a long border with Iran and usually is considered a quiet province,.. More

  • World Vows Quake Aid

    Countries around the world offered condolences and relief after a huge earthquake hit this northwest Indonesian island. Rescuers said yesterday that more than 1,000 people were feared dead in the quake that struck on Monday triggering tsunami warnings which caused panic across the Indian Ocean. "About a third of Gunung Sitoli, the main town in Nias,.. More

  • Bosnia Co-President Fired over Alleged Corruption

    Bosnia's High Representative has sacked a member of the country's shared presidency over corruption charges. Paddy Ashdown used his sweeping powers to fire Dragan Covic, who had refused to step down in the face of the accusations. The country has a tripartite presidency representing the Croat, Muslim and Serb communities. The Muslim-Croat federation.. More