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  • Philippines Clashes Break Two-Year Truce

    Clashes have erupted between government troops and Muslim separatist fighters in the southern Philippines, breaking a two year-old truce just weeks before possible peace talks. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the fighting around Mamasapano town on Mindanao Island, on Wednesday, which the military alleged was sparked by a Moro Islamic.. More

  • US Soldier Captured as Car Bombs Explode in Mosul

    Iraqis have captured an American soldier in the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, an Iraqi police spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday. Lt. Col. Mohammed Ahmed of Samarra police said the soldier had been seized Monday night by gunmen. According to him, American soldiers were out in force in the streets of the city Tuesday. Elsewhere, at least two.. More

  • Karzai Set to Be Declared Winner

    A panel investigating the Afghan presidential elections says voting irregularities were not enough to affect the final outcome. Officials say that paves the way for incumbent president Hamid Karzai to be declared the winner. One election official, Sultan Baheen, has already told the AFP news agency that "Karzai is the winner". The commission is.. More

  • US Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

    A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded when their patrol was attacked in south-eastern Afghanistan. "It was an incident early this afternoon in Paktika province between a US patrol and enemy forces," Major Mark McCann said on Monday. "As a result, one US soldier was killed and two were wounded," he said, adding he had no further details.. More

  • Kerry, Bush in Final Bid for Key States

    President George Bush and Democratic Senator John Kerry are making a final push for vital votes in a handful of crucial swing states. National polls and those taken in battleground states show the bitter political rivals in a virtual tie less than 24 hours before Americans choose their leader for the next four years. Both planned exhausting campaign.. More

  • At Least Four Israelis Killed in Tel Aviv Explosion

    An explosion has ripped through a crowded outdoor market in central Tel Aviv, killing at least four people. Paramedics on Saturday treated dazed shoppers on the ground, as police searched waste bins for additional explosives. The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for the blast that also.. More

  • US Bombs Falluja as Showdown Looms

    American warplanes have bombed the Iraqi city of Falluja, a day after the country's interim prime minister spoke of an imminent military showdown with anti-US forces. An Iraqi journalist told Aljazeera the bombing lasted for up to two hours in the al-Azraqiya neighbourhood, north-east of the city on Monday. Residents also said the strikes destroyed.. More

  • Fighters, Soldier Killed in Aceh Province

    At least 19 people are reported to have died in violence in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province. The bloodshed mounted over the weekend before a key review of military operations to crush a long-running separatist struggle. One soldier and 10 rebels were killed in separate clashes on Sunday, said Aceh military spokesman Ari Mulya Asnawi, while Indonesian.. More

  • Tehran Pressed to Build Nuclear Energy

    Iran's parliament has passed a bill obliging the government to press ahead with efforts to develop a nuclear energy programme. The bill was approved on Sunday by all 247 deputies present in the 290-seat chamber. The document did not specifically order the government to resume uranium enrichment immediately or to end snap UN inspections of atomic facilities,.. More

  • US Troops Take Major Losses cross Iraq

    Three US marines have been injured in an attack on their convoy in Ramadi, a day after nine others were killed in another assault west of Baghdad. The marines were wounded on Sunday after a homemade bomb exploded shortly before 7.30am (0430 GMT) as the convoy passed through the town 100km west of Baghdad. Ramadi and nearby Falluja are the two main.. More

  • Al-Jazeera Airs Video of 3 UN Hostages in Afghanistan

    Three U.N. employees held hostage in Afghanistan were shown on Sunday in a video aired by Al Jazeera television, which said they called for the release of prisoners from Afghan jails and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The video showed the hostages, a man and two women, crouched on the floor with a masked militant next to them. The three appeared to be in.. More

  • Japan Confirms Identity of Beheaded Man

    Japanese officials have confirmed that the headless body found in Baghdad on Saturday is of the Japanese drifter held captive in Iraq. Tokyo however vowed it would keep its troops in the country on what it calls a reconstruction mission. An armed group in Iraq had on Wednesday threatened to behead Shosei Koda, 24, within 48 hours if Japan did not.. More

  • Abbas Urges Palestinians to Unite, Doctors say Arafat Leukaemia-free

    Former Palestinian premier Mahmud Abbas urged Palestinian forces to unite, pledging loyalty to Yasser Arafat, as he moved to the political centre stage with the strongman sick in hospital. Abbas spoke after chairing the first Palestine Liberation Organisation executive meeting without Arafat, amid speculation that the Palestinian leadership could fall.. More

  • Mass Grave Found in North-West Bosnia

    The remains of 415 Muslim inmates interned at Serb detention camps during the 1992-95 war have been exhumed from a mass grave in north-western Bosnia. The site, the second-largest such site found in Bosnia since the end of the war, contains the bodies of Muslims and Croats slain at two wartime concentration camps. "So far we have exhumed 415 bodies,".. More

  • Al-Jazeera Gets Bin Ladin's New Tape

    Usama bin Ladin has burst into the US election campaign, issuing his first video tape in more than a year to deride President George Bush and warn of possible new September 11-style attacks. Bin Ladin, taunting the man who has vowed to take him "dead or alive" for the past three years, said Bush had failed Americans with his Middle East policies,.. More