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  • New Quake Hits Japan

    A powerful earthquake in Japan has struck the same region where at least 31 people were killed and more than 3400 injured five days ago. The 6.1 quake collapsed more buildings in Ojiya and smoke could be seen in the city of Nagaoka in the mostly rural Niigata area, 250km north of Tokyo. The latest tremor hit at 10.40am local time (0140 GMT).. More

  • Jordan Urged to End Treaty with Israel

    Jordan's opposition has urged the government to cancel its 10-year-old peace treaty with Israel. In a statement on its website on Tuesday, the Islamic Action Front (IAF) called on Jordanians to persuade the government to end "normalisation" with Israel and expel the Israeli ambassador. Signed on 26 October 1994, the Wadi Araba treaty formally ended.. More

  • Darfur Rebels Stall Aid Deal

    Sudanese rebels have insisted that the government disarm its militias in Darfur before they sign a deal to bring aid to 1.5 million civilians displaced by violence. The rebels' reluctance to sign the "humanitarian protocol" on the second day of peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Tuesday brought the two sides back to the sticking point that.. More

  • 16 Palestinians Die in Israeli Raid

    Sixteen Palestinians were killed during a major Israeli offensive on the southern Gaza Strip as MPs began yesterday to debate a planned pullout from the territory, medical and security sources said. Another 70 Palestinians were injured and two Israeli troops badly wounded in the raid that started late Sunday, sources on both sides said. The bloody.. More

  • US Warplanes Strike Falluja

    US forces have attacked a building in the Iraqi city of Falluja claiming to have killed one person they say is an associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the al-Qaida-linked network in the country. In a statement, the US military said the "precision strike" had been carried out in north-west Falluja at 3am (0000 GMT) on Tuesday. "Multiple.. More

  • Thai Police Kills 5 Muslim Protesters

    Up to five people have died and at least 20 injured after security forces in southern Thailand fired shots in the air and used water cannons and tear gas to disperse protestors. The protest to demand the release of six detained security guards turned violent earlier on Monday, with demonstrators hurling rocks at a police station in southern Narathiwat.. More

  • US Convoy Attacked in Central Baghdad

    A car bomb targeting a US military convoy has exploded near the Australian embassy in central Baghdad killing at least two people. "Two people were killed, they were Iraqi, and several people wounded," said police lieutenent Abbas Fadil. The incident took place several hundred metres away from the embassy building. Interior ministry spokesman Colonel.. More

  • Israeli Strikes Kill Six in Gaza

    Pilotless Israeli aircraft have fired up to five missiles during a raid in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunus, killing six Palestinians. The strikes came as troops backed by tanks and bulldozers invaded the area and began to demolish houses and buildings and raze farmlands late on Sunday, Aljazeera's correspondent reports. Governor of Khan.. More

  • Japan Jolted by Strong Aftershocks after Quakes Kill 24

    More strong aftershocks jolted central Japan after thousands spent a night in shelters following the country's deadliest quake in nearly a decade that left 24 people dead, officials said. Forty-nine quakes struck in the early hours Monday in Niigata, a coastal area 200 kilometres (125 miles) northwest of Tokyo, with the biggest measuring 5.6 on the.. More

  • Rugova's Party Set to Win Kosovo Polls

    President Ibrahim Rugova's pro-independence party looks set to keep its dominance in Kosovo after weekend elections marred by an ethnic Serb boycott. Counting was under way after the UN-administered province's second general election since the 1998-99 war, but preliminary unofficial results showed Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo retaining its.. More

  • Kashmiri Leader Survives Bid on Life

    The head of Indian Kashmir's main opposition party, Omar Abdullah, survived an assassination bid yesterday for the second time in a month when rebels exploded a bomb a few steps away from him, police said. Seven people were injured in the blast in the insurgency-racked Himalayan region, two critically, police said. Abdullah leads the pro-India National.. More

  • Bodies of 49 Slain Iraqi Soldiers Discovered

    The corpses of 49 soldiers of Iraq's new army have been found north of the capital Baghdad. Police and Iraqi National Guard officers said 37 bodies had been recovered on Saturday from the vicinity of Baquba and another 12 on Sunday morning. General Walid al-Azzawi, commander of the Diyala provincial police, said the bodies had been laid out in rows. "Aft.. More

  • Tension Mounts after Gaza Missile Attack

    Two Palestinians are confirmed dead and four injured after an Israeli aircraft launched two missiles at a group of Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunus. The attack occurred early on Sunday morning as Palestinians headed to mosques for the morning prayers. The missile appeared to have been aimed at resistance fighters from al-Quds.. More

  • Ethnic Tension Mars Kosovo Polls

    Renewed ethnic tensions and uncertainty over final status talks have overshadowed Kosovo's general election. This is the second election in the province since the 1998-99 war between Serbian forces and ethnic Albanian separatists. The vote on Saturday for the 120-seat assembly is seen as a test of the international community's efforts to build a.. More

  • Iran Rejects EU Nuclear Deal

    Iran has turned down a European Union proposal that it stops enriching uranium in return for nuclear technology. Diplomats had said that if Iran rejected the proposal, most EU countries would back a US demand that Tehran should be reported to the UN Security Council for possible economic sanctions when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).. More