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  • At Least 14 Killed in Israeli Attack on Gaza

    Israeli missiles which may have been targeting Hamas activists in a town in the central Gaza Strip, have killed 14 people and wounded 40. Israeli occupation forces fired into the town of Shijaia and exchanged fire with Palestinian resistance fighters in the area, Palestinian security sources said. It was still unclear whether the armaments used were.. More

  • First Milosevic Witness Testifies

    The first defence witness has started testifying at the trial of the former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague's UN tribunal. Smilja Avramov, a retired Serbian law professor and ultra-nationalist, said Western-trained "terrorists" had worked to break up the former Yugoslavia. Milosevic said two British lawyers appointed to defend him.. More

  • Afghan Campaign Kicks off

    The official month-long campaign for Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban, has opened. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai, who has the strong backing of the United States and the West, is seen as favourite to win the 9 October poll, but rivals may force him into a run-off. Ahead of his own election.. More

  • Civilians Killed in Attacks across Iraq as US Marines Ambushed near Falluja

    More than 20 Iraqis have been killed and many others injured in a day of unrest across the war-torn country. Twenty people were killed and four houses were demolished on Monday by US air raid over al-Fakhirya village near al-Yusifiya, south of Baghdad, informed sources told Aljazeera. Elsewhere, an Iraqi was killed and seven others were injured in.. More

  • Israeli Spy Satellite Crashes

    An Israeli rocket carrying a spy satellite intended to boost surveillance over arch-enemy Iran has crashed into the sea shortly after lift-off. The Israeli Defence Ministry blamed Monday's accident on a malfunction in the third stage of the Shavit rocket, which took off from an air base south of Tel Aviv. Witnesses saw a flash of light near the coastal.. More

  • At Least 90 Dead, 77 Missing in China Storms

    At least 90 people were killed and 77 were missing after some of the worst rainstorms in recent years triggered landslides and flash floods in southwest China, disaster relief officials said. At least 66 were killed and 50 were missing in Sichuan province while 24 people died and 27 were missing in Chongqing municipality. More than 450,000 people.. More

  • Iraqi Ambassador Confirms Move to Establish Diplomatic Ties with Israel

    The Iraqi ambassador to Britain has said that the issue of establishing diplomatic ties with Israel will be discussed after general elections are held in Iraq early next year. Dr Salah Al Sheikhali told Israeli daily Ha'aretz in an exclusive interview in London that a strong and powerful pressure group, made up of businessmen and politicians, were.. More

  • Al-Qaradawi Accuses Humanitarian Organisations in Darfur of Conspiring against Muslims

    Muslim scholar Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradawi has accused the international humanitarian organisations working in Darfur, in western Sudan, of conspiring against Muslims in that part of the country. Delivering the Friday sermon at Al Shohdaa Mosque in Khartoum, Sheikh Al-Qaradawi accused the West of plotting against the Muslims, especially in Darfur. "We.. More

  • Jewish 'Terrorists' Exposed by Israeli Media

    Israeli media have exposed a para-military Jewish group that has been terrorising Palestinian civilians in the West Bank with full knowledge and tacit approval of the Israeli army. State-run Israeli radio, Reshet Bet, announced on Sunday that members of the group, known as the "Hebrew Brigade," are armed with automatic rifles and equipped with jeeps.. More

  • More Dead in Iraq Clashes

    At least three Iraqis have been killed and more than a dozen wounded as US-led forces renewed their attacks on the northern town of Tal Afar amid country-wide clashes. Three Iraqis were killed and 12 others were injured in fighting on Sunday, Dr Fawzi al-Tahhan, director of the Tal Afar hospital, told Aljazeera. And in other incidents, two blasts.. More

  • Armed Protesters Seize Gaza Governor Office

    Armed protesters have stormed Palestinian Authority offices in a southern Gaza Strip town, demanding that the body do more to assist families left homeless by an Israeli raid. About 15 Palestinians, not affiliated to any resistance movement, seized the office of governor Husni Zurub in Khan Yunis early on Sunday and expelled most of the 22 workers.. More

  • Hurricane Slams into Florida, Bush Declares a "Major Disaster"

    Hurricane 'Frances' slammed onto south Florida's east coast, downing power lines, uprooting trees and prompting US President George W. Bush to declare a "major disaster" in the state. After a day of powerful gusts, some of the fiercest winds of the storm and sheets of rain lashed the state's Atlantic coast Saturday night. And forecasters warned that.. More

  • Erdogan Defends Adultery-Law Change

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended plans to outlaw adultery that have outraged women's groups and raised eyebrows in the European Union, which Turkey aspires to join. In an interview published on Saturday in the Sabah newspaper, Erdogan said the plans were aimed at buttressing the family, and that Turkey must not always blindly.. More

  • Many Civilians Dead in Northern Iraq

    A dozen civilians are killed and scores others wounded in fighting in northern Iraq, while several US troops are injured in clashes across the country. At least 12 Iraqis were killed and 60 others were wounded as clashes erupted in the northern town of Tal Affar, an Iraqi journalist, an Ammar al-Zubaidi, told Aljazeera on Saturday. The fighting in.. More

  • Fifth Palestinian Teenager Killed

    A Palestinian youth has died of wounds from Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunus. Husam Abu Zarka, 18, died of his injuries on Saturday after being wounded in Wednesday's clashes with Israeli occupation troops. Abu Zarka was fatally wounded when Israeli soldiers opened fire on a group of stone-throwing youths and died soon afterwards... More