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  • Airlines call for flight resumption

    The International Air Transport Association [IATA] has urged governments to rethink decisions to close large swathes of European airspace because of the Icelandic volcano's ash cloud. The airline industry body expressed its dissatisfaction with the way governments managed the crisis saying there was "no risk assessment, no consultation, no coordinatio.. More

  • Taliban takes over Afghan valley

    The Taliban is claiming victory in eastern Afghanistan's Korengal Valley following the withdrawal of US forces from the remote outpost. US officials, however, say the withdrawal in Kunar province was "a repositioning of forces" following a decision by General Stanley McChrystal, head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, to concentrate resources.. More

  • Deadly blast hits Pakistan police in northwest

    A suicide car-bomber killed seven people and wounded 26 in an attack on a police station in Pakistan's northwest on Sunday, police said. Police sources said Sunday's attack targeted a police station in response to military operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas. On Sunday, the bomber drove a van into a roadblock outside a police station in Kohat.. More

  • Pope: Church 'wounded by sin'

    The Roman Catholic church has been "wounded by sin", Pope Benedict XVI has said, in an apparent reference to the recent wave of sex abuse scandals. He made the comments as he began a two-day visit to Malta on Saturday, his first foreign trip since the full scale of the scandals emerged. On the pontiff's first day in Malta, about 100,000.. More

  • Ash to cause further air chaos

    Aviation experts are warning that flights into and out of Europe could continue to be disrupted by clouds of blackened ash from an Icelandic volcano. On Friday thousands of people were left stranded at airports around the world, with an estimated 17,000 flights cancelled, after plumes of smoke spread across Europe. Brian Flynn, assistant head of operations.. More

  • Cold grips China quake survivors

    Thousands of survivors in quake-hit Qinghai province in western China continue to wait for emergency aid, after spending a second night without shelter in freezing temperatures. As the death toll reached 791, rescue teams rushed to reach those believed to still be trapped in rubble and collapsed buildings in the sparsely populated remote mountainous.. More

  • Sudan 'poll shooting' kills nine

    Nine members of Sudan's ruling party have reportedly been killed in a shooting as elections took place in the south of the country. Speaking as the five-day presidential, parliamentary and local polls came to an end on Thursday, Agnes Lokudu, the head of the National Congress Party in south Sudan, blamed the killing on the region's local military. "Thr.. More

  • Icelandic volcanic ash alert grounds UK flights

    Airline passengers are facing massive disruption across the UK after an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in Iceland grounded planes. The Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) said no flights would be allowed in or out of UK airspace from midday to 1800BST amid fears of engine damage. Airports operator BAA confirmed all flights at Heathrow, Stansted.. More

  • Israeli settlers vandalize mosque, burn cars in West Bank

    Israeli settlers vandalized a mosque on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian security officials said, after storming the Nablus village early Wednesday morning. The Israeli army confirmed that "anonymous suspects" scrawled graffiti, including racist slogans and Jewish symbol alongside the name of the noble Prophet Mohammed written.. More

  • China sifts rubble for quake survivors

    China has been sifting rubble for survivors of the deadly quake which hit the remote Qinghai region and left thousands of people homeless. Rescuers continued to search with their bare hands and picks 30 hours after the quake as heavy lifting equipment rolled towards the mountainous area. Officials say 617 people died and 9,980 were injured when the.. More

  • Turkey's PM: Israel just speaking "cacophony" over peace

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed hope that a diplomatic solution could be found to a dispute over Iran's nuclear program. Speaking to CNN's Christian Amanpour, Erdogan said Turkey had had a strategic alliance with Iran since the 17th century, adding that his country wanted a diplomatic solution to the problem. "I.. More

  • Bosnian witness details massacre horrors at Karadzic trial

    The first prosecution witness at the war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic described to a U.N. court on Tuesday how he saw Bosnian Serb forces bomb villages and slit prisoners' throats. Karadzic is on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and violating.. More

  • Scores killed in China quake

    A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has killed at least 67 people in a mountainous rural area in western China, officials and state media say. Many others were trapped under houses and troops were dispatched to the area on Wednesday amid fears that many residents could be without shelter in temperatures below freezing. The quake and at least three aftershocks.. More

  • Mogadishu fighting kills civilians

    More than 20 people have reportedly been killed in violence in Mogadishu as African Union and Somali forces clashed with anti-government fighters, police and medical services sources said. At least 13 people were killed in fighting after mortars were fired at the airport, while another six people died in when two roadside bombs exploded. The mortars.. More

  • Palestinians face new Israeli mass deportation at own home

    New Israeli military order could offer a legal framework for expelling tens of thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to the Gaza Strip or abroad, Israeli human rights groups warned on Sunday. The orders, which go into effect Tuesday, were posted on an army website. The order labels as an "infiltrator" any person who "does.. More