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  • Sudan party in partial vote boycott

    The Sudan People's Liberation Movement has said that it will partially boycott elections set for Sunday. The SPLM, south Sudan's main political party, currently shares power at the federal level with the National Congress Party under a 2005 peace accord. The announcement on Tuesday raises more concern over the credibility of the legislative, local.. More

  • Multiple explosions rock Baghdad

    At least eight explosions have rocked the Iraqi capital, killing at least 35 people and injuring more than 140 people. The blasts targeted residential buildings in a mix of Sunni and Shia areas of Baghdad on Tuesday morning. Police said two car bombs were detonated in Chkook, Khadamiya district, killing at least five people. In Baghad's western Shula.. More

  • Indian police killed by Maoists

    Left-wing Maoist rebels in India have killed up to 55 paramilitary police in an attack in the central state of Chhattisgarh, officials have said. About 300 rebels are said to have attacked the police from a hilltop on Tuesday in Dantewada district as they returned from an operation, NDTV television quoted officials as saying. "There are 55 CRPF.. More

  • More held over Turkey 'coup plot'

    Turkish police have detained at least 14 military officers in a major investigation into an alleged 2003 plot to overthrow the government. The suspects, held after raids carried out across the country on Monday, are said to include four generals. Local media gave varying accounts of the number held, with private NTV television reporting prosecutors.. More

  • Video shows 'US attack' on Iraqis

    One of the internet's biggest sources of classified government information has released video of a US helicopter firing at civilians in Iraq. WikiLeaks, a website that publishes anonymously sourced documents, released what it called previously unseen footage on Monday. It said the footage filmed from a helicopter cockpit shows a missile strike and.. More

  • Explosions rock northwest Pakistan

    A series of explosions across Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) have killed at least 30 people and wounded 100 others, police have said. A bombing at a political rally in the town of Timargarah in Lower Dir district on Monday was quickly followed by at least three explosions near the US consulate in Peshawar, the main city of North West.. More

  • Nato admits Afghan civilian deaths

    The Nato-led force in Afghanistan has admitted the killing of five Afghan civilians, including three women, during a botched night raid on a home in Paktia province in February. Nato said its troops, in a joint patrol with Afghan soldiers, had entered the house on in Gardez district on February 12, believing an armed fighter was inside. They killed.. More

  • 75 killed, hundreds wounded in Baghdad’s bloody weekend

    With violence already steadily rising over the past several months, Iraq is now reeling after a pair of very high profile attacks in Baghdad over the weekend have left at least 75 people killed and several hundred others wounded. 11 others were killed and scores of others wounded outside of Baghdad as well. An attack on a village along the southern.. More

  • Baghdad hit by three massive blasts

    Three massive explosions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 15 people and wounded 35 others, police sources told Al Jazeera. Smoke could be seen rising into the sky above Baghdad on Sunday, as helicopters circled overhead. Gunfire could also be heard echoing across the city. There was no word yet on the cause of the explosions, one.. More

  • Civilians killed in Somali clashes

    At least 20 civilians have been killed and dozens more injured in clashes between Somali government troops and opposition forces in the capital Mogadishu. The latest round of fighting began on Friday and follows a lull of about two weeks. Yusuf Mohamed Siad, the Somali deputy defense minister, said on Saturday, that government forces had killed a.. More

  • Sudan elections 'to go ahead'

    Sudan's controversial elections will go ahead this month, the deputy head of the country's election commission has said. The announcement came less than a day after one of Sudan's largest opposition parties said it would not take part in the polls unless the government agreed to a four-week delay to the vote. "The National Elections Commission.. More

  • Dozens dead in Baghdad shooting

    Up to 25 people have been killed after a group of men dressed in Iraqi army uniforms stormed five houses in a village just south of the capital Baghdad, Iraqi authorities have said. The attack took place in a Sunni enclave called Albusaifi in the southern part of Baghdad province in the early hours of Saturday. "Men wearing uniforms and driving.. More

  • US to adopt new air ‘security’ policy

    The United States has announced new security measures to replace the mandatory screening of air travelers from 14 countries, imposed after the failed attack on a flight in December. The measures are designed to significantly reduce the number of passengers pulled aside for additional screening and will not be based on nationality or passport, but on.. More

  • 'Friendly fire' kills Afghan troops

    Six Afghan soldiers have been killed by German troops who opened fire on them after mistaking them for Taliban fighters, an Afghan government official has said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official told Al Jazeera on Friday that the Afghan soldiers were fired on after arriving on the scene of a Taliban attack in Kunduz province that left.. More

  • Israel pounds Gaza with missiles

    Three children have been reported injured in eastern Gaza City after Israeli aircraft carried out a series of missile strikes across the Palestinian territory. Palestinian hospital officials said the children were injured by flying debris in the air raids that came in the early hours of Friday. Al Jazeera's Casey Kauffman, reporting from Gaza, said.. More