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  • 61 killed as Pakistan bombs schools, mosque

    Pakistani jets killed nearly 60 people in a restive tribal region in the northwest, officials said. The two attacks targeted a school which Pakistan claims used by the Taliban as well as a madrasa or Islamic seminary in the Mamuzai area of the Orakzai Agency, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region. “Twenty-five bodies of fighters have been recovered.. More

  • Pope 'failed to act' over abuse

    Senior Vatican officials, including Pope Benedict XVI, have been accused of not doingenough to stop sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the US, the New York Times newspaper has reported. The pope, then a cardinal leading a Vatican office charged with protecting the moral authority of the church,was repeatedly warned about a priest who might have molested.. More

  • Bin Laden threatens US

    Osama bin Laden has in a new audio recording threatened to kill any Americans that al-Qaeda takes prisoner if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered as one of the masterminds behind the September 11 attacks, is executed. The latest recording purportedly from the al-Qaeda chief was broadcast on Al Jazeera on Thursday. "The day America will take such.. More

  • Fresh settlements approved after Obama-Netanyahu meeting

    Israel on Wednesday approved fresh plans to expand the settlements in occupied East Jerusalem after Netanyahu and Obama met unusually in Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama met twice during a dramatic evening in the White House, but no signs emerged of a breakthrough in a row over Jewish settlements. A.. More

  • Somali pirates broaden attacks

    Suspected Somali pirates have seized two ships hundreds of miles off the coast of Africa, in waters outside the zone patrolled by Navfor, the European Union naval force fighting piracy in the Gulf of Aden. A Turkish ship with a crew of 19 Turks and two Ukrainians was hijacked in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday morning, while a British Virgin islands vessel.. More

  • Britain expels Israeli diplomat

    Britain says it has expelled an Israeli diplomat over the use of cloned UK passports by a hit-squad that killed a Hamas operative in the United Arab Emirates. David Miliband, UK's foreign minister, told parliament on Tuesday that there were "compelling reasons" to believe that Israel was responsible for the misuse of British passports in.. More

  • Israel launches fresh Gaza air raid

    Five people have been injured by Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security officials and witnesses say. The five casualties, including one woman, were injured by shell fragments when an Israeli aircraft fired a missile on a house east of Gaza City late on Monday, the officials and witnesses said. The house, which was empty at the time,.. More

  • Netanyahu reaffirms "right to build" in Jerusalem

    Despite Washington's criticism on Jewish settlement activities in East Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Washington on Monday that Jerusalem was not a settlement, but the eternal capital of Israel. "The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 year ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today. Jerusalem.. More

  • US top court blocks Guantanamo Uighurs case again

    The US Supreme Court on Monday delivered a new blow to inmates at illegal U.S. prison Guantanamo Bay in Cuba from Uighur Muslims, who sought prior notice of their release due to fears of Beijing. Lawyers for the members of the Uighur ethnic group who have been held for years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo sought the 30 days notice so they.. More

  • Israel shot dead more Palestinians

    Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians Sunday at an army check post near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The deaths bring to four the number of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank over the last two days. Two Palestinians were killed on Saturday during a protest in the West Bank city of Nablus when they were hit by live.. More

  • Civilians die in Afghan attacks

    At least 10 civilians have been killed and seven others wounded after a bomb exploded near a crowd of people celebrating the Afghan new year in Helmand province, a government official said. A bomber had apparently been trying to blow up an Afghan army convoy but missed his target, Daud Ahmadi said on Sunday. "It was a suicide bomber who detonated.. More

  • Mauritania fully cuts diplomatic ties with Israel

    Mauritania has fully severed diplomatic ties with Israel, the northwest African country's foreign minister said late on Saturday, completing a process that began last year. Mauritania, an Islamic nation, has stopped "completely and definitely its diplomatic relations with Israel," Naha Mint Mouknass said in the desert capital Nouakchott. After.. More

  • US protesters mark Iraq invasion

    Thousands of anti-war protesters have marched through the US capital to call for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, on the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion. Demonstrators rallied near the White House and across the city centre on Saturday in a march sponsored by a coalition of anti-war groups, led by military veterans and activists. The.. More

  • Israeli fire kills Palestinian teen

    Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian teenager during violent clashes in the occupied West Bank, medics have said. Muhammad Qadus had been taking part in a demonstration on Saturday, in which stones were thrown at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian hospital officials said the 16-year-old was struck in the heart by a bullet.. More

  • Pope apologizes to sex abuse victims, rebukes Irish bishops

    Pope Benedict XVI apologized on Saturday to victims of child sex abuse by Irish clergy, saying he felt "shame and remorse". "You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry," he said in an unprecedented letter which addressed the abuse of minors in Ireland. In the letter, the pope also announced a formal Vatican investigation.. More