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  • Israeli warplanes hit Gaza, wounding 12 Palestinians

    Israeli warplanes struck on the Gaza Strip on Friday night, wounding at least 12 Palestinians, Hamas security officials and witnesses said. Locals said Israeli F16s launched three attacks near the ruins of the Gaza airport, Maan news agency said. The attack came after a rocket which was fired by unknown Gazan group, killing a Thai worker. The Israeli.. More

  • Turkey detains many over coup plot case in wide-scale operation

    Turkish police on Thursday detained around 20 people in connection to an alleged plot to topple the government, and the detainees included retired and active military officers, state media said. The operation was part of an investigation into the Ergenekon network, an alleged secularist right-wing militant group that prosecutors say had planned to.. More

  • Sudan signs pact with Darfur group

    The Sudanese government has signed a framework peace accord with a small Darfur rebel group, officials have said. The three-month ceasefire agreement, signed with the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) on Thursday in Doha, the Qatari capital, came as talks with the larger Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) stalled. Ali Osman Taha, the Sudanese.. More

  • Obama: 'No crisis' in Israel ties

    Israeli plans to build more homes near East Jerusalem are not helpful for the Middle East peace process, but the recent row over the issue does not amount to a crisis in US-Israeli relations, Barack Obama has said. In his first public comments on the issue, the US president told the Fox News network on Wednesday that despite the recent spat over settlement.. More

  • Nigeria leader sacks cabinet

    Nigeria's acting president has sacked his entire cabinet almost a month after parliament empowered him to run Africa's most populous country. A terse statement released on Wednesday by Dora Akunyili, the information minister, said Goodluck Jonathan will soon announce a new cabinet. "He did not give us any reason for the dissolution of the cabinet... More

  • Red shirts take blood protest to PM

    Red-shirted opposition supporters have arrived near the home of Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Thai prime minister, to pour out their own blood in a symbolic protest against the government. Thousands of protesters moved across the capital in lorries, cars and motorcycles to the affluent neighborhood in the Sukhumvit district to repeat their demand that Abhisit.. More

  • Pakistanis die in 'US drone raids'

    Two suspected US drone attacks in northwest Pakistan have killed at least six suspected pro-Taliban fighters, according to intelligence and security officials. A pilotless aircraft fired missiles at two targets in North Waziristan within an hour of each other on Wednesday, the officials said. In the first raid, four missiles were fired at a vehicle,.. More

  • US says Israeli bond 'unshakeable'

    The US has affirmed its "unshakeable" and "unbreakable" bond with Israel amid the allies' most public spat in years over Israel's announcement that it would build 1,600 new settler homes. "We have an absolute commitment to Israel's security. We have a close, unshakeable bond between the United States and Israel," Hillary.. More

  • Clashes break out in East Jerusalem

    Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police in two areas of occupied East Jerusalem after Palestinian groups called for a "day of rage" over the reopening of a synagogue in the Old City. Palestinians threw stones at Israeli police who responded with stun grenades in the Shuafat and Essawiyya neighborhoods early on Tuesday. At least 90.. More

  • Fiji declares cyclone disaster

    Fiji has declared a state of disaster in its north and east after Cyclone Tomas hit the island nation, forcing thousands to seek emergency shelter. The category four storm brought winds of up to 175kph and left a trail of damage across the country. The state of disaster was declared after the National Disaster Council, headed by Frank Bainimarama,.. More

  • Israel rejects settlement halt

    Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has rejected calls from the US to halt settlement plans in occupied East Jerusalem, saying plans for building new homes would go ahead. In a speech to Israel's parliament on Monday, Netanyahu said construction "will continue in Jerusalem as this has been the case for the past 42 years" in reference.. More

  • Car bomb blast strikes Iraqi city

    Seven people have been killed and 13 others wounded after a car bomb exploded in a city in Iraq's western Anbar province. Police sources told Al Jazeera that the blast, which occurred during rush hour in the city of Falluja, came from a parked car and was not a suicide attack. The attack appeared to target an army convoy in Falluja, which lies 50km.. More

  • Thai protesters give government election ultimatum

    Tens of thousands of protesters converged in Bangkok on Sunday and gave Thailand's military-backed government an ultimatum: call elections in 24 hours or face crippling demonstrations across the capital. About 80,000 red-shirted supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a military coup in 2006, arrived in trucks, cars and motorbikes.. More

  • "Widespread fraud" during the Iraqi election count

    European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton will next week be urged to lodge a formal protest over "widespread fraud" during the Iraqi election count. "I'll be providing my edited dossier to the parliament and to Baroness Ashton's office on Wednesday," said Struan Stevenson, the conservative Scottish chairman of the EU.. More

  • Israel extends West Bank closure

    Israel has extended a lockdown on the occupied West Bank and restricted access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem as tensions continue over its plans to build new homes for Jewish settlers in mainly Arab east Jerusalem. Israeli police said access to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem would be restricted to men under 50 on Sunday because.. More