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  • Deadly blast hits Afghan town

    At least eight people have died after a bomb exploded in the capital of Helmand, amid a Nato and Afghan military offensive in the southern Afghanistan province. Local authorities said all those killed in the attack on Tuesday in Lashkar Gah, Helmand's capital, were civilians. "The latest information we have says that seven people have been killed.. More

  • Al-Bashir to sign Darfur peace deal

    Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, has arrived in Qatar to conclude a peace agreement that could see an end to the war in Darfur. Al-Bashir is expected to formally sign the peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem), Darfur's largest opposition group, on Tuesday, in Doha, the Qatari capital. Leaders.. More

  • Afghan government: Airstrike kills 21 civilians

    Afghanistan government officials say at least 21 civilians have been killed by a Nato air attack on a convoy of vehicles in Uruzgan, a province in the country's south. Nato confirmed that it fired on Sunday on a group of vehicles that it believed contained fighters, only to discover later that women and children were in the cars. Isaf, Nato's force.. More

  • Israel PM 'signed off' on Dubai hit

    Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, is alleged to have given the green light for last month's assassination of a senior Hamas figure, according to a British newspaper. The Sunday Times, citing "sources with knowledge of Mossad", reported on Sunday that Netanyahu visited the Israeli intelligence headquarters in early January and,.. More

  • Haiti quake toll may reach 300,000

    Haiti's president has warned that the number of people killed in last month's devastating earthquake could jump to 300,000 as rubble is cleared and more bodies are uncovered. Rene Preval added that the rainy season in Haiti was beginning and it could complicate recovery efforts. "You have seen the images, you are familiar with the pictures. More.. More

  • Iraq party pulls out of vote

    Saleh al-Mutlaq, a prominent Iraqi politician banned from contesting next month's parliamentary elections, has announced he is withdrawing his party from the March 7 vote. The opposition National Dialogue Front's decision comes after al-Mutlaq, a Sunni Arab MP, was barred from participating in the elections for alleged ties to the Baath party of Saddam.. More

  • Darfur group signs temporary truce

    The Justice and Equality Movement (Jem), Darfur's largest opposition group, has signed a temporary ceasefire deal with Sudan's government. Representatives of the group and the government signed the "framework agreement" setting out the terms for future peace talks in Ndjamena, Chad's capital, on Saturday. "Today we signed an agreement.. More

  • Dutch cabinet falls over Afghan row

    The Netherlands' coalition government has collapsed after the two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw Dutch troops from Afghanistan later this year, as had been planned. The cabinet of Jan Peter Balkenende, the prime minister, fell apart early on Saturday following 16 hours of talks in The Hague. "Where there is no trust, it.. More

  • Four NATO troops killed on sixth day of Marja offensive in Afghanistan

    The sixth day of the military offensive in southern Afghanistan proved the deadliest so far as four NATO troops were killed in bombings and gun battles during the painstaking push to take back a Taliban stronghold. From the beginning of the operation in Marja -- the biggest joint military operation of the war -- occupying troops have encountered sporadic.. More

  • US drone attacks in Pakistan kill Taliban relatives

    A son of the leader of a major Taliban faction resisting Western forces in Afghanistan invasion has been killed in a missile strike by a U.S. drone in Pakistan, security officials said on Friday. The killing of the son of veteran Afghan guerrilla commander Jalaluddin Haqqani came days after the arrest of the Afghan Taliban's top military strategist,.. More

  • Clashes erupt at West Bank protest

    Israeli security forces have fired tear gas and munitions at a group of Palestinians staging a protest in the West Bank town of Bi'lin to mark the fifth anniversary of a separation wall built by Israel. Sherine Tadros, Al Jazeera's correspondent, said Israeli forces reacted strongly after a number of demonstrators managed to cross a fence and threw.. More

  • Iraqi city of Ramadi rocked by deadly blast

    At least 10 people have been killed and 15 hurt in a bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, officials say. The explosion occurred at a checkpoint near government offices in the capital of Iraq's western Anbar province, police said. Hospital officials told AFP news agency that four policemen and a young girl were among those killed. Violence has.. More

  • Hamas vows revenge for killing

    Thousands of Hamas supporters have attended a rally in Gaza to honor assassinated commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The group has blamed his death last month in a luxury hotel in Dubai on an Israeli hit squad. "The decision to avenge the martyr Mahmoud al-Mabhouh has been taken, and it will be equal to the crime," Abu Obeida, a spokesman for.. More

  • Hezbollah warns Israel on attacks

    The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement has warned Israel that it will fire rockets at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport and other strategic Israeli targets if Israel's military strikes Lebanon. "If they destroy our buildings in the southern suburbs, we will destroy buildings in Tel Aviv," Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday via a video link.. More

  • Pakistan plot suspects 'tortured'

    Five US nationals held on suspicion of "planning terror attacks" in Pakistan have accused the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Pakistani authorities of torturing and trying to frame them. The claim was written on a tissue thrown to reporters outside the court where the case is being heard in the Pakistani town of Sargodha, 190km.. More