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  • US soldiers among dead in Northwest Pakistan bombing

    Three U.S. soldiers traveling with Pakistan security force members were killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan, Pakistani security officials said. "They were trainers. They were attached to the Frontier Corps. The dead include three U.S. trainers, one Pakistani paramilitary soldier and three children," military spokesman.. More

  • Haiti quake death toll tops 200,000

    The number of deaths from last month's earthquake in Haiti has exceeded 200,000, the prime minister says. Another 300,000 people have been treated for injuries, 250,000 homes destroyed and 30,000 businesses lost, Jean-Max Bellerive said on Wednesday. The latest figures, revised up from the government's previous figure of 150,000 dead, come as the.. More

  • Iraqi pilgrims killed in Karbala

    Two bomb attacks have killed at least 14 Shia pilgrims and injured 40 others in the city of Karbala in central Iraq. A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle set off one of the blasts on Wednesday, Iraqi police sources told Al Jazeera. Some of the injured were being taken to hospitals in the city of Najaf, about 72km away, police said. Thousand of Shia.. More

  • Deaths in Pakistan 'drone' attack

    Missiles fired by suspected US drones have killed at least 17 people and wounded many more in Pakistan, residents and security officials say. Officials said the missiles rained down on Dattakhel village in the Degan area of North Waziristan, part of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region near the Afghan border, on Tuesday. They said the missiles.. More

  • Iran: No problem with nuclear plan

    Iran's president has indicated his country may be ready to ship its uranium abroad for enrichment, in line with a UN-backed proposal. For months Iranian officials have criticized the plan proposed by six world powers last year for Iran to send out the bulk of its low-enriched uranium to be processed and returned as nuclear fuel to power its reactor. But.. More

  • Somali capital clashes claim lives

    Anti-government fighters have fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in the Somali capital, prompting return fire by troops that killed at least 16 people, medical officials and residents say. Residents and medical officials said on Monday that several bombs hit Mogadishu's northern Suqa Holaha, or livestock market, district. "At least.. More

  • Deadly blast hits Iraq pilgrims

    At least 54 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in an attack by a suspected female suicide bomber in Baghdad, an interior ministry official has said. The attack took place on Monday amid a procession by Shia who were on a pilgrimage to the southern city of Karbala, 80km southwest of the Iraqi capital. Major-General Qassim Atta, the spokesman.. More

  • More homes for illegal Israeli settlers in Hebron

    Israeli Minister without portfolio, Benni Begin, placed on Sunday the corner stone of ten new homes for Jewish settlers in the illegal Jewish settlement of Beit Hagai, south of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. During the ceremony, Begin said that this issue is part of what he described as “The country’s right to build.. More

  • Israel 'disciplines' army officers

    The Israeli army has 'disciplined' two high-ranking officers for approving the use of white phosphorous shells during the Gaza war last year, according to local media. The Haaretz newspaper's website said on Monday that a military inquiry concluded that the Gaza division commander and a brigade commander endangered human life by firing the highly incendiary.. More

  • Haiti arrests 10 Americans over "child trafficking"

    Haitian police were holding 10 US citizens late Saturday on suspicion they tried to slip out of the country with 31 Haitian children in a trafficking scheme, a government minister said. Haitian Social Affairs Minister Yves Christallin said the police arrested five men and five women with US passports, and two Haitians, as they tried to cross into the.. More

  • Nations miss UN climate deadline

    Just 19 countries out of 193 have sent letters of intent to the UN to be part of a global climate change accord, the UN's climate chief says. Countries met in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December in pursuit of a legally binding deal to follow the Kyoto protocol on limiting global warming. But a deal was not reached, and instead talks concluded with a.. More

  • Nato force blamed for Afghan deaths

    Four Afghan soldiers have been killed and another six wounded after Nato troops clashed with them and called in air attacks, Afghan provincial officials say. Shahedullah Shahed, a spokesman for the governor of Wardak, said foreign forces and Afghan troops were both conducting operations on Friday night in the province southwest of Kabul, when they.. More

  • China freezes US military exchanges

    Beijing has suspended military exchanges with the US and threatened sanctions over Washington's plan to sell arms to Taiwan, according to the official Xinhua news agency. The decision was announced on Saturday, just hours after China cautioned that the US decision to sell $6.4bn worth of weapons to Taiwan would cause "serious damage" to relations.. More

  • Iran executes two over poll unrest

    Iran has hanged two men over widespread protests that followed the country's disputed presidential election in June last year, an Iranian news agency has said. "Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmani Pour whose cases were confirmed by a Tehran appeals court were hanged on Thursday morning," the ISNA news agency said. The pair were convicted.. More

  • Blair to face UK Iraq war inquiry

    Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, is set to make a long-awaited appearance before an inquiry into Britain's involvement in the Iraq war. Anti-war campaigners and the families of some of the 179 soldiers who have died in Iraq are expected to hold protests to coincide with Blair's public grilling on Friday. "It's a pivotal day for.. More