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  • N Korea fires artillery near disputed sea border

    North Korea has fired artillery near its disputed maritime border with South Korea, a day after the two exchanged shots in the same area, reports say. The North fired several rounds of artillery toward the border early on Thursday, Yonhap news agency reported. According to an unnamed official quoted by the Associated Press, the shells landed in North.. More

  • Girl found in Haiti quake rubble

    French rescuers have pulled a teenage girl out of the rubble of a school in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city. Darlene Etienne had just started studying at the school when the disaster struck. She was said to be severely dehydrated with a weak pulse and rescuers rushed her to a French-run field hospital,.. More

  • French report calls for veil ban

    A French parliamentary panel has called for a ban on Muslim women wearing the full Islamic veil in public institutions, describing the dress as an "unacceptable" challenge to French values. In its report, released on Tuesday, the panel also recommended that authorities refuse residence cards and citizenship to anyone with visible signs of.. More

  • Haitian survivors fight for food

    Scenes of fighting have broken out in the Haitian capital as survivors continue to have little food and water two weeks after an earthquake devastated the Caribbean island. Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar, reporting from the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, saw hundreds of people crowding around several lorries carrying food aid on their way to another.. More

  • Hundreds held over Nigeria massacres

    More than 300 people have been arrested over clashes between Christian and Muslim communities in central Nigeria that left at least 326 people dead, police have said. Many of the suspects in the brutal attacks have been sent to Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital, to be interviewed, according to police and security sources. Mohammed Lerama, the police.. More

  • Hopes dim for survivors after Lebanon plane crash

    Crews from several countries combed the sea off the coast of Lebanon on Tuesday but all 90 people aboard an Ethiopian Airlines jet were feared dead after the plane went down in flames during a stormy night of lightning and thunderstorms. Flight 409 crashed in flames just minutes after takeoff from Beirut at around 2:30 a.m. Monday. No survivors had.. More

  • Rebuilding Haiti 'to take 10 years'

    The prime minister of Haiti has said that his country needs at least five to 10 years of reconstruction help after its people were "bloodied, martyred and ruined" by the devastating earthquake this month. Jean-Max Bellerive said on Monday at an international aid conference that "the people of Haiti will need more and more and more in.. More

  • Three blasts rock central Baghdad

    At least 36 people have been killed in three car bombings, which took place within 10 minutes of each other, near hotels in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police said. At least 71 other people were wounded in the blasts, which came during rush hour on Monday. The blasts happened close to the Sheraton and Palestine Hotels in the centre of the city, and.. More

  • Bin Laden warns US of more attacks

    Osama bin Laden has warned Barack Obama, the US president, that there will be further attacks on the United States unless he takes steps to resolve the Palestinian situation. In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera on Sunday, the al-Qaeda chief, praised the Nigerian accused of a failed attempt to blow up an airliner heading for Detroit on Christmas.. More

  • Ethiopian jet crashes off Beirut

    An Ethiopian Airlines passenger aircraft has crashed into the Mediterranean shortly after taking off from Beirut, Lebanese officials say. Contact was lost with the aircraft shortly after take-off early on Monday and witnesses reported seeing a ball of fire plunging into the sea off the coast. The aircraft bound for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa,.. More

  • UK probe tackles Iraq war legality

    Britain's former attorney-general cautioned a cabinet minister about the legality of going to war in Iraq, one year before he gave the government the go-ahead to take part in the 2003 conflict, letters have revealed. Peter Goldsmith, the government's senior legal adviser at the time, wrote in 2002 that he was "not aware of existence of material".. More

  • Eight dead in Virginia shooting

    US police are hunting an armed man after eight people were shot dead in the state of Virginia. Police named the suspect as Christopher Speight and said that he had fled into woods after the attack at a house in the town of Appomattox on Tuesday. The assailant shot at a police helicopter, rupturing its fuel tank, as it circled the woods trying to track.. More

  • Al-Qaeda denies Yemen death claims

    The Yemen-based affiliate of al-Qaeda has denied Yemeni government reports that six of its leaders were killed in an air raid, saying the men only suffered mild injuries. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula made the counter-claim in a statement posted on Monday on the internet, the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors websites used by such groups,.. More

  • Taliban attacks Afghan capital

    Afghan security forces have locked down the centre of Kabul after Taliban fighters launched a series of attacks on key government targets in the Afghan capital. The first attack on Monday was reported close to the presidential palace as Hamid Karzai, the president, swore in several of his cabinet ministers inside. The attacks triggered protracted.. More

  • Frustration mounts over Haiti aid

    Tensions are rising on the streets of Haiti as the bulk of earthquake survivors continue to go without food, medicine or proper shelter. Aid organizations continued to struggle to reach them with supplies on Sunday, six nights after the devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. A bottleneck.. More