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  • Migrants riot in Italy over attack

    Riots involving hundreds of immigrants have broken out in southern Italy, in protest against an attack on African farm workers by a gang of local youths, police said. Dozens of immigrants, mostly from African nations, smashed car windows and set cars and rubbish bins of fire in the town of Rosarno in the Calabria region on Thursday night. The.. More

  • 'Not guilty' plea in bomb plot case

    Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab made his first court appearance on Friday in the city of Detroit, to hear six charges over the alleged failed attempt to set off a bomb stitched into his underwear on a Northwest Airlines transatlantic flight. The 23-year-old said little during his brief appearance in the Detroit court, in which Mark Randon, a US.. More

  • Egypt deports UK MP George Galloway

    George Galloway, the British MP leading the Viva Palestina international aid convoy to the Gaza Strip, has been declared 'person non grata' by the Egyptian government and deported from the country. The politician was picked up by Egyptian officials at the Rafah border crossing on Friday and driven to Cairo, the capital, where he was placed on a flight.. More

  • Aid convoy breaks Gaza siege

    A humanitarian aid convoy carrying food and medical supplies has arrived in the Gaza Strip nearly a month after it embarked from the UK. Members of the much-delayed Viva Palestina convoy began passing through Egypt's Rafah border crossing into Gaza on Wednesday, waving Palestinian flags and raising their hands in peace signs. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin,.. More

  • Blast wounds Afghan official

    The acting governor of Afghanistan's province of Khost and several senior officials are reported to have been wounded by a blast inside the governor's office. The official's wounds were not life-threatening, an Afghan army general said on Thursday. Khost lies on the country's southeastern border with Pakistan. "The acting governor, his chief.. More

  • Jordan disputes Khost bomber status

    A suicide bomber who attacked a US base in Afghanistan killing eight people last week was an informant and not a double CIA-Jordanian intelligence agent, as had been previously reported, a Jordanian official told Al Jazeera. Hammam Khalil al-Balawi, identified by Al Jazeera sources in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killed seven CIA employees and a Jordanian.. More

  • Israeli officers fear UK arrest

    A group of Israeli military officers have delayed an official visit to Britain over fears they could be arrested on war crimes charges. Danny Ayalon, Israel's deputy foreign minister, said on Tuesday that four officers invited to the UK by the British army would not be travelling "as we do not have a 100 per cent guarantee that they will not become.. More

  • Clash in Egypt over Gaza aid effort

    At least 55 people have been injured in clashes between Egyptian police and pro-Palestinian activists who were trying to deliver aid into the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses say. Some 520 activists broke down the gate at the port in El-Arish late on Tuesday in protest against an Egyptian decision to ship some of the goods through Israel, medical workers.. More

  • 1,000 people homeless on Solomons after tsunami

    Landslides and a tsunami unleashed by a major earthquake destroyed some 200 houses on one Solomon island, leaving about one-third of the population homeless, a disaster management official said Tuesday. Visual assessments from the air showed extensive damage on a remote western island after a 7.2-magnitude temblor struck near the Pacific Solomon Islands.. More

  • Iraq to take Blackwater to court

    Iraq will file lawsuits in US and Iraqi courts against Blackwater, a private security firm, after an American court threw out charges against five of its guards accused of killing 14 civilians in Baghdad. Making the announcement, Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, in a statement on Monday said his government "rejects the ruling issued by the.. More

  • Dubai to open world's tallest tower

    Dubai is set to open the world's tallest building as the emirate tries to re-establish some of the optimism it experienced prior to its financial crisis. The Burj Dubai, built by about 12,000 laborers and standing at a reported height of 818 meters, will open on Monday amid tight security. The final height has remained a secret to be revealed at the.. More

  • Tighter checks for US-bound flights

    The US government has announced that visitors from several countries will be subject to new airport security screening procedures. Beginning Monday, all passengers flying from or via at least 14 countries, including Nigeria and Yemen, will be patted down and have all carry-on luggage searched before boarding flights bound for the US. The move is part.. More

  • Two vessels hijacked off Somalia

    A cargo ship and a chemical tanker have been hijacked by pirates in the waters off the coast of Somalia, bringing to four the number of ships seized in the past week, officials say. The British-flagged Asian Glory was seized late on Friday roughly 1,000km east of Somalia, Commander John Harbour, a spokesman with the European Union task force charged.. More

  • U.S. embassy in Yemen closes on 'Al-Qaeda threat'

    The United States embassy in Yemen has closed in response to threats by al Qaeda and has instructed its Yemeni employees to stay away until further notice, the embassy and foreign diplomats said on Sunday. Yemeni staff at the embassy told Reuters they had been asked to stay in their homes. "The U.S. Embassy in Sana'a is closed today, January.. More

  • Death toll rises in Brazil mudslide

    The death toll from a spate of flooding and mudslides in southeastern Brazil has risen to at least 60, as rescue teams continue to search for survivors. Firefighters used heavy machinery and shovels on Saturday to search for people who went missing when a massive slab of hillside collapsed after torrential rain in Rio de Janeiro state. At least 26.. More