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  • Scores killed in Pakistan attack

    A bomber has attacked a site where a volleyball game was being played in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 88 people and wounding scores more, sources say. The incident took place in Lakki Marwat in the North West Frontier Province, which lies close to North and South Waziristan. The bomber apparently drove his vehicle onto a field where.. More

  • Israeli settlements 'witness boom'

    Despite the suspension of settlement growth announced by the Israel government in November, dozens of illegal settlements in the West Bank are experiencing a building boom, an Israeli newspaper reports. The revelation by Haaretz comes on the eve of another visit to the region by George Mitchell, President Barack Obama's special envoy, to try to restart.. More

  • Foreigners killed in Afghan attacks

    Five Canadians and eight Americans have been killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, with officials saying that the Americans were working for the CIA, the US intelligence agency. The Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for the attack on the Americans, who were killed in a suicide attack on a US base in the eastern province of Khost. A.. More

  • Afghans protest Obama over student killings

    Protesters took to the streets in Afghanistan on Wednesday, burning an effigy of the US president and shouting "death to Obama" to slam civilian deaths during Western military attacks. Hundreds of university students blocked main roads in Jalalabad, capital of eastern Nangahar province, to protest the deaths of 10 civilians, mostly school.. More

  • Deadly blasts hit western Iraq city

    At least 23 people have been killed in twin suicide bombings in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi. Another 30 people were injured in the blasts on Wednesday in Anbar province, including Qassim Mohammed Abid, the provincial governor. Police said the attacks took place in quick succession in the provincial capital and that many of the wounded were from.. More

  • Iran opposition leaders face execution: Khamenei aide

    A representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said opposition leaders are "enemies of God" who should be executed under the country's law. "Those who are behind the current sedition in the country ... are mohareb [enemies of God] and the law is very clear about punishment of a mohareb," Abbas Vaez-Tabasi,.. More

  • Somali pirates hijack three ships

    Somali pirates have captured a freighter, a bulk carrier and a chemical tanker - despite a large foreign warship presence in the Gulf of Aden. Ending 2009 with a flurry of hijackings in one of the most profitable years to date, the Somali sea bandits' latest catch on Tuesday was the St James Park - a UK-flagged chemical tanker with a crew of 26 from.. More

  • Gaza aid convoy to change course

    Organizers of the Viva Palestina aid convoy, which is trying to reach the Gaza Strip, have agreed to travel via Syria en route to Egypt. The agreement came after a Turkish mediator reached a deal with the Egyptian consul in Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba. The convoy will now head to the Syrian port of Latakia to sail from there to the Egyptian port.. More

  • China executes UK 'drug smuggler'

    China has executed a British man, said by his relatives to be mentally ill, after he was convicted of drug smuggling. The execution of Akmal Shaikh by lethal injection on Tuesday morning followed last minute appeals for clemency from his family and senior UK officials. Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, criticized Beijing's move, saying that he.. More

  • Bomber hits Karachi procession

    At least 30 people have been killed after a bomber struck a procession of Shia in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, according to police sources. The explosion struck on Monday as Shia worshippers marked Ashoura. Police sources told Al Jazeera that at least 80 people were injured in the blast, with many of those in a critical condition. The.. More

  • 'Mousavi nephew' among Iran dead

    The nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the Iranian opposition leader, has reportedly been killed in violence surrounding street protests in Tehran during the Shia festival of Ashoura. Seyyed Ali Mousavi is thought to be among up to eight people reported killed during the protests, which comments on social networking websites suggested would continue into.. More

  • Yemen rebel leader 'may be dead'

    The leader of a rebel group fighting government forces in the north of Yemen may have died after being severely wounded in an air raid, a government website and local media have reported. The website of Yemen's defense ministry said on Sunday that Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the so-called Houthi fighters, may have already been buried. "There.. More

  • Galloway in fresh Gaza convoy plea

    A British politician leading a convoy of medical and food supplies destined for the Gaza Strip has again appealed to Egypt to allow the group easy access to the coastal strip. George Galloway urged the authorities on Sunday to grant the Viva Palestina convoy access to Gaza through the Red Sea port of Nuweiba. "I am appealing to anyone and everyone.. More

  • Bridge collapse in India 'kills 40'

    The collapse of a bridge being built in western India is feared to have left some 40 people dead, local police say. Dozens of laborers working on the bridge are thought to have fallen into the river Chambal when it collapsed late on Thursday. Rescuers have recovered 12 bodies but there is little hope of finding anyone else alive, a senior officer.. More

  • US charges plane bombing suspect

    A Nigerian man has been formally charged with attempting to set off explosives on a US passenger aircraft on Christmas Day. A federal judge read the charges to 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in a conference room at the University of Michigan Medical Centre in Ann Arbor, where the suspect is being treated for burns. Agents brought Abdulmutallab.. More