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  • 'US drone' hits Pakistan home

    At least four people have been killed and several more injured in a suspected US drone attack on a house in Pakistan's northwest. Pakistani intelligence officials said the missile strike "targeted a hideout of anti-government fighters" in the Babar Raghazi area of North Waziristan on Saturday. But local security officials told Al Jazeera.. More

  • Asia marks tsunami anniversary

    A wall of water as high as 30 meters triggered by an undersea earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, crashed ashore with little warning on December 26, 2004, killing 200,000 people in 13 countries. Indonesian survivors In Indonesia's Banda Aceh, survivors gathered in neighborhood mosques or homes to remember those killed. Indonesia was.. More

  • Israeli troops kill Palestinians

    Israeli soldiers have killed six Palestinians in two separate incidents. Three of the deaths occurred when Palestinians trying to cross the security barrier from the Gaza Strip into Israel were shot on Saturday, news agencies reported citing a Palestinian medical source. Palestinian medics and sources said the other three Palestinians were killed.. More

  • Missing US soldier in Taliban video

    The Nato mission in Afghanistan has confirmed that a man featured in a new Taliban video is a missing American soldier. The footage, released on Friday, showed US soldier Bowe Bergdahl in good health some five months after he was taken prisoner in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province. An airborne infantryman, Bergdahl gives his rank, birth date,.. More

  • Egypt blamed for Gaza convoy delay

    British politician George Galloway has criticized Egypt for denying a humanitarian aid convoy permission to enter the Gaza Strip. The Viva Palestina convoy, containing some 210 vehicles and 500 people, is currently stranded in Jordan with Cairo refusing to allow it passage to Gaza through the Red Sea port of Nuweiba. The lorries are laden with European,.. More

  • China to execute five more for Xinjiang unrest

    Five more people have been sentenced to death over ethnic violence in July in China's Xinjiang region, an official said Thursday, as Beijing's human rights record comes under a harsh new spotlight. The sentences bring to 22 the number of people condemned to die or executed over the unrest in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi. The first executions last month.. More

  • Deaths in Yemen raid on al-Qaeda

    As many as 34 suspected al-Qaeda fighters have been killed in a dawn air raid by Yemeni forces in the eastern Yemeni province of Shabwa, according to reports citing security sources. The raid, launched early on Thursday morning, appeared to target two senior members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula. The AFP news agency quoted a security source.. More

  • Hamas 'considering' Israel swap

    Hamas has said it is considering the latest proposal by Israel, to secure the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for almost a thousand Palestinian prisoners. The proposal for the prisoner swap was delivered by a German mediator on Wednesday. Israel is trying to secure the release of 23-year-old Shalit who was captured in a cross-border.. More

  • 'Clashes at Montazeri ceremony'

    Iranian security forces have clashed with crowds of opposition supporters in the city of Isfahan, according to opposition website reports. Activists said police used tear gas and batons to disperse people gathering to commemorate Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died at the weekend. The ayatollah was one of the country's most influential.. More

  • US plane crashes in Jamaica

    An American Airlines passenger jet has crashed and broken into two after landing at the international airport in Kingston, the capital of the Caribbean nation of Jamaica, according to local media. The aircraft, a Boeing 737, overshot the runway while landing in heavy rain on Tuesday night, the US Federal Aviation Authority said. Forty passengers were.. More

  • Big freeze kills at least 80 across Europe

    The death toll from winter storms across Europe rose to at least 80 on Monday as transport chaos spread amid mounting anger over the three-day failure of Eurostar high-speed trains. With tens of thousands stranded by the cancellation of London-to-Paris trains and hundreds of flights across the continent, new accidents and mass power cuts added to the.. More

  • Al-Qaeda speak out at Yemen rally

    Suspected al-Qaeda commanders have appeared at an anti-government rally in southern Yemen, held at the site of an air raid in which dozens of civilians are thought to have been killed. Al Jazeera broadcast footage of an unmasked man and his armed compatriot telling the crowd that al-Qaeda's fight was with the US, which US media reports said provided.. More

  • Israel admits to organ thefts

    Israel has admitted that it harvested organs from the dead bodies of Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s, without permission from their families. The admission follows the release of an interview with Jehuda Hiss, the former head of Israel's forensic institute, in which he said that workers at the institute had harvested skin, corneas, heart valves.. More

  • Taliban clash with Afghan forces

    Afghan police have clashed with Taliban fighters who attacked a building near a police station in the provincial capital of the eastern province of Paktia, officials have said. The Taliban fighters launched the assault in Gardez shortly before 10am local time (05:30 GMT) on Monday and opened fire on security forces, Rahullah Samon, a provincial government.. More

  • Sabotage cuts Iraqi oil pipeline

    Oil exports from northern Iraq have stopped following an attack on a pipeline that leads to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Assem Jihad, an Iraqi oil ministry spokesman, told journalists on Sunday that a 55km section of the pipeline was damaged, causing a large oil spillage, around 325km north of Baghdad. "Exports have stopped and technicians from.. More