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Weapons inspectors begin Syria mission
A chemical weapons disarmament team has arrived in Damascus to begin evaluating the country's arsenal of the banned weapons. The inspectors from The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons travelled by road from Lebanon on Tuesday, a day after UN experts departed after probing a series of alleged chemical attacks. The team.. More -
Obama rejects GOP offer to ease shutdown
The White House rejected a Republican plan to reopen portions of the US government on Tuesday as the first shutdown in 17 years closed landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and threw hundreds of thousands of federal employees out of work. The back and forth offered no sign that President Barack Obama and Republicans can soon end a standoff over health.. More -
US government orders partial shutdown
The US government has partially shut down for the first time in 17 years after Congress failed to agree measures to continue funding basic services. Federal agencies were ordered to begin closing at midnight on Tuesday [0400 GMT], meaning 800,000 "non-essential” workers will be forced to stay at home. The shutdown began after the law to.. More -
Israel arrests alleged Iranian spy
Israel's domestic security service says it has arrested a Belgian citizen of Iranian origin, who it claims has admitted he was sent to Israel to spy for Iran. The Shin Bet intelligence service said in a statement on Sunday that it arrested Ali Mansouri three weeks ago at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport, carrying photographs of the US embassy in Tel Aviv. The.. More -
Egypt extends detention of two Canadians
The families of two Canadians staging a hunger strike in an Egyptian prison have said that Egyptian authorities have extended their detention for another 45 days. Tarek Loubani and John Greyson have been held without charges in Egypt since August 16 despite Canadian diplomatic pressure. The two said in a statement on Saturday that they've been beaten.. More -
Students reported killed in Syria air attack
At least 12 people, most of them students, have been killed in an air attack that hit a secondary school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa, opposition activists say. Graphic amateur video said to be filmed on Sunday in Raqqa, in northeastern Syria, showed several bloodied bodies strewn across a dirt yard, some torn in half. Opposition activists.. More -
Tunisia coalition government agrees to resign
Tunisia's Islamist-led coalition government has agreed to resign in an attempt to resolve a political crisis sparked by the assassination of a leading opposition figure. The Ennahda Party agreed on Saturday to resign after negotiations that could start next week with secular opponents to form a non-partisan, caretaker administration and prepare for.. More -
Syrian opposition forces capture border post near Jordan
Syrian opposition forces have captured a military post on the border with Jordan after four days of fighting, according to an activist group. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 26 regime soldiers were killed in Saturday's battle as well as a number of opposition forces. The Ramtha post served in the past as the customs office.. More -
Pakistan scrambles to reach quake victims
Rescuers in Pakistan are striving to reach victims of a massive earthquake that struck the country's southwest, killing at least 327 people, injuring more than 500 others and flattening thousands of mud-built homes. The 7.7 magnitude quake struck Balochistan's Awaran district on Tuesday at 4:29pm local time (11:29 GMT) at a depth of 15km. "A.. More -
Fighting rages in Syria as UN team returns
Fighting in Syria between regime troops and rebels are raging in different parts of the country, especially in the south, where opposition fighters are battling to seize control of the border crossing with Jordan. Opposition activists told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the fighters were now "in control of most of Ramtha post" in the southern.. More -
Hundreds dead in southwest Pakistan quake
At least 200 people have been killed and many more injured after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Pakistan, according to local officials. The provincial government has declared an emergency in Awaran district of Balochistan, the area worst hit by the quake, which struck at 4:29pm local time (11:29 GMT) at a depth of 15km. Brigadier.. More -
Key Syrian opposition forces reject National Coalition
Key Syrian fighting groups say they do not recognize any foreign-based opposition group, including the Syrian National Coalition. "The National Coalition and the proposed government under [recently chosen] Ahmad Tomeh does not represent us, nor do we recognize it," 13 of Syria's most powerful rebel groups said in a joint statement late on.. More -
Rouhani calls for time-bound nuclear talks
The Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, has offered to find a "framework" to manage differences with the US, saying he was prepared to engage in "time-bound and results-oriented" nuclear talks and did not seek to increase tensions with the United States. Iran poses "absolutely no threat to the world," Rouhani said at the.. More -
Clashes in Hebron after Israeli troop deaths
Israel's military forces fired rubber bullets at stone-throwing Palestinians during clashes in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, as troops hunted for the suspected killer of an Israeli soldier. The security forces also fired stun grenades and Palestinian youths threw several petrol bombs on Monday. Tension has flared in the aftermath of.. More -
Iran to join nuclear talks at UN
Iran's new foreign minister will join talks with six countries trying to rein in the country's nuclear programme at the United Nations, the European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has said. Thursday's meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York would be the first in six years between a US secretary of state and an.. More
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