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Sudan plane crash kills 32 including ministers
Thirty two people including a Sudanese government minister and other officials were killed when a plane taking them to an Islamic festival crashed in the south of the country on Sunday, state media said. The plane went down in mountains around Talodi, a town in the border state of South Kordofan, while taking a delegation there to celebrate the Eid.. More -
Battles rage in key Syrian cities
Jets and helicopters have continued to strike the northern suburbs of Aleppo as Assad forces reportedly battle opposition forces near the airport in the war-battered city. A constant flow of casualties were rushed to a local hospital that had been allegedly targeted on Friday. Syria's official SANA news agency said that "armed terrorist groups".. More -
Free Syrian Army claim responsibility for Syria blast
The Free Syrian Army has claimed responsibility for a series of explosions in central Damascus near the hotel used by the UN observer mission in Syria. Abu Al Noor, a spokesperson for the Ahfad Al Rasoul brigade that is claiming responsibility for the bombing attacks, told Al Jazeera that the FSA had been planning the attacks for a month. "The.. More -
Deadly attack on Yemen's defense ministry
Five people have been killed and at least nine have been wounded after hundreds of troops from Yemen's elite Republican Guard force attacked the headquarters of the defense ministry. The forces, who were later repelled, were led by the son of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The soldiers laid siege to the ministry in Sanaa on Tuesday before attacking.. More -
Egypt's Morsi 'empowered' by army shake-up
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi has emerged empowered after a "revolutionary" decision to dismiss his powerful defense minister and curb the military's sweeping powers, the country’s media has said. In a surprise move on Sunday, Morsi retired the powerful defense minister, Field Marshal Tantawi, 76, and armed forces chief of staff Sami.. More -
Aid slow to reach Iran quake survivors
Casualties from a pair of earthquakes that devastated rural villages in northwest Iran on the weekend have risen to a total of 306 people, most of them women and children, and injured 3,037, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi said. The official toll, presented in a report to politicians on Monday and published on the parliament's website, was.. More -
Syrian opposition forces 'shoot down fighter jet'
Syrianopposition forces claim that they have shot down a regime warplane in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. "Theopposition forces shot down the plane and captured its pilot," the Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC) activist network said on Monday. The LCC posted videos on YouTube that they allege is of the jet being downed, and then.. More -
Egypt's president asserts authority over army
The Egyptian president has ordered the powerful head of the army and defense minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, and several senior generals into retirement and cancelled constitutional amendments issued by the military restricting presidential powers. Mohamed Morsi announced through a spokesman on Sunday the dismissal of Tantawi and his appointment.. More -
Qatar pledges $2bn for Egypt's central bank
Qatar is to deposit $2bn at the Egyptian Central Bank in an effort to help support an economy battered by a year and a half of political turmoil, an Egyptian presidency statement has said. The announcement came after meeting in Cairo on Saturday between President Mohamed Morsi and Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Egypt's foreign reserves.. More -
Syrian opposition calls for no-fly zone
A Syrian opposition official has asked for no-fly zones across Syria and safe havens patrolled by foreign forces near the borders with Jordan and Turkey. Abdel basset Sida, head of the Syrian National Council, said the United States had realized that the absence of a no-fly zone to counter President Basher al-Assad's air superiority has hindered opposition.. More -
Egypt's Morsi visits Sinai amid army assault
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has visited the city of el-Arish in North Sinai for the second time since a surprise attack near the Rafah border crossing nearly a week ago that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers. During his visit on Friday, the president promised to use "a grip of steel to stop the criminals". "We will not rest until we.. More -
US and Turkey plan for 'worst Syria scenario'
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said her country is setting up a working group with Turkey to plan for worst-case scenarios in Syria, including a possible chemical weapons attack on the government's opponents. In a joint news conference in Istanbul with Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, Clinton said that the group will co-ordinate.. More -
Rescuers search for Iran earthquake survivors
Rescue teams in northwest Iran have been trying to dig survivors out of the rubble of villages leveled by two powerful earthquakes, northeast of the city of Tabriz, that have killed at least 250 people and injured more than 2,000. Officials said emergency shelters were being distributed on Sunday and a field hospital was being set up in Varzaghan,.. More -
Syria opposition forces deny losing control of Aleppo district
Syrian opposition forces said a "barbaric and savage attack" was under way in an opposition-held Aleppo district, but denied claims by government troops to have captured the area. Earlier Syrian regime forces claimed to have “captured” the Salaheddin neighborhood after storming it and "annihilating" most of the fighters. The.. More -
Swiss experts asked to conduct Arafat autopsy
Swiss experts have been invited to the West Bank to test Yasser Arafat's remains for possible poisoning, the chief investigator looking into the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader has said. Tawfik Tirawi did not not give further details, but the lab confirmed that it had been invited. "We are currently studying how to adequately respond to.. More
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