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Israeli panel recommends legalizing outposts
A government-commissioned report has recommended that Israel legalize dozens of unsanctioned West Bank settlement outposts, a move that would defy international opposition to settling land Palestinians want for a future state. The report, written by a committee with pro-settler sympathies, also reaffirmed Israel's longstanding position, at odds with.. More -
Mladic faces first war crimes witness
The first witness in the long-awaited trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic testified on Monday, describing a harrowing escape and scenes of horror in his home village despite a motion by defense attorneys to adjourn the war crimes case for six months. United Nations judges at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.. More -
Pakistanis march against NATO supply line
Thousands of members of political and religious parties have begun a march toward Pakistan's capital in a massive convoy of vehicles to protest against the government's decision to allow the US and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies to Afghanistan. The "long march", which started in the eastern city of Lahore, was organized.. More -
Six US troops killed in Afghan bomb attack
Six American soldiers serving with NATO forces were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Sunday, the alliance's military in Kabul and an American official said. "Six International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan today," ISAF said in a statement, without.. More -
Egypt's president orders return of parliament
President Mohamed Morsi has defied Egypt's top court and its powerful military council by ordering the country's dissolved parliament back to work. Morsi issued a decree on Sunday withdrawing the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces decision last month to dissolve parliament, which came after the Supreme Constitutional Court found that the legislature.. More -
Counting begins after historic Libyan vote
Counting has begun following Libya's first free national elections in more than four decades, a ballot which took place amid violence by federalist protesters who disrupted the vote in several districts. Voting ended officially at 8pm (1800:GMT), but delays in starting has caused the polls to stay open later in some areas of the country. In Benghazi,.. More -
Southern Russia floods kill 144
Flash floods caused by torrential rain have swept the southern Russian Krasnodar region, killing 144 people, officials say. The floods, the worst there in living memory, struck at night, reportedly without warning. TV pictures showed people scrambling onto their rooftops to escape. President Vladimir Putin has flown over the region by helicopter.. More -
Syrian forces bombard Aleppo
Syrian forces bombarded towns in the northern province of Aleppo on Saturday, as the conflict spilled into neighboring Lebanon and opposition representatives in France welcomed the defection of a general who was close to President Bashar al-Assad. "Regime forces are attempting to regain control over [the Aleppo] region, where they suffered heavy.. More -
Sudan signs deals with foreign oil firms
Sudan has signed exploration deals with several foreign petroleum companies, an official said on Wednesday, as a dispute over oil fees from South Sudan remains unresolved. Sudan inked the exploration and production-sharing agreements on Tuesday with companies from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France-Belgium and Nigeria, Azhari Abdalla, director.. More -
Violence rages in Homs, 19 killed across Syria
Syrian troops pounded several districts of the central city of Homs on Wednesday and clashed with revolution fighters as at least 19 people were killed in violence across the country, a watchdog said. Regime troops rained shells on the besieged, opposition-held district of Khaldiyeh, killing two civilians and wounding seven others, the Syrian Observatory.. More -
Turkey locates bodies of downed jet pilots
Turkey's armed forces command has said it had found the bodies of both pilots of an F-4 jet shot down by Syria on the seabed and was working on retrieving them. The military has been conducting a search operation since the jet was downed on June 22 and this week brought in a specialized ship to recover the wreckage, some 1,000 meters underwater. Relations.. More -
Asylum boat in distress found off Indonesia
Australian authorities have found a boat believed to be carrying up to 180 asylum-seekers, which issued a distress call after taking on water off the coast of Indonesia, officials said. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said on Wednesday that the defense ship HMAS Wollongong had located the vessel south of Indonesia after officials called.. More -
Arafat's widow calls to exhume his body
A nine-month investigation suggests that the late Palestinian leader may have been poisoned with polonium. Unsupported polonium The institute studied Arafat’s personal effects, which his widow provided to Al Jazeera, the first time they had been examined by a laboratory. Doctors did not find any traces of common heavy metals or conventional.. More -
Syria opposition groups back Free Syrian army
Syrian opposition groups have concluded a two-day meeting in Cairo, agreeing in general terms on support for the Free Syrian Army, the dissolution of the ruling Baath Party and the exclusion of Assad or other senior regime figures from a place in the transition, but remained divided on other key issues. "We have agreed that solving the problem.. More -
Kosovo to gain full sovereignty
Kosovo will finally gain full sovereignty in September, almost four years after breaking away from Serbia, the International Steering Group [ISG] overseeing its independence has announced. "The international supervision ends as of today," said Michael Spindelegger, Austrian foreign minister, who hosted the event in the Austrian capital, Vienna. In.. More
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