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Russian passenger plane crashes in Siberia
A Russian passenger plane has crashed in Siberia, killing at least 16 of the 43 people on board, an emergency official has said. The ATR 72, a twin-engine, turbo-propeller airplane, crashed on Monday about 30-35km from the Western Siberian city of Tyumen, Irina Andrianova, a spokesperson of the emergency situations ministry, said. "So far we.. More -
Palestinian on hunger strike deported to Gaza
Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian woman on a hunger strike for 43 days, has been deported to the Gaza Strip after ending her fast under a deal that has been criticized by Palestinians. Shalabi has been protesting against her detention by Israel without charge. Witnesses and Palestinian officials told the AFP news agency that Shalabi entered Gaza via the.. More -
Syria opposition: Don't prolong catastrophe
Representatives from 70 nations are meeting in Turkey to consider ways of supporting the Syrian opposition and applying further international pressure to end a deadly crackdown on an anti-government uprising. Burhan Ghalioun, the head of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC), said at the opening of the so-called "Friends of Syria".. More -
Brotherhood to run for Egypt's presidency
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, in control of almost half the seats in parliament, has said it will field its own presidential candidate, reversing an earlier decision not to do so and escalating its confrontation with the nation's ruling generals and the group's secular and progressive critics. A win by its candidate, the group's chief strategist and.. More -
West African leaders head to Mali for talks
A delegation of army chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States bloc has arrived in Bamako ahead of a team of six heads of state as Mali's neighbors attempt to restore constitutional order after last week’s coup. Led by Blaise Compaore, president of Burkina Faso, the ECOWAS leaders’ team is expected to arrive on Thursday.. More -
Ethiopia to host AU-mediated Sudan talks
Officials from Sudan and South Sudan are set to meet in the Ethiopian capital on Thursday in a bid by the African Union (AU) to end ongoing clashes and prevent an all-out war between the two neighbors. The pan-African body on Wednesday said it was deeply concerned by an "escalating security situation" on the border between Sudan and South.. More -
Syria authorities target children, says UN rights chief
Syrian authorities are systematically detaining and torturing children, the United Nations' human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has told the BBC. Pillay said President Bashar al-Assad could end the detentions and stop the killing of civilians immediately, simply by issuing an order. Syria has “accepted” a peace plan, amid skepticism about.. More -
Deaths as rival militias clash in Libya
Clashes between rival militias in southern Libya have killed 20 people, a doctor at a regional hospital said, highlighting the challenge the government faces in imposing its authority months after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. A local doctor, Ibrahim Misbah, said on Monday that 20 fighters died of gunshot wounds and more than 40 people were wounded. Loc.. More -
Neighbors to confront Mali coup leaders
Mali's neighbors have threatened to use sanctions and a readiness to use military force to dislodge those behind last week's coup, urging them to quickly hand back power to civilian rulers. A summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Tuesday agreed to send a team of heads of state to confront the putschists in the coming days. The.. More -
Arab League begins Baghdad summit
Water shortages and regional economy top the agenda at 21-nation bloc's first meeting since the Arab Spring uprisings. Drought and uprisings are threatening to undermine the Middle East's economy, Arab officials said as they discussed plans to boost the region's stability at the start of a key summit in Baghdad. For the first time in a generation,.. More -
Israeli court rejects hunger striker's appeal
An Israeli military court has rejected the appeal of a Palestinian woman on hunger strike for 39 days. "The Israeli military court rejected the appeal and now we will go to the High Court," lawyer Jawad Bulus said, adding that his client Hana Shalabi "will continue her hunger strike". Shalabi was detained on February 16, and a.. More -
Israel cuts ties with UN human rights body
Israel has said it has severed contacts with the UN Human Rights Council after the group's launch last week of an international investigation into Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The decision, announced by a foreign ministry spokesman on Monday, meant that the fact-finding team the council planned to send to the West Bank will not be allowed to.. More -
Sudan armies clash in border region
Clashes have broken out between the armed forces of Sudan and South Sudan in several disputed border regions, both sides said. Sudan's army spokesperson Sawarmi Khalid Saad confirmed the fighting in the border area of Sudan's South Kordofan state and the southern Unity state, without giving the exact locations. He did not say who had started the fighting. &.. More -
Russia: Annan mission 'last chance' for Syria
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that Kofi Annan represented the last chance for avoiding a civil war in Syria and offered the UN-Arab League envoy Moscow's full support. "This may be the last chance for Syria to avoid a protracted and bloody civil war," Russian agencies quoted Medvedev as telling Annan at a meeting on Sunday,.. More -
Israel court rejects plea on outpost removal
Israel's Supreme Court has rejected the state's request to postpone the dismantling of a large illegal West Bank settler enclave until 2015, dealing a blow to the settler movement's hopes to keep dozens of such outposts standing. The state submitted the delay petition earlier this month, seeking to bypass the high court's earlier order to dismantle.. More
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