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  • Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank

    Palestinian has been killed overnight during an Israeli military operation in the Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank, medical and security sources say. The 21-year-old man was killed when troops entered the camp to make an arrest, prompting clashes with residents, sources said on Tuesday. The Israeli army confirmed that its special.. More

  • Scores killed in attack on Pakistan school

    At least 84 people have died in an attack by Pakistani Taliban fighters on a military-run school in Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest, according to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's top official. Pervez Khattak, the region's chief minister, told local media that Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital had taken 24 of the dead, while the Combine Military Hospital had taken.. More

  • Hamas calls for 'genuine partnership' with rival Fatah

    A leading member of the Palestinian Hamas movement has called for a "genuine partnership" with the Palestinian Fatah group against the Israeli occupation. "Let [the two groups] establish a genuine partnership, far from political wrangling, for the liberation of Palestine," leading Hamas member Mahmoud al-Zahar said in a Friday speech.. More

  • Sierra Leone district faces Ebola lockdown

    Authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a two-week lockdown in the eastern district of Kono after health workers uncovered a surge of Ebola infections in the area where the epidemic was thought to be largely under control. The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed 6,533 people in the three West African countries most hit by the disease - Sierra.. More

  • Abbas says Israeli troops killed minister

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israeli soldiers of killing one of his ministers, calling him a victim of a "clear crime" and a "barbaric act". Ziad Abu Ein, a Palestinian Cabinet member, died on Wednesday shortly after an Israeli border policeman shoved and grabbed him by the throat during a protest in the occupied.. More

  • UN resumes food aid for Syrian refugees

    The UN World Food Programme will restart its food aid for 1.7 million refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt after it received enough donations to fund the suspended programme. The WFP announced last week that it would partially suspend food aid due to a funding crisis, meaning food vouchers would be cut for Syrian refugees living outside.. More

  • US Senate report condemns CIA brutality

    A US Senate report on harsh techniques employed to interrogate "terror" suspects post-9/11 attacks has condemned the CIA for brutality and deception. The heavily redacted 480-page report - published on Tuesday - covered the treatment of around 100 suspects rounded up by US operatives between 2001 and 2009 on terrorism charges. The full 6,200-page.. More

  • Egypt's Morsi tells court of post-ouster whereabouts

    Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi has unveiled details about his location in the wake of last year's ouster by the military during a court hearing into alleged espionage charges on Saturday. The session comes two days after unverified audio recordings – purportedly for Egyptian officials – were leaked, highlighting discussions on altering.. More

  • Syrian gunmen capture Lebanese soldiers

    Three Lebanese soldiers have been captured by gunmen near the border with Syria, sources told Al Jazeera, days after the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, the Nusra Front, executed a Lebanese policeman it was holding captive. The three soldiers were reportedly taken on Monday morning in the town of Brital in the Bekaa Valley, which borders Syria, after the.. More

  • Syria accused of using chlorine gas on ISIL

    The Syrian regime has been accused of using chlorine gas against the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the latest allegations of chemical weapons use in the country's bitter conflict. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that ISIL fighters showed the effects of a chlorine gas attack as regime forces repelled an offensive.. More

  • Palestinian shot after stabbing two Israelis

    A Palestinian teenager has been shot and injured by an Israeli off-duty security guard, after he entered a supermarket in the occupied West Bank and stabbed two Israeli civilians, police said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said a 16-year-old Palestinian entered the supermarket in the settlement of Maaleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem, and stabbed two Israeli.. More

  • Egypt prosecutor to appeal Mubarak acquittal

    Egypt's public prosecutor general's office has said it will appeal a court ruling that dropped a murder charge against ex-president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during the country's 2011 uprising. "The prosecutor general has decided to appeal," it said in a statement on Tuesday, after a Cairo court on Saturday ordered the.. More

  • Egypt prosecutor to appeal Mubarak acquittal

    Egypt's public prosecutor general's office has said it will appeal a court ruling that dropped a murder charge against ex-president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during the country's 2011 uprising. "The prosecutor general has decided to appeal," it said in a statement on Tuesday, after a Cairo court on Saturday ordered the.. More

  • Israel's Netanyahu calls early election

    Israel's prime minister has sacked two senior cabinet ministers from his divided government and said he will call early elections. Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Tuesday he had ordered the dismissals of Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. "I will not tolerate any opposition in my government," a statement.. More

  • ISIL kills Iraqi border guards near Syria

    At least 16 Iraqi border guards have been killed in a dawn assault by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group on their post near the Syrian frontier, provincial and security officials have said. Faleh al-Issawi, deputy head of the Anbar provincial council, told the AFP news agency on Monday that "16 border guards, including a captain,.. More

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