Ethiopian opposition group reported Melez Zenawi may have died in a European hospital
Ethiopia’s government said that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is ill after he failed to attend an African Union summit, and an opposition group reported he may have died in a European hospital. “There is no serious illness at all. It’s minor only,” Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said today in an interview in Addis Ababa, the capital. More...
Yasser Arafat ‘poisoned with Polonium’
Tests performed by a laboratory in Switzerland found significant traces of Polonium-210 on the late Palestinian leader’s clothes, adding a new twist to a case that has obsessed the Arab world for years. Polonium-210 More...
China to send its first woman into space
China will launch three taikonauts, including the nation’s first woman in space, to live and work on a space station for about a week, a major step in its goal of becoming only the third nation with a permanent More...
Gamal and Alaa Mubarak charged with making unlawful profits through dealings in shares in Al Watany Bank of Egypt.
The two sons of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s ousted president, will face charges of stock market manipulation, the country’s public prosecutor has said, three days before a court was due to issue a verdict More...
Egypt vote count points to divisive runoff
CAIRO (AP) — The candidate of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood won a spot in a runoff election, likely against a veteran of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak’s regime in what would be a deeply divisive battle to become More...
Afghan peace envoy shot dead in Kabul
A top member of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council (HPC) and former Taliban-era official has been shot dead in the capital, according to local authorities. Arsala Rahmani was killed in western Kabul on Sunday More...
Vladimir Putin sworn in as Russia’s president
Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as Russia’s president at a glittering ceremony, hours after clashes between police and protesters laid bare the deep divisions over his return to the Kremlin for six more More...
Sarkozy and Hollande in final election push
A final day of campaigning in France’s elections is taking place as incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, his Socialist challenger, look for votes in Sunday’s run-off. Recent More...
Pakistan Army successfully test-fires the Shaheen-1A long range ballistic missile
The Pakistani military says that it has extended the range of the missile from previous versions Pakistan has successfully conducted a test of an intermediate range ballistic missile, the country’s military More...
Abdul Sallam Zaeef, ex-Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, takes shelter in UAE after US troops attempted to raid his home.
Abdul Sallam Zaeef, a former Taliban leader considered an important interlocutor in negotiations to bring the armed group to the discussion table, has fled the country for safety reasons. A source close to Zaeef More...
Sudanese jets attack oil pipeline
An oil pipeline has been attacked, apparently by Sudanese fighter jets, in the latest outbreak of violence on the volatile border between Sudan and South Sudan. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri witnessed Wednesday’s More...
US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales.
A US official has named the soldier who is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar province earlier this week as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. Officials had previously said the suspect was a 38-year-old More...
Why Are Millions Of Americans Preparing For Doomsday?
All over America, there are millions of Americans that are quietly preparing for doomsday. They are turning spare rooms into long-term food storage pantries, they are planting survival gardens, they are converting More...
Leaked Email: Pentagon Admits Plan To Direct Terror Attacks Inside Syria
US is preparing to “commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns” to topple Assad A shocking email leaked as part of the Wikileaks Stratfor data dump reveals that the Pentagon is planning to direct terror More...
Report: U.S. officials say Israel would need at least 100 planes to strike Iran
Israel will need to use at least 100 planes and fly more than 1,000 miles above unfriendly airspace should it decide to attack Iran, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing the assessment of U.S. defense officials More...
Libya: Militias out of control, says Amnesty International
A year after the first demonstrations against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year dictatorship, thousands of Libyans continue to suffer from the threat of violence and misrule, with militias perpetrating widespread More...
Iran unveils ‘uranium enrichment advances’
Iran has made advances in its nuclear programme, building new uranium enrichment centrifuges and producing its own nuclear reactor fuel plates, state television says. The claimed breakthrough, which was confirmed More...
Pro-Gaddafi fighters retake Bani Walid
Loyalists of Libya’s ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi have seized control of the town of Bani Walid, raising the former government’s green flag, an official and a commander have said. The retaking of the More...
Pakistan’s army chiefs turn on prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
Pakistan’s army chiefs issued a public denunciation of Yousuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister, and the government dismissed the country’s most senior defence official for exacerbating tensions between More...
New York Muslim leaders snub mayoral breakfast
More than a dozen Muslim community leaders, protesting reported police surveillance of Muslim areas since the September 11, 2001 attacks, have boycotted an interfaith breakfast organised by New York Mayor Michael More...
Iran to ‘block’ Gulf oil if sanctions proceed
Vice-president threatens to cut off shipments at Strait of Hormuz if West sanctions Iran’s vital oil exports. No oil will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz if the West applies sanctions on Iran’s More...
New Year Prediction: Israel and U.S. Will Attack Iran
CBS News predicts Israel will attack Iran this year and the U.S. will participate. National Security Correspondent David Martin: “If Iran doesn’t blink Israel will strike… Go after its nuclear facilities, More...
Iran navy starts 10-day wargame in Strait of Hormuz
Iran began 10 days of naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, raising concern about a possible closure of the world’s most strategic oil transit channel in the event of any outbreak of military More...
Turkey accuses France of genocide in Algeria
Turkish PM says France massacred 15 per cent of Algerian population in 1945 as tensions rise between the two countries. Turkey has responded to French genocide allegations with a charge of its own, accusing France More...
Iraqi Vice-president dismisses arrest warrant calls a ‘political attack’
The Iraqi vice-president has called an arrest warrant issued against him a “political attack”, categorically denying allegations that he was plotting against other politicians. Tareq al-Hashimi made More...
Hackers post Tony Blair’s personal details
LONDON: Computer hackers have now hacked and published personal details of former British prime minister Tony Blair online. They published a document containing his national insurance number. The file, which also More...
All U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011
By Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung, Published: October 21 President Obama will withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year, ending a long war that deeply divided the country over its origins More...
Pakistan kicks out US drone base
The latest blow against America’s overseas drone operations comes out of Pakistan today, where the country’s defence minister told reporters that he has ordered US forces to vacate the Shamsi air base. “We More...
