• All Tunisian ministers quit ruling party after protests

    Published on : 21 01 2011

    All ministers in Tunisia’s interim government have on Thursday resigned from the ruling party of the ousted president, state TV reported, after demands the RCD party be stripped of power or dissolved.

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  • Two US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan

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    Two US-led soldiers have been killed in an attack in Afghanistan, bringing the number of foreign forces killed in the Afghan war in 2011 more than 20.According to a Press TV correspondent, one of the soldiers was killed in the north on Thursday and another one lost his life in the south on Wednesday, the […]

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  • Iran: Eminent Sunni scholar passes away

    Published on : 19 01 2011

    KURDISTAN: The prominent Kurdish Sunni scholar Mamousta Mullah Muhammad Azizi passed away on Sunday, 16th January in Kurdistan, Iran. He was 80.He was laid to rest on late Monday, 17 January 2011 in his ancestral area, Baneh, Kurdistan of Iran. A large number of people including ulama and students of seminaries attended the funeral prayers.

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  • Massive earthquake strikes south-western Pakistan

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    A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.Fears of major damage in the remote area eased when the U.S. agency revised an initial estimate that the quake was very shallow and said it probably centred at a depth of 52 miles (83 km), 55 km (34 miles) west of […]

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  • US drone strike kills 5 Pakistanis

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    At least five people have been killed and several others wounded in an unauthorized US drone attack in the troubled northwestern Pakistan.The non-UN-sanctioned attack took place in a village near the town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan tribal belt.

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  • Tunisians sceptical of new cabinet

    Published on : 18 01 2011

    The announcement of a new ‘unity government’ by Mohamed Ghannouchi, the Tunisian prime minister, has been met with anger by some protesters, who say too many members of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s party remain in power.

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  • Al-Turabi arrested in Khartoum

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    Security forces in Sudan have arrested opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi from his home in Khartoum, al-Turabi’s Popular Congress Party spokesman told Al Jazeera.Monday’s arrest comes a day after al-Turabi’s party called for a “popular revolution” if the Sudanese government did not reverse price increases.

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  • 6 Afghan civilians killed in US-led raid

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    At least six afghan civilians have been killed during an attack of US-led forces in northeastern Afghanistan, say local media.Another civilian was also injured during the NATO air strike in the town of Asmar at Kunar province on Monday, the media said.

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  • Fragile Calm Prevails in Tunisia

    Published on : 17 01 2011

    TUNIS – Following a day of looting and complete chaos in the North African country, a fragile calm prevailed in Tunisia on Sunday, January 16, two days after the ouster of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

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  • ISAF drone goes down in Afghanistan

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    Taliban militants claim they have shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in northeastern Afghanistan.The Taliban said that they successfully targeted the aircraft in the Nejrab district of Kapisa province on Saturday, the Afghan Islamic Press reported.

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