Nigerian police and military units carried out extra-judicial killings last year in the aftermath of clashes with members of a Muslim group in the north of the country, footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to confirm.
US seeks significant Iran sanctions
The US president has said the international community is pursuing "a significant regime of sanctions" against what Washington calls Iran's intransigence.
Wife outraged by Fonseka's arrest
The wife of Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate arrested on charges of plotting a coup has accused the government of abducting him and treating him "like an animal".
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When I was a child growing up in Zimbabwe, my grandmother used to go to the same one-acre plot of land each day and work long and exhausting hours.
'A prescription for civil war'
Abu Abdullah has never been charged with a crime, but he has been arrested by Palestinian security forces so many times in the past two years that he has lost count.
'To Israel I am stained with blood'
Approximately 10 months ago, Al Jazeera Arabic interviewed a man in Damascus, Syria who was believed to be part of a cell that had kidnapped and killed two Israeli soldiers, Avi Sasportas and Ilan Sa'adon, in 1989.
Interview: Anwar al-Awlaki
The US has accused the US-born Yemen-based religious scholar Anwar al-Awlaki of being linked to an attack on a military base in Texas and the alleged attempt to blow up a passenger plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
Toyota has issued a worldwide recall for about 437,000 of its flagship Prius and other hybrid vehicles in the latest of a series of embarrassing safety problems to hit the Japanese carmaker.
South Africa thumped India by an innings and six runs in the opening Test to hand top-ranked India their first defeat on home soil in almost two years.
