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The American who called herself Jihad Jane read the words on her computer screen. Colleen LaRose was fiddling on the Internet, passing time in her duplex near Philadelphia, when the call to martyrdom arrived from halfway around the world. The order came from an al-Qaeda operative. The date: March 22, 2009. This was it, she thought. Her chance. At 45, LaRose was ready to become somebody. A compact woman with a seventh-grade education, LaRose was a recent convert to Islam. She found a place for herself quickly, raising money and awareness online for the plight of her Muslim brothers and sisters. They were underdogs, just like her. During her darkest days, LaRose had endured incest, rape and prostitution. She surrendered her life to drinking and drugs, from crack to crystal meth. Now, if she accepted the order to kill, she would surrender her life to a higher power: Allah. The man who issued the directive called himself Eagle Eye. LaRose knew him only by his online messages and hi...

Prime Minister Mohamed Mursi was expected to press ahead on Saturday with talks on ways to end Egypt's worst crisis since he took office even though the country's main opposition leaders have vowed to stay away. Cairo and other cities have been rocked by violent protests since November 22, when Mursi promulgated a decree awarding himself sweeping powers that put him above the law. The upheaval in the most populous Arab nation, following the fall of Hosni Mubarak last year, worries the West, in particular the United States, which has given it billions of dollars in military and other aid since Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979. Mursi's deputy raised the possibility that a referendum set for December 15 on a new constitution opposed by liberals might be delayed. But the concession only goes part-way towards meeting the demands of the opposition, who also want Mursi to scrap the decree awarding himself wide powers. On Friday, large crowds of protesters surged around ...

A new roller skating initiative in the slums of the Kenyan capital has been helping in making neighbourhoods safer. The Hope Raisers initiative is training more than 50 children to give them an alternative to crime. The founders were inspired by their own upbringing in the slums of Nairobi. Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri reports from the Kenyan capital.

rotesters loyal to Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi and opposition groups have been fighting running battles outside the presidential palace overnight. Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports from Cairo.

Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopia's prime minister, has said that he is willing to hold talks with neighbouring Eritrea, with whom Addis Ababa fought a border war that ended in 2000. If Desalgen follows through with Wednesday's statement, it will be the first time a leader in Addis Ababa has held talks with Issaias Afeworki, the Eritrean president, since the end of the conflict which left at least 70,000 people dead. "If you ask me, 'Do you want to go to Asmara and sit down and negotiate with Isaias Afwerki?' Then, I will say yes'," Hailemariam said in an interview with Al Jazeera to be broadcast on Saturday. The two countries remain at odds over the flashpoint town of Badme, awarded to Eritrea by a UN-backed boundary commission, but still controlled by Ethiopia. "The most important thing for us is to fight poverty ... to have regional integration. If we two do that, it will be much more productive," Hailemariam added. Eritrea won independen...

Warbaahinta Iran ayaa soo bandhigay diyaarad kuwa aan duuliyaha lahayn ee Drone-ka loo yaqaano, oo shalay ciidamada Ilaalada Kacaanka Iran sheegeen inay gacanta ku dhigeen ka dib markii ay kusoo xad gudubtay hawada dalkooda. Diyaaradan oo Iiraan sheegtay in Maraykanku leeyahay ayaa waxa beenisay wasaarada Gaashaandhiga Maraykanka, waxaana bayaan ka soo baxay wasaarada gaashandhiga Maraykanka lagu sheegay in aanay jirin wax diyaarad ah oo ka maqan ciidamadooda ku sugan bariga dhexe. Haddaba waxyar uun ka dib markii Pentagon-ku beeniyay in diyaaradahooda aan duuliyaha lahayn, laga qabtay ayaa Telefishanka dawlada Iiraan uu baahiyay muuqaalo lagu sheegay in ay tahay diyaarada ay ka qabteen Maraykanka ee aan duuliyaha lahayn oo telefishanku sheegay in lagu magacaabo, ama nooceedu yahay, [Scan Eagle], taas oo ka mid ah diyaaradaha aan duuliyaha lahayn ee Maraykanka inta badana lagu yaqaano in ay ka dul haadaan Maraakiibta waaweyn ee dagaalka ciidamada Maraykanku leeyihiin. Taliye ka t...

Waxaa  doraad laga dejiyay magaalada Boosaaso maxaabiis burcad badeed ah, kuwaas oo ku xirnaa dalal kala duwan oo caalamka ah, iyadoo maxaabiista loo soo wareejiyey sida la sheegay xabsiyo cusub oo loogu talogalay in lagu hayo kooxaha burcad badeeda oo laga hirgeliyey deegaanada Puntland. Sida warku sheegayo waxaa shalay markii ugu horeysay lagu wareejiyay maamulka Puntland 5 ka mid ah 40-dhalinyaro Soomaali ah, kuwaas oo xabsiyo ku yaala caalamka ugu xirnaa dembiyo la xiriira burcad badeednimo, kuwaas qurshuhu yahay in Puntland lagu wareejiyo si ay halkaasi ugu dhameystaan xabsiyada lagu xukumay oo u dhexeeya 10 illa 24-sano. Kooxahan maxaabiista ee Soomaalida ah oo laga soo qaaday Jasiiradda Seychelles ayaa shalay lagu wareejiyey maamulka Puntland, waxaana inta ka dhiman xabsiyada horey loogu xukumay ay ku dhameysandoonaan xabsiyo ku yaala Puntland. Xubna shalay lagu wareejiyey maamulka Puntland ayaa magacyadoodu iyo dhalashadoodu waxaa lagu kala sheegay sida tan:- 1. C/laahi ...