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  • Tourists killed in Egypt bus crash

    Eight tourists have been killed and more than 22 others injured in a bus crash on the Ras Gharib-Zafarana highway between Cairo to Hurghada, MENA state news agency reported. The bus overturned after the driver lost control of the vehicle near the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, MENA said on Saturday. The victims were Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Belgian.. More

  • Israeli warplanes launch three airstrikes in Gaza Strip

    Six Gaza residents were injured Friday in when Israeli forces launched three air strikes on the coastal enclave, medics said. The Israeli military confirmed the strikes in a statement, adding that "direct hits were identified." The strikes targeted sites in the southern and central Gaza Strip. Four were injured in a strike on Deir Al-Balah,.. More

  • Abuse tops rare Vatican meeting

    The Roman Catholic Church is holding an extraordinary meeting to discuss sexual abuse of children by priests and conversion of people from the Anglican to the Catholic Church. The closed-door meeting on Friday of more than 100 of the Church's 203 cardinals from around the world at the Vatican will also cover debates on religious freedoms. Controversy.. More

  • Turkey wary of Nato missile shield

    Abdullah Gul, the Turkish president, has said that a Europe-wide ballistic missile shield planned by Nato must not be aimed at Iran, ahead of his attendance at a summit of the military alliance in Lisbon. "We are categorically opposed to have a country named [as a threat] and our request appears to have been accepted," he told reporters before.. More

  • Arrest order for WikiLeaks' founder Assange

    A Swedish court has approved a request for the arrest of Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, over allegations of ‘rape and sexual molestation’. The Stockholm district court's decision on Thursday could allow authorities to issue an international warrant for the 39-year-old's arrest. The development.. More

  • Iran claims new air missile system

    Iran has successfully tested its own version of a missile system that Russia declined to supply amid concerns Tehran might be seeking nuclear weapons, an Iranian military official said. State-run Press TV on Thursday quoted a commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards as saying Tehran had adapted another Russian-made missile system to perform like.. More

  • Madagascar officers 'make coup bid'

    A colonel with the Madagascan military has said he and 20 other top-ranking officers have taken over the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar. Colonel Charles Andrianasoavina, one of the main backers of a power-grab last March by Andry Rajoelina, the president, made the coup declaration on Wednesday at a military base near the airport. Later on.. More

  • Deaths in India building collapse

    At least 60 people have been killed and more than 60 injured after a five-storey residential building collapsed in the Indian capital, New Delhi, officials say. Scores more were trapped under debris after the building fell on Monday, B K Gupta, the city police commissioner, said. Rajan Bhagat, a city police spokesman, told the AFP news agency more.. More

  • US Drone strike kills at least 20 in North Waziristan

    At least 20 people were killed today and an unknown number of others wounded when US Predator drones struck a home along the border between North Waziristan and Afghanistan. The US fired at least six missiles at the house, reducing it to rubble. Local tribesmen (termed suspects by officials) have surrounded the house in an attempt to pull bodies from.. More

  • Mob in Athens attacks Muslims as they celebrate 'Eid

    Dozens of far-right activists and local residents threw eggs and taunted hundreds of Muslim immigrants as they gathered to pray in a central square for Eid al-Adha surrounded by a protective cordon of riot police. Athens' Muslim community is without an official mosque and prayers are usually held at cultural centers or community halls or private apartments.. More

  • UK to pay ex-Guantanamo detainees

    The British government is to compensate former detainees in the Guantanamo Bay military detention facility in Cuba who accused UK security forces of being complicit in their torture overseas. Ken Clarke, the British justice minister, said on Tuesday that the government had "agreed a mediated settlement of the civil damages claims" but that.. More

  • Haiti cholera death toll soars

    The death toll from Haiti's cholera outbreak has soared to 917 as officials struggle to contain the growing epidemic threatening the quake-ravaged country. As concerns rise over massive health challenges in the aftermath of the country's cataclysmic earthquake almost a year ago, Haiti confronts the hardening prospect of national elections two weeks.. More

  • Five foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan

    Five soldiers who joined Afghanistan invasion were killed on Sunday, including three in a clash with fighters in the east, the coalition said, one of the worst daily tolls in a month. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) gave no other details about the incident in Afghanistan's east, including the nationality of those killed. The majority.. More

  • New Saudi train ready to shuttle Muslim pilgrims

    The Mashair Railway, also known as Mecca Metro, rolls out on Sunday to serve pilgrims beginning the annual Hajj rituals, bringing a new solution to crowding. The dual-track light railway, with its initial number of nine stations, connects the three holy sites of Mina, Muzdalifah and Mount ‘Arafat -- areas that see massive congestion during the.. More

  • Sarkozy accepts cabinet resignation

    France's president has accepted the resignation of Francois Fillon, the country's prime minister, and of his entire cabinet, paving the way for a long-expected government reshuffle. Nicola Sarkozy will name a new prime minister and cabinet on Sunday following their resignation, government officials and the governing UMP party said. The office of Sarkozy.. More