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  • 'US drone' hits Pakistan compound

    Up to 13 people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, security officials say. The attack on Saturday occurred in an area 35km west of the region's main town of Miranshah. The death toll is 13, including some foreigners, but information is very sketchy because it's a town which.. More

  • Many killed in New York shooting

    At least 14 people have been shot dead after a gunman went on a shooting spree at a centre providing aid to immigrants in the US state of New York. The alleged gunman was likely to be one of those among the dead, law enforcement officials said on Friday. Heavily armed police, backed by commandos and FBI agents, swarmed into the area and surrounded.. More

  • Sarkozy rejects Obama's Afghan plea

    Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has rejected a plea from Barack Obama, the US president, for his country to send extra troops to Afghanistan. Speaking at a news conference with Obama, in Strasbourg on Friday, Sarkozy gave his support to "the new American strategy in Afghanistan", but added there would be "no strengthening of.. More

  • New Malaysian PM sworn in

    Malaysia's king has sworn in Najib Abdul Razak as the country's sixth prime minister, a day after Abdullah Ahmad Badawi resigned to take responsibility for the ruling party's worst election showing in four decades. Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, the country's constitutional monarch who accepted Abdullah's resignation on Thursday, swore Najib in on Friday.. More

  • Clashes on Thai-Cambodia border

    Thai and Cambodian soldiers have exchanged rifle and rocket fire at a disputed border near an ancient Hindu temple, but there were no reports of casualties, officials from both countries say. "The armed clash began when Thai soldiers entered Cambodian territory. We fired rockets at the Thai soldiers," Phay Siphan, a Cambodian government.. More

  • More than 200 migrants feared drowned off Libya

    Libyan authorities have called off a search for survivors of a boat carrying illegal migrants to Europe that capsized with more than 200 feared drowned, a migration official said Thursday. The rickety ship carrying 257 migrants bound for Italy sank in bad weather off Libya, with only 21 surviving the wreckage. "Libyan authorities had called off.. More

  • Palestinian unity talks suspended

    The rival Palestinian Hamas and Fatah faction have suspended unity talks in Cairo after they were unable to reach an agreement, sources say. The Egyptian-mediated process will resume in three weeks, Nabil Shaath, a senior Fatah official, said on Thursday. "There are new creative proposals and each movement needs to consult its leadership,".. More

  • Albania, Croatia join NATO alliance

    NATO welcomed Albania and Croatia Wednesday as the 27th and 28th members of the military alliance, after their ambassadors filed their instruments of accession with the US government. The move, held up by a border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, paves the way for Albania -- first in alphabetical order among NATO allies -- to take a seat next.. More

  • Zimbabwe prison called 'death camp'

    Images have been released of Zimbabwean prisoners who are said to be starving and dying of disease, due to meager supplies and appalling conditions. Male prisoners are seen to be emaciated and too weak to stand in the documentary Hell Hole, shown by the South African Broadcasting Association (SABC) on Tuesday. Inmates covertly took the footage after.. More

  • Many killed in Kandahar attack

    At least 11 people have been killed after suicide bombers raided a provincial council building in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, the interior ministry said. The ministry said on Wednesday that one bomber blew himself up at the gate of the building, killing the guard, while three more suicide attackers managed to get inside the building and shot people. Po.. More

  • G20 protesters besiege London banks

    About 4,000 have held a series of protests in Britain's capital, one day before the city hosts a meeting of leaders of the G20 countries to discuss the global financial crisis. While anti-capitalist protesters and those angry over the economic crisis converged on London's financial district on Wednesday, climate-change and anti-war activists gathered.. More

  • Israeli FM dismisses Annapolis deal

    Israel's new foreign minister has said that the government is not bound by the agreement reached at the Annapolis conference in the US in 2007, which provides for a Palestinian state. Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, made the remarks at a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry on Wednesday, the day after.. More

  • Iran delegate meets US envoy Holbrooke

    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, has held "cordial talks" with Iranian deputy foreign minister Mehdi Akhoondzadeh on the sidelines of the Afghanistan summit in The Hague, Netherlands. The United States also directly gave a letter to Tehran seeking help to resolve.. More

  • North Korea threatens to shoot down spy planes

    North Korea accused the United States of spying on the site of an impending rocket launch and threatened Wednesday to shoot down any U.S. planes that intrude into its airspace. North Korea says it will send a communications satellite into orbit on a multistage rocket between April 4 and 8. The U.S., South Korea and Japan think the reclusive country.. More

  • US drone hits again Pakistan, killing 12

    A pilotless U.S. drone aircraft fired a missile in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 12 people, a security official and residents said. The strike was the first drone attack in the Orakzai ethnic Pashtun tribal region, which is near but not on the Afghan border, southwest of the city of Peshawar. Residents of Khadizai village said the.. More