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  • Pakistan reinstates chief justice

    Pakistan's government has announced the reinstatement of Iftikhar Chaudhry, the deposed chief justice, in a bid to defuse the country's political crisis and end a protest march that was threatening to turn into a violent confrontation. Yusuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister, said Chaudhry would be reinstated as Pakistan's supreme court chief justice.. More

  • Suicide blast targets Afghan police

    At least 11 people, including nine police officers, have been killed in a suicide bombing in southern Afghanistan, according to police officials. The attack, which wounded another 24 people, targeted the main police building in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province. Asadullah Sherzad, the provincial police chief, said the bomber had been wearing.. More

  • Somali rivals in deadly clashes

    Fighting between rival armed opposition groups has killed at least 13 people in central Somalia, residents say. Members of the Ahlu Sunna Wal-jama'ah group clashed with rivals from the al-Shabab movement outside the town of Wabho, north of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in fighting that began on Saturday. "Thirteen people are dead - eight of.. More

  • 'US drones' target Pakistan town

    Two missiles fired by suspected US drones are believed to have killed four anti-government fighters in northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials say. "The attack happened at around 10.30pm (1730GMT) near Bannu and we have reports that four militants, including two Arabs and two Pakistanis, were killed," one official said on Sunday. The.. More

  • Opec leaves crude output unchanged

    The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has decided against reducing oil supplies despite concerns over the declining price of crude. Members of the 12-nation body meeting in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Sunday said that production levels would remain the same until the group's next meeting in May. "It's a rollover until.. More

  • Tourists killed in Yemen explosion

    Four tourists and a Yemeni man have been killed in an explosion at a tourist site in Yemen, a security official has said. The tourists were believed to have been from South Korea, the official said on Sunday. Authorities were investigating what caused the blast, which also injured five people, at an archaeological site in the southern province.. More

  • Pakistan opposition leader detained

    Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistani opposition leader, has been placed under house arrest, a move that is likely to heighten political turmoil in the country. Officials from his party said on Sunday that Sharif had been detained in the city of Lahore, hours before he was due to address a protest rally. "Sharif has been ordered not to leave his house.. More

  • Opposition take power in Madagascar

    Madagascar opposition says they have taken over power from President Marc Ravalomanana on Saturday. Madagascar's opposition leader Andry Rajoelina, who claims to have taken power, attended an earlier anti-government rally in the capital Antananarivo where thousands joined him. He has support from the military who have demanded the resignation of.. More

  • British MPs meet Hamas leader

    Four members of the British parliament have met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and urged their government to end its boycott of the Palestinian group "to achieve just peace". Clare Short, an MP of the governing Labour Party, told reporters after the meeting in Damascus on Saturday: "We need to talk to Hamas to make progress (toward peace).. More

  • Pakistan on alert over protests

    Pakistan's military has been placed on alert as the capital, Islamabad, prepares for huge protests by opposition activists and lawyers demanding the reinstatement of the chief justice. Major-General Athar Abbas, an army spokesman, said on Saturday that the government had put the army on notice that an unspecified number of troops might be needed.. More

  • US drops 'enemy combatant' term

    The administration of Barack Obama, the US president, has dropped the term "enemy combatant" as its basis for holding "terrorism" suspects at Guantanamo Bay, while it works to close the facility, the US justice department has said. Court papers were filed by the department on Friday, outlining its break from the detention standards.. More

  • Aid workers seized in Sudan freed

    Three Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) aid workers taken hostage in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have been released, the organization has said. The three hostages, a Canadian nurse, an Italian doctor and a French coordinator, were kidnapped at gunpoint on Wednesday. An MSF official said on Friday he had been told the three workers were on their way.. More

  • Tanks 'sent to Madagascar capital'

    Dissident soldiers claim to have deployed tanks in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, threatening to use them to fight "mercenaries" hired amid the country's political crisis. More than 100 people have been killed in protests since they began in January, as a power struggle between Marc Ravalomanana, the president, and Andry Rajoelina,.. More

  • Deaths in Pakistan drone strike

    At least 18 people in Pakistan, including suspected al-Qaeda fighters, have been killed in a missile attack thought to have been carried out by an unmanned US drone. Security officials said the raid targeted a Taliban camp in northwest Pakistan on Thursday. Two missiles fired by a drone hit the alleged camp in the tribal area of Kurram, one of.. More

  • Scores arrested in Pakistan protest

    Pakistani police have arrested more than 100 protesters, heightening tensions at the start of a march against the government. Riot police turned back a convoy of about 300 activists as they tried to leave Karachi to march on the capital, Islamabad. Buses were confiscated, and protesters beaten and manhandled into prison vans during the banned.. More