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  • Several dead in Iraq jail break

    At least 13 people have been killed in a shootout between prisoners and policemen at a police station Iraq. Seven prisoners and six policemen were killed at the al-Fursan police station in Ramadi on Friday, Tariq al-Dulaimi, the police commander for Anbar province, said. "During an exchange of fire between prisoners trying to escape and police.. More

  • Man in Santa suit kills 8, self on Christmas Eve

    Stinging from an acrimonious divorce, a man plotting revenge against his ex-wife dressed up like Santa, went to his former in-laws' Christmas Eve party and slaughtered at least eight people before killing himself hours later. Bruce Pardo's ex-wife and her parents were believed to be among the dead. Investigators planned to return to the scene Friday.. More

  • Anti-Pakistan demo held in India

    Dozens of protesters have joined a demonstration against Pakistan in the Indian capital, amid rising tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors following last month's deadly attacks in Mumbai. Activists belonging to the Rashtrawadi Sena, a little-known right-wing group, gathered in New Delhi, on Thursday, demanding the immediate hanging of.. More

  • Guinea prime minister 'surrenders'

    Ahmed Tidiane Souare, the Guinean prime minister, has reportedly presented himself at an army camp near Conakry after being ordered to do so by the country's self-declared president. Captain Moussa Dadis Camara declared himself the new president of Guinea and ordered the government and senior military leaders to give themselves up by the end of Thursday. .. More

  • Ukraine blast flattens apartment block, kills 19

    An explosion ripped through an apartment building in southern Ukraine, killing 19 people, and officials said Thursday they expected the toll to rise. Twenty-four people were still unaccounted for, Emergencies Ministry spokesman Ihor Krol said, after 21 residents were pulled out alive from the five-storey block in the Black Sea resort of Yevpatoria.. More

  • Car bomb strikes Baghdad restaurant

    At least four people have been killed by a car bomb in a predominantly Shia district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. At least 25 other people were wounded, including women and children, in the Thursday morning blast. Police said the attack was outside a restaurant used by police and construction workers in the Shula district. The casualties included.. More

  • Gaza strike dims truce hopes

    An Israeli air strike has reportedly killed one Palestinian and injured several others near the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said it launched the strike late on Wednesday after Palestinian fighters fired more than 60 rockets at southern Israeli towns. An Israeli military spokesman said the strike had targeted a mortar.. More

  • Quake hits southern Philippines

    A powerful earthquake has hit the southern Philippines, triggering panic among residents but with no reports so far of casualties. The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at 11:20am local time (03:20GMT) on Thursday about 50km from the city of General Santos on the large southern island of Mindanao, according to the US Geological Survey. Like neighboring Indonesia,.. More

  • Ukraine faces gas cutoff over $2.1 billion debt

    Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev sternly urged Ukraine on Wednesday to fully pay its $2.1 billion debt for Russian natural gas supplies or face sanctions, as a Jan. 1 deadline for payment loomed. Medvedev's statement was the strongest indication to date that Ukraine may face a repeat of January 2006 cutoff of Russian gas shipments which led to.. More

  • Turkey, Iraq pledge cooperation against Kurdish rebels

    The prime ministers of Turkey and Iraq vowed Wednesday to step up their cooperation in the fight against Turkish Kurdish rebels whose presence in northern Iraq has cast a shadow over relations. The thorny issue of rebels from the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) sheltering in neighboring Iraq was at the centre of talks during a visit in.. More

  • Kashmiris vote amid tight security

    Thousands of troops are keeping vigil in Indian-administered Kashmir as residents voted in the crucial last phase of state polls, overshadowed by heightened tensions between India and Pakistan. Polling stations were put under heavy guard, aimed at avoiding violence. Muslim-majority Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital and the heart of a nearly 20-year-old.. More

  • Putin: Era of cheap gas nearing end

    Vladimir Putin has given warning that the "era of cheap gas" is coming to an end. The Russian prime minister was speaking on Tuesday in Moscow at a summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), which groups Russia, the world's biggest gas producer, with 11 other gas-rich states such as Iran and Qatar. "The expenses necessary for.. More

  • Egypt 'to push for new Gaza truce'

    The Palestinian president says Egypt will push for a new truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Abbas made the comment on Tuesday after meeting Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, in Cairo. "Nobody can broker the truce between Hamas and Israel than Egypt," Abbas said in reference to.. More

  • Iraq MPs approve foreign troop deal

    The Iraqi parliament has voted to allow the presence of non-US foreign troops after December 31, giving British, Australian and other troops a legal basis to remain beyond the expiry of a UN mandate. The vote was delayed for several days by squabbling in the parliament, whose speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, resigned just before the resolution was.. More

  • Coup follows Guinea leader's death

    Guinea's army has staged a coup after the death of Lansana Conte, the president for 24 years. A statement read out on state radio on Tuesday, just hours after Conte's death was announced, said that the government had been dissolved and the constitution suspended. But Tidiane Souare, the Guinean prime minister, said the government had not been.. More