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  • Death toll in Nigeria rises, army restores calm

    Residents took more bodies to the main mosque in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, bringing the death toll from two days of clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs to about 400 people. Rival ethnic and religious gangs have burned homes, shops, mosques and churches in fighting triggered by a disputed local election in the city at the crossroads.. More

  • Iraq and Iran resume swaps of 1980s war dead

    Iran and Iraq on Sunday exchanged the remains of a total of 241 soldiers killed in their 1980-88 war, resuming a swap that had been suspended since shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The bodies of 41 Iranians and 200 Iraqis, most of them unidentified, were handed over at the border crossing point of Shalamcha in southern Iraq, while.. More

  • Germany convoy hit in Afghanistan

    At least two people have been killed and three others injured in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, after a suicide bomber struck a German embassy vehicle, police say. The embassy vehicle was attacked on Sunday opposite a high school on the main road leading to the parliament building. The force of the blast broke windows in several buildings nearby,.. More

  • New Gaza clashes as Israel keeps borders sealed

    Pre-dawn clashes erupted in Gaza on Sunday, leaving three fighters wounded according to the Palestinians, as Israel said it was keeping all border crossings with impoverished territory sealed. "Following mortar and rocket fire, the border crossings we had expected to open will remain closed," defense ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror said. He.. More

  • 'Hundreds dead' in Nigeria riots

    Hundreds of people have been killed in the central Nigerian city of Jos after Christians and Muslims clashed over the results of a local election, a senior Red Cross official has said. The official, who asked not to be named, said on Saturday that 218 bodies were lying in the main mosque in Jos, awaiting burial. Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, the imam at.. More

  • Sri Lanka hit by heavy floods

    At least four people have been killed and more than 71,000 others displaced by floods caused by heavy rains in northern Sri Lanka, an official said. Keerthi Ekanayake from the Disaster Management Centre said on Saturday that the northern Jaffna peninsula and the districts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu have been inundated and nearly 6,000 houses destroyed.. More

  • Indian troops end Mumbai siege

    Indian commandos have killed the last remaining gunman at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel, ending the siege there and bringing to a close an ordeal that started with a series of attacks across the city three days ago. Indian officials said on Saturday that all of the attackers had now been killed or captured, about 59 hours after the attacks began. "All.. More

  • Baghdad attack targets UN office

    At least two foreign contractors have been killed and 15 others wounded after a rocket fell near a UN compound in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to a UN official. In a separate incident on Saturday, three people died and 13 others were injured when a car bomb went off in central Baghdad. The car bomb exploded in al Tayaran Square, an area.. More

  • UN: Doha summit off to weak start

    The Doha-hosted UN summit on financing development "might have been much better" if more world leaders had attended, Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations has said. Noting the absence of many G8 heads of state and government as the summit kicked off late on Friday, he said: "Of course we hoped that the high level.. More

  • Ethiopia to withdraw from Somalia

    Ethiopia has said that its troops will withdraw from Somalia by the end of 2008. Friday's announcement puts pressure on Somalia's government and adds urgency to its long-standing request for international peacekeepers. "We have concluded that it's inappropriate for Ethiopia to maintain its troops in Somalia," Wahide Bellay, a spokesman.. More

  • Deadly attack hits Iraq mosque

    A suicide bomber have killed at least nine people and injured 15 others in the town of Musaib, 80km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police say. The attack took place in a Shia mosque during prayer time on Friday, a day after parliamentarians passed a controversial security pact with the US. The mosque was filled with around 300 worshippers.. More

  • Troops battle Mumbai attackers

    Security forces in the Indian city of Mumbai have stormed a Jewish centre and are laying siege to a luxury hotel in an attempt to flush out attackers who took part in deadly cordinated attacks across the city. Special forces dropped onto the roof of a building housing the headquarters of Chabad Lubavitch on Friday, amid reports that gunfire had been.. More

  • Pakistan condemns Mumbai attacks, warns India against blame

    Pakistan warned India against accusing of it links to the Mumbai terror attacks Thursday, saying doing so would "destroy all the goodwill" between the two nuclear-armed rivals. The remarks by Pakistan's defense minister came hours after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said militants based outside his country carried them out. Singh.. More

  • Iraq parliament approves US pact

    Iraq's parliament has approved a security pact that allows US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years. The pact was approved by 144 members of the 198 who attended the session of the 275-member assembly, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the parliament speaker, said on Thursday. Under the deal, US forces will withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009.. More

  • Blast rocks Afghan capital

    At least seven people have reportedly been killed and 16 injured in a large explosion near the US embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, witnesses and police say. Officials suspect it was a suicide attack that struck a convoy of foreign troops close to the embassy entrance on Thursday. Reports say the bomber detonated explosives about 200 meters.. More