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  • Morocco floods cause havoc

    Flash floods following torrential rains across Morocco have claimed the lives of at least 13 people, overwhelmed emergency services and forced factories and businesses to close. Eleven people were killed in the village of Driouch, 500km north of Rabat, when 20 homes collapsed in what local authorities described as the heaviest rains in the area for.. More

  • Heavy rains in Honduras kill 29

    Officials say at least 29 people are dead and 14 others are missing because of heavy rains in Honduras. The rains began nearly two weeks ago in this Central American nation. The Honduran government says nearly 20,000 people are in shelters and more than 40,000 have been evacuated from their homes. Safe drinking water is scarce in some communities,.. More

  • About 1.7 mln displaced return to southern Sudan

    About 1.7 million uprooted people have returned to southern Sudan since the semi-autonomous region signed a peace deal with the north in 2005, an international aid agency said Friday. About 60 percent of the families returning to southern Sudan are headed by single women, and 59 percent of the returnees are children aged 5 to 17, the International.. More

  • China urged to save world economy

    Leaders from Asia and Europe have opened a summit in Beijing with a call on China to do more to tackle the "unprecedented" challenges posed by the global financial crisis. Representatives from the 43 countries attending the Asia Europe Meeting (Asem) on Friday were hoping that China can help shape reforms in the world's financial system.. More

  • Thailand, Cambodia say clashes behind them

    Thailand and Cambodia put on a joint brave face Friday saying they were confident this month's border clashes were behind them. A Thai soldier died Tuesday from wounds sustained on October 15 in a 40-minute firefight near the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple, which is claimed by both countries. Three Cambodian soldiers were also killed. The leaders.. More

  • Eight die in Italian helicopter

    An Italian military helicopter has crashed in flames in eastern France, killing all eight passengers, French officials have said. They said the helicopter, a search and rescue Sikorsky HPF Pelican, came down near the town of Vaubecourt in the Meuse department. The Italian defense ministry said the helicopter had been engaged in maneuvers with.. More

  • Men jailed over Ivorian toxic waste

    Two men have been jailed in the Ivory Coast over the dumping of toxic waste, which killed 17 people and made thousands ill. In the sentencing on Wednesday, Salomon Ugborugbo, the Nigerian director of the local Tommy company which had used trucks to distribute the waste in 2006 at open sites across the Ivorian commercial capital Abidjan, was given.. More

  • Blast hits Iraqi minister's convoy

    A suicide car bomber has struck the convoy of Iraq's minister of labor, killing 10 people and wounding 20 others, police say. A spokesman said the minister, Mahmoud al-Sheikh Radhi, was unhurt. Three of his bodyguards were among the dead in Thursday's attack. A Reuters television cameraman in the vicinity filmed the blast but an Iraqi soldier.. More

  • 'US raid' targets Pakistani village

    A suspected US drone has fired a missile into a Pakistani village, killing at least five tribesmen, residents say. The strike, which took place early on Thursday, aimed at a stronghold of Jalaluddin Haqqani, a veteran Taliban commander. The missile targeted a village in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border where Haqqani, an.. More

  • Egypt arrests Brotherhood members

    Police have arrested 32 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood for protesting against Israel's siege of Gaza and belonging to a banned group. The Brotherhood and security sources confirmed 12 men were arrested in raids carried out on Wednesday morning in Fayoum, an agricultural area southwest of the capital Cairo. Another 14 men were rounded-up.. More

  • US 'mulls changes' to Iraq pact

    Washington has agreed to consider Iraqi suggestions on amendments to the draft of a pact which would govern the US military's role in Iraq, the Iraqi foreign minister has said. But Hoshyar Zebari said on Wednesday that Washington is unlikely to accept a drastic revision to the draft Status of Forces Agreement (Sofa), which is concerned with setting.. More

  • India launches first moon mission

    India's first unmanned moon mission have successfully blasted off in a bid to put the country's space program into the same league as regional powerhouses Japan and China. The lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 took off aboard an Indian-built rocket early on Wednesday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on India's southeastern coast. The.. More

  • Foreign troops kill nine Afghan soldiers

    Foreign troops killed nine Afghan soldiers in a mistaken air strike in the southeast of the country overnight, the Afghan Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The U.S. military confirmed Afghan soldiers may have been killed and wounded in a case of mistaken identity but said it did not have any casualty figures. Scores of Afghan civilians have been killed.. More

  • Pakistani soldiers killed in Swat

    At least 15 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers and five pro-Taliban fighters have been killed in a clash in the northwestern Swat valley, police say. The fighting broke out on Tuesday in the Kabal area, a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban fighters, after a roadside bomb exploded by a paramilitary convoy. Noor Rehman, a police officer in Kabal, said:.. More

  • Iraq seeks security pact revisions

    Iraq's cabinet has said it will seek changes to a planned security deal with the US that would keep American troops in the country for another three years. "The cabinet unanimously sought amendments to the text of the pact so it can be acceptable nationally, "Ali al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the Iraqi government, said on Tuesday. Cabinet.. More