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  • Scores killed in Afghan battles

    At least 64 Taliban fighters have been killed in fierce fighting with international coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said the fighting erupted after armed Taliban members attacked an Afghan security force base on the outskirts of the town of Lashkar Gah, the capital.. More

  • Hurricane batters western Mexico

    Hurricane Norbert has struck Mexico's Baja California Sur peninsula with heavy rains and 103mph (165km/h) winds. The storm made landfall near the city of La Paz, blowing down roofs and uprooting trees. Thousands of residents have fled to shelters. Forecasters say Norbert will cross the Gulf of California, before making a second landfall on Mexico's.. More

  • Missile strike reported in Pakistan

    At least five people have been killed in a missile attack by suspected US drones in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border, according to Pakistani intelligence sources. The AFP news agency quoted Pakistani security officials as saying that the missile strike hit a compound, belonging to a Taliban member, late on Saturday. The.. More

  • At least five dead as quake rattles Caucasus

    Astrong earthquake reverberated through the Caucasus mountains on Saturday, killing at least five people and disrupting power supplies in Russia's Chechnya region, reports said. The quake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale according to Strasbourg observatory estimates, was felt in five regions of the Russian north Caucasus and neighboring Georgia.. More

  • Turkish planes hit PKK targets in N. Iraq

    Turkish war planes and artillery have pounded bases of the Kurdish separatist group PKK in a big operation in northern Iraq, the military said on Saturday. Turkish TV meanwhile reported that Ankara was considering talking to the Iraqi Kurdish government about acting against the PKK, which launches attacks inside Turkey from its bases inside northern.. More

  • Somali pirates issue ultimatum

    Pirates, who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off the Somali coast on September 25, have issued an ultimatum threatening to destroy the ship if no ransom is paid. Talks aimed at freeing the MV Faina stalled on Friday, a spokesman for the group holding the vessel said, deepening a two-week stand off over the vessel's fate. "The negotiations.. More

  • Indian troops kill Kashmiris during a protest

    Indian security forces killed at least two Kashmiri on Friday in a protest against the Indian prime minister's visit to inaugurate a train link and power project. On Friday, two were killed and about 75 people were wounded when police fired bullets and teargas shells and used batons to disperse Muslim demonstrators who marched the streets in Srinagar,.. More

  • Blast hits Pakistan tribal meeting

    An explosion at a meeting of tribal elders in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 20 people and wounded 70 others, an official said. The suspected suicide bombing happened on Friday in the Orakzai district, one of Pakistan's seven semi-autonomous tribal regions, security officials said. "We were busy in raising a Lashkar [a tribal militia].. More

  • Fear grips world stock markets

    United States, European and Asian stock markets have plummeted, as lending rates between banks continue to rise despite this week's efforts by central banks to break the impasse in credit markets. The Dow Jones industrial average of leading US shares in New York fell nearly 700 points on opening, briefly dropping below the 8,000 mark. European.. More

  • Israel seals off Acre after clashes

    Police have been deployed around the city of Acre, one of only a few mixed Arab-Jewish cities in Israel, following clashes on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Fearing renewed violence, the authorities sealed off the city on Thurday, using helicopters and police armed with tear gas and stun grenades. "The situation is very tense in the city,".. More

  • US mulls Taliban reconciliation

    Robert Gates, the US defense secretary, has said his country would "ultimately" be prepared to reconcile with the Taliban group to end the conflict in Afghanistan. Gates on Thursday, however, ruled out any possible talks between the US and al-Qaeda fighters in the country. And, speaking after the first day of Nato meetings in Budapest.. More

  • Somali pirates free Filipino crew

    At least 19 crew members, including 15 Filipinos, who were taken hostage by Somali pirates nearly two months ago, have been freed unharmed. A Japanese-operated chemical tanker seized in August was released late on Wednesday and is set to arrive in Fujairah, a port city in the United Arab Emirates, on Thursday. Claro Cirstobal, a Filipino foreign.. More

  • Serbia's neighbors expected to recognize Kosovo

    Macedonia's parliament was due on Thursday to debate a resolution asking the government to recognize Kosovo as Montenegro is expected to decide formally on the recognition of Kosovo. On Wednesday, the United Nations' General Assembly supported Serbia's initiative to seek an International Court of Justice opinion on the legality of the independence.. More

  • Iraqi MP killed in bomb attack

    An Iraqi MP from the bloc of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has died in a roadside bombing in Baghdad. Police said the bomb had been placed on a motorcycle and exploded as a convoy carrying Saleh al-Ogaili drove past. He suffered severe head wounds and was later pronounced dead. He is the first MP to be killed in Iraq for 18 months. Police.. More

  • Police centre attacked in Islamabad

    A large explosion has injured several people and badly damaged barracks at the police headquarters in the Pakistani capital. Police said that initial reports of fatalities were incorrect, but that at least seven people had been wounded in Thursday's blast in Islamabad. Police believe the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber in a car who.. More