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  • Many killed in Sri Lanka blast

    At least 27 people have been killed and about 80 wounded in a suspected suicide bomb attack in a north-central Sri Lankan town, police have said. Janaka Perera, a former general who became an opposition leader, was among those killed in the explosion on Monday outside the newly opened offices of the United National Party in Anuradhapura. Brigadier.. More

  • Dozens die in Kyrgyzstan quake

    An earthquake in southern Kyrgyzstan has killed 60 people and destroyed dozens of houses, the country's emergencies minister has said. "According to preliminary figures, 60 people died and more than 100 locals were injured to various degrees," Kamchybek Tashiyev said on Monday. The earthquake, which measured 6.3 on the Richter scale.. More

  • US reexamines isolation policy of Syria

    The United States is assessing its isolation policy of Syria in the final months of the Bush administration but is unlikely to return an ambassador to Damascus any time soon, said U.S. officials and experts. A senior U.S. official said there were talks on how best Washington could "influence" Damascus, particularly following the recent.. More

  • Bomber strikes during U.S. raid in Iraq, 11 killed

    Eleven Iraqis were killed on Sunday during a U.S. raid on a building in northern Iraq in which a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest among civilians inside, the U.S. military said. A U.S. military spokesman said it was not clear how many of the victims died as a result of the bomb blast and how many as a result of shooting. Three women.. More

  • Child abductions plague China

    China is struggling to cope with a wave of child abductions which sees more than 200 babies and toddlers being stolen every day, according to some estimates. It is a lucrative business in which an abducted girl child can fetch $1,200 and a boy anything up to $5,000, more than the average annual salary in urban China. "Before I only knew people.. More

  • UK commander in Afghan warning

    Decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may have to be part of a long-term solution for the country, a senior British commander in Afghanistan has said. "We're not going to win this war," Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith was quoted as saying in a British newspaper, published on Sunday. He also reportedly said.. More

  • Two US helicopters crash in Iraq

    Two US military Blackhawk helicopters have crashed over the Iraqi capital, the military says. Hostile fire was not immediately suspected in the incident, which happened as the helicopters were landing in northern Baghdad. At least one Iraqi soldier died in the crash. A number of other US and Iraqi soldiers were wounded. "We can confirm.. More

  • US adopts $700bn bailout plan

    George Bush, the US president, has signed into law a $700bn rescue plan for troubled financial institutions in an attempt to deal with the global credit crisis. Bush signed the bill on Friday, just 90 minutes after the House of Representatives had passed the bill by 263 votes to 171. "We have shown the world that the United States of America.. More

  • Turkish soldiers killed in clashes

    At least 15 Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with Kurdish fighters in the southeast of Turkey, in one of the deadliest attacks by Kurdish fighters in recent years. At least 23 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), were also said to have died in the fighting, TV station CNN-Turk said on Saturday. Media reports said the fighting.. More

  • Many dead in 'US raid' in Pakistan

    At least 12 people have been killed in a suspected US missile attack in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials say. The incident in North Waziristan on Friday was the latest in a string of US raids on Pakistani soil which have raised tensions between Islamabad and Washington. A local intelligence official said that as many as.. More

  • Israel to destroy Lebanese villages in any future war

    Israel would use "disproportionate" force to destroy Lebanese villages in any future war, an Israeli general said in remarks published on Friday. "What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on," said Gadi Eisenkot, head of the army's northern division. Dahiya.. More

  • Car bomb in South Ossetia capital

    South Ossetia's government says a car bomb has exploded at the Russian army's headquarters in Tskhinvali, the capital of the separatist region, killing six people and injuring four. Friday's blast comes amid persistent tension following Russia's war with Georgia over South Ossetia. The breakaway region's press department said a car that had been.. More

  • Sri Lanka claims gains against LTTE

    Sri Lanka's military says its troops have closed to within 4km of the Tamil Tigers' headquarters in the north of the country. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has acknowledged that an air strike by the military hit their political head office and nearby homes in the town of Kilinochchi. The LTTE said two civilians were killed and another five.. More

  • Ex-Khmer Rouge face murder trial

    Five former Khmer Rouge soldiers have gone on trial in the Cambodian capital, accused of kidnapping and murdering a British mine-clearing expert and his Cambodian colleague 12 years ago. They are accused of killing Christopher Howes and his interpreter, who were kidnapped in March 1996 while clearing mines near Angkor Wat, the 12th century temple.. More

  • Nearly 30 dead, dozens injured in Algeria floods

    Flash floods following torrential rain south of Algiers have killed at least 29 people, injured 48 and left one person missing, the interior ministry said Thursday, warning of higher casualties. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni described them as the worst floods in a century. "Based on the overflight that we made, the toll unfortunately.. More