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  • EU force to fight Somali pirates

    The European Union has agreed to establish an anti-piracy security operation off the coast of Somalia. French Defense Minister Herve Morin said at least eight countries have agreed to take part. The deal follows the seizure of a ship laden with 33 tanks - a $20m (£11m) ransom is wanted for its release. Meanwhile, police in Kenya have.. More

  • Two Koreas resume military talks

    Military leaders from the two Koreas have held their first formal talks since South Korea's new president came to power earlier this year, but have failed to gain any ground, South Korea's Yonhap news agency has said. Thursday's meeting in the border town of Panmunjom on the Demilitarized Zone lasted for about 90 minutes, ending shortly after noon.. More

  • Baghdad shaken by suicide attacks

    Suicide bombers have struck near two Shia mosques in Baghdad, killing 12 people and wounding at least 30, security officials said. The attacks in the Iraqi capital came as worshippers left mosques after prayers celebrating Eid, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan. Police said a suicide car bomber carried out one of the attacks, near a.. More

  • Spain holds 121 over child porn

    Spanish police have arrested 121 people in what they described as the country's largest ever operation against internet child pornography. Millions of images that show child sex abuse were seized in a series of nationwide raids, which uncovered a network spanning 75 countries. Police say two of those held were using their own children to make.. More

  • Most EU states want to end Bosnia mission

    Most European Union states support ending the bloc's military mission in Bosnia and replacing it with a civilian mission, French officials said on Wednesday. The European Union has a force of about 2,200 troops in Bosnia. The peacekeepers deployed in 2004, taking over from a NATO force. Last November, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution.. More

  • EU observers start Georgia patrol

    European Union observers are set to begin deploying across Georgia to monitor a ceasefire. Two hundred monitors are expected to oversee the pullback of Russian forces from buffer zones around the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russia has kept troops in the zones since ousting Georgia's forces after war broke out in early August. EU.. More

  • 'US missile' hits Pakistan village

    A missile attack by a suspected US drone aircraft has destroyed a house in northwest Pakistan, killing at least four people, according to security officials. Pakistani intelligence agency officials said on Wednesday that two missiles destroyed a house near the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan. No details about the dead were immediately available. .. More

  • Spain's coastguard rescues 229 African migrants

    Spanish coastguards have rescued a boat carrying 229 Africans trying to reach the Canary Islands, the biggest group in a single boat ever intercepted off the islands' coastline, a government official said on Tuesday. Coastguards found the 30-metre fishing boat on Monday evening around 100 km (60 miles) south of Gran Canaria and took the would-be.. More

  • Sudan denies shutting gates of dam as villagers flooded

    Thousands of Sudanese villagers were flooded out of their homes on Tuesday, village representatives said, blaming the floods on a new $2 billion dam on the River Nile. But the Sudan government's Dams Implementation Unit denied it had shut the gates of the Merowe dam, downriver from the villages, saying any floods were caused by seasonal rains. Many.. More

  • Hindu Pilgrims die in India stampede

    More than 140 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a stampede at a Hindu temple in India's western state of Rajasthan, police say. The incident occurred on Tuesday at the Chamunda temple near the historic town of Jodhpur where more than 25,000 people had gathered at the start of a major Hindu festival. "The number of dead is.. More

  • Dozens die in Pakistan road crash

    At least 35 people died when a bus collided with a milk tanker and caught fire in central Pakistan, police have said. The accident happened late on Monday near the city of Muzaffargarh, Yousaf Lashari, the area police chief, said. The bus was speeding when it struck the other vehicle on a narrow road, then immediately began to burn, he said. At.. More

  • 4 migrants killed in minefield near Greece-Turkey border

    Four illegal migrants were killed when they wandered into a minefield in northeast Greece after crossing the border from Turkey on a popular people smuggling route, a Defense Ministry official said on Monday. The minefield, near the village of Kastanies, was signposted in English and Greek, the official said. The migrants are thought to have climbed.. More

  • Typhoons batter Taiwan and Vietnam

    Two powerful storms have lashed parts of East Asia, one causing at least 41 deaths in Vietnam, and another bringing flash floods and widespread disruption to Taiwan. Typhoon Hagupit slammed into northern Vietnam over the weekend, sweeping away 1,000 homes and inundating farmland, according to official reports. Thousands of homes have been damaged.. More

  • Sudan 'kills' Egypt kidnappers

    Sudanese forces have killed six kidnappers who abducted 11 European tourists and eight Egyptian guides in a remote desert in southern Egypt nine days ago, Sudan's presidential advisor has said. "Sudanese forces followed the tracks of the kidnappers ... and found them on the Chad border," Mahjoub Fadl Badri said on Sunday. "Sudanese.. More

  • Blast hits Lebanese city of Tripoli

    At least six people have been killed and 12 injured after a car bomb exploded in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. The blast on Monday targeted a bus carrying troops in northern Lebanon, the Associated Press quoted Lebanese security officials as saying. "We have at least six people killed, three of them soldiers," an official said... More