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  • Tainted milk affects 50,000 Chinese

    The extent of China's contaminated milk scandal has escalated dramatically after the government revealed that more than 53,000 babies have so far needed treatment. Of these affected, nearly 13,000 have had to be hospitalized, according to figures posted on a government website on Monday. At least four babies have died and more than 100 are reported.. More

  • Israeli soldiers beat a 60-year old Palestinian woman to death

    Israeli soldiers beat a 60-year old Palestinian woman to death during a military raid on her village in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, a witness said. The witness said troops had pushed her. The soldiers came to Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, apparently targeting students lodging in a property owned by 60-year-old Mariam Ayyad. One of the students,.. More

  • Mbeki quits as S African president

    Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, has said in an address to the nation that he has tendered his resignation. He said on Sunday that the decision would be "effective from the day that will be determined by the national assembly". Cabinet ministers held a special meeting ahead of his address to decide the way forward for his administration. Mb.. More

  • Nigerian oil rebels call ceasefire

    The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), an armed group fighting for oil wealth in southern Nigeria, has declared a ceasefire. The ceasefire comes after Mend declared it was waging an "oil war" and carried out a string of attacks on industry targets, particularly against Royal Dutch Shell. A statement said that the.. More

  • Mauritanian soldiers found dead

    The bodies of 12 Mauritanian soldiers have been found decapitated after they were abducted in an ambush earlier this week. The men were found on Saturday by the army in the open desert about 30km north of the town of Tourine - where the men were seized on Monday - a government spokesman said. Ahmed Bemba Ould Baya, secretary-general of Mauritania's.. More

  • Israel kills Palestinian teen: His brother died in similar circumstances six years ago

    Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager who was trying to infiltrate into the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, Israeli and Palestinian sources said yesterday. Palestinian sources identified the dead as Suhaib Saleh, 14, from Asira Al-Qiblyeh village near Nablus. Israeli sources said Israeli forces and Border Police thwarted an attack by Saleh... More

  • Row over German mosque plan

    German police have clashed with counter-demonstrators in Cologne while authorities have banned a nationalist group from staging a rally against plans to build a big mosque in the city. At least one officer was injured in Saturday's incident. The rally's organizers, Pro-Koeln (For Cologne), a nationalist group, had hoped to criticize plans to build.. More

  • Scores killed in China club fire

    At least 43 people have been killed and 88 others injured in a fire at a nightclub in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, state media have reported. The fire at the Dance King nightclub broke out at about 11pm (1500GMT) on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported. "According to a preliminary investigation, the accident was caused when fireworks.. More

  • Italy: Exhibition marks Muslims who saved Jews in WW2

    An exhibition in Rome has showed Muslims who saved Jews during World War II. An exhibition commemorating Muslims who saved Jews during World War II opened the capital Rome, will remain during the holy Ramadan, till Oct 1st. Two Bosnian Muslims, three Albanians, two Turks and one Iranian are among those who under the Nazi occupation during World.. More

  • Many dead in Pakistan hotel attack

    Many people are believed to have died or suffered serious injuries after a car-bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital Islamabad. Reports said a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into the entrance of the hotel. Many foreigners stay in the hotel while visiting Pakistan and it is heavily guarded. The blast resounded.. More

  • Nigeria rebels 'destroy oil line'

    Nigeria's main militant group in the Niger Delta has said it has destroyed an oil pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell, in the sixth such attack in the past week. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said in an email to the AFP news agency on Saturday the attack took place a day earlier on a "major pipeline' in Rivers state. Men.. More

  • Hunger levels soar in East Africa

    Nearly 17 million people in the Horn of Africa are in urgent need of food and other aid - almost twice as many as earlier this year, the UN has said. Some $700m in emergency aid is needed to prevent the region descending into full-scale famine, it said. Top UN humanitarian official John Holmes said food stocks were critically low in parts of Ethiopia,.. More

  • Five students killed by blast in Pakistani madrasa

    An explosion killed five students at an Islamic school near the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, police said. "The madrasa people say that someone threw explosives into the madrasa, but we are investigating," police official Wazir Khan Nasir told Reuters. However, another police official said the blast took place inside a room of.. More

  • Greece recognizes Kosovo passport

    The Greek government decided to recognize the passports of citizens from Kosovo and to start issuing visas in the Greek office in Pristina. This was said by the Head of the office Dimitris Moskopoulos, cited by the Serbian Tanjug news agency. After a meeting with the Macedonian PM Hasim Thaci, Moskopoulos noted that Thaci introduced him to the decision.. More

  • Major powers start talks over new Iran sanctions

    Major powers began negotiations on Friday for a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Iran to curb its nuclear program, but Russia and China were expected to strongly resist more punitive measures. Senior officials from France, Britain, Germany and the United States held a private session at the State Department early on Friday to discuss both.. More