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  • Afghanistan: Blasts explode at Kandahar police HQ

    Afghan police say two blasts have gone off at the police headquarters in Afghanistan's second-largest city. Casualties are feared. Police officer Nematullah Khan says it wasn't immediately clear what triggered the blasts Sunday or how much damage they caused at Kandahar's police headquarters. A second police officer who asked not to be identified.. More

  • Armenia and Turkey to improve ties

    Armenia and Turkey have pledged to overcome decades of enmity and disagreement over the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces. Abdullah Gul became the first Turkish president to visit Armenia on Saturday, attending a football match in Yerevan and meeting Serzh Sarkisian, his Armenian counterpart. The two agreed there was the "political will".. More

  • Caribbean lashed by Hurricane Ike

    Hurricane Ike has reached Caribbean islands, bringing winds of 135mph (215km/h), just days after Tropical Storm Hanna caused havoc in the region. The eye of the storm is "near or over" the Turks and Caicos islands, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) says. Ike could dump 12 inches (30cm) of rain in places and cause storm surge flooding.. More

  • 'Hundreds' killed by Haiti storm

    Almost 500 bodies have been found in the port city of Gonaives, Haiti, after floodwaters caused by recent storms receded, according to reports. Police commissioner Ernst Dorfeuille said 495 bodies had been found and the toll could get higher. A ship carrying 33 tons of UN aid arrived in Haiti on Friday to help an estimated 600,000 people struggling.. More

  • Zardari takes Pakistan presidency

    Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and widower of Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister assassinated last year, has become the president of Pakistan. Zardari took 481 votes out of 702, needing only 352 votes to guarantee him victory, according to provisional election results. The PPP said Zardari's win was "a.. More

  • Hundreds buried in Cairo rockslide

    Hundreds of people have been crushed in their homes after a mountain landslide in a small town on the outskirts of Egypt's capital. Officials said at least eight rocks, some measuring 30m high, had buried more than 50 homes in the poor district of Manshiyet Nasron on Saturday. At least 18 people have been declared dead and 35 injured. Some.. More

  • Bomber strikes Peshawar checkpoint

    At least 17 people have died and 40 were wounded after a car bomb went off next to a police checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said. The toll is expected to rise as a building nearby collapsed as a result of the blast on Saturday. A senior police official said: "A vehicle laden with explosives went off near.. More

  • Pakistan set for presidential poll

    Pakistani legislators are preparing to vote for a new president to replace Pervez Musharraf. Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated former prime minister and leader of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), is widely expected to win the parliament vote on Saturday and replace Musharraf, who resigned on August 18 under.. More

  • Malaysia deploys navy to Somalia

    Malaysia is sending three navy ships to the coast of Somalia to protect merchant vessels from piracy. The ships, carrying troops and helicopters, are expected to begin patrolling in the Gulf of Aden in the next few days. Two Malaysian tankers from the shipping line MISC Berhad were seized last month by Somali pirates. The seas off Somalia,.. More

  • Oil power Angola holds landmark election

    Angolans voted Friday in their first peacetime elections with the ruling leftwing MPLA expected to keep a firm grip on the war ravaged new oil power while the opposition said the poll is unfair. Six years after the end of a 27-year civil war that left 500,000 people dead, handfuls of people gathered outside Luanda polling stations as they opened.. More

  • Haiti rocked by storm 'catastrophe'

    Haiti's president has said his country is facing a "catastrophe" after being hit by three storms in as many weeks, leaving more than 60 people dead. Tropical storm Hanna swept across Haiti for four days before roaring along the edge of the Bahamas on Thursday. Most storm-hit areas in Haiti remain underwater and many of the thousands.. More

  • Thailand plans referendum to end crisis

    Thailand plans to hold a national referendum to end a political crisis over a street campaign against the government, embattled Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said on Thursday after rejecting calls to quit. The anti-government group that has led the three-month-long protest against Samak in Bangkok immediately rejected the plan, signaling that political.. More

  • Nato raids home of Mladic 'helper'

    Nato peacekeepers in Bosnia have raided the home of a retired colonel suspected of having close links to Ratko Mladic, who is wanted on charges of war crimes. Troops entered the house of Petar Jesic in the town of Rogatica, 50km east of Sarajevo, at dawn on Thursday and searched it for several hours, Derek Chappell, a Nato spokesman said. "We.. More

  • Seven killed in Dubai air crash

    Seven people were killed when a helicopter crashed into an oil rig off the coast of Dubai, officials say. The victims were a Briton, an American, a Filipino, a Venezuelan, a Pakistani and two Indian nationals, the country's Civil Aviation Authority said. The helicopter crashed into the deck of the rig during take-off, Petrofac, the operator of Dubai.. More

  • Civilians killed in Pakistan attack

    At least 15 people have been killed in a village along the border of Pakistan, in an attack by US-led forces based in neighboring Afghanistan, officials said. Mowaz Khan, an official in the South Waziristan tribal district, said on Wednesday that helicopters dropped troops into the border village of Jalal Khel, and that the troops shot civilians who.. More