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  • Dozens dead after Baghdad clashes

    More than 30 people have been killed and four American soldiers wounded in clashes in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, according to the US military. Fighting between US forces and Shia fighters broke out at about 9.30am (0630 GMT) on Tuesday when a US patrol came under fire, Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Stover said. A US military vehicle, which.. More

  • Blast kills 15 Afghans, wounds 25

    At least 15 Afghans were killed and 25 wounded on Tuesday in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan, close to the border with Pakistan, a spokesman for NATO-led forces said. "Initial reports are that 15 local nationals were killed and another 25 were wounded in an explosion in Nangarhar province," the spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance.. More

  • China jails 17 over Tibet unrest

    Chinese authorities have sentenced 17 people to jail terms of between three years and life for their roles in last month's unrest in Tibet. The official Xinhua news agency reported the sentences, which it said were the first for anyone connected with last month's clashes in the Himalayan region. Beijing says the riots killed 18 people, but Tibetan.. More

  • Serbs on trial for ethnic cleansing

    Two former Serb intelligence officers have gone on trial at The Hague for alleged crimes during the Balkans war of the early 1990s. Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic are charged with training, arming and directing paramilitary units that murdered and persecuted non-Serbs. The trial got under way on Monday following a ruling by judges at the UN.. More

  • The Islamic Courts Union claims Somalia success

    The Islamic Courts Union (ICU) claim they have taken control of several towns in Somalia, including the provincial town of Jawhar. The government in Mogadishu, 90 km to the south, has denied the claims. It is the third time in two months that the ICU have taken over the town. The ICU say they returned to Jawhar at the request of local tribal.. More

  • Oil prices hit new record high

    Oil prices hit an all-time high near $120 a barrel after a weekend refinery strike closed a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain's North Sea oil to refineries in the UK. The shutdown comes amid supply outages in Nigeria that have helped to support oil against a strengthening dollar. Chakib Khelil, the president of the Organization.. More

  • Ukraine helicopter crash kills 19

    A Ukrainian helicopter has crashed into the Black Sea killing 19 people, Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said. Ukraine's Naftogaz state energy firm said the crash happened when the Mi-8 helicopter's tail struck part of an offshore platform at about 0630 GMT. Valentyn Zemlyansky, spokesman for Naftogaz, said one person on board the helicopter survived.. More

  • Children killed in Gaza shelling

    Six Palestinians have been killed after the Israeli Army shelled a house in the northern Gaza Strip. Four children and an elderly man were among the dead, while the children's mother is one of several people injured - health officials say she is in a "very serious condition". The health ministry said shells were fired at a house in the town of Beit.. More

  • At least 66 dead in China train collision

    At least 66 people were killed and nearly 250 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported. The train was travelling to Qingdao -- the coastal city that will host the Olympic sailing competition in August -- when it derailed, causing the other.. More

  • Nicaragua hosts food crisis talks

    Daniel Ortega, the president of Nicaragua, has opened an "emergency meeting" to address food shortages across South and Central America. Free trade, market forces and farm subsidies in developed nations are contributing to the problem, Ortega told regional agriculture ministers in Managua, the capital, on Saturday. He also said that the shortages.. More

  • Missiles hit Baghdad's Green Zone

    At least 10 missiles have hit Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, hours after sporadic clashes in the Iraqi capital left at least 10 people dead. "At least 10 rockets or mortars hit the Green Zone," an interior ministry official said on Sunday, adding that it was not clear if the attacks had caused any casualties. US and Iraqi military leaders say.. More

  • Afghan president escapes deadly parade attack

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unharmed Sunday after militants attacked a high-profile military parade with rockets and gunfire, killing at least one person and wounding 11 including legislators. The Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the daring attack, denying however it was an assassination attempt on Karzai. Bullets apparently.. More

  • Mosul hit by multiple suicide bombs

    Three suicide bombers and a car bomb have struck the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least nine people and wounding 31 others, police said. Clashes, meanwhile, continued on Saturday in the capital Baghdad's Sadr City district between Mahdi Army fighters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia leader, and US-backed Iraqi forces. In Mosul's worst.. More

  • Mugabe party loses Zimbabwe parliament after recount

    Zimbabwe's main opposition movement has won a historic victory over President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, official results showed on Saturday, but the outcome of the presidential vote remained unknown. The results in 18 of the 23 constituencies where ballots were being double-checked were unchanged after the recount of a March 29 vote, officials.. More

  • Teenage girl killed in Gaza raid

    A 14-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in an exchange of heavy fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters in northern Gaza, according to medics. The Israeli military said that it had carried an air raid targeting armed men in Beit Lahiya, near the border with Israel, early on Saturday. "The air force launched two raids on Saturday.. More