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  • Indonesia frees militia leader

    Hours after being released early from a Jakarta prison, a former East Timorese militia leader has announced plans to run for parliament. Eurico Guterres's release late on Monday, after an acquittal, has raised questions over Indonesia's legal system. Guterres was sentenced to 10 years in prison over deadly violence following East Timor's 1999 UN-backed.. More

  • Haiti reels from food protests

    One person has been shot dead in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes during continuing protests across the country against food prices, officials and media reports say. Thousands of people also gathered on Monday outside the parliament and palace in the capital, Port-au-Prince, some blaming UN peacekeepers for the crisis. Businesses and schools.. More

  • Clashes break out in Egypt town

    Clashes have broken out between protesters and Egyptian security personnel in an industrial town for a second day amid a workers' strike over low wages. Riot police fired tear gas on Monday to disperse hundreds of people throwing stones in Mahalla el-Kobra, 110km north of Cairo and the site of Egypt's largest textile factory. The violence,.. More

  • Baghdad mortar fire claims lives

    At least nine people have been killed in a mortar attack in a neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. A six-year-old child was among a total of 32 people wounded in the incident in Al-Amin on Monday when a US military outpost came under attack, Iraqi police said. Mortars were fired at the outpost, located in the nearby neighborhood of Rustumiya,.. More

  • Blasts hit Nepal in poll run-up

    Two explosions have struck an election rally in the south of Nepal, leaving at least nine people wounded. The violence comes as the country prepares to hold elections following a peace deal between mainstream parties and Maoist fighters in 2006 that ended a protracted civil conflict. A bomb was thrown on Monday into a crowd of supporters of the.. More

  • Egypt opposition boycotts polls

    Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood group says it will boycott municipal elections after being allowed to field 20 candidates for thousands of seats. Deputy leader Mohammed Habib said the move was in response to the government's "disregard for justice". The authorities have carried out a wide-ranging crackdown ahead of Tuesday's vote, leaving.. More

  • Muslim war graves defaced in France

    Up to 148 Muslim graves in France's World War I cemetery have been desecrated in an incident that has drawn strong condemnation from the country's president. A pig's head was hung from one of the several tombstones targeted by vandals who also wrote slogans insulting France's Muslim justice minister, officials said on Sunday. Describing Saturday's.. More

  • Hamas: No Shalit without exchange

    A senior Hamas member has warned Israel that captured soldier Gilad Shalit will not be released alive if Israel does not release 350 Palestinian prisoners. "Hamas refuses to free Gilad Shalit before the release of 350 Palestinian prisoners demanded by Hamas," Moussa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of Hamas's political bureau, told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas... More

  • Blast reported in Yemeni capital

    Security officials say an explosion has struck a housing complex where foreigners live in Yemen's capital. The blast went off late on Sunday in an upscale neighborhood that is home to Western diplomats, including Americans. Police cordoned off the area of the explosions in al-Hadda neighborhood of southwestern Sanaa, residents said. The compound.. More

  • Clashes in Egypt strike stand-off

    A heavy police presence cut short protests in Cairo and elsewhere Egyptian textile workers and police have clashed after security forces prevented a strike by taking control of a major Nile Delta textiles plant. Workers threw stones at police and set fire to shops in Mahalla as police fired tear gas to disperse protesters. Elsewhere in Egypt,.. More

  • Rockets kill 3 US troops in Baghdad

    The U.S. military says rocket or mortar attacks against the U.S.-protected Green Zone and a military base elsewhere in Baghdad have killed three American service members and wounded 31. A military official says two U.S. troops were killed and 17 wounded when rockets struck the Green Zone in central Baghdad. The official says another American.. More

  • Israel in emergency drill

    Israel is undertaking exercises to test its capability in dealing with emergency situations. The five-day manoeuvres are considered as the largest and most significant in the history of Israel since its war on Lebanon in July 2006, Israeli media sources said. The manoeuvres covered varous government arms - the Israeli army, the local authority,.. More

  • Iraq calls for disbanding militias

    Iraqi leaders have called on all political parties to disband their militias before provincial elections due to be held by October. The political council of national security, which includes the president, prime minister and the heads of parliament's political blocs, made the call in a statement late on Saturday. The political council did not mention.. More

  • Sri Lanka bombing kills 12; 90 hurt

    A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outside Sri Lanka's capital Sunday, killing a government minister and 11 other people, authorities said. Officials blamed the bombing, the second this year resulting in the death of a government minister, on Tamil Tiger rebels. Minister of Highways and Road Development Jeyaraj Fernandopulle,.. More

  • US renews Blackwater's Iraq license

    The US state department has renewed the license for controversial private security firm Blackwater to protect diplomats in Iraq for another year, according to officials. The department said there was no reason to refuse the license while the FBI investigates a fatal shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad which involved Blackwater personnel. .. More