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  • Japan extends N Korea sanctions

    Japan has extended economic sanctions on North Korea, citing a lack of progress in a row over Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang. The measures - which ban imports from North Korea and visits by its ships - will continue for another six months. A top official said Japan was seeking advances on both the abduction and nuclear issues. The move.. More

  • Scores killed in Waziristan clashes

    At least 65 pro-Taliban fighters and 25 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in new clashes in Pakistan's North Waziristan, according to the Pakistan military. The military's announcement on Monday raises the total number of fighters killed in battles in the area over the past few days to at least 130, while 45 soldiers have also been killed. Fighting.. More

  • Musharraf escort 'copter crashes

    A helicopter escorting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has crashed killing four soldiers, the army says. It said that Gen Musharraf was traveling in another helicopter on the visit to Pakistani-administered Kashmir and was unhurt. But the president's spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, was among eight people hurt. The delegation was going to the area.. More

  • Iran president faces rare protest

    A rare anti-government demonstration has been held in the Iranian capital during a speech at Tehran University by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There were scuffles as hundreds of supporters and opponents of the president gathered outside the venue. Eyewitnesses said police used tear gas to hold the demonstrators back. Student leaders had challenged.. More

  • Powerful storm hits Chinese coast

    Chinese authorities have evacuated more than 1.4 million people as a tropical storm drenched the southeast coast, but there have been no reports of deaths or injuries. Typhoon Krosa made landfall on Sunday near the border of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, packing winds of 126kph before weakening to a tropical storm. Krosa killed five people in Taiwan.. More

  • Inquiry finds Blackwater at fault

    Iraq says it plans to take legal steps against security guards from the US firm Blackwater who "deliberately killed" 17 Iraqis in last month's shooting incident in Baghdad. Ali al-Dabbagh, a government spokesman, said a high-level inquiry found no evidence that the personnel from the security firm had come under fire during the incident. Stating.. More

  • Turkish troops killed in PKK clash

    Kurdish fighters have killed 13 Turkish soldiers in a clash in Turkey's southeast, and troops responded by shelling an area near the Iraqi border, according to the military. The soldiers were killed on Sunday, after a suspected member of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers party, was killed in earlier fighting in Sirnak province. "One of our units serving.. More

  • Musharraf call for Pakistan unity

    Pakistan's president has called for national reconciliation after winning re-election, despite ongoing concerns about whether his candidacy was legal. Gen Pervez Musharraf said he was open to talks with all parties, some of which boycotted Saturday's poll. But he refused to rule out emergency action if the Supreme Court rules he was not allowed.. More

  • Egypt Bedouins in angry protest

    Crowds of angry Bedouins have rampaged through the streets of an Egyptian town in protest at what they say is the failure of police to protect them. Thousands were said to have taken part in the protest on Sunday in the northern Sinai town of el-Arish. The Bedouins accused the police of failing to act after they were attacked by a rival tribe on.. More

  • Petraeus puts heat on Iran over Iraq violence

    The U.S. military commander in Iraq stepped up accusations over the weekend that Iran was stoking violence in Iraq and said Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad was a member of the Revolutionary Guards Qods force. Washington accuses the elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards of inciting bloodshed in Iraq and of training and equipping militias who have.. More

  • Fighters killed in Pakistan clash

    At least 26 people including four civilians have been killed in clashes between tribal fighters and soldiers in northwest Pakistan, the military and residents said. Major General Waheed Arshad, the military's spokesman, said that Sunday's fighting occurred in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border. Security forces launched an operation against the.. More

  • China braces for tropical storm

    More than 800,000 people have been evacuated in China as tropical storm Krosa heads towards its southeast coast after leaving five people dead in Taiwan. Krosa weakened from a typhoon after leaving Taiwan on Sunday, where its heavy rains caused power outages to about two million homes and disrupted air and sea traffic. China's flood control office.. More

  • Iraqis protest against 'US wall'

    More than 1,000 Iraqis have marched in west Baghdad in a rare public demonstration to protest against a wall they say the US military is planning to erect around their district. Carrying an Iraqi flag and banners condemning the wall the marchers in the mainly Shia area of al-Washash chanted: "No, no to the wall. No, no to America." Earlier this year,.. More

  • Musharraf 'wins' Pakistan vote

    Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, has been re-elected by legislators, officials said, although doubts remain over whether the supreme court will let him claim victory. Politicians voted on Saturday, but a winner will not be declared until Musharraf's eligibility for the poll has been approved by the court, which meets on October 17. Following.. More

  • US convoy in Kabul hit by blast

    A suicide bomber has attacked a US convoy in Kabul, killing at least one soldier and five Afghan civilians. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for what is the third suicide bombing in the Afghan capital in the past eight days. The Taliban has vowed to wage a Ramadan offensive. Sergeant Dean Welch, a multinational force spokesman, said: "One coalition.. More