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  • Suicide bomb kills 12 Afghan police on bus

    A suicide bomber has attacked a bus carrying police in Kabul, the Afghan capital, causing a number of casualties. Zemarai Bashary, an interior ministry spokesman, said on Tuesday: "Initially we have around 10 killed and injured. Still the injured are being evacuated from the spot." A police official, who declined to be named, said the bus had been.. More

  • Korean leaders in historic summit

    Leaders of the two Koreas are preparing to meet each other in only the second top-level summit between the two sides. South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun says forging a permanent peace between the countries will be his top priority when he meets the North's Kim Jong-il. He plans to cross the heavily fortified border on foot in a symbolic gesture... More

  • Freed Palestinians reach West Bank

    Israel has sent scores of jailed Palestinians home to the West Bank to try to bolster the government of Mahmoud Abbas, but the release of several other prisoners who live in Hamas-controlled Gaza has been delayed. After a delay of several hours on Monday, the 57 prisoners were taken to the Palestinian government compound in the city of Ramallah, where.. More

  • Putin eyes prime minister's job

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the possibility of becoming a future prime minister by agreeing to enter the December parliamentary polls. Mr Putin, who must leave office as president next year, said suggestions he might seek to become Russian prime minister were "entirely realistic". He said he accepted the proposal by the United Russia.. More

  • UN envoy seeks Burma junta talks

    The United Nations special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, is in Burma's new capital to seek fresh meetings with the country's ruling military junta. Mr Gambari met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon on Sunday, but has yet to meet the country's senior generals. Heavily-armed troops and police remain on the streets of Rangoon to.. More

  • Suicide bomber strikes in Pakistan

    A suicide bomber has set off a blast, killing up to 15 people in the town of Bannu in northwestern Pakistan, police said. The bomb on Monday, thought to be targeting a military convoy, was apparently hidden in an autorickshaw that police were checking, Habib Khan, a police officer, said. Major-General Waheed Arshad, a military spokesman, said.. More

  • Volcano erupts off Yemen coast

    A volcano has erupted on an island off Yemen's coast, spewing lava and ash hundreds of meters into the air, Canadian naval officials and the Yemeni state news agency said. The eruption occurred on Jabal al-Tair island, about 140km from Yemen and at least eight people were reported missing. The island holds military installations. Khaled Mahfoudh.. More

  • 'Kurd attack' kills 12 in Turkey

    At least 12 people were killed after Kurdish separatists ordered them off a bus in south-east Turkey and opened fire, Turkish officials have said. Civilians and government-backed guards were said to be among the victims of the ambush, which happened on Saturday. The attack, in Sirnak province near the Iraqi border, followed the killing of a Kurdistan.. More

  • Iran MPs condemn US 'terrorists'

    Iranian MPs have voted to classify the US armed forces and the CIA as terrorist groups. A statement signed by 215 Iranian MPs cited the bombing of Japan during World War II, and the invasions of Vietnam and Iraq, as "terrorist actions". The largely symbolic move comes days after the US Senate urged the White House to brand Iran's Revolutionary Guards.. More

  • Darfur attack kills peacekeepers

    An attack on an African Union army base in the Sudanese region of Darfur has killed at least 10 peacekeepers. Thirty vehicles overran the base, and 50 AU soldiers were missing and seven seriously injured. Vehicles and property were looted or vandalized. Rebel sources told the BBC that the raiders were members of breakaway factions from two rebel.. More

  • Musharraf vote nomination backed

    Election officials in Pakistan have approved President Pervez Musharraf's nomination for re-election, despite efforts to have him disqualified. The election commission approved Gen Musharraf and two rivals to contest the 6 October poll. Lawyers and activists angry at his bid to be elected without standing down as army chief earlier clashed with.. More

  • Kabul bus blast kills 27 troops

    A powerful suicide bomb attack on a bus in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least 27 members of the country's armed forces, officials say. The bus was split in two by the blast and witnesses described seeing several dead bodies around the wreckage. The Taleban claimed the attack, Kabul's second deadliest since 2001. Responding to the.. More

  • Syria says Israel is warmongering

    Syria's deputy president has accused Israel of making excuses to start a war by spreading false reports that an alleged Israeli air raid targeted a site linked to weapons of mass destruction. Damascus says Israel launched the air raid on September 6, bombing an empty area after air defense systems confronted the aircraft. Farouq al-Shara said on.. More

  • World powers delay Iran sanctions

    The world's major powers have agreed to delay a vote on tougher sanctions on Iran until late November at the earliest. Foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain said on Friday that a new decision on Iran would depend on reports by the UN nuclear watchdog and a European Union negotiator. They Javier.. More

  • Iraqi Sunni leader meets Sistani

    Iraqi vice-president and Sunni leader Tariq al-Hashemi has held talks with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shia cleric. The meeting came a day after Mr Hashemi published proposals that he said would help achieve reconciliation in Iraq. The plan calls for the curbing of militias and an end to sectarianism. The Sunni alliance.. More