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  • Three Germans killed in Afghanistan

    Three Germans traveling in a diplomatic convoy have been killed and one wounded in a roadside bomb blast near Kabul, the Afghan capital. Zalmay Khan, a deputy police chief said that three German soldiers were killed in the attack, but the German defence ministry has denied that the casualties were soldiers. The blast that hit the convoy turned one.. More

  • Scores die in attacks on Iraqi sect

    At least 175 people have been killed and 200 more wounded in a series of suicide attacks attacks in northern Iraq that appeared to have targeted the Yazidi religious sect. A total curfew has been imposed in the two villages west of Mosul where the four fuel tankers exploded late on Tuesday. Dakheel Qassim Hassou, Sinjar district mayor, said on Wednesday.. More

  • Pakistan marks independence day

    Celebrations began at daybreak in Pakistan to mark the 60th anniversary of its creation and independence from British rule. Military cadets held a ceremony on Tuesday at the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the "father of Pakistan", in Karachi. Flag-raising ceremonies and traditional 21-gun salutes also took place in the four provincial.. More

  • Turkey's Gul vows secular agenda

    Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has pledged to protect and strengthen the country's secular principles if he succeeds in a fresh presidential bid. The former Islamist sparked huge controversy and protests in a failed bid for the post earlier this year. Critics, including the army, feared an erosion of secular values despite Mr Gul's reassurances.. More

  • Iraq suicide bomb hits key bridge

    A suicide lorry bomber has attacked a bridge north of Baghdad, sending cars plunging into the water and killing at least 10 people, Iraqi police said. The Thiraa Dijla bridge in Taji lies on the main road from Baghdad to Mosul. Earlier, US troops said they had killed four gunmen in Baghdad, but local officials said at least three of the dead were.. More

  • Israeli troops kill four Palestinians

    Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians during a raid into Gaza. Witnesses and hospital officials said on Tuesday that a Hamas fighter and a 40-year-old bystander were killed during the raid on the southern villages of Qarara and Abassan. Hamas said another of its fighters and his mother were shot dead as they emerged from their home in the area... More

  • Iranian leader in Kabul for talks

    The Iranian president, has arrived in Kabul for talks with his Afghan counterpart, amid allegations by US and British officials that his government is supplying Taliban fighters with weapons. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's one-day visit comes one week after Washington challenged Hamid Karzai's claim that Iran was playing a positive role in his country. Ahmadinejad.. More

  • Hundreds dead in N Korea floods

    Flooding caused by heavy rain has left hundreds of people dead or missing in North Korea, state media has reported. The rain had flooded tens of thousands of hectares of farmland and destroyed more than 30,000 homes, official news agency KCNA said. Worst hit was Kangwon province, where 20,000 homes were damaged, KCNA said. North Korea was devastated.. More

  • Bush adviser announces resignation

    Karl Rove, a political adviser to George Bush, the US president, will leave the White House at the end of this month, Rove told the Wall Street Journal. "I just think it's time," he said in an interview with the newspaper published on Monday. "There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this.. More

  • Taliban frees two Korean women

    Two South Korean hostages kidnapped by the Taliban in mid-July have been released to the International Committee of the Red Cross in an emotional handover, Al Jazeera reports. The women, who broke into tears after seeing the Red Cross officials, are now in the custody of the South Korean delegation in Afghanistan and are in good health. Dan Nolan,.. More

  • Hamas bans unregistered protests

    Hamas members have beaten protesters rallying in Gaza City, reports say. Baton-wielding Hamas security forces tried to disperse the protesters from rival Palestinian factions, gathered to denounce the Islamist group. Hamas - who seized the Gaza Strip in June - said organizers did not have a permit to hold a rally, violating a new ban on unauthorized.. More

  • Killings stoke tension in Iraq city

    Hundreds of mourners turned out to bury an assassinated provincial governor and chief of police on Sunday as the Iraqi prime minister ordered an investigation into their killings, which he called "a seditious act", and appealed for talks to end an ongoing cabinet crisis. Khalil Jalil Hamza, the governor, and Khalid Hassan, the police chief, of the.. More

  • AU chief wants African Darfur force

    The head of the African Union (AU) has said that non-African troops will not be needed for the new Darfur peacekeeping force because countries on the continent had committed enough soldiers. The Sudanese government is opposed to non-Africans playing any major role in the hybrid United Nations-AU operation authorised on July 31. Sunday's comments.. More

  • Kosovo partition 'on the table'

    An international envoy says the partition of Kosovo could be acceptable as a way of breaking the deadlock over the province's future. The division of the Serbian province has previously been taboo. But a troika of envoys holding top-level talks on the issue have so far failed to find any compromise acceptable to both Serbia and Kosovo. EU envoy.. More

  • Musharraf in anti-Taliban pledge

    Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has addressed a "peace jirga" in Afghanistan, calling for a better mutual trust between the two countries. Gen Musharraf said both countries had to work together to "defeat the forces of extremism and terrorism". He signed a six-point declaration with Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledging to continue the.. More