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  • British, US soldiers killed in Iraq

    Three British soldiers have been killed in a mortar attack on their base in Basra, southern Iraq. Major Matthew Bird said on Friday that the incident occurred when the Airport Camp came under several indirect fire attacks on Thursday. "It is with profound sadness that the Ministry of Defense must confirm the deaths of one serviceman from 504 Squadron.. More

  • Pakistan blast kills dozens

    At least 33 people have been killed in two separate bomb attacks in Pakistan, officials say. Twenty-six people are said to have died in the southern town of Hub, 35km (23 miles) north of Karachi, in an attack apparently targeting Chinese workers. Initial reports said all the dead were Pakistani nationals. Meanwhile, at least seven people were.. More

  • Kurds protest at Turkish shelling of N. Iraq

    Turkey's army heavily shelled Kurdish rebel targets just inside the border of northern Iraq on Wednesday, Kurdish officials said on Thursday. Iraq's government condemned the latest shelling of its semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and urged Turkey to hold talks to resolve Ankara's concerns about rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who are.. More

  • Huge flood 'cuts Britain from Europe'

    Britain is an island thanks to a megaflood that dug out the English Channel, according to a study released yesterday by the journal Nature. The catastrophic flood, one of the mightiest in recorded history, occurred between 450,000 and 200,000 years ago and created a barrier to human migration to Britain that probably lasted for tens of thousands of.. More

  • Explosion rocks central New York

    One person has been killed and at least 20 others injured when a steam pipe exploded underneath a street in central New York during the evening rush hour. The explosion in midtown Manhattan sent clouds of steam, mud and rocks into the air and forced the evacuation of nearby streets and Grand Central Station. The New York Police Department said the.. More

  • Attacks 'kill 17' in Afghanistan

    Reports from Afghanistan say at least 17 people, including three fighters, have been killed in a day of violence which included two suicide attacks. Five of the dead were police who were killed in the south-east. Correspondents say the Taleban and their allies are increasingly resorting to roadside bombings and ambushes. Meanwhile, seven United.. More

  • Abbas 'to call for new elections'

    Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said he will call for new elections for parliament and the presidency. The pledge came ahead of a meeting of the council of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which is expected to back the move. The Hamas militant group, which was removed from power by Mr Abbas after it seized control of the Gaza Strip.. More

  • Pakistan troops killed in ambush

    At least 16 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in an attack by militants near the Afghan border, officials say. The ambush happened in the tribal area of North Waziristan about 25km (15 miles) from the town of Miranshah. Reports speak of heavy fighting between troops and militants. There have been a spate of attacks since soldiers stormed a radical.. More

  • Brazilian airliner crashes into building, killing 200

    A Brazilian TAM airliner skidded off a runway on landing at a Sao Paulo airport on Tuesday and crashed into a building, bursting into flames and killing up to 200 people, according to one official. "There's 200 killed over there," Manuel Antonio da Silva Araujo, a colonel in Sao Paulo's fire department said, according to the online edition of the Folha.. More

  • Over 5,000 stranded in flood-hit Sindh

    Over 5,000 people are still stranded in the flood-hit areas of Sindh, it is learnt. Army helicopters were being used to evacuate people, the ISPR said. In Kamber, 2,705 food packets, 258 water bottles, and 113 cartons of clothes were distributed and 3,023 patients were being treated at army camps in Qubba Said Khan and Kamber. Three trucks of rations.. More

  • Death sentences for Mumbai bombers

    A judge has handed out the first death sentences in India's Mumbai bombings trial to three men convicted of planting a series of explosives that killed 257 people in India's deadliest terrorist attack in 1993. All three had been convicted of planting explosive-laden suitcases and scooters in India's financial capital on March 12, 1993. Justice Pramod.. More

  • Libyan families drop death penalty

    Children, said that the victims' families have received cash compensation. "We have renounced the death penalty ... after all our conditions were met," he said. This was part of a deal organized by the Kadhafi Foundation, a charity which has been involved in mediating a resolution to the case. In return for the money, the relatives have signed a.. More

  • Bomber targets Pakistan lawyers

    At least 12 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a lawyers rally in Islamabad, Pakistani police say. Ousted chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was due to address the rally in the capital, but was not present at the time of the attack, officials said. Television footage showed blood at the scene of the bombing and several people lying motionless.. More

  • Gunmen kill 29 villagers in Iraq

    Gunmen in Iraq wearing military uniforms have killed 29 people in a village in Diyala province north of Baghdad, security officials have said. A police spokesman said a large group of gunmen surrounded Duwailiya village and killed men, women and children. One day earlier more than 80 people were killed in a lorry bomb attack in the northern town.. More

  • Sadr bloc returns to parliament

    "Starting from today, we have ended our suspension to the parliament. We are back," Nassar al-Rubaei, spokesman for the bloc in parliament, told Reuters. The movement holds 30 of parliament's 275 seats and also accounts for a quarter of the seats in the ruling Shi'ite Alliance of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The Sadrist bloc withdrew from parliament.. More