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  • Inspectors check claims North Korea reactor is shut

    North Korea says it has carried out the first step towards nuclear disarmament, by shutting down its Yongbyon reactor. The announcement came on the day the country received in return a shipment of fuel oil from South Korea and on the day a team of international inspectors arrived in the capital Pyongyang. The 10-man team from the International Atomic.. More

  • LA Church 'in record abuse deal'

    The Catholic Church in Los Angeles has reached a financial deal with more than 500 people alleging sexual abuse by priests, the plaintiffs' lawyer says. The deal, said to be for $660m (£324m), has yet to be approved by a judge. It would be the biggest compensation payment the Church has made since the sexual abuse scandal erupted in 2002. It.. More

  • Battle rages at Lebanon camp

    The Lebanese army has continued its bombardment of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp with artillery and tank fire, a senior military official has said. One Lebanese soldier was killed in Saturday's clashes at the Palestinian refugee camp and another died of wounds he received on Friday, the official said. Fatah Islam fighters responded to Lebanese.. More

  • Deadly blast hits Pakistani troops

    A suicide bomber has killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers in the remote and volatile tribal area near the Afghan border. An army spokesman said 29 other troops were also wounded when a car packed with explosives was driven into a military convoy in north Waziristan. Initial reports had said that 13 soldiers had been killed when the bomber.. More

  • UN hails Iran nuclear agreement

    The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency says it has reached a deal with Iran to allow new inspections and safeguards at key nuclear facilities. Tehran will allow inspectors into Arak heavy water plant and agree safeguards at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant, the UN nuclear watchdog said. The agency's deputy director described the deal as.. More

  • Abbas names caretaker government

    A new Palestinian caretaker government has been sworn in to replace an emergency cabinet that stepped down after its mandate expired, officials have said. The emergency cabinet was formed by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, after the Hamas faction took full control of the Gaza Strip after street battles in June. On Friday, Abbas swore.. More

  • US senate doubles bin Laden bounty

    The US senate has voted to double the bounty on Osama bin Laden to $50 million. By a vote of 87-1, the senate on Friday set the reward for the killing or capture, or information leading to the capture, of the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States. The White House had no comment on the senate legislation, which also.. More

  • Security stepped up in Pakistan

    Security has been stepped up in Pakistan ahead of planned protests over the government's operation against Islamabad's Red Mosque. Islamic clerics and politicians say they will hold nationwide protests against the government's action. A 36-hour assault on the mosque left 75 people inside the mosque and 10 soldiers dead, officials say. For months.. More

  • Lebanon army shells refugee camp

    The Lebanese army has resumed shelling militants inside a Palestinian refugee camp near the northern city of Tripoli, a day after its last residents fled. Witnesses said troops had been firing several shells a minute since dawn at Islamist militants from the Fatah al-Islam group inside Nahr al-Bared. The army denied the bombardment was the start.. More

  • Blast kills six Afghan police

    A remote controlled bomb struck a police vehicle on a joint patrol with NATO forces in southeastern Afghanistan Thursday, killing six policemen. The Afghan police and NATO soldiers were patrolling in Yaqobi district of Khost province early in the morning when the bomb exploded, destroying a police vehicle, provincial police spokesman Wazir Badshah.. More

  • U.S. air strike kills Mehdi militiamen in Iraq

    A U.S. air strike killed five militiamen who were planting a roadside bomb in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya on Thursday, a military spokesman said. A police official in the Shi'ite city said five members of the Mehdi Army militia of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had been killed. The police official and a hospital source said.. More

  • Iran’s media statement about Bahrain condemned

    Secretary General Abdulrahman Al Attiya yesterday strongly condemned claims in an Iran daily that Bahrain is part of Iran. It said the three UAE islands occupied by it also belong to Iran. Such statements targeted the sovereignty of GCC states, he said. "These hostile claims were false and were aimed at fuelling sectarianism. They do not have any credibility.. More

  • Pakistan mosque siege ends

    Pakistani troops have cleared the Lal Masjid or Red Mosque compound in Islamabad of fighters after two days of fighting that left more than 60 people dead, the military said. Many questions were unanswered on Wednesday, including the final death toll and whether any women or children had been killed. Soldiers were securing a headquarters and residential.. More

  • Siniora calls for unity

    The Lebanese prime minister has issued an appeal for unity on the eve of the first anniversary of the war in his country between Israel and Hezbollah. Fouad Siniora urged an end to the political deadlock that has gripped Lebanon for the past eight months and said he wanted to take this opportunity to extend my hand again to all our brothers." "Let.. More

  • Many dead in Algeria suicide blast

    A suicide car bomb has killed at least eight people and wounded 30 near an Algerian military barracks southeast of the capital. The attack occurred on Wednesday in the town of Lakhdaria, about 120km southeast of Algiers in the region of Kabylie, local media and witnesses reported. Most of the injured were reported to be working at the barracks. T.. More