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  • North Korea announces first A-bomb test

    North Korea has announced it has carried out its first test of an atomic bomb, defying international efforts to keep the secretive regime from joining the world's nuclear powers. News of the underground blast sent shudders through capitals across the globe and sparked immediate condemnations, crisis talks and calls for tough sanctions from the UN.. More

  • Assad: We expect war any time

    Basharal-Assad, Syria's president, has said that a war with Israel cannot be ruled out as long as a lasting peace eludes the Middle East. "In principle, we expect that there will be an Israeli aggression at any time. We all know that Israel is militarily powerful and is backed directly by the United States," al-Assad said in an interview with Kuwait's.. More

  • Israeli troops kill Palestinian fighter

    A Palestinian has been killed by Israeli soldiers who were staging an incursion into the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank. Hussamah Saleh, 23, was a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which is affiliated to the Fatah movement led by Mahmoud Abbas, thePalestinianpresident. Three other Palestinians were wounded in the exchange of gunfirewith.. More

  • Iran police clash with cleric's loyalists

    Supporters of a senior Shia Muslim cleric who has challenged Iran's clerical rulers have clashed with police in Tehran. Police used teargas to disperse the crowd outside the home of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi in southern Tehran, newspapers said on Sunday. Etemad-e Melli newspaper said an estimated 200 protesters formed a cordon around.. More

  • Bomblets continue to kill in Lebanon

    Unexploded Israeli bombs and devicesdropped during Israel's war on Hezbollah have killed 21 and injured more than 100 Lebanese civilians. The unexploded bombs, mostly sub munitions, landed indiscriminately in civilian areas, the United Nations Office for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Sunday.The OCHA said it had recorded 608.. More

  • Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in West Bank

    A Palestinian has been killed by Israeli soldiers who were staging an incursion into the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank. Hussamah Saleh, 23, was a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which is affiliated to Mahmud Abbas's, the Palestinianpresident, Fatah movement. Three other Palestinians were wounded in the exchange of gunfirewith Israeli.. More

  • Pakistan marks earthquake anniversary

    The Pakistani president has led a minute's silence to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake that killed about 80,000 people,using the ceremony to raise the Kashmir issue. More than80,000 people in Pakistan and neighbouring India were killed on October 8, 2005 in a 7.6-magnitude earthquake. General Pervez Musharraf used thememorial service in.. More

  • Russian human rights journalist killed in Moscow

    Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist known for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya, has been shot dead in her apartment building in Moscow. Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the October 7 shooting, which they say could have been a "premeditated murder." Press watchdogs and rights activists have condemned the killing. Mos.. More

  • Lula's man falls on his sword

    The head ofBrazil'sWorker's Party has resignedafter a corruption scandal widely thought to have cost the president votes in the country's recent election. Ricardo Berzoini, who had earlier stepped down as LuizInacio Lula daSilva's campaign manager but stayed on as party president, said he was resigning the presidency to maintain party "unity and.. More

  • More protests hit Somali port

    Somali Islamists have arrested 35 people andfired into the air to break up a protest againstleaders they installedin aport seized last month, according to witnesses. Scores of people took to the streets in Kismayo, south ofthe capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, burning tires and blocking roads, after the Islamists appointed a new governor, mayor and.. More

  • Eight dead in northern Iraq blast

    At least eight peoplehave died aftera car bomber hit an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police said. Colonel Abdel-Karim al-Jubouri, Mosul's police chief, said theattack took place at a checkpoint at around 8.45am local time(0545 GMT) in Tal Afar, about420 kilometresnorthwest of Baghdad. The attacker ploughed a truck.. More

  • 4,000 Iraqi police killed in two years

    Around 4,000 Iraqi police have been killed during the past two years, the US army commander in charge of their training has said. More than 8,000 police officers had also been wounded in attacks in the same period, Major General Joseph Peterson said on Friday. Peterson said there were many Iraqi police who had "paid a great price" for their loyalty.. More

  • US navy medic admits Iraq kidnap

    A US navy medic has told a military courtthathe took part in the kidnapping of an Iraqi civilian who he said was later killed by seven US marines. As part of a plea bargin deal with the court, Petty Officer Melson Bacos also described how the man's abduction and murder was later covered up by the marines. Bacos and the seven Marines he accompanied.. More

  • Hamas urges Abbas to resume talks

    Hamas has issued a statement calling on the Palestinian president and Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to resume power-sharing talks and threatening to use all open options if the deadlock persists. "We remind the president that we have open options to deal with the ongoing crisis, but we prefer the national option, which is in harmony with our national.. More

  • Passenger data deal for US and EU

    The US and the European Union have struck a new deal for sharing airline passenger data. The new interim agreement will replace a deal struck down by the European Court of Justice in May, that allowed the US access to 34 pieces of data. The US has sought information about air travelers since the 9/11 attacks. EU officials described the deal, which.. More