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Rice prices 'to keep on rising'
Rice prices are set to keep rising as demand for the staple is outstripping production, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has said. The Philippines-based body said in its Rice Today publication that more research was needed in how to increase rice productivity. The price of rice has risen by as much as 70% during the past year,.. More -
Air raid kills more in Baghdad
At least four people have been killed in a US raid in Baghdad's Shia stronghold of Sadr City amid fresh fighting between Shia fighters and Iraqi security forces. Six people were also wounded in the air raid after midnight near the Al-Albaith mosque. Sadr City is a stronghold of Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia leader whose Mahdi Army militiamen.. More -
Egypt sends troops to Gaza border
Egypt has sent more than 1,000 extra troops to the border with the Gaza Strip, after Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movement warned that it could be breached if Israel's blockade of the territory continued. The reinforcements were sent to the Rafah border crossing and the Sinai coastal city of Al-Arish on Thursday. Hundreds of thousands.. More -
Myanmar migrants suffocate in lorry
At least 54 migrant workers from Myanmar - most of them women - have suffocated to death in the back of a lorry in southern Thailand. They were among 121 people being smuggled inside the freezer lorry used to transport seafood late on Wednesday to the Thai resort island of Phuket to work as labourers, police Colonel Kraithong Chanthongbai said. Of.. More -
Afghans killed in suicide attack
A suicide car bomb has exploded near a Nato military convoy in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 22 other people, police said. "There was a suicide bombing today [Thursday]. The target was a Canadian military convoy but it exploded before reaching its target," Zemarai Bashary, an Afghan interior.. More -
Palestinians in cross-border raid
The Israeli military has shelled an area of Gaza City after an attack by Palestinian fighters at the Nahal Oz border crossing in the northern part of Gaza. Raed El-Erini, a spokesperson at the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, said that at least three people were killed on Wednesday when a house in the Al Shegaeya neighbourhood was hit. Six people were.. More -
Violence flares in Karachi
At least six people have been killed, four of them burned to death, in Karachi as supporters and opponents of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, clashed in the southern city. "We found four completely charred bodies in a lawyers' chamber in a multi-storey building," Suleman Syed, a police officer, said. Syed said the dead were three men and one.. More -
Kosova adopts first constitution
Kosova's parliament has voted unanimously to adopt the Balkan state's first constitution since unilaterally declaring independence from Serbia in February. "By passing this constitution, we are setting the foundations to build Kosova as a democratic and sovereign state," Jakup Krasniqi, the parliament's speaker, said on Wednesday. The constitution,.. More -
7 killed in blast in Baghdad's Sadr City
Seven people died in Baghdad's Sadr City as clashes between security forces and Shiite militiamen continued in the capital on Wednesday, a day after top U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus called for a suspension of U.S. troop withdrawals because of the renewed combat. The city's Green Zone, which houses diplomatic missions and much of Iraq's government,.. More -
Eight killed in violence ahead of Nepal polls
Seven Maoist cadres have been shot by police, party leaders said on Wednesday, while another party's candidate was killed in separate incidents of violence ahead of elections meant to map Nepal's political future. The centerpiece of a 2006 peace deal with Maoist rebels, Thursday's elections will produce an assembly meant to write a new constitution,.. More -
Fatal clashes in southern Gaza
A member of Hamas's Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and an Israeli soldier have been killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip, the army and Palestinian medics have said. A spokeswoman for the Israel army said: "One soldier was killed and two others lightly wounded in an exchange of fire with armed men during an operation in the southern Gaza Strip." "An.. More -
Mauritania raids 'al-Qaeda house'
Mauritanian police have stormed a building in the capital Nouakchott, searching for fighters suspected of links with al-Qaeda, according to security forces. However, the suspects managed to escape the raid on Tuesday at what police said was an "operational bomb factory". The raid followed a gunfight between police and fighters on Monday night.. More -
Petraeus urges Iraq pull-out pause
The senior US commander in Iraq has called for a pause in troop withdrawals from the country after July in order to assess last year's so-called troop "surge". Testifying in front of US Congress, General David Petraeus warned on Tuesday that "significant" military gains from the "surge" were "fragile and reversible". He told the Senate Armed.. More -
Somali explosion wounds at least 7
A suicide car bomb attack on a building housing Burundian peacekeepers wounded at least seven people in the Somali capital Tuesday, witnesses and an African Union official said. Officials said they did not know if a body at the scene was the bomber's or a victim's. The military wing of Somalia's main Islamic fighting group claimed responsibility.. More -
Iran 'installing new centrifuges'
Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its main nuclear site in Natanz, state media quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying. He made the comments during a visit to mark Iran's national nuclear day. Iran is already thought to have some 3,000 centrifuges - which are used to enrich uranium - at the Natanz plant. The US and Western.. More
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