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  • NATO forces shot dead Afghan civilian

    Foreign forces killed an Afghan civilian Sunday after opening fire at a vehicle in a southern district that has been the site of protests, NATO said. The Afghan man died Sunday after he was shot in the chest, NATO said in a statement. He was one of six people traveling at a "high speed" in a large vehicle with no headlights, it said. The.. More

  • US drone kills dozen in Pakistan

    A raid by a US drone in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 12 suspected opposition fighters, Pakistani officials have said. The attack took place on Sunday in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan, close to the Afghanistan border. "The target was a militant compound," a senior military official said of the raid, which occurred about 40km.. More

  • Egypt's Brotherhood gets new leader

    Egypt's biggest opposition group, Muslim Brotherhood, named Mohamed Badie as its new leader on Saturday. The Brotherhood, which seeks to introduce Islamic rule by democratic means, is officially banned but took about a fifth of the seats in parliament in 2005 by fielding candidates as independents. Since then, and with 81-year-old President Hosni.. More

  • Haiti quake: thousands feared dead, many trapped

    Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers desperately searched collapsed buildings as fear rose that the death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands. The first cargo planes with food, water, medical supplies, shelter and sniffer dogs headed.. More

  • Turkey accepts Israel's apology

    Turkey has accepted an official apology from Israel over the treatment of its ambassador, with the Israeli prime minister expressing the hope it would end the latest row between the two countries. Danny Ayalon, Israel's deputy foreign minister, embarrassed Oguz Celikkol, the Turkish envoy, on Monday, making him sit on a low couch and removing the Turkish.. More

  • 'Afghan deaths in Nato firing'

    Villagers in southern Afghanistan have claimed that Afghan and Nato forces killed 13 demonstrators after a group of people took to the streets to protest the alleged desecration of the Quran. Residents in Garmsir district of Helmand province on Tuesday said that Nato-led forces raided a house in the area on Sunday and destroyed copies of the noble.. More

  • 'Catastrophic quake' rocks Haiti

    The Caribbean nation of Haiti has been hit by its strongest earthquake in 200 years, causing what is being described as "a catastrophe of major proportions". Centered about 15km inland, west of the capital Port-au-Prince, Tuesday afternoon's quake sent people into the streets as a cloud of dust and smoke from falling buildings turned the.. More

  • Bomb blast kills Iranian professor

    An Iranian nuclear physics professor has been killed in a bomb blast in the north of the capital, Tehran, state media has reported. Massoud Mohammadi, a professor at Tehran University, was killed on Tuesday when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control outside his home. "The explosion took place near the professor's home.. More

  • Turkey's PM calls for UN reform after repeated Israel breaches

    Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the international community to display a fair approach regarding threat of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Anadolu news agency reported, Erdogan urged Israel to stop violating Lebanon's airspace and territorial waters. He also called on the U.N. Security Council to put same pressure on Israel regarding nuclear.. More

  • Israel plans wall for Egypt border

    Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has approved plans to erect a wall along part of Israel's border with Egypt. Announcing his decision to include advanced surveillance equipment on the new barrier, Netanyahu said in a statement on Sunday it would keep "infiltrators and terrorists" out. "This is a strategic decision to.. More

  • Doubts cast on H1N1 scare

    The severity of the H1N1 outbreak was deliberately exaggerated by pharmaceutical companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare, a leading European health expert has claimed. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, has accused the makers of vaccines for the virus of influencing the World Health Organization’s.. More

  • Nato troops killed in Afghanistan

    At least six international troops have been killed during a wave of violence in some of the most volatile regions of Afghanistan, Nato officials have said. Nato officials on Monday said that the dead included three Americans killed in southern Afghanistan, one French soldier who died in the northeast of the capital, Kabul, and two others whose nationalities.. More

  • Israeli tank fire kills two Palestinians

    Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli artillery in the northern Gaza Strip Sunday morning, Palestinian medical workers said. The killings came after three Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes in the coastal territory on Wednesday. A Palestinian official said that the two were shot by Israeli tank fire, which was near the.. More

  • Autonomy vote in French exclaves

    Residents of French Guiana and the Caribbean island of Martinique are heading to the polls to decide whether or not to seek more autonomy from France. On Sunday, voters in both departments will choose whether to allow local governments more administrative freedom while remaining a part of France. "If we don't take this small step, we will deprive.. More

  • CIA 'not lax' for Afghan attack

    The head of the CIA has denied that lax security measures enabled a suicide bomber to kill eight people, including seven of the US agency's intelligence officers, at a base in Afghanistan. Leon Panetta wrote in the Washington Post newspaper on Saturday that the Jordanian attacker was about to be searched when he blew himself up at the base in eastern.. More