Afghan election workers among 11 killed by roadside bomb
Reuters, Mazar-I-Sharif :Eleven people, including election workers, were killed in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb blew up their bus, the governor of the northern province...
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Russia condemns attack on Kiev embassy
BBC Online :Russia has reacted angrily to a violent protest outside its embassy in Ukraine, which saw windows smashed, the Russian flag torn down and...
Burmese vote to retain Suu Kyi Burma presidential ban
BBC Online :A parliamentary committee in Burma has voted to retain a constitutional clause barring opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from standing for president.The...
Millions of Afghans vote in crunch run-off poll
BBC Online :Afghans are voting in run-off polls that will determine who will succeed President Hamid Karzai.The choice is between former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah...
Iran ready to help Iraq: Rouhani
AFP, Tehran :Iran may consider cooperating with the United States in fighting Sunni extremist fighters in Iraq if Washington acts against them, President Hassan Rouhani...
Obama to ‘review options’
BBC Online :US President Barack Obama has said he will take several days to decide what action to take over Iraq, but that no US...
Drone strikes kill three suspected militants in Yemen
Reuters, Aden :A drone strike killed three suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen late on Friday, a local official and a tribal source told Reuters...
Syria car bomb near Iraq kills 8
Reuters, Beirut :At least eight people were killed on Saturday when a car bomb exploded in a market in eastern Syria near the border with...
Israel scours West Bank for teens feared abducted
AP, Jerusalem :Israeli soldiers searched the West Bank on Friday for three missing teenagers from nearby settlements, one of them a U.S. citizen, feared kidnapped...
Military lifts curfew throughout Thailand
CNN :The nighttime curfew imposed in Thailand after last month’s military coup has been lifted, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha said during his weekly address Friday.The announcement...
Drone strikes kill 10 in Pakistan after Taliban airport attack
Reuters, Islamabad :Ten militants were killed in this year’s first two drone strikes in Pakistan, officials said on Thursday, six months after the attacks were...
Iraqi Kurds ‘fully control Kirkuk’ as army flees
BBC Online :Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have taken full control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk as the army flees before an Islamist...