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Peshawar, Pakistan--Up to 71 civilians were killed in a weekend strike by Pakistani jets near the Afghan border, survivors and a government official said Tuesday — a rare confirmation of civilian casualties that risks undercutting public...
Washington--President Barack Obama and presidents, prime ministers and other top officials from 47 countries start work Monday on a battle plan to keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands.
Confronting what he calls the "single biggest threat...
Bangkok--Anti-government protesters dug into their encampments around Bangkok and rejected talk of negotiations Sunday after a monthlong standoff escalated into clashes that killed 20 people in Thailand's worst political violence in nearly two...
Kuwaiti forces have arrested and deported supporters of the prominent Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei, said their colleagues and a human rights group on Sunday.
At least 21 Egyptian expatriates have been deported so far, said George...
Khartoum--Three days of voting began Sunday in Sudan's first competitive elections in nearly a quarter century despite repeated opposition calls to delay the vote.
In Khartoum, turnout was lighter than expected in the first few hours of voting,...
Maryland, USA--The Army Reserve unit tarnished by the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal has been mobilized to return to Iraq in its first deployment since photographs of naked, humiliated prisoners surfaced more than six years ago, the Army said...
Khartoum--A key opposition party in northern Sudan is boycotting this week's local and parliamentary elections, a senior party official said Thursday, in another blow to the country's first multiparty balloting in more than two decades.
Separately,...
Denver, United States--Qatar's US ambassador rushed to the defense of his envoy whom authorities say grabbed a surreptitious smoke in a jetliner's bathroom, sparking a bomb scare and widespread alert that sent jet fighters scrambling to intercept...
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan--An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan proclaimed an interim government Thursday in the wake of clashes that left dozens dead nationwide, and said it would rule for six months before calling new elections.
Opposition leader Roza...
Washington--President Barack Obama's advisers plan to remove terms such as "Islamic radicalism" from a document outlining national security strategy and will use the new version to emphasize that the US does not view Muslim nations through...
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