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Three foreign troops killed in Afghanistan
A man in an Afghan police uniform on Sunday shot and killed three foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement. It did not give any other details, including the nationalities of the three. The statement said the man was wearing the uniform of the Afghan National Civil Order Police and that the incident was under.. More -
Assad's forces on offensive; Moscow defends him again
Syrian forces swept through the corpse-strewn streets of nearly-deserted opposition districts on the outskirts of the capital on Sunday, as the conflict enters a new phase of heavier fighting near Bashar al-Assad's seat of power. Government troops also bombed and shelled other towns across the country, a day after Russian diplomats rode again to Assad's.. More -
Libya protesters storm Benghazi voting office
Hundreds of armed protesters have stormed the election commission in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, witnesses have said. An Al Jazeera team in Tripoli confirmed on Sunday that an estimated 1,000 people occupied the election commission building to protest the allocation of seats for the eastern district of which Benghazi is the capital. By late.. More -
Assad's fate unclear in world powers' Syria plan
World powers struck an agreement that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the crackdown there but they remained at odds over what part President Bashar al-Assad might play in the process. Peace envoy Kofi Annan said after the talks in Geneva on Saturday the government should include members of Assad's administration and the Syrian.. More -
Mohamed Morsi sworn in as Egypt's president
Mohamed Morsi has been sworn in by Egypt's highest court as the country's first freely elected president, succeeding Hosni Mubarak who was toppled 16 months ago. He took the oath on Saturday before the Supreme Constitutional Court in their courthouse near the Nile River built to resemble an ancient Egyptian temple. Morsi became Egypt's fifth head.. More -
Fierce US storms cut power to millions
More than three million people have been left without power amid a record heat wave in the eastern United States and deadly thunderstorms that downed power lines along mid-Atlantic region. The violent storms have left at least 13 people dead, authorities said on Saturday. Six people were reported killed in Virginia, including a 90-year-old woman asleep.. More -
Egypt 'to sue' Iran's Fars news agency over fabricated report
The office of Egypt's president-elect Mohammed Mursi is to take legal action against the Iranian Fars news agency for fabricating an interview with him, the official Mena news agency said. Fars quoted Mursi saying the two countries should improve ties. Such a move would go against Western efforts to isolate Tehran over its controversial nuclear program. Me.. More -
UN says rights abuses spreading in Syria
Human rights violations are on the rise as fighting spreads across the country, the chief UN rights investigator for Syria has said. "Gross violations of human rights are occurring regularly, in the context of increasingly militarized fighting which - in some areas - bears the characteristics of a non-international armed conflict," Paulo.. More -
Bombs in Baghdad as political crisis deepens
At least twelve people have been killed in bombings across the Iraqi capital, one of which targeted a tribal sheikh in southern Baghdad. Gunmen planted three bombs in the house of Hatim al-Mansouri, the leader of a pro-government Awakening militia in Mada'in. Mansouri was not injured, but his wife, daughter and son were all killed in the blast, according.. More -
Gunmen storm Pro-Assad Syrian TV channel
Gunmen have broken through the gates of a pro-government Syrian TV channel headquarters, bombing buildings and shooting dead three employees, state media said, in one of the boldest attacks yet on a symbol of the state. President Bashar al-Assad declared late on Tuesday that his country was at war and Wednesday's attack on Ikhbariya's offices - located.. More -
NATO chief condemns Syria over jet downing
The head of the NATO military alliance has described the downing of a Turkish fighter jet by Syrian government forces unacceptable. The condemnation came shortly after Turkey briefed NATO's North Atlantic Council in discussions on Tuesday held under Article 4 of NATO's founding treaty, which allows a NATO member to request consultations if its security.. More -
Many killed in Bangladesh landslides
More than 50 people have been killed and about 150,000 stranded due to landslides in southeast Bangladesh after three days of rains that triggered flash floods and snapped transport links, officials said. The army has been deployed to help with search and rescue efforts in the affected hill region of Chittagong, said the region's chief administrator,.. More -
Heavy fighting around Syrian capital
Regime forces and opposition fighters were locked in heavy fighting in several areas outside Damascus on Tuesday, activists said, in the worst violence to hit the suburbs of the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 16 months ago. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy fighting near the Republican.. More -
Myanmar's Rohingya forced back to sea
Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence reached Bangladesh after days at sea, only to be turned away by border guards. Thousands of Muslims have been escaping from Myanmar after dozens were killed in religious violence. They are fleeing attacks in Rakhine state by the Buddhist majority. Many have tried to reach Bangladesh, where their ancestors are from. However.. More -
Egypt's president-elect Mursi begins work on government
Egypt's president-elect, Mohammed Mursi, has moved into his new office in the presidential palace and begun work forming a government he says will represent all of the people. The Muslim Brotherhood candidate, who defeated ex-PM Ahmed Shafiq, could be sworn in by the end of the month. However, the ruling military council has taken many presidential.. More
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