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KARACHI - At least two men were reportedly gunned down in separate incidents in the city on Monday.
SITE-A police said a 35-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified armed persons near the Habib Chowrangi in SITE area. Abdul Ghaffar, son of Taur Khan, was crossing the road when he the assailants sprayed him with bullets and managed to escape.
The victim, a resident of Bawani Chali, SITE was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on

SANAA - Yemeni security forces shot dead at least 17 protesters on Monday as Gulf states offered their mediation and Washington reportedly pulled the plug on embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
"The death toll has gone up to 17," said Sadeq al-Shujaa, head of a makeshift field hospital at a square in central Taez after security forces opened fire on demonstrators marching on the governorate headquarters. Witnesses said the demonstrators stormed the courtyard of the

SANAA - At least five people were killed after police fired on protesters in the Yemeni city of Taiz, south of the capital, on Monday, a medical source said.
In the port city of Hudaida, armed men in civilian clothes opened fire on protesters, witnesses said. There was no immediate word on casualties there.

AMMAN - Hundreds of Syrians chanted "freedom" as they gathered early on Sunday to receive home wounded protesters in Douma, the Damascus suburb taking the fight closest to President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power.
Some 50 wounded arrived in secret police cars around midnight in Municipality Square, where at least five were killed on Friday when rights activists said security forces fired at protesters demanding political freedoms and an end to graft.
Thousands took to the

DHAKA - One person was killed in southwest Bangladesh Sunday as police fired on hundreds of madrassa students protesting at government moves to ensure equal property rights for women, officials said. Police said the violence occurred in Jessore, 260 kilometres (160 miles) from the capital Dhaka, after some 500 protestors, mostly madrassa students, suddenly attacked officers with sticks and stones.
"We shot rubber bullets to disperse the unruly protesters. It appears that a

ISLAMABAD - A bomb exploded outside a shrine in the central Pakistani province of Punjab on Sunday, killing up to seven devotees, the local administration chief said.
The device went off outside the shrine of Ahmed Sultan popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar in Dera Ghazi Khan district, local administration chief Iftikhar Sahu said.
"According to initial reports six or seven people have died and 30 to 35 wounded," he said.
The wounded have been rushed to the Dera Ghazi Khan

SANAA - Yemeni police killed one protester and wounded scores of others when they opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the city of Taez on Sunday, witnesses said.
"The man was shot in the chest while tearing up a poster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh," one witness said.
Others said that at least 250 protesters were injured, some with live bullets, when police fired tear gas and gunfire to disperse a protest heading to the governorate headquarters in Taez, some

KANDAHAR - At least 10 people have been killed and 83 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a holy Quran by a radical fundamentalist Christian in the United States.
A suicide attack also hit a NATO military base in the capital Kabul, the day after protesters over-ran a UN mission in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and killed seven foreign staff, in the deadliest attack on the UN in

EAST OF BREGA - The US military is poised to withdraw its combat jets and Tomahawk missiles from the air campaign against Libya's regime as NATO allies take the lead in bombing Moamer Gaddafi's forces.
A NATO-led airstrike killed 13 Libyan rebels in a "regrettable incident", a rebel spokesman said on Saturday, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the oil town of Brega. Meanwhile, US officials on Friday confirmed that American fighters,

QUETTA - A pro-government notable of Marri tribe escape a life attempt while two of his loyalists, including his nephew, lost their lives and three others wounded in a remote controlled bomb explosion in Kohlu district on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner Kohlu Nasrullah Rind told this scribe that Mir Shahnawaz Marri was on his way to Bala Dhaka when a roadside remote control bomb exploded in Kashk area near the Frontier Corps Fort.
Muhammad Din and Bahar Khan were killed on the

KARACHI - A local newspaper's chief crime reporter was gunned down by unidentified culprits in the Baghdadi police precincts on Saturday. Police said that Zaman Ali, 42, was near the Hussain Bhai Ismailji Road when two men on a motorcycle opened fire on him. Ali suffered a bullet to the head and died on the spot, whereas his body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi. The Crime Reporters Association condemned his murder and sought protection for working journalists.
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KANDAHAR - At least nine people have been killed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist Christian in the United States.
A suicide attack also hit a NATO military base in the capital Kabul, the day after protesters over-ran a UN mission in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and killed seven foreign staff, in the deadliest attack on the UN in Afghanistan.