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At least three insurgents were killed in Malabanda area of Lower Dir during a clash with security forces on Tuesday. According to a private television...

At least two persons, including a lady constable and a police man, were killed while eight others were injured in a blast at Nowshehra’s...

Two security personnel were killed and two others injured when a convoy was attacked by militants with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in the...

The leader of a rival gang was killed inside the office of Faisalabad senior superintendent of police (SSP) in the presence of dozens of...

SANAA - Yemeni police killed one man and wounded several other people on Tuesday when they opened fire on anti-regime demonstrators ahead of a government delegation meeting with Gulf foreign ministers in Abu Dhabi. Police fired "indiscriminately" on protesters demanding the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the Wadi al-Qadi district of Taez, the second most-populated city of Yemen, south of Sanaa, according to witnesses. Several people suffered gunshot wounds, including a

RALEIGH - US authorities on Monday rushed aid to southern states after powerful tornadoes cut a path of death and destruction, killing at least 45 and reducing entire towns to piles of rubble. The tragedy began late Thursday in Oklahoma, where a giant twister almost flattened the small town of Tushka -- population 350 -- tearing up most of its homes and businesses and killing two elderly residents.
The storm system strengthened and expanded on Friday, whipping up hundreds more

BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombings killed five people and wounded 15 Monday at the entrance to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, where an Arab League summit is to be held next month.
Officials said the bombings occurred at around 8:30 am (0530 GMT) at the western gate of the Green Zone, which houses the offices of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi parliament and the US and British embassies. A queue of cars was waiting to enter the Green Zone when the vehicles

MOGADISHU - Unidentified gunmen fired on worshippers at two mosques in Somalia's self-proclaimed state of Puntland, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, residents and security officials said on Sunday. Residents believe the attacks targeted mosques run by al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels, blamed for a roadside bombing a few hours before that killed a prominent cleric who was also a senior Puntland government official.
The mosque attacks on Saturday evening and Sunday

CHARLESTON - Tornadoes tore into the Carolinas on Saturday afternoon as the death toll rose to 18 people from storms across the southern United States over the last three days.
A mechanic at a tire shop in Raleigh, North Carolina, said he took shelter in his truck while co-workers squeezed into an interior room when the storm hit.
"It was one hell of a storm," said Bryan Jackson. "I started to see the roof vibrate and then the roof separated and it was gone."
The

KARACHI - Orders to kill journalist Wali Babar were issued by some "influential people" living in South Africa but who have connections in Karachi, according to a report prepared by a joint investigation team (JIT) probing the case and the five suspects that have been arrested thus far.
Babar was murdered in broad daylight on January 13, 2011, with former provincial home minister Zulfiqar Mirza assuring the journalist community that his killers will be nabbed.
Five men

PESHAWAR - Pakistani troops and paramilitary forces, backed by helicopter gunships and warplanes, targeted Taliban positions in the tribal region of Mohmand near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 18 militants, a regional government official said.
Pakistan's military has recently mounted an offensive in villages bordering Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar in pursuit of militants linked to al Qaeda and Taliban who want to destabilise the U.S. ally and impose

AMMAN - Syrian security forces killed at least three pro-democracy demonstrators in the southern city of Deraa as protests against the rule of Bashar al-Assad flared in a number of towns after Friday prayers, witnesses said. In the east, thousands of ethnic Kurds demonstrated for reform despite the president's offer this week to ease rules which bar many Kurds from citizenship, activists said.
Security men opened fire on thousands of protesters in Deraa, where protests first

GAZA - Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip killed two militants from the Islamist group Hamas and three Palestinian civilians on Friday in a second day of increased cross-border violence. The Israeli military said it "identified two terrorist squads from Hamas" and hit the militants from the ground and air.
An elderly Palestinian and two women died when their house in Khan Younis was hit and three other women were wounded, hospital sources said. An Israel Defence Forces (IDF)

KABUL - British troops killed an Afghan woman and wounded a woman and a child in a car accident in Kabul on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief said, adding that initial reports a man had been shot dead at the scene were wrong.
Spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said information he had initially given out, that two women and a man had been killed, was the result of miscommunication between security forces. The accident came at a time of heightened anti-Western sentiment

PESHAWAR - An explosive device killed four children and wounded three others while they were playing at a pond in warm spring weather on Wednesday, police said.
Police said that the device exploded on the outskirts of the northwestern garrison town of Kohat in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Taliban insurgents have been fighting against government troops.
The victims were aged seven and nine, police said.
"Four children have been killed and three others were

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - NATO troops killed six civilians during a night raid on a house in northern Afghanistan's Sar-e Pul province late, the provincial governor told Reuters.
The NATO-led force said soldiers on a joint operation with Afghan troops had killed five men who were armed and opened fire on them. They are investigating the identity of the dead men, a spokesman said.
Afghans are allowed by law to own guns, and in rural areas many do, to protect against threats from

WINDHOEK - Record floods have hit central and northern Namibia, killing more than 60 people in the last week and causing millions of dollars of damage to roads, bridges and crops, officials said on Monday.
"Over 20,000 people have been displaced," government disaster chief Japhet Iitenge said, adding that helicopters, boats and four-wheel drive vehicles had been deployed to evacuate communities and distribute emergency relief.
"We are still awaiting reports on damages."