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Sudan's northern army has taken control of the disputed Abyei region and is clearing it of armed forces from the South, a minister from...

Sudan’s northern army accused the South’s forces on Friday of attacking a convoy in the contested Abyei region, and threatened to retaliate, escalating a...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied on Tuesday a UN report that Tehran had exchanged missile technology with North Korea, a move which could be a...

At least five suspected militants were killed and several others injured when a US drone fired two missiles on a vehicle in Doga area...

At least eight suspected militants were killed in a US drone attack on a vehicle in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan on...

KANO - Riots spread across Nigeria's north on Monday as results from presidential elections showed incumbent Goodluck Jonathan assured of victory in polls that reflected deep regional tensions. Residents reported that a home belonging to an aide to the vice president was among those set alight and a mob sought to burn a Christian woman alive in one area.
Protesters fought running battles with soldiers in Nigeria's main northern city. A 24-hour curfew was imposed on the state of

MAKHACHKALA - At least three policemen and 3 suspected Islamist militants were killed in clashes in Russia's North Caucasus on Monday, media reported, underlining the Kremlin's struggle to contain violence there.
A decade after Russian federal forces drove separatists out of power in Chechnya, almost daily violence plagues the mainly Muslim North Caucasus where rebels want to establish an Islamic state under strict sharia law. "The police returned fire at a group of militants,

GAZA CITY - A Gazan man was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources said, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the border. "A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli tank shell near Erez," Adham Abu Selmiya told AFP, identifying him as 21-year-old Mohammed Ziyad Shalha.
Earlier, witnesses reported seeing Israeli troops firing at two men in the same area who were said to be collecting gravel, in what was understood to be the

GAZA CITY - A Gazan man was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources said, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the border.
"A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli tank shell near Erez," said Adham Abu Selmiya, identifying him as 21-year-old Mohammed Ziyad Shalha.
Earlier, witnesses reported seeing Israeli troops firing at two men in the same area who were said to be collecting gravel, in what was understood to be the

SEOUL - South Korea repatriated on Sunday 27 North Koreans whose boat drifted into the South's waters last month, the South's Red Cross said, ending a row which threatened to further damage relations between the two Koreas.
Four North Koreans who had also been aboard the fishing boat decided to stay in the South, prompting the diplomatic dispute. The North Koreans were sent home across the disputed western sea border a day after the first anniversary of the sinking of a South

KHARTOUM - South Sudan's army (SPLA) accused the north of bombing its territory, violating a 2005 peace deal ahead of the oil-producing region's impending independence. Sudan's north-south conflict raged for all but a few years since 1955 claiming 2 million lives in Africa's longest running civil war. The south voted this year to secede and will become the world's newest nation on July 9.
SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer said the north dropped bombs on March 21 between a village and

MIRANSHAH - A US drone missile strike killed at least 38 militants in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan. There were conflicting accounts about the target of the attack. The area is a stronghold of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a Taliban commander.
One official said the missiles targeted a house as elders loyal to Bahadur were trying to mediate between two warring militant groups inside. Another official said the drone attacked a vehicle in the area that was passing by a house where

SEOUL - Twenty-seven North Koreans who drifted into South Korean waters aboard a fishing vessel last month will be returned home on Wednesday, the South said, but the fate of another four defectors from the group remains unresolved.
Pyongyang, which has previously demanded all 31 North Koreans be returned at the same time, said that taking into account "the feelings of the family members who are waiting for them" the 27 could return, the South Korean Red Cross said in a

JUBA - A south Sudanese official accused the north of planning a Darfur-style genocide against the south, in an escalation of rhetoric less than four months ahead of the secession of his oil-producing region. Pagan Amum's accusation came a day after he said his party had suspended talks about preparations for southern independence with the north's National Congress Party, which he said was plotting to overthrow the south's semi-autonomous government.
Southerners overwhelmingly

SEOUL - North Korea threatened "all-out war" in response to exercises by South Korean and US troops due to start Monday and told Seoul to stop cross-border propaganda, upping the rhetoric against its arch rivals. Pyongyang would respond to the upcoming drill, with "unprecedented all-out counteraction" that would turn the South's capital Seoul into a sea of flames, the Korean Central News Agency said Sunday.
"The army and people of the DPRK will return bolstered nuclear deterrent

PESHAWAR - A US drone strike in the lawless tribal region - the second such attack in 24 hours on the area near the Afghan border - killed five militants Monday, security officials said. The strike took place in the mountainous Spalga village, 20 kilometres south of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan, a hub of Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
"It was a US drone strike which targeted a militant compound, killing five rebels," a senior local security official told AFP,

SEOUL - North Korea is digging tunnels at a site where it has launched two nuclear tests, suggesting it is preparing a third, the South's Yonhap news agency said on Sunday. Tensions rose on the divided peninsula when 46 sailors were killed in an attack in March on a South Korean naval vessel. North Korea, which has denied responsibility, shelled the southern island of Yeonpyeong in November, killing four people and sparking fears of possible all-out war.
The North was excavating