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Bomb planted on Iranian airliner defused

The incident took place just two days after 25 people were killed in a bomb attack on a mosque in south-eastern Iran. [...more]

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Twelve militants killed in Afghanistan

Troops killed 12 Taliban linked to a battle with US troops earlier this month that caused scores of civilian casualties, officials said Sunday. Afghan and US forces raided late Saturday a group of militants said to have gathered to plan an attack in Afghanistan's southwestern province of Farah, the deputy provincial governor said. "Afghan soldiers and US Special Forces surrounded them to arrest them. Taliban fought back but all of the 12, including their commander, were killed," [...more]

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Iran defuses bomb in plane toilet

Iranian security officials defused a bomb planted on a domestic passenger plane, officials said on Sunday, the latest incident of violence ahead of next month's presidential election. The attempted bomb attack occurred on Saturday on a Kish Air flight headed to Tehran from the oil-rich western city of Ahvaz near the border with Iraq, the Fars news agency reported. "Last night, 15 minutes after the plane with 131 passengers took off, flight security guards found a handmade bomb placed [...more]

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Four killed in Yemen clashes

Four Yemenis, including a policeman, were killed and 13 others wounded in two days of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in southern Yemen, medics and witnesses said. The deaths bring the toll of Yemenis killed since demonstrations broke out in the south in late April to sixteen, including five security force members. The Sanaa government has blamed the protests on southern separatists. A policeman and a demonstrator were killed Sunday in clashes in the village of [...more]

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Suu Kyi ‘covered up’ truth: govt

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Myanmar on Sunday accused opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of deliberately covering up the presence of an American man at her home and warned foreign govts against interfering in the case."It is no doubt that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has committed a cover-up of the truth by her failure to report an illegal immigrant to the authorities concerned," Major General Aye Myint, Myanmar's deputy defence minister, told a security forum in [...more]

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Muslims want more than fine talk from Obama

BEIRUT (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama has awoken hope for redress of grievances in the hearts of some of the more than a billion Muslims scattered in diverse communities across the globe.To win their minds, sceptical after a "war on terror" waged by his predecessor George W Bush that many saw as an assault on Islam, Obama must follow his speech to the Muslim world this week with evidence of real change in US policy and outlook.That, at least, is a [...more]

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Thousands hit by diarrhoea outbreak in BD

KOYRA, Bangladesh (AFP) - An outbreak of diarrhoea has spread across Bangladesh's south-west after a cyclone slammed into the south of the country and neighbouring India earlier in the week, officials said Sunday.At least 237 people were killed after Cyclone Aila on Monday hit the low-lying coast north of the Bay of Bengal, where a military and civilian relief operation is now underway.Doctors said diarrhoea had broken out at an "alarming rate" as inundation [...more]

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‘Curry bashings’ strain Australia-India ties

MELBOURNE (AFP) - Indian students rallied in Melbourne on Sunday as Australia scrambled to contain outrage over a wave of attacks that has seen it labelled racist and strained diplomatic relations with New Delhi.Indian media have dubbed the attacks "curry bashings", a term reportedly used by youths behind the violence in Melbourne's western suburbs, where 30pc of assault victims are Indian.What began as a local policing issue in Australia's second largest city [...more]

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US, Russia to hold START talks today

GENEVA (AFP) - Russian and US negotiators are due to meet in Geneva on Monday (today) for a second round of talks on renewing a key Cold War-era arms reduction deal, a month before their leaders hold a landmark summit.Diplomats said the three-day meeting on the START treaty would be held behind closed doors at an undisclosed location, mirroring the discretion surrounding the first round in Moscow nearly two weeks ago."On the details of the negotiation, I [...more]

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US urges Asian allies to help more on Afghanistan

SINGAPORE: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates urged Washington''s Asian allies Saturday to step up support for military and nation-rebuilding efforts in [...more]

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