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An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale jolted Mentawai Islands District, West Sumatra Province, on Wednesday ...

Some 264 people were killed and hundreds more feared dead on Monday after an earthquake struck parts of southeast ...

At least three soldiers and up to 34 militants were killed on Thursday in a gunbattle in Pakistan`s restive tribal ...

Eight Yemenis, including five protesters, were killed in a new upsurge in violence in the capital on Sunday, hospital ...

Torrential rain in Central America this week that forced thousands to abandon their homes and trapped many more has ...

Two suicide bombers struck Afghanistan`s biggest southern city Kandahar on Monday, killing three people, officials ...

A top Darfuri rebel leader, back from Libya, told AFP he is working with other armed groups to topple the Sudanese ...

Three foreign troops have died in a single bombing in Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance ...

Typhoon Nesat slammed into the Philippines Tuesday, killing at least one person, a baby, as it brought heavy rain and ...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Sunday evening called a limited meeting with high-ranking security officials ...

Over 2,700 people have been killed in Syria`s bloody crackdown on protestors, the Office of the United Nations High ...

A bomb killed at least five people and wounded 28 others at a market selling CDs in the northwestern Pakistan city of ...

Yemeni security forces killed 20 people, including three dissident soldiers and two children, in the capital Sanaa on ...

A suicide bomber targeting members of an anti-Taliban militia blew himself up during funeral prayers in northwest ...

At least 120 people were burned to death on Monday when a pipeline burst into flames in a Nairobi slum as local people ...