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Breakaway Georgia region S.Ossetia votes for president

The Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia voted for a new president on Sunday, with its former ...

Space junk misses ISS

A piece of space debris missed the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, forcing its crew members to take ...

Blasts shake Homs, Syria rebels hit back

Blasts rocked the flashpoint city of Homs on Sunday as Syria`s regime pressed its assault on protest hubs, while ...

Obama visits border amid N. Korea tensions

US President Barack Obama visited the tense inter-Korean border Sunday, calling it "freedom`s frontier", as he weighs ...

Yudhoyono calls for investigation into purchase of Sukhoi jets

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered law enforcement agencies and other departments to investigate alleged ...

Taliban attack `kills three Pakistani soldiers`

At least three soldiers were killed after dozens of Taliban militants stormed a check post in Pakistan`s northwest ...

Mali hit by looting after coup, president "safe"

Soldiers looted petrol stations and hijacked cars in Mali`s capital Bamako on Friday, 48 hours after a military coup, ...

Police arrests terrorist suspect in W Java

The National Police`s Densus 88 counter-terrorism unit arrested a terrorist suspect, identified by his initials CHW, ...

Gunmen execute Yemen official, three killed in clash

Unidentified gunmen abducted and killed an intelligence officer in southern Yemen, sparking a clash in which two of ...

West to pay Afghan military $4 bln a year: Karzai

The international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after ...

Yudhoyono to invite Palestinian leader to Indonesia

President Susilo Yudhoyono has said he would invite his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas to visit Indonesia to ...

Car bomb rocks Somali capital, Al Shabaab says responsible

A car bomb exploded in the heart of the Somali capital on Wednesday, wounding two people, and the rebel al Shabaab ...

Nigerian forces say kill 9Iislamists in Kano shootout

Nigerian security forces killed nine Islamist Boko Haram militants and captured two in a shootout in northern Kano ...

S. Korea to push tourism near tense border with north

Gun-toting soldiers patrol guard posts overlooking North Korean territory beyond a barbed-wire fence. Hundreds of red ...

Four Turkish police killed in PKK clash - officials

Four special force police officers were killed in a clash with Kurdish militants in a mountainous area of southeast ...