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President chairs meeting on peacekeeping force training center

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday chaired a limited cabinet meeting to discuss progress in the ...

Anthrax parcel sent to Pakistan pm`s house: police

Pakistani police said Wednesday they were investigating how and why a parcel containing anthrax was sent to the prime ...

East Timor`s Ramos-Horta to seek second term

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta will seek another term in March polls, his office said Tuesday, as the young ...

Suicide bomber kills four in Pakistan: police

A suicide bomber killed an Islamist militant commander in Pakistan`s northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, along ...

Sudan army frees 14 `kidnapped` Chinese

The Sudanese military has freed 14 Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in the country`s South Kordofan state, the ...

Suicide car bomb outside Baghdad hospital kills 31

A suicide bomber set off an explosives-packed car outside a Baghdad hospital on Friday, killing 31 people in the ...

Suicide attack kills four in Afghan city, wounds 34

A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah on Thursday, killing at least ...

Israel arrests Hamas lawmaker in West Bank

Israeli forces arrested a Hamas lawmaker at his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah overnight, a source from the ...

NATO claims "successful year" in Afghanistan

A spokesman for NATO-led forces said Tuesday that 2011 had been a "remarkably successful year" against insurgents in ...

France reaffirms right to decide on early Afghan pullout

France insisted Sunday it reserved the right to decide on a possible early pullout of forces from Afghanistan despite ...

Mogadishu fighting kills at least 9 Somalis

Somali militants firing vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft guns clashed with African Union forces for a second night in ...

2 Qaeda suspects killed in clashes with Yemen army

Two suspected Al-Qaeda fighters were killed in clashes with Yemeni troops in the restive southern province of Abyan, a ...

Bodies of four French troops return home from Afghanistan

The bodies of four French soldiers were flown home Sunday, two days after their deaths at the hands of an Afghan ...

Israel detains 3 Gaza `infiltrators`: army

Israeli forces arrested three Palestinians overnight as they tried to enter Israel from the southern Gaza Strip, a ...

Suicide attack kills seven at Afghan airport

A suicide bomber killed at least seven people and wounded eight Thursday in an attack at Kandahar international ...