Beirut Car Bomb Kills Political Adviser

An explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has killed at least five people and wounded 50, according to the state news agency. The suspected car bomb exploded in the city's business district, reportedly damaging 10 buildings, and setting cars ablaze....

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India Gang Rape Victim Was Attacked Twice

A young woman was kidnapped and raped by two gangs in India - a year after a fatal rape shook the nation. Police have arrested 10 people and charged six of them with raping the a 21-year-old victim in southern India. Officer Monika Bharadwaj said the...

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Thailand: Policeman Killed In Election Protest

A Thai police officer has been killed in clashes as anti-government protesters in Bangkok attempt to halt preparations for upcoming elections. Police said the officer died after being airlifted to a hospital with gunshot wounds. "He was shot in his...

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China Condemns Japan PM's Visit To War Shrine

Japan's nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has paid an inflammatory visit to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine. China immediately condemned the move as glorification of Japan's past "militaristic aggression" and warned Tokyo must "bear the consequences"....

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Egypt Names Muslim Brotherhood A Terror Group

Egypt's military-backed government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, criminalising all of its activities. The interim government also banned any financing of the Muslim Brotherhood and membership to it. The announcement is a dramatic...

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Israel Defends 'Racist' Bedouin Removal Policy

By Sam Kiley, Middle East Correspondent, in Umm al Hiran Israeli government officials have rushed to defend the forced removal of up to 40,000 Israeli citizens of Arab descent from their homes in the Negev to new towns amid a growing clamour of...

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South Sudan: 'Thousands Dead' In Ethnic Clashes

Mass graves have been uncovered in South Sudan amid evidence ethnic clashes have left thousands dead. Dozens of bodies were discovered at a burial site in the country's oil rich Unity State and there were reports of two other mass graves elsewhere....

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Egypt: 14 Dead In Police Headquarters Explosion

At least 13 people have been killed in an explosion at a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Mansoura. The blast injured around 100 others, state media reported. Investigators are trying to find out whether the blast, which happened at around...

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US Marines Poised As South Sudan Unrest Grows

The US is moving additional troops to Africa as South Sudan seems to be sliding towards civil war. South Sudan's army was poised for a major offensive against rebel forces, the president said on Monday. Expectations of an upsurge in fighting came as...

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Egypt: 14 Dead In Police Headquarters Explosion

At least 14 people have been killed in an explosion at a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Mansoura, officials have said. The powerful blast, believed to have been caused by a car bomb, injured around 100 others, state media reported. The...

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Khodorkovsky Vows To Help Political Prisoners

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has vowed to help get other political prisoners released from Russian jails after he was freed. The Kremlin critic says people should not see him as a "symbol" that there are no other such detainees behind bars...

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South Sudan: US Sends Special Envoy Booth

Special envoys from the United States and Nigeria are flying to South Sudan as world leaders step up efforts to avert an all-out civil war. The US envoy for Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth was expected in the capital Juba on Sunday. It follows...

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Lockerbie 25th Anniversary: Victims Remembered

Special memorial services to mark the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing have taken place in England, Scotland and the US. Pan Am flight 103 was on its way from London to New York when it exploded above Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, on the...

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South Sudan Conflict: Last UK Airlift Mission

The UK is to charter its third and final flight to evacuate British nationals from the troubled East African state as fighting spreads. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said the plane would be sent to the capital city of Juba on Monday afternoon...

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