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People run for safe places during a fidayeen attack at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Wednesday. 06, Jan 2009.

photo: WN / Imran Nissar

Hundreds rescued as Kashmir gunbattle continues
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Separatist militants holed up in a hotel lobbed grenades and opened fire on security forces for a second straight day on Thursday in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar, prompting a mass rescue operation of residents. The armed militants forced their way into the hotel on Wednesday, killing a...

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown stands outside 10 Downing Street in London, during an event where he signed a Mini car being auctioned for a British Armed Forces charity, Thursday Feb. 12, 2009.

photo: AP / Matt Dunham

Brown's position as PM is secure insists Mandelson
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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Lord Mandelson: "The same handful of people who have always held this view will come back again" Gordon Brown is secure as prime minister as Labour has reached a "settled view" he will lead them into the election, Lord Mandelson has said. He was speaking after a day...

Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010.

photo: AP / Ahmed Gomaa

Gunmen kill 7 at Egypt church after Christmas Mass
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Cairo: Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egypt as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by shooting, the church bishop and security officials said. Egypt's Interior Ministry said the attack on Wednesday just before midnight was suspected as...

Sudanese demonstrators rally demanding electoral reforms, ahead of next year's crucial national elections, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009.

photo: AP / Abd Raouf

Aid groups warn of Sudan civil war risk
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Ten international aid groups say a 2005 peace deal in Sudan is on the verge of collapse and that the world must act now to prevent renewed conflict. The agencies blamed a "lethal cocktail" of rising violence, chronic poverty and political tensions. Sudan is due to hold a referendum on independence for the oil-rich south in January 2011....

British legislator George Galloway, center top, is welcomed after his arrival in Gaza at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010.

photo: AP / Eyad Baba

Aid convoy enters Gaza after attack at Egyptian port
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PEACE ACTIVISTS from 40 countries and vehicles loaded with food and medical supplies in the Viva Palestina convoy entered Gaza overnight from Egypt in spite of unrest along the border. Yesterday afternoon an Egyptian border guard was killed, and nine guards and 35 Palestinians were injured, five critically, when a protest erupted on the Gaza side...

In photo taken with a cell phone, police officers and investigators seen at the site of an explosion at the traffic police station on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's Dagestan region, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010.

photo: AP / Arsen Mollayev

Suicide bombing kills 6 Russian police, wounds 16
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ARSEN MOLLAYEV Associated Press Writer= MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) â A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at a police station in Russia's troubled North Caucasus on Wednesday, killing at least six officers and wounding 16, police said. But the officers who died took action to prevent far greater devastation at the traffic police...

Naoto Kan, acting leader of Democratic Party of Japan, smiles as he adds a red rosette on the list of the candidates as the results of the upper house elections are announced at the party headquarters in Tokyo Sunday, July 29, 2007.

photo: AP / Koji Sasahara

Japan PM replaces finance minister
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Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has named his deputy, Naoto Kan,...

This photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009 shows Yemeni security forces outside the French embassy in San'a, Yemen. France and the Czech Republic have joined the U.S. and Britain in closing their embassies in the Yemeni capital in response to threats of attack by an al-Qaida offshoot.

photo: AP

Yemen: Security forces capture 3 al-Qaeda suspects
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Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security forces arrested three suspected al-Qaeda militants from a cell that the U.S. has said was linked to a plot against the American or other embassies, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The arrests were the latest move in 's U.S.-backed crackdown on...

Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 on a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, in this Dec 22, 1988 file photo. In the 15 years since Pan American World Airways shut down, ex-employee Anthony La Pera had assumed he would never get paid for leftover wages and accrued vacation. But La Pera and another 15,000 ex-employees can expect to open their mailboxes one day this December and find that a check has arrived, from a $33 million settlement with the government of Libya over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. It marks the the end of the liquidation of an iconic airline.

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'Flaws' in key Lockerbie evidence
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An investigation by BBC's Newsnight has cast doubts on the key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. Tests aimed at reproducing the blast appear to undermine the case's central forensic link, based on a tiny fragment identified as part of a bomb timer. The tests suggest the fragment, which linked the...

Activists of "Gaza Freedom Marchers" display slogans supporting the people of Gaza, against the subterranean wall barrier being placed to stop tunnels being used to transport goods into Gaza, during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010

photo: AP / Amr Nabil

Clash in Egypt over Gaza aid effort
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At least 55 people have been injured in clashes between Egyptian police and pro-Palestinian activists who were trying to deliver aid into the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses say. Some 520 activists broke down the gate at the port in El-Arish late on Tuesday in protest against an Egyptian decision to ship some of the goods through Israel, medical workers...