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Israel has approved a ceasefire to end months of bitter clashes with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed.
Under the terms of the truce, which is set to begin on Thursday, Israel will ease its blockade on th..
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SF Gate
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The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush says he wants to pursue diplomacy to deal with Iran's controversial nuclear programme, but "all options are on the table".
Mr Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said further sanctions against Iran were possible.
"The f..
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BBC News
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Iran's supreme leader has insisted it will continue its nuclear activities for civilian purposes only and will not manufacture nuclear weapons.
"No wise nation would be interested in making a nuclear weapon today. They are against rational thought," sa..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's government has banned at least one international aid group from operating in the country for allegedly campaigning for the opposition.
All operations of Care International are now suspended, pending an inquiry into the claims.
Care denies t..
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MSNBC
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A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said.
The blast echoed through Islamabad and left a crater more than three feet deep..
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MSNBC
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A landmark study last August by the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies described the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area as a de facto al-Qaeda haven in which terrorist leaders were reorganizing for attacks against the West. But Hayden said counterterrorism succe..
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MSNBC
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The junta has accepted relief flights into Yangon from many countries, including the United States, its fiercest critic, but has largely kept Western disaster experts out of the delta.
However, it has allowed a senior U.S. aid official on a 3-day gover..
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SF Gate
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U.N. experts investigating violations of an arms embargo against Somalia report that countries and private traders are supplying weapons to warlords and militants, South Africa's U.N. ambassador said Thursday.
Dumisani Kumalo, who chairs the Security C..
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BBC News
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Several thousand foreigners have fled South Africa after days of violent attacks by angry mobs.
Mozambique is laying on special buses, which have taken some 9,000 people home this week, an official said.
Some Zimbabweans are also going home, preferr..
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MSNBC
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Army Gen. David Petraeus, who is to assume control of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said that a continued U.S. presence in Iraq is more likely to blunt, rather than inflame, Iran's growing influence in the region.
In a 46-page question-and-answer doc..
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BBC News
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South African security ministers have been discussing using the army to help stop a wave of attacks on foreigners, which has left at least 23 people dead.
The deployment of troops, which has been demanded by human rights groups and the opposition, coul..
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SF Gate
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Police imposed a daylong curfew in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Wednesday to prevent any retaliatory violence after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead.
Authorities suspect Islamic militants were behind the blasts,..
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SF Gate
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Lebanese security officials say heavy fighting has erupted for a second time in the northern city of Tripoli.
Officials say heavy machine gun fire and rockets are being used in battles between government supporters and opponents. The officials spoke on..
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BBC News
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The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country.
The UN body says the Burmese government seized aid material flown in to help victims of the cyc..
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BBC News
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Gunmen from the Shia militant group Hezbollah have seized most of western Beirut, driving out supporters of the Western-backed government.
The gunmen, who also back Hezbollah's Shia opposition allies, have forced the closure of pro-government media...
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SF Gate
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The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has been not been captured, the U.S. military said Friday, despite a claim by the Iraqi government.
U.S. military spokeswoman Maj. Peggy Kageleiry says "neither coalition forces nor Iraqi security forces detained or kille..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe is too violent to hold a presidential run-off, the head of a South African observer mission says.
"We have seen it, there are people in hospital who said they have been tortured," said Kingsley Mamabolo.
The head of the Zimbabwe Electoral C..
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BBC News
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Somali troops killed at least two people in the capital, Mogadishu, when they opened fire to halt riots over rising costs and counterfeit money.
Thousands of people rioted, burning tyres and throwing stones after traders refused to accept local notes a..
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CNN
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An Iranian official says the government wants the United States to stop its "savage attacks" in Iraq before its envoys hold more talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials, Iran's Fars News Agency reported. "Under the current circumstances and given the U.S. wid..
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