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A suicide attacker has killed at least 12 people at a tribal council meeting in a government building in Karma, a town near Falluja, Iraqi police said.
More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added.
Karma is in the mainly Sunni Mu..
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The secretary general of Zimbabwe's opposition party has been granted bail, a day before a controversial presidential poll run-off.
Tendai Biti, of the Movement for Democratic Change, was held earlier this month on treason charges, which his party says..
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North Korea has handed over a long-awaited account of its nuclear programme to China, diplomats said.
The declaration, which is six months overdue, is expected to detail North Korea's plutonium enrichment efforts.
But analysts say it is not expected..
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MSNBC
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Mandela boosts international condemnation
The elderly Mandela, revered by many across the world for his role in ending apartheid in South Africa, rarely speaks on political issues these days but used a speech at a dinner in London to condemn a "tragic..
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MSNBC
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The North proved it could build a working nuclear bomb when it carried out an underground nuclear test blast in October 2006. Details on the bombs, however, will be left to the next stage of the talks, when Pyongyang is supposed to abandon all its nuclear..
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BBC News
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The head of an African observer mission in Zimbabwe has warned that he will not endorse next week's run-off if current levels of violence continue.
Marwick Khumalo told the BBC his team had received horrendous reports of attacks and the political envir..
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BBC News
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Nato and Afghan forces have launched an operation to drive Taleban insurgents from the outskirts of the southern city of Kandahar.
Troops backed by helicopter gunships are patrolling west of the Arghandab river, a Nato statement said.
There have bee..
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BBC News
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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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Some deadly bombings in Baghdad this year:
_June 17: A car bomb tears through a market area in Hurriyah, a mainly Shiite neighborhood, killing at least 51 people.
_May 1: A bomb-rigged parked car explodes as a U.S. patrol is passing through a crowde..
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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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A top UN official is due in Zimbabwe for a five-day visit ahead of the presidential run-off, which continues to be marred by political violence.
Haile Menkerios is expected to meet politicians to discuss the situation in the run-up to the 27 June vote...
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BBC News
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British nationals in the United Arab Emirates have been warned there is now a high risk of a terror attack there.
Travel advice from the UK Foreign Office said terrorists might be planning indiscriminate attacks in places frequented by expatriates...
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown and President George Bush have warned Iran to accept their "offers of partnership" or face tough sanctions and international isolation.
The UK prime minister said he wanted to maintain a dialogue with Tehran, but if Iran ignores UN resolut..
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BBC News
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President Robert Mugabe has warned that Zimbabwe's war of independence veterans are ready to fight to stop the MDC gaining power, state media report.
Mr Mugabe was quoted by the Herald newspaper as saying the veterans had asked approval to take up arms..
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BBC News
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The US has released video excerpts of a controversial air strike in the Afghan-Pakistani border region which Pakistan says killed 11 of its soldiers.
The US said that the footage proves that US forces were legitimately targeting pro-Taleban militants...
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BBC News
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for $50bn (�25bn) in aid to help rebuild his country, at a foreign donors conference in Paris.
The US has committed $10bn, but pledges are expected to fall well short of Mr Karzai's target.
Critics say Afgh..
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The BBC has obtained documents suggesting that Zimbabwe's military is actively involved in running Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign.
The documents outline plans by ruling party Zanu-PF to harass and drive out opposition supporters, especially from..
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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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Pakistan's military has condemned what it says was an air strike by US-led forces that killed 11 Pakistani troops as a "cowardly attack".
Details of the incident on the border with Afghanistan are still unclear.
Reports suggest it took place as US-l..
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MSNBC
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Pakistan's army on Wednesday accused the U.S.-led coalition of killing 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops in an airstrike along the volatile Afghan border.
A Pakistani army statement said the clash in the Mohmand tribal region "had hit at the very basis..
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