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BBC News
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A human rights group in Sri Lanka has blamed local security forces for the massacre of 17 aid workers in 2006 and accused the government of a cover-up.
The bodies of the Action Against Hunger workers were found in the north-eastern town of Muttur.
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BBC News
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An Islamist-held town in southern Somalia has been hit by three missiles, fired by a US plane, local elders say.
A US official confirmed launching a strike against "suspected terrorists". The US bombed the area a year ago and residents say it was the s..
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BBC News
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Clashes between local tribesmen and army personnel protecting a Ukrainian oil company have left 12 people dead in Yemen, security sources say.
Six civilians and six soldiers were reported dead in the fighting in Shabwa province, east of the Yemeni capi..
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Yahoo News
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US warplanes have violated Iranian airspace in the southwestern oil-rich province of Khuzestan, Al-Alam Arabic language news satellite channel quoted a local military chief as saying on Sunday.
"Two US aircraft trespassed into Iranian airspace northwes..
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BBC News
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Fifty-two people have been killed in fresh fighting between foreign militants and local tribesmen in Pakistan, the interior minister says.
Forty-five of the dead are foreign militants, thought to be of Uzbek origin, Aftab Khan Sherpao said.
The clas..
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BBC News
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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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BBC News
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The bodies of 10 people have been found in a mosque in the Somali capital, after two days of clashes between Ethiopian troops and insurgents.
Local residents blame the killings on the Ethiopians, who are backing the government against Islamist fighters..
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BBC News
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) should face local justice, rather than trial at The Hague.
Three top LRA officials including leader Joseph Kony face prosecution at the International Criminal Cou..
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BBC News
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People in parts of eastern Sri Lanka are voting in key local elections.
They are taking place in areas that were held by the Tamil Tiger rebels for more than a decade, until they were taken by government forces last year.
A party of former Tamil Tig..
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BBC News
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A powerful explosion has hit part of the Philippine House of Representatives injuring several people including two members of congress, local media says.
The blast occurred just after 2000 local time (1200 GMT) in the south wing of the chamber, radio r..
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BBC News
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US forces have handed control of the mainly Shia province of Karbala in central Iraq to local authorities in a tightly-guarded ceremony.
Karbala is the eighth of 18 provinces to be transferred to local control since the US-led invasion in 2003.
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BBC News
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The UN says it has stopped distributing food in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after government troops abducted the local head of the World Food Programme.
The WFP says about 60 soldiers stormed the UN compound and no explanation has been given for Idri..
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MSNBC
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Two nearly simultaneous car bombs targeted a local police chief and a prominent Sunni sheik working with U.S. forces against al-Qaida in Iraq in a northern city on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said.
In the Iraqi capital, a parked ca..
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FOX News
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Protesters broke into government offices, destroying furniture and setting vehicles ablaze in the second known outbreak of violence this month over China's strict family planning policies, local officials and state media said Wednesday.
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BBC News
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US-led forces have killed at least 21 civilians in an air strike in southern Afghanistan, local officials say.
Helmand provincial Governor Asadullah Wafa said civilian homes were bombed in Sangin district, where foreign and Afghan troops are battling t..
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CNN
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Local and foreign militants fought a gunbattle in northwestern Pakistan, leaving at least 46 dead, officials said, the second such clash this month in a region where the government is urging tribesmen to move against al-Qaeda-linked fighters.
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BBC News
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At least 25 people have been reported killed in fighting between mostly Uzbek al-Qaeda militants and local tribesmen in Pakistan, military officials say.
They say that heavy exchanges of rocket and mortar fire broke out on Monday and are continuing on..
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