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BBC News
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Many Zimbabwean shops and businesses are open as usual despite opposition calls for a general strike to press for election results to be published.
Correspondents say many people cannot afford to lose a day's pay, while some say they have not heard of..
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CNN
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A missile strike in a remote part of Pakistan killed at least eight suspected militants and wounded three others Thursday, Pakistan's state media reported.
The strike happened in South Waziristan, a rugged mountainous region of Pakistan near its border..
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BBC News
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A strike in the Pakistani city of Karachi has closed shops and cleared transport from the roads after two days of violence left 41 people dead.
The strike was called amid some of the worst street battles in recent years, triggered by the suspension of..
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CNN
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Zimbabwean police and troops fanned out through impoverished townships Tuesday on the first day of a two-day national strike called to protest deepening economic hardships blamed on the government.
Police manned roadblocks across the capital. Four truc..
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BBC News
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A coalition of charities, faith groups and unions has warned Tony Blair that any military action against Iran would have "unthinkable" consequences...
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CBS News
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A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively...
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CBC
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A Taliban official has confirmed a top military commander with close ties to Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was killed in an air strike on Dec. 19, according to a report out of Pakistan...
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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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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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BBC News
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Opposition supporters led by Hezbollah in Lebanon are blocking roads in Beirut on the second day of protests which started as a strike for higher pay.
Activity is limited, with many shops, schools and offices closed. The international airport is also c..
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BBC News
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Explosions and gunfire rang out across the Lebanese capital Beirut as opposition supporters held a one-day general strike calling for higher pay.
Strikers set up barricades of burning tyres on key routes to the port, airport and Beirut's commercial cen..
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BBC News
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More than 50 Zimbabwean opposition supporters have been arrested after staging a strike, the party says.
Police have accused the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of trying to incite violence with their strike call, in protest at delayed poll result..
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MSNBC
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The target is identified
During seven years of searching for Osama bin Laden and his followers, the U.S. government has deployed billions of dollars' worth of surveillance hardware to South Asia, from top-secret spy satellites to sophisticated eavesdro..
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Al Jazeera
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The health of Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman being held in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, is deteriorating further as he remains on hunger strike, according to a Mauritanian inmate recently released from the jail.
Ould Sidi Mohammed said al-..
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BBC News
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An Israeli air strike has killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the territory to 11 since Wednesday.
The Israeli military said it had targeted a rocket-launching cell in Beit Hanoun about to fire into Israel...
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Yahoo News
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Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday.
The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air st..
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CNN
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Police in London say they have deactivated a bomb capable of creating huge casualties, raising renewed fears of a terrorist strike almost two years after the city was hit by deadly suicide bombers.
The device, consisting of 200 liters of fuel, gas cyli..
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pressesc.com
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington yesterday and met with US President George W. Bush to finalise plans for a joint US-Israel strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
President Bush hinted that actions against Iran will form the core of..
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SF Gate
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The U.S. military Monday expressed regret over the deaths of seven Afghan children in an air strike a day earlier but blamed Islamic insurgents for preventing the youngsters from leaving the compound that was hit.
American officials said U.S.-led coali..
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FOX News
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The strike, which had the support of Afghan troops, was launched Sunday on a compound that also contained a mosque and a madrassa, or Islamic school, in the Zarghun Shah district of Paktika province, a coalition statement said.
"Coalition forces confir..
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