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Group denies Afghan Taliban claims over dead workers

A Christian aid group denied on Sunday Taliban accusations that its team of medical workers killed in Afghanistan had been proselytising.

Pride and trepidation as Afghans go to the polls

Pride mixed with trepidation as Afghans voted on Thursday, an oddly formal atmosphere counterbalanced by fear the Taliban would disrupt the poll.

Dozens killed in Baghdad bomb attacks

A female suicide bomber killed 45 people when she blew herself up at a popular pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, police said, in the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital…

Police chief killed in new blast in Iraq’s Mosul

The police chief of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday as he toured the scene of a blast a day earlier in which at least 20 people…

US says 37 Iraqi militants killed

A United States air strike killed about 25 suspected Iraqi militants linked to Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias on Friday and another 12 al-Qaeda fighters were killed in separate…

Baghdad car bomb kills 25, wounds 115

A parked car bomb killed 25 people and wounded 115 when it exploded near an intersection in central Baghdad on Thursday and police said the toll was likely to rise as many bodies…

Suicide bombers kill at least 26 in Iraq

A suicide bomber killed 18 people and wounded 40 others when he rammed a fuel tanker into protective walls outside a police headquarters in Iraq’s northern oil city of Baiji on…

Iraq mosque attacks persist as curfews enforced

Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police said, in apparent reprisal attacks after suspected al-Qaeda militants blew up the…

Car bomb kills 25 in south-western Baghdad

Twenty-five people were killed and 60 wounded when a car bomb tore through a busy market area in south-western Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. At least two buildings were…

Fiji military stages coup, fourth in 20 years

Fiji’s military chief said on Tuesday the army had taken over the country, plunging the South Pacific island nation into its fourth coup in 20 years. ”As of six o’clock this…

Coup fears mount as Fiji troops cut off capital

Heavily armed Fijian troops put up roadblocks throughout the capital on Monday night as fears of a fourth coup in 20 years gripped the South Pacific nation. Troops cut off…

Irwin’s emotional father says he lost his best mate

Steve Irwin’s father said on Wednesday he lost his best mate when the TV naturalist known as the ”Crocodile Hunter” died in a freak diving accident, adding that his son would…

Australia’s ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin dies

Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, was killed by a stingray barb through the chest on Monday while diving off Australia’s north-east coast,…

All-clear after threat against Australian flight

Australian police evacuated and searched a Pacific Blue flight from Fiji to Sydney on Thursday after a threat was made against the plane, but nothing suspicious was found on…