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Article Staff Reporter - 3 Jan 2010

Yemen's president has met a top US general to discuss boosting military cooperation, after Barack Obama tied al-Qaeda's regional arm to terrorism.

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Jan 2010

Pakistan's government came under pressure on Saturday to bring stability to the country after one of the bloodiest bombings in more than two years.

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Jan 2010

Danish police said on Saturday they shot and wounded a Somali man with al-Qaeda links when he tried to break into the home of a cartoonist.

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Jan 2010

A suicide bomber blew himself up in an SUV at a volleyball game in north-west Pakistan on Friday, killing 93 people in a village.

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Jan 2010

When a Blackwater convoy approached the Green Zone, hundreds of Iraqi drivers inching through the choking traffic witnessed a familiar scene.

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2010

Computer programmer Peter Moore, freed this week two-and-a-half years after being taken hostage in Iraq, arrived back in Britain on Friday.

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2010

Opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said Iran was in "serious crisis" and called for the immediate release of his supporters.

Article Simon Tisdall - 1 Jan 2010

Barack Obama's inauguration provided hope in a period marked by war, terror, nuclear fears and climate change anticlimax.

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