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The demonstrators, angered over a plan to raze a city center in Longnan, burn cars and battle police with rocks, iron bars and axes. A Communist Party office is overrun and 60 officials are injured. An angry crowd of about 2,000 rioted in China's impoverished Gansu...(more)
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Most of those killed in missile strikes and military helicopter fire are said to be militants. Suspected U.S. missiles killed 12 people Friday in northwestern Pakistan, and Pakistani troops in attack helicopters killed 20 insurgents.
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AFP - Sri Lankan security forces on Saturday recaptured the strategically important northern town of Pooneryn from Tamil Tiger rebels after months of heavy fighting, the defence ministry said.
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AP - Witnesses say Congolese soldiers were looting homes and shops and an army commander says at least five people were killed overnight as rebels reached the outskirts of Goma.
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AP - The crackle of gunfire at night makes sleep all but impossible along Georgia's border with separatist Abkhazia, feeding the fears of so many here that the war they hoped was over may be erupting anew.
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A major push to open serious talks with the Taliban on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border will begin at a summit today of leading political figures from the two countries, as Kabul and Islamabad desperately seek a way out of an overwhelming insurgency.A "mini-jirga" of...(more)
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Bewildered, angry and thrown into squalor, the refugees created suddenly by Pakistan's frontline role in the 'war on terror' know they could be stranded in camps for years to come.Up to 300,000 people have had to flee fighting in Bajaur, an extremely poor part of Pakistan's...(more)
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Displaced people are pouring into Goma in DR Congo as Tutsi rebels battling the army near the city.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A spokesman for a breakaway republic in northern Somalia says at least 19 people have died in three suicide attacks. Ismail Adani says officials are still counting the bodies after Wednesday's attacks, so the death toll could rise. A wave of suicide...(more)
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AFP - Pakistan announced Saturday it will receive a loan of at least 7.6 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund, the Fund's first rescue in Asia since the global financial crisis began.
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AP - Hungry refugees cheered when the first humanitarian convoy in a week arrived at their camp Monday, but the jubilation turned to anger when U.N. workers dumped only soap and plastic jerry cans instead of food and sped on past rebel lines.
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Some Europeans danced in the streets when Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election. Kenya declared a national holiday. In Egypt the celebration was somewhat different: Government-controlled goons burned down the headquarters of the liberal democratic party that tried to embrace President Bush's "freedom agenda."...(more)
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