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AFP - Bangladesh's interim government on Wednesday temporarily banned political rallies after violent demonstrations in the capital against the arrest of an Islamic party leader.
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AFP - Gunmen shot dead a US aid worker and his driver in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar on Wednesday, the US embassy and police said.
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Aid workers have been forced to withdraw from eastern Congo by continued heavy fighting today between rival militias. Rebels led by the renegade Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda clashed with pro-government Mai Mai militia today, threatening a fragile ceasefire around the provincial capital, Goma.The renewed fighting prompted...(more)
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The Quartet of Middle East mediators says it will hold a major conference next spring in Moscow, after no sign of a peace deal this year.
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AP - Syria's president criticized Sunday a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact that would keep American troops in Iraq for three more years.
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Two gunmen fatally shot an aid worker as he walked out of a mosque in Somalia, the latest in a string of attacks on the humanitarian community, witnesses said Sunday.
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The Nov. 3 editorial "Misery in Congo" rightly acknowledged that the 17,000-strong peacekeeping force of the U.N. Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is too small. But within its modest means, MONUC is doing everything it can to address the crisis. MONUC forces...(more)
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KIBATI, Congo (AP) -- Thousands in eastern Congo have packed church services after rebels and pro-government militiamen executed civilians this week in two waves of terror that the top U.N. envoy to Congo says amount to war crimes....
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AP - Syria's state-run television and witnesses say U.S. military helicopters have attacked an area along the country's border with Iraq, causing casualties.
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AP - The chief U.N. nuclear inspector says his agency is taking allegations that Syria has a hidden atomic program very seriously.
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AFP - Three Islamists sentenced to death for the Bali bombings which killed 202 people were executed by firing squad early Sunday, sparking clashes between police and their emotional supporters.
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AFP - UN special envoy Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in the besieged Congolese town of Goma on Saturday ahead of a meeting with rebel chief Laurent Nkunda aimed at ending months of fighting.
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