Suicide Attack Kills U.S. Soldier and 18 Other Civilians
Suicide Attack Kills U.S. Soldier and 18 Other Civilians

United States military and the Afghan police officials announced that an American military convoy was attacked in a crowded market on Thursday. The attack came a day after the suicide bombing in Afghanistan and killed one soldier and 18 civilians. A Toyota Corolla approached the military convoy and blew off at around 8 a.m., Among the murdered civilians there...

Suicide Attack Kills U.S. Soldier and 18 Other Civilians
 
 

Iceland keeps interest rate at 15.5 per cent
The central bank of Iceland Thursday kept the country's key interest rate at 15.5 per cent, citing that it was "likely that inflation is near its peak." The central bank raised the interest rate to its current level in April. The August inflation rate was 14.5 per cent, well above the bank's inflation target of 2.5 per...

Iceland keeps interest rate at 15.5 per cent

Hopes of imminent Zimbabwe deal wane as talks continue in Harare
Negotiators for Zimbabwe's political parties began a fourth day of power-sharing talks Thursday under the mediation of South African President Thabo Mbeki amid waning hopes of deal in the coming days. President Robert Mugabe, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a breakaway MDC...

Hopes of imminent Zimbabwe deal wane as talks continue in Harare

Kenyan police step up security after Obama grandmother's burglary
Kenyan police are stepping up security in the village of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Thursday. Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogello and attempted to steal a solar panel from her...

Kenyan police step up security after Obama grandmother's burglary

Iraqi party calls on Sunni fighters to join security forces
A major Iraqi political party has called on the Iraqi government to integrate the so-called Awakening Councils into the country's regular security forces, it emerged on Thursday. A spokesman for the Iraqi National Accord Front, a mainly Sunni Islamist coalition, said that the Awakening Councils, which were instrumental in bringing the...

Iraqi party calls on Sunni fighters to join security forces

Bangladeshi ex-premier released from prison
Former Bangladeshi premier Khaleda Zia walked to freedom Thursday from a high security makeshift prison in the parliament complex in northern Dhaka, a senior prison official said. Inspector General of Prisons Zakir Hasan said Zia was freed from her special cell after the courts delivered her release order. Thousands of supporters...

Bangladeshi ex-premier released from prison

Suicide, roadside attacks kill NATO soldier, two Afghan civilians
A suicide attack against a US private security firm in southern Afghanistan killed two civilians and wounded six others, while a NATO soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in the same region, officials said Thursday. The bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a convoy of a US private security company in southern city of...

Suicide, roadside attacks kill NATO soldier, two Afghan civilians

Complex Israeli murder case closer to solution after remains found
One of Israel's most emotionally-charged and complex murder investigations appeared closer to a solution Thursday when police divers retrieved from a river a suitcase thought to hold the remains of a four-year old girl missing since May. Divers have been searching the Yarkon river, on Tel Aviv's northern outskirts, for the body Rose...

Complex Israeli murder case closer to solution after remains found

Nepal government asked to prosecute human rights violators
International human rights organisations have asked the new Nepalese government to prosecute those responsible for enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and torture during Nepal's decade-long Maoist insurgency. The United States based Human Rights Watch and Nepal-based Advocacy Forum in a joint report, Waiting for Justice:...

Nepal government asked to prosecute human rights violators

US official: 1967 borders are basis for negotiations
Despite Israeli denials, a United States official confirmed Thursday that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to negotiate the future of Jerusalem. US Consul General in Jerusalem Jake Walles said the parties are negotiating the establishment of a Palestinian state on the basis of the borders that existed before the 1967...

US official: 1967 borders are basis for negotiations

Asia Shaken by Two Powerful Earthquakes on Thursday
Two powerful earthquakes frightened Asia on Thursday. This has led the officials and the residents to fear for a tsunami that lapped the northern coast of Japan and harmed Indonesia too. The most powerful earthquake had a 7 magnitude on Richter scale and hit off Japan’s main island, Hokkaido, at a depth of nearly 12 miles. 35 minutes...

Asia Shaken by Two Powerful Earthquakes on Thursday
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