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Pakistan spy chief scraps UK trip on \"terror\" remarks
ISLAMABAD/LONDON (Reuters) - Pakistan's spy chief has canceled a trip to Britain, a spokesman said on Saturday, but Islamabad played down a row over remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron suggesting Pakistan was not doing enough to fight terrorism.
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:23:48 -0400
British police hold two over MI6 parcel bomb
LONDON (Reuters) - British police were questioning two men Sunday after a parcel bomb was sent to the headquarters of the MI6 foreign intelligence service and another was intercepted at a postal sorting office.
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:36:23 -0400
Israel strikes Gaza tunnels after rocket launch
JERUSALEM, Aug 1 (Reuters ) - Israeli aircraft bombed a smuggling tunnel and a militant training camp in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after a rocket was fired into Israel from the territory, the Israeli army and militants said.
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:12:37 -0400
Six Afghan civilians die in roadside bomb blast
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Six civilians were killed on Sunday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, an official said, as civilian casualties continued to mount amid an increase in violence by insurgents.
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:31:08 -0400
Brazil offers asylum to Iranian woman facing stoning
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported.
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:46:06 -0400
Mexican police free journalists seized by drug gangs
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police raided a drug gang safe house before dawn on Saturday and rescued two television journalists kidnapped by cartel members who demanded networks broadcast their messages.
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:05:03 -0400
Iraq civilian death toll almost doubles in July
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq almost doubled in July from June, a sign that insurgents may be trying to exploit political tensions after an election that produced no outright winner.
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:00:26 -0400
Philippines says arrests key massacre suspect in south
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine security forces arrested a key suspect who has been charged in the massacre of 57 people last year, the country's worst incident of political violence, after he was shot by rival clan members, police said on Sunday.
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:07:04 -0400
Merkel attends memorial for Love Parade victims
DUISBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel attended a memorial service on Saturday for the 21 people killed in a stampede at the Love Parade techno music festival as pressure grew on the local mayor, her party ally, to resign.
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:17:17 -0400
South Korean killed by North Korean mine: report
SEOUL (Reuters) - Mines suspected to have come from North Korea exploded after washing ashore on a South Korean beach, killing one man and injuring another, the South's Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday.
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:08:06 -0400
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