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News for Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011

Five soldiers dead in Philippine clash

Five Philippine soldiers were killed and six others wounded in a clash with the country's largest Muslim guerrilla group on Tuesday, the military said.Fighting erupted at dawn between a military...

UK freezes assets of five for alleged Iranian plot

Britain has frozen the assets of five men, including two key suspects in an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in the United States, matching sanctions taken by...

Prisoner swap boosts Mideast peace hopes

World leaders voiced hope Tuesday that the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years in Hamas captivity would boost the Middle East peace process and ease...

‘Indian bomb probes wrongly target Muslims’

A recently retired judge from the Indian Supreme Court has launched a blistering attack on the country's police, accusing them of falsely implicating local Muslims in bomb attacks. Markandey Katju,...

UN must act: Nobel peace laureate

Yemen's Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman said the UN must act "immediately and decisively" to halt a deadly government crackdown on protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to...

Suu Kyi vows fight to free Myanmar dissidents

Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday pledged to work for the release of the country's remaining political prisoners, following an amnesty that left many key dissidents behind bars....

Famine-hit Somalis struggle as aid efforts fall short

Trapped in famine-hit Afgoye, a rag-hut city ruled by Islamist Shebab rebels and the world's largest camp for displaced people, Saedo Saleh knew she had to escape when her baby...

At least seven killed in Sanaa protests

At least seven protesters were killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday as gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on demonstrators in the Yemeni capital. It was the...

Pakistan beefs up security along Afghan border

To stop the growing threats of attacks from Afghanistan’s side, for the first time Pakistan army troops have been deployed in Chitral and Dir along Afghan border. Talking to Online, Inter-Services...

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