Leading Libyan dissident Mansour al-Kikhia, who disappeared 19 years ago under the Qadhafi regime, will be buried on Monday weeks after his body was found in an intelligence services morgue, his brother said. Libya's new

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Several million Italians voted in a run-off rimary election on Sunday to choose the centre-left candidate for prime minister in next spring's national elections. The contest will decide whether Pier Luigi Bersani, 61, or Matteo

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Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas Sunday in clashes with thousands of Bangladeshi workers protesting over the deaths of 110 people in one of the country's worst factory fires and the sacking of labourers.

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Five German tourists and two Egyptians were killed in a bus crash near an Egyptian Red Sea resort on Sunday, police officials said. Berlin's foreign ministry confirmed that Germans had died in the accident, without

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Syrian army forces pounded rebel-held suburbs around Damascus with fighter jets and rockets on Sunday, activists said, killing at least ten and wounding dozens in an offensive to stop rebels closing in on the capital.

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Iran has suspended the death sentence for a computer programmer convicted on charges of running a pornographic website after he "repented for his actions," his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday. Saeed Malekpour, an

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Iran has stationed defence staff in North Korea since late October apparently to strengthen co-operation in missile and nuclear development, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported on Sunday, citing a Western diplomatic source. The report came

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The Pentagon, in a major expansion of its intelligence gathering activities, plans to assemble an espionage network rivalling the Central Intelligence Agency in size, The Washington Post reported late Saturday. Citing unnamed US officials, the

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Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said that a consensus should be developed among all the provinces to resolve the Kalabagh Dam issue. Inaugurating a machine readable passport and visa office at Renala Khurd and

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The Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Moula Bux Chandio stated that the government of Pakistan People's Party will bury the issue of Kalabagh Dam once and forever. While addressing a press conference at the Circuit

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