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Hosni Mubarak close to death
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is critically ill and may be close to death, reports from Cairo suggest. Hosni Mubarak is said to have had...
Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani disqualified from holding office
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been disqualified by Supreme Court from holding office, two months after convicting him of contempt of court. The...
Ratko Mladic war crimes trial halted after evidence error
The trial of Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic has been suspended until further notice, the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announces. Ratko...
General Salem Ali Qatan, Yemeni army commander, killed in suicide attack
Yemeni army commander General Salem Ali Qatan leading the fight against militants in the south of the country has been killed in a suicide...
France elections exit polls. Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party wins absolute majority in parliament.
President Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party has won enough seats in French parliament to form an absolute majority, according to exit polls obtained by the...
Greece elections 2012 exit poll 75%
Right-wing New Democracy and left-wing Syriza parties are almost neck-and-neck after Greek parliamentary elections, according to the first exit polls. Greece elections exit polls 75%...
Rodney King, 1991 LA riots figure, found dead in his swimming pool aged 47
Rodney King, the figure at the centre of the Los Angeles riots in 1991, has been found dead in a swimming pool, according to...
Turkey: 13 prisoners have died after fire broke out in a prison in Sanliurfa province
Thirteen prisoners have died and five others have been hospitalized after fire broke out in a prison in Sanliurfa province, southeast Turkey, officials said. The...
Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia dies outside the kingdom
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, who was in his late 70s, has died "outside the kingdom", the royal court...
US offer deportation amnesty to young illegal immigrants
The US Department of Homeland Security announces that illegal immigrants who came to America as children may be eligible for work permits and will...
Iraq: at least 62 people killed in bomb attacks in Hilla and Baghdad
Serial bomb attacks in six Iraqi provinces, including 10 locations in Baghdad, has killed 62 people and wounded dozens more, Iraqi police say. Many of...
Euro 2012: Russian and Polish football fans clash in Warsaw
New clashes have broken out in Polish capital Warsaw between rival Russian and Polish football fans ahead of a Euro 2012 tie between the...
Syrian forces renew attack on the city of Homs
Syrian government forces have renewed their attack on the city of Homs, one of the focal points of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Video...
Auburn shooting: multiple victims have been claimed at University Heights apartment complex
"Multiple victims" has been claimed after a shooting at an apartment complex in Auburn in the US state of Alabama, police say. The attack occurred...
Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti killed in helicopter crash
Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti has died in a helicopter crash, officials say. Officials say George Saitoti and his deputy, Orwa Ojode, have been killed...
Peru: helicopter with 14 people on board crashes near Mount Mamarosa
Peruvian police officials say they have found the wreckage of a helicopter missing in the south of the country, and all 14 on board...
Pakistan: at least 18 people killed in a bus bomb attack in Peshawar
At least 18 people have been killed and other 34 have been injured in a bomb attack on a bus carrying government employees in...
Li Wangyang, top Chinese dissident, found dead in Shaoyang
Li Wangyang, a leading Chinese dissident imprisoned after the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, has been found dead under strange circumstances, his relatives and rights...
LinkedIn users’ passwords leaked onto a Russian web forum
LinkedIn is investigating claims that over six million of its users' passwords have been leaked onto the internet. Hackers posted a file containing encrypted passwords...
Abu Yahya al-Libi, senior al-Qaeda leader, killed in a drone strike in Pakistan
Abu Yahya al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda leader, was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan on Monday, a US official has confirmed. US officials said...
Syria expels ambassadors of Western states
Syria has decided to expel the ambassadors of several Western states, a week after governments around the world expelled its top diplomats. The envoys of...
Prince Philip hospitalized with bladder infection after he stood in the freezing rain at Queen’s Jubilee river pageant
Prince Philip has been hospitalized with a bladder infection at King Edward VII hospital in London after paramedics were called to Windsor Castle this...
Luka Rocco Magnotta arrested in a cybercafe in Berlin
Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover, has been arrested Berlin, Germany. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29,...
Nigeria: Dana Air plane with at least 162 people on board crashes into a building in Lagos
A Dana Air passenger plane with at least 162 people on board has crashed into a building in Nigeria's main city of Lagos, officials...
Toronto Eaton Centre shooting: one person has been killed and 7 others injured
Canadian police have confirmed that one person has been killed and seven others injured in a shooting at Eaton Centre in Toronto. Witnesses described scenes...
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