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Israel, Hamas press on with Gaza war

GAZA, Jan. 9, 2009 (Reuters) — Israel pressed on with a punishing Gaza offensive and Hamas sent more rocket salvoes into southern Israeli towns in a two-week-old war that continued to defy international efforts to stop it. ...  > full story

Shi'ites in Iraq mark Ashura in show of strength

BAGHDAD, Jan. 7, 2009 (Reuters) — Shi'ites in Iraq gathered in their thousands to observe an annual ritual of mourning on Wednesday, an event that has become a show of strength for a majority whose public worship was repressed by Saddam Hussein. ...  > full story

North-south security divide could sway Afghan vote

KABUL, Jan. 5, 2009 (Reuters) — A troubling north-south security divide could affect the outcome of Afghanistan's presidential election this year, a poll official warned on Monday, with voters still to be registered in some of the most dangerous provinces. ...  > full story

Somali kidnappers release Westerners

BOSASSO, Somalia, Jan. 4, 2009 (Reuters) — Somali kidnappers have freed two foreign journalists abducted last November in the northern port of Bosasso, local officials said on Sunday. ...  > full story

Female bomber kills 35 at Baghdad shrine

BAGHDAD, Jan. 4, 2009 (Reuters) — A female suicide bomber infiltrated a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 79 at a Shi'ite shrine in Baghdad on Sunday. ...  > full story

Taliban leader arrested in Pakistan: officials

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan. 3, 2009 (Reuters) — Pakistani security agencies Saturday arrested a senior Afghan Taliban official who had been released from prison in Afghanistan in 2007 in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist, intelligence officials said. ...  > full story

Suspected U.S. drone attack kills three in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan. 2, 2009 (Reuters) — A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles on Friday in Pakistan's South Waziristan region killing at least three people in an area known as a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud. ...  > full story

U.S. toll in Afghanistan at record high in 2008

KABUL, Jan. 1, 2009 (Reuters) — Foreign troops suffered their highest death toll in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2008, and with thousands more troops scheduled to be deployed, this year could be even worse. ...  > full story

Suspected U.S. drone kills 3 in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan. 1, 2009 (Reuters) — A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles on Thursday into Pakistan's South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killing three foreign militants and wounding one, Pakistani intelligence agents said. U.S. forces in Afghanistan, frustrated by a spreading Taliban insurgency that is getting support from militant enclaves in northwest Pakistan, have stepped up strikes by pilotless drones despite Pakistani objections. ...  > full story

Indian Muslims under pressure in Mumbai aftermath

NEW DELHI, Dec. 31, 2008 (Reuters) — In a government morgue in Mumbai lie the bodies of nine Islamist militants responsible for killing 179 people in a bloody attack on India's financial hub. ...  > full story
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