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A Pakistani paramedic gives treatment to injured blast victims after a bomb explosion in Dera Ismail Khan during a Shia Muslim procession.. (AFP / GETTY IMAGES / STR)
Ashura

Bomb kills seven at Shi’a procession in Pakistan

The Taliban have been fighting an insurgency against security forces since 2007

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila
Saturday's violence appears to mark a new phase in Thailand's long-running political crisis. (AFP / Christophe Archambault)
Bangkok

Tensions flare at political rally in Bangkok

Politically turbulent Thailand has been rocked by a series of sometimes violent…

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party prepared for a primary on Sunday amid signs its popularity is slipping among Israelis who would have preferred a ground invasion of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. (AFP PHOTO)
ceasefire

Israel firms up security as Gaza truce takes hold

The army reported arresting 28 suspected West Bank militants, including five members…

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila
israeli air strikes on gaza

Palestinian ‘killed by Israeli fire’: medics

The first casualty since the two sides agreed on a truce

Rana Allam
Rana Allam

Israel-Gaza ceasefire holds

Attacks on Gaza and Israel halt as ceasefire takes effect

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr

Syria rebels set up camp on hilltop Base 46

Rebel fighters seized the hilltop base in the embattled province of Aleppo…

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr
President of the opposition Syrian National Council George Sabra speaks to reporters on the sidelines of a conference focusing on investment in future Syria in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. (AFP PHOTO / KARIM SAHIB)
Daily News Egypt

SNC says $60 billion needed in six months after Assad falls

Over 500 regional and international delegates were meeting in a series of…

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr
he body of Palestinian boy Abdel Rahman Majdi Naim lies in a hospital morgue after he was killed in a second Israeli strike on the building housing AFP's offices in Gaza city, according to Hamas health officials, on 21 November. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
AFP

Egypt announces ceasefire in Gaza to start at 9pm

Agreement to be implemented within 24 hours

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr
Pakistani security officials scan the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta. (AFP PHOTO / BANARAS KHAN)
bomb

Bomb hits Pakistan soldiers, kills five

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila
M23 paramilitaries celebrate in the streets after taking Goma. Photograph. (AFP / GETTY IMAGES / Phil Moore)
Congo

DRC rebels say they will not stop at Goma

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a new condemnation of "grave" human…

Liliana Mihaila
Liliana Mihaila