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Source: Reuters * Valdez was arrested outside Mexico City last month * Move allows prosecutors more time to build their case (Adds transfer, other details, paragraphs 7-8) MEXICO CITY, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A ...

Source: Reuters * Interior minister sees risk of more attacks * Says TTP, al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi one group * Death toll in Quetta bombing rises to 65 * Four militants killed in new drone strike (Adds new ...

Source: Reuters HALIFAX, Canada, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Earl has slowed to a tropical storm, with wind speeds of some 60 knots, or just below 70 mph (113 kph), the Canadian Hurricane Centre said on Saturday. The storm ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan click [ID:nAFPAK]) * Karzai aims to lure Taliban foot soldiers from insurgency * Taliban say all foreign forces must leave first KABUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) - An Afghan ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK]) Sept 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1500 GMT on Saturday. * denotes new or updated items. KUNDUZ - A bomb ...

Source: Reuters * Armenians, Azeris trade blame for Karabakh skirmish * Second deadly clash in days (Updates with death of wounded soldier) By Hasmik Mkrtchyan and Afet Mehtiyeva YEREVAN/BAKU, Sept 4 ( ...

Source: Reuters By Paul Tait KABUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) - International forces in Afghanistan have at times overstated the progress being made this year, the deputy commander of the NATO-led force said on Saturday, ...

Source: Reuters * Valdez was arrested outside Mexico City last month * Move allows prosecutors more time to build their case MEXICO CITY, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A Mexican judge ordered Edgar "La Barbie" ...

Source: Reuters HALIFAX, Canada, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Canadian forecasters have measured hurricane-speed winds from buoys near the center of Earl and view the storm as a Category One hurricane. Chris Fogarty, program ...

ActionAid ActionAid Mozambique says that unrest in Mozambique's capital Maputo - following the government's move to increase the price of bread by 30% - underlines the need to improve food security.

Source: Reuters KHARTOUM, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Armed men shot dead seven people and injured 20 in clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan's Darfur region on Saturday, peacekeepers said, in a sign of mounting violence in and ...

Source: Reuters By Manny Mogato MANILA, Sept 4 (Reuters) - New Philippine President Benigno Aquino III took office on June 30 facing many old problems: a large budget deficit, endemic corruption, widespread poverty ...

Source: Reuters BANGKOK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Thailand is deeply polarised with no end in sight to a political crisis that has damaged tourism and hit consumer confidence. But buoyed by surging exports the economy is ...

Source: Reuters COLOMBO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has attracted enough support from lawmakers to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament, enabling him to change the constitution. ...

Source: Reuters (Corrects story from May 9 to show only four of those executed were Kurds and one accused over bombing) * Agency says five confessed to "terrorist operations" * One woman among hanged ...

Source: Reuters Sept 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1130 GMT on Saturday. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two policemen in Baghdad's southwestern district of Jihad, an ...

Source: Reuters WELLINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - New Zealand's economy is picking up pace as it puts behind it the longest recession in more than 30 years, but the recovery is patchy with consumers still wary in the ...

Source: Reuters KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's move last month to reduce fuel, gas and sugar subsidies triggered a political backlash that may see him holding off more reforms ...

Source: Reuters BERLIN, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A German Islamist held by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and interrogated since July has revealed details of planned attacks on targets in Germany and Europe, a news weekly ...

Source: Reuters JERUSALEM, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel on Saturday, two days after the start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, causing no injuries ...