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Two killed, 19 wounded in suicide attack in north of Baghdad - Xinhua
"We have two people killed and 19 wounded, including 10 policemen, by the suicide bombing in Tarmiyah Town," the source said on condition of anonymity. The attack occurred around midday when a suicide bomber disguised as a disabled man pushed his ...
Three people killed in central Iraq violence - Xinhua
The attacker shot dead Ahmed and his son before they fled the scene, the source said. Iraqi security forces cordoned off the scene and launched an investigation into the incident, the source added. Abu Ghraib is part of the Sunni insurgent stronghold ...
Car bomb kills 2, wounds 10 in Baghdad - Xinhua
The police official, who insisted on anonymity, said the car, parked on the sidewalk of a road, was triggered by remote controller, causing casualties and damages to a number of residential buildings, cars and shops. Abu Dshir is a Shiite neighborhood ...
Official denies rumors of lifting purchasing restrictions on high-end housing - Xinhua
A senior official at the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, who declined to give his name, said the commission has no plan to adjust housing purchasing restrictions. The city government would strictly implement ...
4 killed in suicide blast in Peshawar, NW Pakistan - Xinhua
According to the sources who declined to be named, the blast took place at about 8:15 pmlocal time outside the house of a local peace committee leader in the Matni area, a small town some 30 kilometers south of Peshawar. The sources quoted local police ...
Philippine gov't rejects to lift state of emergency in Mindanao - Xinhua
MANILA, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine government has no plan yet to lift the state of emergency in the southern province of Maguindanao, a senior government official said on Monday. Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning ...
Syrian army holding position in north: official - Xinhua
The army forces were stationed at the entrances of the cities of Maaret al-Numan and Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, the source said, adding that the army was observing the highway connecting the northern city of Aleppo and the ...
Fatah, Hamas top leaders to try to bridge wide gap on forming gov't - Xinhua
The sources said the differences between President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party and Islamic Hamas movement were "very sharp," despite Egypt attempts to bridge it. Abbas will meet Khaled Mashaal, the head of Hamas politburo, in Cairo. ...
Armed tribesmen, separatists take control of gov't buildings in Yemen's Lahj - Xinhua
Fierce clashes between the security forces and armed tribesmen supported by separatists gunmen ended with forcing the soldiers to hand over all government complexes in the city, the official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. ...
Eight people killed in Iraq's violence - Xinhua
The Iraqi security forces, including a US-backed Iraqi Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) force, cordoned off the scene and waged an attack on the compound, killing two suicide bombers and wounding another before they captured him, the source said. ...
Car bomb, gunfire at gov't building in Iraq's Diyala - Xinhua
"Many employees inside the compound have been surrounded and there was no communication with them so far," the source said. There is no immediate reports about casualties, the source said. Diyala province, which stretches from the eastern edges of ...
Fatah decides to fire its former central committee member - Xinhua
RAMALLAH, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party decided to fire a member of its Central Committee Mohammed Dahlan, sources said Sunday. The decision to fire Mohammed Dahlan is still waiting the approval of the movement's ...
4 killed, 47 wounded in twin car bomb attacks in Iraq's Mosul - Xinhua
The incident took place in the busy street of al-Mata'im in al- Dawasa district in central Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, when two booby-trapped cars went off successively, the source said. The powerful blasts left at least 10 vehicles a blaze ...
Yemen's pro-, anti-gov't protesters stage rallies as clashes continue - Xinhua
But a government official said there was no move towards forming a transitional council, saying that "any word about the power transition is directly linking to President Saleh himself because he is the only one responsible for making such a decision, ...
11 security members killed in suicide bombing in Iraq's Tikrit - Xinhua
The attack took place in the morning when a suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden car into the checkpoint at the entrance of the presidential compound of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussien, and blew it up, the source said. ...
Sunni paramilitary leader assassinated in Iraq - Xinhua
The assailants had fled the scene and securities forces were hunting for their whereabouts, the source said. The Awakening Council, or al-Sahwa in Arabic, consists of different paramilitary groups, including some powerful anti-US Sunni insurgent groups ...
US Defense Secretary arrives in Afghan capital - Xinhua
However, according to an Afghan official of presidential palace who declined to give his name, "Robert Gates is in Afghanistan and later today he will meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai." Gates also paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan earlier this ...
17 killed, dozens injured in Mogadishu fighting - Xinhua
Most of the casualties were civilians hit by stray shells and bullets in areas outside the battle fronts in the south of the Somali capital, medical sources said. "Seventeen people died many of them civilians while 46 others were injured by shrapnel ...
Three Gorges Dam should not be blamed for China's drought - Xinhua
BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, should not be blamed for the lingering drought in south China, a government official said. "The drought would have been more severe without the dam," said Liu ...
Al-Qaida militants begin to withdraw from Zinjibar city in south Yemen - Xinhua
The al-Qaida militants started withdrawing from Zinjibar city towards Jaar district and vacated some government buildings they had seized during the past two days, said the official, who asked to remain anonymous. Fierce confrontations and air raids by ...
5 Pakistan Taliban leaders arrested by NATO forces in Pakistan - Xinhua
According to the sources who asked to remain anonymous, the action was taken by the NATO forces without informing the Pakistani government. If so, this is another Abbottabad-like operation taken by the foreign forces on the Pakistani soil without the ...
Candidate for defense minister escapes bomb attack in northern Iraq - Xinhua
Major General Khalid Met'ib al-Obiedi, a nominee for the vacant post of Iraqi defense minister, was wounded when a roadside bomb explosion struck his convoy near the Technical Institute in eastern Mosul, where he works as a teacher, the source said on ...
2 killed, 11 wounded in twin bomb attacks west of Baghdad - Xinhua
A bomb planted in a liquor store at a market of Abu Ghraib town, some 20 km west of Baghdad, detonated at about 6:30 am (0330 GMT) , setting the store on fire, the source said. Iraqi security forces and a fire engine rushed to the scene of the first ...
No more free plastic bags in China's bookstores, drugstores: official - Xinhua
BEIJING, May 28 (Xinhua) -- China will expand its ban that prohibits shops from giving out free plastic bags and will increase efforts against their use in order to reduce environmental pollution, a senior government official said Saturday. ...
Clashes intensify between government troops, tribal rebels in Yemen capital - Xinhua
The official, who asked not to be named, told Xinhua that the rebels of al-Ahmar were trying to break into the state-run Saba news agency and the interior ministry. "The tribal rebels fired machine guns, mortar's shells and rocket-propelled grenades on ...