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Israel launches air strikes in Gaza after rocket fire

A wounded Palestinian is carried into Al-Shifa hospital following Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on July 30, 2010. Israeli warplanes fired missiles at several targets in the Gaza Strip wounding eight people, witnesses and medics said after a rocket fired from the strip hit a southern Israeli city.

Israel carried out air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in the city of Ashkelon, witnesses said.

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Greek truckers defy govt, vow to continue strike

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Gary Grady sets up 133 Canadian Flags just off of highway #11 in a field next to the town of Dundurn to honor the Canadian Troops who have died in the Afghanistan War in this file photo.

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A drawn portrait of Chelsea Clinton sits in a window in the town where she plans to get married July 30, 2010 in Rhinebeck, New York. Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is set to marry fiance Marc Mezvinsky July 31, reportedly at Astor Court Estate.

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A soldier walks past birches, which are damaged by fire, on the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh July 30, 2010. Forest fires swept across central Russia on Friday, killing at least eight people and forcing the evacuation of thousands during the hottest summer since records began 130 years ago.

Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25

Wildfires sweeping across European Russia killed at least 25 people on Friday and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest...

A Pakistani resident carries some of his belongings as he leaves behind his damaged mud house in a flood-hit area of Nowshera on July 29. Flash floods and building collapses brought on by heavy rains have killed 34 people in northwest Pakistan, officials said. AFP PHOTO/ A. MAJEED (Photo credit should read

Pakistan flooding kills 408 people

Three days of heavy rains and flash floods have killed at least 408 people in Pakistan, authorities said Friday, as rescue teams struggled...

Bob Dudley, who will replace gaffe-prone Tony Hayward as BP CEO on Oct. 1, said safety would be among his highest priorities as he tries to refurbish the oil company’s battered reputation.

BP to try well kill Tuesday, House passes reforms

BP said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to toughen...

Baby killer was good to us, say her daughters

The two surviving daughters of the French nursing assistant who admitted killing eight of her babies have said that "she was a model...

A Mexican soldier stands guard in Zapopan, Mexico, where drug lord Ignacio (Nacho) Coronel, was killed during a raid Thursday.

Mexico drug boss death could spark power struggle

Mexico's killing of a top drug trafficker is a coup for President Felipe Calderon, but it may result in a spike in violence and is...

3 Kenyans charged in Kampala bombings

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An Afghan Army soldier fires a rocket propelled grenade at suspected Taliban militants at Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar July 22, 2010.

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Turmoil in Pakistan

Amid accusations that Pakistan's spy agency is supporting Taliban militants, we look at the country and its turbulent past.

Kim Jong-il, seen here with military personnel, is thought to have terminal cancer.

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Succeeding the 'Dear Leader'

Just as Kim Jong-il once again has people wondering how far he'll go, his health has them wondering how long he'll be in power in North Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) waving to a military parade to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in a file photo from 10 October 1995. State-run North Korean media reported 08 October that Kim has been named as General Secretary of the WPK, ending a three-year power vacuum left by the death of Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea and Jong-il's father.

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Living on the edge

An overview of the provocative and truly bizarre behaviour of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Russian artist Dmitry Vrubel works on his mural of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker, painted on a segment of East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin June 22, 2009. A 1,300 metre (4,265 ft) stretch of wall, the world's longest open-air art gallery, was decorated by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990, but has since been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists. The restoration work is expected to be completed in time for the 20-year anniversary in November of the fall of the wall which once divided communist East Berlin from capitalist west Berlin.

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Page from the first edition of Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) Inspire magazine was released on Sunday, according to SITE Intelligence, a US service that monitors Islamist websites.

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Last month, thieves stole the ARBEIT MACHT FREI sign from the entrance to the camp. Through good police work, Polish authorities recovered the damaged icon of the Holocaust.

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German Samuel Kunz is accused of committing horrific crimes during the Second World War, and he's not alone.

South African President Nelson Mandela (L) receives five volumes of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report from Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Pretoria in October 1998.

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Out of the spotlight

Desmond Tutu has announced he is retiring from public life after decades at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid.

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