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Islamist threat to Germany is growing, police say

Source: Reuters BERLIN, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The threat of Islamist attacks in Germany is growing as numbers of people returning from militant camps on the Afghan-Pakistan border rise, a senior police official said. ...

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 5

Source: Reuters Sept 5 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1945 GMT on Sunday. * Indicates new or updated item * TAZA - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded ten ...

At least 40 missing in new Guatemala landslides

Source: Reuters * Torrential rains trigger fresh landslides in Guatemala * 36 people already confirmed dead since Saturday (Recasts, adds quote from president, detail) By Sarah Grainger GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 5 ...

Twelve killed in suicide assault on Iraq army base

Source: Reuters * At least 12 dead, 36 wounded in suicide attacks * Political tensions simmer after March vote * U.S. troops open fire, provide air support (Adds U.S. troops provide support, paragraphs 4,11 ...

Basque ETA call to halt attacks met with caution

Source: Reuters * ETA says decision to halt attacks taken months ago * 'Not enough', says government * Separatists severely weakened by arrests * Support for legal politics hurts backing for rebels (adds ...

Encana checking on Deep Panuke prospect after Earl

Source: Reuters NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Encana Corp <ECA.TO> said on Sunday it was sending a check-up crew via helicopter to its Deep Panuke drilling prospect offshore Nova Scotia to make checks after ...

Up to 100 feared buried in Guatemala landslide

Source: Reuters GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 5 (Reuters) - As many as 100 people may have been buried in a landslide in Guatemala on a major highway, a spokesman for the fire department said on Sunday. Approximately 100 ...

Spectator dies as plane hits crowd at German airshow

Source: Reuters BERLIN, Sept 5 (Reuters) - At least one spectator was killed when a propeller-powered biplane ploughed into a crowd at an air show in southern Germany on Sunday, police said. A police spokesman from ...

Peace deal requires new approach - Netanyahu

Source: Reuters * Netanyahu calls for thinking "outside the box" * Abbas: negotiators to focus first on borders, security * Both sides still at odds over settlement freeze (Adds Lieberman comments, ...

First Georgian soldier killed in Afghanistan

Source: Reuters TBILISI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Georgia has suffered its first soldier killed in Afghanistan since joining the NATO-led force fighting there, the Georgian Defence Ministry said on Sunday. "One ...

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Basque separatists end armed campaign
MADRID: Basque separatist group ETA declared a ceasefire on Sunday in its bloody 42-year campaign for a homeland independent of Spain, vowing to give up guns and bombs for a democratic solution. ETA ?will not carry out armed offensive actions?, said a masked woman flanked by two other masked members....
Suicide bombers kill 12 in Baghdad
As many as five suicide bombers killed 12 people at an Iraqi army complex in Baghdad, with US troops among those who fired back.
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38
Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala - some of them rescuers who had come to save people trapped by a wall of mud.
MOD confirms second soldier death
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the deaths of two British soldiers - one in the UK and one in Afghanistan.
Congo: 70 dead in 2nd weekend boat capsize
A Congolese official says 70 people are believed dead after a riverboat capsized in the second reported deadly boat tipping this weekend. Equateur Province spokeswoman Ebale Engumba said Sunday the boat hit a rock early Saturday in northwest Congo. She says 15 people survived among more than 100 estimated passengers.
Netanyahu seeks 'new solutions' to Palestinian conflict
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that creative thinking was needed to end the decades-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. "We will need to think creatively, and in new...
Hameed insists he was repeating claims
Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed insisted he had been misled by an undercover reporter when he said his teammates were corrupt.
Moto2 rider Shoya Tomizawa killed in San Marino track crash - watch video of ...
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Accident at German flight show kills 1, injures 38
A pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators Sunday, leaving one person dead and 38 injured, police said. Five people were seriously injured, while 33 others were slightly....
Property of Afghan bank bosses frozen, but not Karzai's brother's
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Struggling to contain asset-stripping at Afghanistan's biggest bank, Afghan authorities have barred the sale of Kabul properties held by the troubled bank's principal owners. But the freeze excludes President Hamid Karzai's brother, who is the third largest Kabul Ban...
Iranian leader warns against aggression
During a visit to Qatar yesterday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said there will be dire consequences if the United States or Israel engages the Islamic republic militarily.
Scandal-hit Pakistan well beaten
Pakistan's latest match in their controversial tour of Britain has ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England at Sophia Gardens.
Fresh allegations against Pakistan's cricketers
With fans still reeling from last week?s claims of a ?spot betting? scam, a newspaper says a fourth player is being investigated for match fixing.
Third seed Venus Williams advances to US Open quarter-finals
American third seed Venus Williams advanced to the quarter-finals of the US Open on Sunday by defeating Israeli 16th seed Shahar Peer 7-6 (7/3), 6-3.
Fuse thwarts Danish space launch
Two Danish space enthusiasts failed in their first attempt to launch a privately built rocket. Peter Madsen and Kristian von Bengtson had hoped to send the nine-metre-long rocket 18.6 miles into the sky from a barge near the island of Bornholm. Their spokeswoman, Sophie Dalgaard, said a fuse problem....
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YEMEN: Chewing your way to an early death
SANAA, 5 September 2010 (IRIN) - The widespread daily ritual of chewing the amphetamine-rich leaf �qat' is to blame for the growing number of mouth cancers in Yemen, according to local NGO National Foundation to Support Cancer Patients.
SOUTH AFRICA : Deportation of Zimbabweans to begin again
JOHANNESBURG, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - South Africa will resume the deportation of undocumented Zimbabweans on 1 January 2011, ending its 17-month moratorium, the Cabinet announced on 1 September.
GLOBAL: Spotlight on violence against children
DAKAR, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - After her first year in the job, the UN Special Representative on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais, told IRIN her major achievement has been to bring violence against children out into the open.
SWAZILAND: Task-shifting could improve HIV treatment and prevention
MANZINI, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - Swaziland has yet to act on a 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to alleviate health worker shortages through task-shifting and according to the Ministry of Health, the failure to do so is compromising scale-up of the antiretroviral (ARV) programme.
SOUTH AFRICA: Strike sends XDR-TB patients home
DURBAN, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - Striking public health workers in South Africa have virtually shut down King George V Hospital, a referral facility in the port city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Province, which specializes in caring for and isolating patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extremely drug-resistant (XDR)-TB.
SUDAN: Good rains improve food security
NAIROBI, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - Food security in many parts of Southern Sudan is set to improve after good rains, according to recent crop and precipitation assessments.
INDONESIA: Eruption spotlights "severe" volcano threat
JAKARTA, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - The eruption of Mount Sinabung for the first time in 400 years has highlighted the urgent need for Indonesian authorities to boost disaster preparedness, experts warn.
GLOBAL: New two-hour TB test
JOHANNESBURG, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - A new, accurate, easy-to-use test can diagnose tuberculosis (TB) - including drug-resistant strains of the disease - in less than two hours. It has the potential to save thousands of lives in developing countries, where current tests are often unreliable, take weeks to process, or are simply unavailable.
BANGLADESH: Taking toxins out of ship-breaking
DHAKA, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - A Dutch engineering company is trying to make safer the dangerous job of dismantling old ships contaminated with chemicals - by building the world's first �green dock wharf� in Bangladesh.
MOZAMBIQUE: Price increases 'irreversible'
MAPUTO , 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - A volley of price increases in basic commodities and services has sparked two days of rioting and looting in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, but the government is refusing to rescind them.
SOUTH AFRICA: Survivor's guide for non-striking health workers
JOHANNESBURG, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - Public sector strikes in South Africa have become so common in recent years that people are asking if plans should not be put in place to prevent the disruption of HIV and tuberculosis [TB] treatment, and prepare health workers.
ETHIOPIA: Pastoralism against the odds
JIJIGA, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - Pastoralists' disproportionate contribution to Ethiopia's economy is belied by their marginalized status and by policy assumptions that they would be better off farming. But those who raise livestock tend to make the most of marginal land, according to experts, and are often proficient at adapting to changing circumstances.
GLOBAL: Vaults to protect agricultural biodiversity
BANGKOK, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - As rising food prices, growing populations and natural disasters increasingly put pressure on food production, governments and scientists are focusing on preserving the world's agricultural biodiversity through seed and gene banks.
MYANMAR: Rural poor hit by arbitrary "taxes", says report
BANGKOK, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - Myanmar's military government, with soldiers scattered throughout the country, is arbitrarily levying fees from the rural poor, pushing some into hunger and debt, experts say.
Analysis: No political mandate, no development in C�te d�Ivoire
ABIDJAN, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - Continued election delays and political turmoil have for years been used as excuses to justify poor governance and the lack of investment in public services, say civil society groups and public sector workers.