18 Pak paramilitaries killed in Balochistan ambush
QUETTA, Feb 01 (AFP): Eighteen paramilitaries were killed and three others seriously wounded in an attack in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, police and the military said on Saturday.Security forces have been battling sectarian, ethnic and separatist violence for decades in impoverished but mineral-rich Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.A vehicle...
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Talks Tuesday for release of all hostages, withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza
GAZA, Feb 01 (Reuters/AFP): Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, in the latest stage of a truce aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza.Ofer Kalderon, a French-Israeli dual national and Yarden Bibas were handed over to Red Cross officials in the southern Gaza city...
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Gunmen kill 10 in Syria village 'massacre'
BEIRUT, Feb 01 (AFP): Gunmen in Syria have shot dead 10 people in a "massacre" in a village from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor said on Saturday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "10 citizens in Arzah village in the northern Hama countryside that is inhabited...
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Medical jet with six on board crashes in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 01 (BBC): A small medical transport plane crashed into several buildings in north-east Philadelphia on Friday evening, setting homes and vehicles ablaze and injuring people on the ground.The plane had been on a medical transport mission, carrying a child patient and her mother, and four crew members."We know...
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US restricts copter flights after Washington crash
WASHINGTON, Feb 01 (Reuters): US authorities restricted helicopter flights near Reagan Washington National Airport on Friday, after a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter killed 67 people this week.Investigators were able on Friday to recover the helicopter's black box, which captures flight data and...
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