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Source: Reuters Sept 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0715 GMT on Tuesday. SAMARRA - Gunmen shot dead three family members execution style when they stormed their house in central ...

Source: IRIN Aid organizations are distributing water filters to some 37,000 households in the Terai plains of southern Nepal who are being slowly poisoned by drinking arsenic-contaminated water.

Source: Reuters * Comment is latest in growing spats between the two powers * Diplomatic sparring unlikely to snowball given trade ties (Repeats with no change in text) (Repeats to more subscribers) By ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) Sept 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0700 GMT on Tuesday. * denotes new or updated items. BAGHLAN - Insurgents ...

Source: Reuters * President says reserves right to stop elections * Urges politicians to eschew violence By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's acting president said on Tuesday she ...

Source: Reuters YALA, Thailand, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Five people have been killed and four wounded in Thailand's restive Muslim south, police said on Tuesday, the latest upsurge in violence blamed on separatist ...

Source: Reuters * ElBaradei calls for election boycott * Threatens civil disobedience if reform calls ignored By Marwa Awad CAIRO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Egyptian potential presidential candidate Mohamed ...

Source: Reuters By Tarmizy Harva BERASTEPU, Indonesia, Sept 7 (Reuters) - An Indonesian volcano that lay dormant for 400 years shot ash 5 km (3 miles) into the air on Tuesday, its biggest eruption since it became ...

Source: Reuters WELLINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, struggled to get back to business on Tuesday as aftershocks caused more damage and kept parts of the city cordoned off ...

Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Zambian police routinely engage in cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, including torture, to extract confessions, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should ...

Source: Reuters * Two children also among dead * Bomber drove explosive-laden car into police station (Updates death toll, adds details) By Mustansar Baluch LAKKI MARWAT, Pakistan, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A suicide ...

Source: Reuters Sept 6 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0700 GMT on Monday. * Denotes new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb, planted in the same area where a sticky bomb ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan click [ID:nAFPAK]) KABUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year has reached at least 500, according to an independent monitoring ...

Source: Reuters * Small bomb placed under table, says security source * Two suspects arrested -- sources * Blast follows Friday's suicide bombing (Recasts with bomb responsible for blast) DUSHANBE, Sept 6 ...

Source: Reuters * Democratic prospects for November grow more bleak * Weak economy, Obama's struggles hurt Democrats * More Democratic seats, House control at risk By John Whitesides WASHINGTON, Sept 3 ( ...

Source: Reuters DUSHANBE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Tajikistan officials said on Monday they were investigating whether an explosion that injured four people in a nightclub in the capital Dushanbe overnight was caused by ...

Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD, Sept 6 (Reuters) - At least eight policemen were killed and 13 wounded in a suspected suicide attack on a police station in the northwestern Pakistani town of Lakki Marwat on Monday, police ...

Source: Reuters For a roundup of the key political risk themes to watch in Asia this week, plus links to related Reuters stories and country risk analysis, please click on: http://r.reuters.com/jum59n ...

Source: Reuters * Torrential rains trigger fresh landslides in Guatemala * 41 people confirmed dead since Saturday (Updates death toll, adds detail, new landslide, previous GUATEMALA CITY) CUMBRE DE ALASKA, ...

Source: Reuters By Andrew Hammond KABUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) - At a centre for disadvantaged children in Kabul, shy young girls step up to recite their duties as fasting Muslims for the visiting U.S. ambassador. ...