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A clothing factory fire killed seven people in Bangladesh where rescuers are still counting the dead from the recent building collapse disaster, officials said.
Taliban militants Friday killed five kidnapped Afghan civilians in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
Israeli settlers are suspected of setting fire to Palestinian cars and spraying graffiti on a building in a refugee camp near Ramallah, Israel police said.
A British woman accused of having sex on a beach in the United Arab Emirates has had a chance to face her accusers in a Dubai court of law.
Iraqi lawmakers from southern Basra province said they, along with tribal leaders, are pushing for a federalized region on par with Iraqi Kurdistan.
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell Thursday said he cannot yet confirm Iraqi terrorist leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed.
An al-Qaida leader believed to have been involved in the kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll has been killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday.
The self-styled Taliban spokesman -- captured earlier this week in Pakistan -- said Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is still in Afghanistan.
Violence has claimed the life of another candidate in Afghanistan's parliamentary election.
The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the kidnapping and hanging of an Afghan tribal chief who was a supporter of President Hamid Karzai.
