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Protests and clashes shake Kashmir elections

Two anti-election protestors were killed in Baramulla in Kashmir by police on Saturday in clashes which also wounded about twenty others, as tensions heightened over the election boycott. Amongst the

By Hannah Cooper

/ 24 Nov 2008

Somali piracy "out of control"

Piracy in Somali waters has escalated dramatically since the weekend hijacking of a Saudi "supertanker" that held as much as two million barrels of oil, worth more than

By Hannah Cooper

/ 19 Nov 2008

Beginning of the end for civil war in Sri Lanka?

Sri Lanka's military seized the entire western coast of the country on Saturday, gaining control over the key strategic area of Pooneryn. This stronghold has been under the

By Hannah Cooper

/ 17 Nov 2008

North Korea blocks passage to South

North Korea announced on Wednesday their intentions to introduce a ban on all land crossings at the border with South Korea beginning next month, accusing Seoul of seeking confrontation and

By Hannah Cooper

/ 12 Nov 2008

Rumsfeld's secret order

A secret order issued in the spring of 2004 by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and approved by President George W. Bush gave the US military the authority to carry out

By Hannah Cooper

/ 10 Nov 2008

Israeli troops raid West Bank and Gaza Strip

Israeli forces arrested thirteen Palestinians in separate raids in the occupied West Bank and in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Six of the detainees were arrested in raids that

By Hannah Cooper

/ 5 Nov 2008

Russia asserts policing role in the Caucasus

Talks are to accelerate between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. A joint statement by Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani president, and Serzh Sarkisian, his Armenian counterpart, also

By Hannah Cooper

/ 3 Nov 2008

Georgia accused of war crimes

The Georgian army has been implicated in attacks on civilians and committing war crimes when its security forces invaded the breakaway region of South Ossetia over the summer. In reports

By Hannah Cooper

/ 29 Oct 2008

US implicated in Syrian strikes

American military helicopters reportedly attacked an area along Syria's border with Iraq on Sunday night, killing at least eight people and wounding another. Residents said the attack targeted

By Hannah Cooper

/ 27 Oct 2008

Counterterrorism experts criticise the US ‘war on terror’

Within days of each other, two senior British counterterrorism officials criticised the United States for what they described as its overly militaristic approach to fighting terrorism and for allowing the

By Hannah Cooper

/ 22 Oct 2008

Iran aiding Iraqi insurgents?

American intelligence linking Iran to the training and supplied Iraqi militants - a connection American officials have long propounded but that the Iranian government has consistently denied - has been

By Hannah Cooper

/ 20 Oct 2008

Fighting breaks out on Thai-Cambodian border

After days of tension, fighting broke out along a disputed stretch of the Thai-Cambodian border on Wednesday, leading the Thai Foreign Ministry to urge Thai nationals in Cambodia to leave

By Hannah Cooper

/ 15 Oct 2008