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Nasrallah told a crowd of tens of thousands of Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim marking the Ashura religious ceremony that Egypt should be condemned if it does not halt the wall building.

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Following are some key facts about Uzbekistan and the vote.

* Roughly the size of Iraq, landlocked Uzbekistan borders Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. ...[more]

The casualties were the first reported killings in protests since the immediate aftermath of a disputed election in June in which the opposition says more than 70 people died.

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The De Xin Hai and its 25 crew were carrying about 76,000 tons of coal from South Africa to Mundra in India when it was seized in an audacious attack by the gunmen some 700 miles east of the ...[more]

The Jaras website, in reports that could not immediately be independently verified, later said another protester was killed in clashes between opposition supporters and security forces in the ...[more]

Security for the event has been tight since suspected al Qaeda suicide bombers and mortar attacks killed 171 people during Ashura in Kerbala and Baghdad in 2004.

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When village elections were rolled out nationwide in 1998, to improve local officials' responsiveness to local concerns, some Chinese reformers hoped they would open the door to democracy in ...[more]

Governor N.D. Tiwari, a top representative of India's president in Andhra Pradesh state, resigned late on Saturday after a local television channel aired a video of the 86-year-old Congress l ...[more]

About 5,000 soldiers, policemen and civil servants were being assigned to carry out the repatriation of the Hmong at a refugee camp in Huay Nam Khao in Phetchabun province, 300 km (186 miles) ...[more]

The attack in the Sadda area, which killed junior local official Sarfraz Khan, as well as his son, appeared to be part of a bloody campaign waged by al Qaeda-linked militants battling the civ ...[more]

Robert Park, 28, walked over the frozen Tumen river from China and into North Korea last Friday, other activists said. He told Reuters ahead of the crossing that it was his duty as a Christia ...[more]