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Israeli war jets on Monday morning launched a series of airstrikes on militants' targets in the Gaza Strip ruled by Islamic Hamas movement in response to rocket attacks. No injuries reported.
Sha'abaniya is a ritual marking the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th Shi'ite imam and a revered figure in Shi'ite Islam.
Seven members of the Afghan National Police (ANP) were killed Sunday when an ALP mobile was struck by a roadside bombing in the country's southern province of Uruzgan, said an official.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in northern Baghdad killing at least 12 people during evening prayers, in the deadliest of a series of attacks that claimed more than 30 lives across Iraq.
About 5,000 protesters clashed with about 2,000 policemen in downtown Istanbul on Saturday evening.
Eleven people were killed and 21 wounded in separate shootings and bombings in northern and central Iraq, police said on Saturday.
The Israeli Embassy in China announced a set of new visa policies for Chinese tourists at the ongoing 2013 Beijing International Tourism Expo on Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday called for fresh negotiations with the Palestinians without any preconditions.
An Egyptian court decided Thursday to support a previous court order to release ex-president Hosni Mubarak over investigations of illicit gains.
Iran's state TV is reporting the country's election overseer, the Guardian Council, has approved Friday's presidential election result.
After weeks of sometimes violent confrontation with police, protesters in Turkey have found what could be a more potent form of resistance: standing still.
Up to 32 people were killed and 57 wounded in a twin suicide bomb attacks at a Shiite mosque in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday.
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