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The Secretary General of Burma\'s largest rebel group, the Karen National Union, has been killed.

The Iraqi police have detained an official at a psychiatric hospital in connection with the bombings of two alleged mentally disabled women.

Senator Barrack Obama has won another round of the votes in the Democratic primary elections in his bid for presidential nomination.

Zimbabwe\'s ruling Zanu-PF party has expelled former Finance Minister, Simba Makoni from its ranks.

President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, remains hospitalised in critical condition after being shot by rebel soldiers yesterday morning.

The British government is set to introduce a new points based immigration system on February 29.

A Muslim Cleric is to be extradited from the UK to the US to answer a series of terror charges.

A Kenyan policeman is to be charged with murder after he was filmed shooting at two men who were later found dead during election protests.

Voting has begun in several US states in the biggest day of nominations in the race for US president.

Thousands of people have fled the Chad capital, N’Djamena after two days of fierce fighting between the government and rebel forces in the city.

A search is now on for persons who went missing after a series of earthquakes hit the Great Lakes area of Rwanda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday.

64 persons are dead following two bomb explosions in Baghdad.