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Source: Reuters * Angry customers demand their money * Run on funds ahead of three-day holiday By Tim Gaynor KABUL, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Afghan security forces used batons on unruly customers scrambling to ...

Source: Reuters Sept 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0530 GMT on Wednesday. * MIRANSHAH - A pilotless U.S. drone fired two missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the ...

Source: Reuters BAGHDAD, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded near a bus terminal in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding a score of others, police and Interior ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) KABUL, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Long queues formed outside the main branch of the crisis-hit Kabulbank, Afghanistan's top private bank, on Wednesday and police ...

Source: Reuters * Latest assault by two rebel groups in key cocaine area * Guerrillas boost attacks since new government sworn in BOGOTA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Six Colombian police were killed in an attack by ...

Source: Reuters BEIJING, Sept 8 (Reuters) - An oil platform in the shallow waters of Bohai Bay off eastern China's Shandong province lurched dangerously on Tuesday night, dumping four people into the water and ...

Source: Human Rights Watch (Goma) - Congolese authorities should open a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation of the abduction and ill-treatment of a human rights defender in North Kivu province in late August 2010, a ...

Source: Reuters * More than 30 journalists killed, disappeared in drug war * Mexico failing to prosecute attacks, press group says By Robin Emmott MEXICO CITY, Sept 8 (Reuters) - In January, gunmen kidnapped, ...

Source: Reuters * Reid committed to lame-duck session * Says Congress should work on pieces of big things (Adds comments on narrowing focus) LAS VEGAS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ...

Source: Reuters * State Department calls planned Koran-burning un-American * Muslim leader urges Muslims abroad to 'take a step back' * Attorney general calls planned burning 'idiotic' * Clinton says burning ...

Source: Reuters Sept 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0715 GMT on Tuesday. SAMARRA - Gunmen shot dead three family members execution style when they stormed their house in central ...

Source: IRIN Aid organizations are distributing water filters to some 37,000 households in the Terai plains of southern Nepal who are being slowly poisoned by drinking arsenic-contaminated water.

Source: Reuters * Comment is latest in growing spats between the two powers * Diplomatic sparring unlikely to snowball given trade ties (Repeats with no change in text) (Repeats to more subscribers) By ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) Sept 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0700 GMT on Tuesday. * denotes new or updated items. BAGHLAN - Insurgents ...

Source: Reuters * President says reserves right to stop elections * Urges politicians to eschew violence By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's acting president said on Tuesday she ...

Source: Reuters YALA, Thailand, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Five people have been killed and four wounded in Thailand's restive Muslim south, police said on Tuesday, the latest upsurge in violence blamed on separatist ...

Source: Reuters * ElBaradei calls for election boycott * Threatens civil disobedience if reform calls ignored By Marwa Awad CAIRO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Egyptian potential presidential candidate Mohamed ...

Source: Reuters By Tarmizy Harva BERASTEPU, Indonesia, Sept 7 (Reuters) - An Indonesian volcano that lay dormant for 400 years shot ash 5 km (3 miles) into the air on Tuesday, its biggest eruption since it became ...

Source: Reuters WELLINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, struggled to get back to business on Tuesday as aftershocks caused more damage and kept parts of the city cordoned off ...

Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Zambian police routinely engage in cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, including torture, to extract confessions, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should ...