KABUL - Flash floods in Afghanistan have killed at least 65 people and affected more than 1,000 families, the national disaster authority chief told AFP Saturday.Rescue teams in the northeast of the country are still struggling to reach areas cut off by flooded roads and the threat of

ISLAMABAD, July 31, 2010 (AFP) - Investigators searching the site of an airliner crash near Pakistan`s capital in which 152 people died have found the plane`s black box, a civil aviation official said Saturday."The investigating committee found the black box from the Margalla Hills this

SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is heading for a shock defeat at elections on August 21, a new opinion poll showed Saturday, as government infighting and damaging cabinet leaks threatened to derail her campaign.              Defeat for Gillard, though still

BEIJING - The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as the country continues to battle the worst floods in a decade.Torrential rains in Jilin province have left a further 35 missing as more than 364,000 people were evacuated

CARACAS - President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Venezuela has deployed military units and troops to the Colombian border, because outgoing President Alvaro Uribe is "capable of anything," as a row escalates between the two.Chavez broke off diplomatic relations with Colombia on July 22,

SRINAGAR - Thousands of security forces enforced a curfew in the major towns of Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday, a day after three protesters were shot dead.The three were killed on Friday in two separate incidents when security forces opened fire to contain angry anti-India

GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes fired missiles at several targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing one person and wounding eight people, witnesses and medics said after a rocket fired from the strip hit a southern Israeli city.A 22-year-old Hamas militant was killed in an airstrike on a

KAMPALA: A Ugandan court on Friday charged three Kenyans with 76 counts of murder, the first such cases opened against suspects in the July 11 suicide attacks in Kampala.Hussein Hassan Agad, Mohamed Adan Abdow and Idris Magondu were charged before a Kampala magistrate`s court, but did not

WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda is calling for its fighters to avenge the death of the group`s number three leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, killed by US forces in May, the SITE monitoring group said Friday.In a video posted to Jihadi websites, Abu Yahya al-Libi, a member of the extremist group`s

BEIJING: A blast at a Chinese tax office killed four people and injured 19 more on Friday, in what police believe was a deliberate attack, state media reported.Xinhua news agency, citing a police statement, said the explosion hit a regional tax office in the central province of Hunan.The

TEHRAN, July 30, 2010 (AFP) - A 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck Iran`s northeast on Friday, injuring at least 110 people, damaging villages and disrupting communications, media reports said citing officials.The quake hit at 6.21 pm (1351 GMT) between the cities of Baygh and

SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard lost her election lead to the opposition Saturday, with polling showing her party`s popularity sinking to levels that prompted the shock axing of her predecessor.Gillard suffered a spectacular reversal of fortunes in the campaign`s second

BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi King Abdullah on Friday urged Lebanon`s rival factions to avoid violence after an unprecedented joint visit to defuse a tense political situation."The leaders stressed the importance of stability... the commitment (of the Lebanese) not to

SRINAGAR: Three protesters were killed by security forces Friday in a day of violence in Indian Kashmir that also left 75 people injured, police and witnesses said.The fatalities added to a string of deaths that have fuelled a rolling series of angry protests across the Muslim-majority

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama called on Iran Friday to "immediately release" three American hikers being held by the Islamic republic, saying they never worked for the US government and committed "absolutely no crime."Obama, ahead of the one-year anniversary Saturday of the hikers`

PESHAWAR: Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 400 people in Pakistan in three days and affected at least 600,000, a minister said Friday.Hundreds of homes and thousands of hectares (acres) of cultivated land were destroyed in the

KABUL: Scores of Afghans rioted outside the US embassy in Kabul on Friday after a NATO vehicle crashed into a civilian car killing a number of occupants, officials and witnesses said.Television pictures showed at least one armoured vehicle in flames as young Afghan men threw stones at

BEIJING: China said Friday it opposed tough new sanctions imposed by the European Union on Iran over its contested nuclear programme, again calling for more talks to resolve the standoff."China disapproves of the unilateral sanctions put in place by the EU against Iran," foreign ministry

WASHINGTON: A US soldier accused of leaking military video footage from Iraq and suspected in the release of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan has been transferred to a US military jail, the US Defense Department said on Friday.Private First Class Bradley E.

TEHRAN - Iran`s atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Friday that Tehran was against stockpiling 20 percent-enriched uranium, the sensitive material world powers want the Islamic republic to stop producing."We need 20 percent fuel for the Tehran research reactor at the moment," Salehi was