At least nine people were killed on Wednesday in twin car bombing attacks on security personnel in Rafah city in Egypt's North Sinai, while the army poured more troops to quell the violence in the restive peninsula.
Egypt is considering establishing a one-km-deep buffer zone along the eastern border with Gaza in a move to heighten security, state-run MENA quoted an official source as saying on Thursday.
Up to 45 people were killed and 113 wounded in separate bombings and shootings across Iraq on Sunday, amid growing tension that threatens to bring the country back to sectarian strife.
At least 25 people were killed and 47 others wounded in separate attacks in Iraq on Thursday, most of which targeting the security forces, the police said.
At least 45 people have sought medical assistance after a fire broke out in a Moscow metro on Wednesday.
India has overtaken China as the biggest single source of immigrants to Australia, according to data released Monday.
Egypt would announce a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Hesham Qandil said on Monday evening.
At least 27 people were killed and 51 others wounded on Thursday evening when a bomb struck a cafe in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, police said.
Another H7N9 patient died in east China on Monday, bringing the nationwide death toll to 14... Three new cases were also reported in east China.
The World Health Organization announced on Tuesday that no samples of the H7N9 bird flu virus has been found in pigs in China, so far.
Eight Syrian Alawites were kidnapped Monday in the Lebanese border area of Wadi Khaled while en route to Syria
At least 15 people were killed and 30 others wounded in a series of car bombings and shootings in central Baghdad on Thursday, an interior ministry source told Xinhua.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in a Shiite mosque in a city in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 75 others, a local police source told Xinhua.
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