ISLAMABAD, August 1, 2010 (AFP) - The death toll in the worst flooding to hit Pakistan topped 1,000, officials said on Sunday."More than 1,000 people have been killed by floods in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province," provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told

MUZAFFARABAD: The death toll from floods in Pakistan passed 900 on Sunday as nearly 50 people were confirmed dead in the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, officials said."Forty-seven people have been killed and another 39 injured by floods in different parts of Muzaffarabad" since

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Six civilians were killed on Sunday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan`s southern Kandahar province, an official said, as civilian casualties continued to mount amid an increase in violence by insurgents.Nine civilians were wounded in the blast, which hit

JERUSALEM - Israeli warplanes on Sunday launched two pre-dawn raids on two tunnels used by smugglers in the southern Gaza Strip, in response to a new rocket attack by Palestinian militants, the army said.A military spokesman said the tunnels targeted were used to smuggle arms into the

SEOUL: A North Korean mine which drifted along a river into the neighbouring South killed a man and badly injured another when it exploded, military officials said Sunday.Several wooden box mines have been retrieved by South Korean soldiers and police, but it was not immediately clear how

BRUSSELS: The European Commission said Saturday it had given 30 million euros in humanitarian aid to help the most needy in Pakistan, including those hit by flooding that has killed at least 800 people."The European Commission has adopted a 30-million-euro (39-million-dollar) humanitarian

WASHINGTON: Twenty years ago, Saddam Hussein`s forces invaded Kuwait, setting in motion US military action that is only now coming to a close, as American troops prepare to withdraw from Iraq.The ill-advised move by Saddam triggered a US-led response that quickly pushed his army out of

BOGOTA: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe denied Saturday that he planned to launch a military attack on neighboring Venezuela, denouncing President Hugo Chavez after Caracas ordered troops to the border."Colombia has never thought of attacking the brotherly people of the Bolivarian

JERUSALEM: A rocket fired by Gaza militants slammed into southern Israel on Saturday night for the second time in less than 36 hours, causing damages but no casualties, the military said."The rocket exploded near the town of Sderot (southern Israel), damaging a university building," an

RAMALLAH: US President Barack Obama has warned Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas that failure to resume direct peace talks with Israel could undermine US-Palestinian ties, Palestinian officials said on Saturday.Obama made the warning in a letter to Abbas but also pledged to rally Arab,

BAGHDAD: July was the deadliest month in Iraq since May 2008 with a total of 535 people killed across the country as a result or violence, according to government figures released on Saturday.A total of 396 civilians, 89 policemen and 50 soldiers died in attacks in July, data compiled by

PESHAWAR: Rescue workers and troops in northwest Pakistan struggled Saturday to reach thousands of people affected by the country`s worst floods in living memory, as the death toll rose to 800.The United Nations said almost a million people had been affected by the flooding, and at least

PESHAWAR: Rescue workers and troops in northwest Pakistan struggled Saturday to reach thousands of people affected by the country`s worst floods in living memory, as the death toll rose to 800.The United Nations said almost a million people had been affected by the flooding, and at least

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