Suicide attack on Pakistan tribal gathering kills 18

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber targeted a tribal gathering in north-west Pakistan Friday evening, Pakistani authorities have said, killing 18 people and injuring more than 45...

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Christians flee Iraqi city after killings, threats, officials say

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* Muslim extremists order Mosul Christians to convert or face death, officials say
* Officials: 13 Christians killed; more than 900 families have fled Mosul
* Deputy governor: Election-related protests may have triggered the killings
* Leaflets in Christian neighborhoods threatened families, official says

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Iraq: Businessman killed as attacks on Christians continue

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* Mosul police: Christian businessman killed, nephew injured, in driveby shooting
* Thirteen Christians killed in Mosul in two weeks, at least 900 Christian families flee
* Authorities: Attacks may have been prompted by Christian demonstrations
* Baghdad police patrol hit by bomb Monday, day after several killed in Iraqi capital

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Spain: 12 held on terror charges

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* Those held suspected of providing cover for fugitives from Madrid train bombings
* Charges also cover involvement in financing and recruiting Islamic terrorism
* Madrid train bombing took place on March 11, 2004, killed 191 people
* The subsequent trial ended in 2007 with the convictions of 23 men

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Taliban: Aid worker killed for preaching

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Female aid worker fatally shot from a motorbike on way to work in Kabul
Taliban claim responsibility, say woman killed for preaching Christianity
UK says woman was a British citizen; Afghan ministry says she was South African
NATO: More than 20 insurgents during two days of fighting in Wardak province

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Briton, South African shot dead in Kabul shooting
Afghan authorities arrest 13 people, including employees of DHL courier service, after a shooting kills two foreign nationals and a security guard in Kabul, just days after an aid worker was shot dead in the Afghan capital. full story

'Many dead' as blasts hit Somali cities

(CNN) -- Three suicide car bombers on Wednesday struck government buildings and a United Nations office leaving at least 19 people dead in a rare attack in a normally peaceful breakaway region of Somalia, the region's president said.

Dahir Rayale Kahin, leader of Somaliland, said his personal secretary was killed in the attacks which targeted the Ethipopan consulate where scores were lining up for visas, a U.N. building and the presidential palace in the capital Hargeisa.

A hospital nurse in the city put the death toll at 50.

Kahin said the blasts were an attack on "the nationhood" of Somaliland -- an autonomous region of northern Somalia that has its own government but is not internationally recognized.

"We will do everything to know who is behind the attack," he told reporters.

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Amnesty: Rape girl, 13, killed for adultery

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.

Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.

Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.

Calls to Somali government officials and the local administration in Kismayo rang unanswered Saturday.

"This child suffered a horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayo," David Copeman, Amnesty International's Somalia campaigner, said in a statement Friday.

Somalia is among the world's most violent and impoverished countries. The nation of some 8 million people has not had a functioning government since warlords overthrew a dictator in 1991 then turned on each other.

A quarter of Somali children die before age 5; nearly every public institution has collapsed. Fighting is a daily occurrence, with violent deaths reported nearly every day.

Islamic militants with ties to al-Qaida have been battling the government and its Ethiopian allies since their combined forces pushed the Islamists from the capital in December 2006. Within weeks of being driven out, the Islamists launched an insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians.

In recent months, the militants appear to be gaining strength. The group has taken over the port of Kismayo, Somalia's third-largest city, and dismantled pro-government roadblocks. They also effectively closed the Mogadishu airport by threatening to attack any plane using it.

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Graves dug for Bali bombers awaiting execution

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* Three convicted bombers are scheduled to be executed by firing squad
* One grave for man in same cemetery where father was buried
* Hundreds of members of hardline Muslim groups plan protest
* Deadly 2002 blasts ripped through two popular nightclubs in Bali's Kuta

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London terror trial 1:50
Trial starts for man charged with attempting to kill hundreds of people in car bombings in London. ITN's Andy Davies reports.