Christian areas targeted in deadly Baghdad attacks
Jim Muir in Baghdad explains how Christians were specifically targeted A series of bomb and mortar attacks targeting Christian areas has killed at least five people in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Six districts with strong Christian majorities were hit - more than 30 people have been injured. The attacks come days after Islamist militants seized a Catholic cathedral and more than 40 were killed. To
Officer given life for boy's murder in Greek riot case
Witnesses said Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot deliberately A Greek policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a schoolboy in 2008, an incident that sparked mass unrest. A court in the town of Amfissa convicted Epaminondas Korkoneas, 38, of intentionally killing 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. He was shot dead on 6 December 2008 in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarchia. Ko
Twelve killed in bomb attack on Iranian military parade
Twelve people have been killed and at least 35 wounded in a bomb attack on a military parade in north-western Iran. No soldiers died, but most of the casualties in the town of Mahabad were said to be women and children. A provincial governor blamed "counter-revolutionary groups" for the attack, which came on the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war. Militants have long been active in
Pakistani politician Imran Farooq murdered in London
An exiled Pakistani politician has been murdered outside his home in north London, leaders of his party have said. Imran Farooq, a senior member of the MQM party who has been in London since 1999, was attacked in Green Lane, Edgware, on Thursday evening. The Metropolitan Police said a 50-year-old man had died after suffering multiple stab wounds and head injuries. The investigation into his death
Second Iraq TV presenter shot, Baghdad bombs kill four
Gunmen in Iraq have killed an Iraqi TV journalist - the second in as many days - while four other people were killed in two attacks in the capital Baghdad. Safah Abdul Hameed was shot dead in front of his home in the northern city of Mosul as he left for work at the al-Mosuliyah satellite television station. A day earlier, prominent al-Iraqiya TV presenter Riad al-Saray was gunned down outside his
Four Israeli settlers shot dead on eve of White House talks
Hamas gunmen shot dead four Israeli settlers on the outskirts of the volatile West Bank city of Hebron tonight in a move that could jeopardise the first face-to-face talks between Israel and the Palestinians for more than 20 months. The armed wing of the Islamic organisation, which is virulently opposed to the negotiations, claimed responsibility for the "heroic operation" in which its militants a
Four Israelis shot dead near West Bank settlement
The BBC's Wyre Davies: "There had certainly been no warning that an attack like this would take place" Four Israelis have been shot dead in the West Bank, Israeli police say. Their vehicle came under fire on a road between the settlement of Kiryat Arba and the Palestinian village of Bani Naim, near the city of Hebron. The military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, said it had carri
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