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The Taliban have criticized the United Nations chief for making what they call a 'false statement' on civilian casualties in Afghanistan. - press tv

The UN says tens of thousands of Pakistanis are likely to be displaced again this year as the military continues with its offensive against the militants. - press tv

President Obama has accepted responsibility for improving airline security after a series of safety failures that allowed an alleged bomber to board a US plane. - press tv

The US Defense Department has approved the sale of upgraded missile equipment to Taiwan, despite an opposition by China. - press tv

A senior Iranian lawmaker says the US should not "rush" for release of the three American hikers detained in Iran. - press tv

Israeli jets fire missiles at seven targets in the Gaza Strip, killing one person and injuring two others, local witness and medics say. - press tv

The acting governor of the troubled Khost Province in eastern Afghanistan has been wounded in a bomb blast, officials say. - press tv

Pakistan's president warns the US that its drone attacks, killing mostly civilians, will undermine the national consensus supporting the war on militancy. - press tv

Freezing winter conditions have claimed the lives of 10 homeless people in Germany this winter, a federal agency says. - press tv

Angry Copt Christians clashed with the police as they buried the bodies of those who were gunned down on Wednesday after Christmas Eve Mass outside a church. - press tv

Two former mercenaries of the notorious US security firm Blackwater (now known as Xe Services LLC) have been charged with the 2009 murder of two Afghan civilians in Kabul, the Justice Department says. - press tv

US Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warns that any military attack on Iran will be "very, very destabilizing" and will have unintended consequences for the Middle East. - press tv

A senior Yemeni official has warned that any military intervention by the United States in the country to fight al-Qaeda will not go as planned and to the contrary would make the terrorist network stronger. - press tv

Iran's Head of the Headquarters for Renovation of Iraq's Holy Shrines, Hassan Danaifar, is soon to replace Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, as the Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad. - press tv

A shooting spree in the state of Missouri in the United States has left three people shot with at least one person dead, report the local media. - press tv

An American woman and her one-year-old baby hiking near Mount Kenya National Park were trampled to death by a charging elephant. - press tv

Israel will pay the United Nations $10 million in compensation for targeting its facilities during the 22-day offensive on the blockaded Gaza Strip. - press tv

Hamas is not seeking any escalation in tensions with Cairo authorities and is looking for a peaceful solution to the issue of underground steel wall that Egypt is building on the border with the besieged Gaza Strip. - press tv

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran and Syria should help create new world order by increasing cooperation. - press tv

The German theater expert, Professor Christel Hoffmann is set to hold her second workshop series in the Iranian capital of Tehran. - press tv

At least 140 people have been killed and 90 wounded as a result of tribal clashes this week in Sudan's southern region of Wunchuei, a UN official says. - press tv

The Honduran attorney general has issued arrest warrants for the country's military chief involved in the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, charging them with "abuse of authority." - press tv

An Iranian lawmaker says former Tehran's Chief Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has ordered the transfer of those arrested in post-election unrest to notorious Kahrizak detention centre. - press tv

A bomber targeting a pro-government militia commander has left at least ten people dead and dozens more wounded in Paktia province of eastern Afghanistan. - press tv

Gazan children have released balloons carrying pictures of Palestinians killed during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip one year ago. - press tv

Al-Qaeda's Afghan wing has claimed responsibility for last week's fatal bombing that killed several CIA agents at a US military base on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. - press tv

Pakistani security forces have arrested five US citizens in the province of Balochistan near the country's border with Iran. - press tv

The Tehran prosecutor's office says it has sent the cases of five people indicted in connection with the recent riots to the Revolution Court. - press tv

Three Somali soldiers were killed and four others were seriously injured when a top military commander's convoy hit a landmine in the volatile Somali capital of Mogadishu. - press tv

Thousands of people in eastern Afghanistan have taken to the streets to protest the death of four children in an explosion they blame on US forces. - press tv