Suicide bomber attacks funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 36 mourners, police officials said
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Victims of Pakistan’s floods besiege relief trucks carrying food and officials in the north-west warn of famine unless farmers get help now with planting new crops... more
Rescue teams try to reach tens of thousands of people cut off by flooding in northern Pakistan as the death toll from the disaster rose to more than 1,400... more
Militant groups in Pakistan are going head-to-head with the US government in a battle to help more than a million people caught up in the worst floods in 80 years... more
Two people died, including a police officer, and four were injured today when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Peshawar press club in Pakistan... more
Suicide bombers struck at the heart of Pakistan's anti-terror campaign, devastating the country's main spy agency in an attack that left at least nine people dead and 55 injured... more
The bombings of Kabul's principal hotel destination for Westerners and of a hostel approved for UN workers underline the scale of the challenge facing Nato in Afghanistan ahead of the presidential election runoff... more
Eleven people were killed and 15 injured today when three suicide bombers, including a woman, set off two blasts near a fortified police station in north-west Pakistan... more
A suicide squad shot its way past guards and set off a massive blast outside a hotel popular with wealthy Pakistanis and foreign workers, killing at least 15 people and wounding 70... more
Sally Dudmesh heard a judge find her lover, Old Etonian heir Thomas Cholmondeley, guilty of manslaughter on his Kenyan estate. It was the verdict she always dreaded
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The Pakistan government has agreed to implement Islamic law across a large swathe of the country's north-west in a concession aimed at pacifying a spreading Taliban insurgency... more
Director of The Kite Runner Marc Forster has been accused of endangering his Afghan stars and cultural insensitivity. In a frank interview, he defends himself - and reveals his next challenge.... more
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