Sana'a, Yemen - At least five policemen and three Islamists were injured in clashes after police raided a militant stronghold in southern Yemen on Saturday, police sources said.
The sources told the German Press Agency dpa the clashes took place in Ja'ar town, nearly 600 kilometres south of the capital Sana'a.
They said that around 400 police troopers took part in the raid on the mountainous town of Abyan province.
Ja'ar is close to the Hatat mountains where armed Islamist groups are believed to take shelter frequently.
Kabul - Two dozen Taliban militants were killed in three separate clashes with Afghan and US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan's volatile south, officials said Saturday.
US-led coalition forces claimed that their troops, backed by Afghan forces, killed 12 militants in a night-time raid in Nahr Surkh district of southern Helmand province, some 125 kilometres west of Kandahar city, the US military said in a statement.
Antananarivo - Protests continued on the tropical island of Madagascar on Saturday, with the military using tear gas in the capital Antananarivo against a demonstration by nearly 30,000 supporters of ousted former president Marc Ravalomanana.
The protesters had earlier called for a general strike for Monday and a tax boycott to protest the new interim government led by Andry Rajoelina, who was brought to power after seven weeks of violence.
San Francisco/Fargo, North Dakota - Residents of North Dakota's largest metropolitan area were evacuating Friday as the Red River roared to its highest ever level and a crack appeared on a crucial sandbag dike.
The US Army Corps of Engineers was building a secondary dike behind the compromised barrier that sprang a leak as the river, which runs from Canada through Minnesota and North Dakota, rose to record- breaking 12.22 metres.
Paris - After a tumultuous seven-week trial, a Paris appeals court late Friday sentenced a Corsican shepherd, Yvan Colonna, to life in prison for the 1998 murder of the prefect of that Mediterranean island.
The sentence therefore upheld the judgment delivered in the first trial, in 2007, that the 48-year-old Colonna was the man who fired three bullets into the head and neck of the prefect, Claude Erignac, in a street in the city of Ajaccio on February 6, 1998.
Jakarta - At least 58 people were killed and up to 72 were missing Friday after a dam burst, sending a wall of water crashing into the residential area near the Indonesian capital, officials said.
The Situ Gintung dam in the Tangerang district, 50 kilometres south of Jakarta, collapsed about 2 am (1900 GMT Thursday), sending water crashing into a crowded residential area, officials said.
Hundreds of homes were submerged and many swept away while trees were uprooted.
Sana'a, Yemen - At least five policemen and three Islamists were injured in clashes after police raided a militant stronghold in southern Yemen on Saturday, police sources said.
Kabul - Two dozen Taliban militants were killed in three separate clashes with Afghan and US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan's volatile south, officials said Saturday.
Antananarivo - Protests continued on the tropical island of Madagascar on Saturday, with the military using tear gas in the capital Antananarivo against a demonstration by nearly 30,000 supporters of ousted former president Marc Ravalomanana.
San Francisco/Fargo, North Dakota - Residents of North Dakota's largest metropolitan area were evacuating Friday as the Red River roared to its highest ever level and a crack appeared on a crucial sandbag dike.
Paris - After a tumultuous seven-week trial, a Paris appeals court late Friday sentenced a Corsican shepherd, Yvan Colonna, to life in prison for the 1998 murder of the prefect of that Mediterranean island.
Jakarta - At least 58 people were killed and up to 72 were missing Friday after a dam burst, sending a wall of water crashing into the residential area near the Indonesian capital, officials said.
