Aden, YEMEN (Agencies) Thirteen soldiers and two civilians were killed on Friday when the army fought gunmen in the city of Loder in south Yemen, a local security official told AFP.

The last US combat brigade has withdrawn from Iraq, bringing combat operations to an end in a war that has lasted more than seven years and claimed the lives of more than 4,000 US troops.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Indian-administered Kashmir following the death of a Kashmiri at the hands of Indian security forces.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says 6.8 million jobs were lost from September to December 2009 and the world’s biggest economy is still facing a tough time.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) intends to build new tunnels beneath the occupied city of Jerusalem connecting the Judaized Sharaf neighborhood (formerly Arab area) in the Old City with Al-Buraq plaza and the Aqsa Mosque, according to Haaretz newspaper.

At least 45 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at an army recruitment centre in the Iraqi capital. Iraqi officials said at least 121 other people were wounded in the blast on Tuesday, when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb as men queued outside the centre in central Baghdad.

Two Palestinian organizations have joined Hamas in its call on the acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to avoid new talks with Israel.

BAGHDAD, (Xinhua): Up to 11 Iraqis were killed and 29 others were wounded in gunfire and a series of bomb attacks across the country on late Saturday and Sunday, the police said.

RAFAH, (PIC) Ihsan Hendricks, the president of the Muslim Judicial Council of Cape Town, announced that Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradawi, the chairman of the international union of Muslim scholars (IUMS), would take part in a marine convoy to Gaza Strip.

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Pakistan on Sunday to visit areas ravaged by floods and urged the world to speed up aid for up to 20 million people hit by the country’s worst humanitarian disaster.