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Reuters - Thousands of people fled Friday from the southern Pakistani town of Thatta after the swollen Indus river burst its banks and authorities ordered an evacuation.

By Peter Greste BBC East Africa correspondent Supporters of the new constitution say it brings much-needed changes Nairobi’s Uhuru Park is awash with the red, green and black of the Kenyan flag. Workers have been painting the stones, trimming hedges, and sweeping the leaves. Performers have been stamping up and down the road that runs past the official dias, rehearsing for the moment that the nation’s intellectuals are calling “the birth of the second republic”. And there is plenty to celebrate. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote We are trying to create a nation that runs on the competition of ideas and individuals rather than forcing people to coalesce around ethnicities in order…

Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Deshakalyan Chowdhury, AFP/Getty Images Nuns belonging to the order of the Missionaries of Charity follow the service to celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of Mother Teresa (banner) at her tomb in the Missionaries of Charity house in Kolkata on August 26, 2010. CALCUTTA, India (AP) — Hundreds of nuns, bishops and volunteers attended a Mass on Thursday marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of , the selfless nun who dedicated her life to serving the…

AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter flew out of North Korea Friday after securing the release of an American citizen and a pledge from Pyongyang that it wants to resume nuclear disarmament talks.

Britain faces a “new wave” of home-grown terrorist attacks led by up to 800 Muslim ex-prisoners who have been radicalised by jihadists while serving their sentences, a think-tank has warned. Large-scale and co-ordinated attacks such as the 7 July bombings are likely to be replaced with terrorist assaults by highly motivated but poorly trained lone individuals whose lack of connection with any major terrorist organisation will make them more difficult for police or MI5 to detect. A study published in the journal of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warns that one of the key threats from this next generation of…

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Small red coffins are stacked inside a bleak office just blocks from Argentina’s Congress, a chilling reminder of the thousands of people kidnapped and killed during the bloody 1976-1983 dictatorship. Inside the boxes are the bones of recently identified victims of the so-called Dirty War, waiting to be picked up by relatives for a proper burial three decades after they were murdered by their own government. Identifications have sped up in the last 2-1/2 years, thanks to improved DNA technology and a public campaign urging relatives of the disappeared to donate blood samples. Forensic…

Reuters - A car bomb exploded in northern Mexico outside a studio of top broadcaster Televisa early on Friday, days after marines found 72 bodies killed by drug gangs in the country’s escalating cartel war.