U.S. drone strike kills 25 in Pakistan's North Waziristan - Reuters

By Haji Mujtaba

PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:56 pm EDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - two U.S. unmanned plane four missiles at a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the Afghan border on 25 fighters, Pakistani kill intelligence official said Friday.

The strike came two days after a visit to Islamabad by Admiral Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military official, in which he about links between Pakistani security agents and militant attack on the US led forces over the border in Afghanistan concern.

The drone strike occurred in Mir Ali, about 35 km (20 km) East of the region town of Miranshah.

A Pakistani intelligence official in the region, it refused be identified, said that the House was used as a militant hideout.

"they have surrounded the area and are not that someone to go there", the official said intelligence, referring to militant.

Twenty-five body had from the wreckage has been recovered and three women were among those killed, he said.

Other officials said some foreign fighters were among the dead but their numbers and nationalities could not be confirmed.

North Waziristan is a renowned sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

Drone takes advantage of the United States attacks to target militants in recent years in Pakistan's lawless ethnic Pashtuns border.

The attacks are causing concern for the Pakistani Government, which says that civilian victims support for militancy fuel public anger and bolster.

During Mullen of's visit, said an official U.S., would the United States does not stop the drone attacks in Pakistan despite Pakistani objections.

Militant 10 soldiers kill a security post in the northwestern city you attacked, said security officials in the region.

About 30 soldiers who were post crew as militant attacked on Thursday, they said. Combat went for several hours.

Security forces have in recent years Pakistan Taliban fighters in several parts of the Northwest were fighting. The militants want to destabilize to impose harsh Islamic rule and the U.S. ally.

In 2009, the military from you and the neighbouring Swat Valley in a successful offensive disabled militant.

(Additional reporting by Junaid Khan in Mingora;) Writing by Kamran Haider; (Editing by Chris Albritton and Robert Birsel)

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Blast hits Belarus u-Bahn, kills 11

Blast hits u station in BelarusNEW: a day which is mourning are declared, State media ReportsDeath toll rises to 11. more than 100 others are InjuredRussian President calls, says that the explosion blast a "terrorist attack," according to KremlinThe at 18:00 local time, the police have occurred

(CNN) - at least 11 dead and more than 100 more injured after an explosion of a u station in Minsk, Belarus, on Monday evening, State-run media reported, citing President Alexander Lukashenko.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the blast of a "terrorist attack" and offered to investigate who was behind the explosion to help, said in a statement the Kremlin. Medvedev made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Lukashenko, who said at an emergency government session later that he accepted the offer of help.

"I spoke with the Russian President." Unfortunately, they have much experience in this work. Get in touch with your colleagues from (Russian Federal Security Service) FSB, public prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of the Interior, and they say what help is needed, "Lukashenko said, according to the Interfax news agency."

About 50 people were taken to the hospital after the incident, and more were Belarusian State News Agency BelTA treated at the scene "with various injuries", reported.

The Agency cited later Belarusian Health Minister Wassili Zharko that 126 were hospitalised after the attack and that 22 of them in critical condition were said.

Lukashenko ordered officials to increase the safety of public transport, according to BelTA.

He was also security officials to investigate whether this latest blast any connection with an explosion in the Centre of Minsk could have in July 2008, reported to BelTA. The bomb was during an open-air concert some 55 people, injured.

"Maybe they are connected." To produce, the in disturbing the peace and stability in the country and find out who is behind the attack could benefit "Lukashenka told to BelTA."

The Agency reported also that Lukashenko said a day of mourning in Belarus would be declared.

Rescue workers in at least 12 ambulances responded to the scene, the wounded bear news agency removed in her arms or on stretchers, Russia's Interfax reported.

The explosion 18.00 occurred, police spokesman Interfax said a Metro.

CNN could not immediately reach officials in Minsk for comment.CNN's maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report

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Congo plane crash kills 32 - the guardian

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Only one person among the 33 passengers and crew crashed survived after a UN plane attempting, land in bad weather conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday.

The accident, in Kinshasa, is one of the worst include a UN aircraft. Most of the passengers were United Nations staff and peacekeepers, although five were NGO workers on board.

The sole survivor, which is in the hospital in the Congolese capital had no immediate details of Alain Le Roy, who said the head of UN peacekeeping operations of.

The plane which was en route from the eastern city of Goma, the start and runway in N'djili airport in Kinshasa, may had missed because of strong winds, Le Roy said. The Jet Bombardier CRJ-100 broke away on impact and caught fire. TV footage showed that the aircraft was almost destroyed. A formal investigation is under way of the crash.

While the nationalities of the victims were not confirmed, said the South African Government, three of its citizens died in the accident. The International Rescue Committee, an American aid agency, said its senior reproductive health consultants in Congo, Dr Boubacar Toure, a Guinean, was also among the dead.

The aircraft was operated and occupied with Airzena Georgian Airways. The company, which was flying for the UN in Congo for three years, said his four crew members, all Georgians, died and expressed shock over the accident had.

UN Security Council has sent his "deepest regret" to the families of the victims.

The UN peacekeeping force in Congo is the world's largest with 19,000 troops and is dependent on air transport, as the road network is insufficient.

Congo has one of the world's worst aviation safety records, in particular because of the fleet of old and often poorly maintained aircraft used the civilian population.

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NATO Airstrike Kills alleged rebels in Libya

The deaths underlined the challenge, the Western allies and the rebels in default priority that reduce air attacks the forces of Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi as the two sides mix in the combat zone along the front.

Perhaps in response to the Western air strikes, Gaddafi forces increasingly similar crashes which in combat in devices are what the rebels use, especially pickup trucks with machine guns or rockets mounted. The move makes it difficult even the fighters to distinguish a group from the other at the first glance.

"It is a mistake," said Abdul Hafidh Ghoga, the rebel main speaker. "Has nothing changed."

A rebel fighter was wounded in the airstrike, colleagues said rebels had thrown in the air moments before the attack.

"I knows why not," the rebel, Ali Abdullah Abubaker, said later from a hospital in Benghazi. "Maybe he had."

Later, Mr Abubaker is one of the aircraft seconds. "I saw something white," he said. "There was no sound."

His white pickup truck was set on fire, and he said that three of the four other men in the car were killed. Mr Abubaker, a college student studying political science, had burns on his face and was in his car, in the explosion ignited by balls hit.

A NATO spokesman in Brussels said the Alliance was reported and investigated.

"NATO reports of civilian casualties very seriously," said the spokesman. "But details are difficult to verify because we have no reliable sources on the ground for us."

The spokesman, who identified according to NATO policy, be added, "If someone is thrown when one of our aircraft, they have the right to defend themselves."

NATO said that it had conducted operations 148 airstrike in the last 24 hours.

The strike occurred after dark on Friday as rebels retake continued their efforts to Brega. The Gaddafi had to beat forward observers in artillery the desert outside of the city overlooking the street, enabling the crews superior in Brega, the rebel forces, as they tried to approach positioned.

A group of about four rebel trucks entered a no. Mans had land the close fight between the lines of the two websites, where she mixed with similar truck of militia Qadhafi. Several Allied strikes at the front were heard at 8:30 am.

Mr Abubaker said that the rebels had told me to search the area.

The men stopped for prayers to a section of road between Ajdabiya and Brega. Few seconds before the bombing, rebels drive a Mitsubishi truck with a machine gun mounted on the back retired in close to the Group and one - a man, Mr Abubaker knew - started the rebels throw the weapon into the air.

A rebel ambulance driver who arrived at the scene said about an hour later, he found only the blackened remains of the four vehicles and eight or nine are so badly burned and mangled by the explosion, that he could not determine the exact number.

"I saw the fire, and the body, eight or nine bodies," said the driver, Ahmed al-Ginashi. "they were completely burnt."

In the Hospital of Benghazi's said Brahim Fahim al-Oraybey, a 19-year-old rebel fighters, he was wounded in the explosion. His right leg was amputated below the knee, and he was burned hard shoulders and hands over his face, back.

He said, there were six vehicles, including an ambulance, to him in a convoy when the explosion struck. He was in a white pickup truck with a machine gun mounted on the back favorite combat configuration the rebels as well as Colonel Qadhafi forces riding. He said he saw a local shepherd who lost both arms in the explosion, but his fate was unclear.

Speculated to the scene of the bombing rebel fighters that Colonel Qadhafi infiltrated forces the rebel lines and fired on the aircraft had, or that celebrates rebels shoot that allies had drawn to fire weapons into the air.

Kareem Fahim reported from Benghazi and C. j. Chivers of Brega, Libya. David D. Kirkpatrick contributed reporting from Tripoli.

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