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LAGOS The twisted and scattered wreckage of a Boeing MD-80 plane that crashed in a residential area in Lagos killing more than 150 people on board was being pulled out by cranes Monday as Nigeria declared three days of mourning.

At least 15 suspected militants were killed Monday in the third US drone strike in as many days in Pakistan, officials said.

In yet another bid to appease the opposition and win its support for proposed tax reforms, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in a cabinet reshuffle dropped five cabinet ministers who were being criticized for non-performance.

The European Union and Russia Monday acknowledged "diverging assessments" on the Syrian crisis but agreed that UN envoy Kofi Annan's faltering six-point plan was the best chance to bring peace to the troubled country.

A wide view of the 2nd Meeting of the Advisory Board of the UN Centre for Counter-Terrorism (UNCCT), attended by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The rebel Free Syrian Army says it is no longer bound by a United Nations-backed cease-fire agreement as international efforts to end the bloody conflict were set to ramp up with renewed diplomacy later this week.

A Danish court Monday sentenced four men to 12 years imprisonment after finding them guilty of planning terrorist attack on newspaper offices following a violent stir over published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, the highest revered Muslim figure.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (second left) addresses Board of Governors meeting.

The publisher of the Libya Herald, an independent newspaper, says government officials are holding talks with a militia group that seized the country’s international airport in the capital, Tripoli, Monday.

The United States has reportedly agreed to reimburse 1.18 billion dollars, which is almost 75 per cent of the claims Pakistan has submitted as expenses incurred in the fight against militants along the Afghan border, diplomatic sources have said.