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Explosions target Shiite shrine in Kabul: official
An official says three explosions struck near a Shiite shrine and cemetery in Kabul as people gathered to mark the Persian New Year.
- by Hameed Farzad and Hamid Shalizi
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Earthquake
Moderate earthquake hits Turkey, three people injured
A moderately-strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit southwestern Turkey on Wednesday, Turkish authorities said.
Press freedom
Egypt tightens restrictions on media, social networks to suppress dissent
The new regulations allow the Supreme Media Regulatory Council to block websites and accounts for "fake news", and impose stiff penalties of up to 250,000 Egyptian pounds ($20,460), all without having to obtain a court order.
Christchurch shooting
'They returned in caskets': Turkey's ANZAC warning for Australians
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday again showed excerpts of a video taken by the attacker who killed 50 people in mosques in New Zealand.
War
Iraqi soldiers killed in clash with Kurdish PKK
Security incidents pitting the Iraqi military against armed groups other than Islamic State are rare.
Osama Bin Laden
Al-Qaeda heir apparent Hamza bin Laden now out of his father's shadow
Years after the death of his father at the hands of a US Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan, Hamza bin Laden finds himself in the crosshairs of world powers.
Islamic State
Iraq begins exhuming mass grave in Sinjar region
The Iraqi government has started exhuming a mass grave left behind by the Islamic State group in the northwestern Sinjar region in the presence of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad, whose slain relatives are believed to have been buried in the area.
Islamic State
Turkish court convicts Australian IS militant Neil Prakash
A Turkish court has convicted an Australian-born Islamic State militant of belonging to a terror group and sentenced him to more than seven years in prison.
- by Mehmet Guzel
Gaza Strip
Israel returns fire after Tel Aviv hit by rockets from Gaza
Warplanes could be heard flying overhead and smoke from the explosions could be seen in the distance.
- by Josef Federman
War
US Senate tells Trump to withdraw from war in Yemen
US Senate has voted to withdraw support for the Saudi-led war, effectively giving the Trump administration 30 days to remove armed forces from the conflict.
- by Daniel Flatley
Protest
Iran sentences human rights lawyer to 38 years over headscarf defence
Nasrin Sotoudeh defended women who had protested against Iran's mandatory headscarf law.
- by Melissa Etehad