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A powerful explosion hit the Balochistan city of Sibi on Thursday killing at least 10 people, local media said. Another 25 were also injured in the blast.

The explosion occurred outside the market on Nishtar Road in the Karim Chowk area of Sibi.

The causes of the blast were not immediately known.

Several shops were destroyed in the explosion.

Balochistan, the country's largest province, lies in the mountains of southwest Pakistan. This remote region has been the battleground for a 60-year-long insurgency by the Baloch ethnic minority. The Baloch insurgency...

Two people have reportedly been killed as violence erupted once more during miners' strikes in South Africa.

The miners themselves are said to have killed one man after setting him alight, while another was fatally shot by police, who also used rubber bullets and tear gas on other protesters.

The violence near the Anglo American Platinum Mine (Amplats) has escalated since the company dismissed 12,000 striking miners on Friday.

Police have claimed they were responding to the miners' attempt to stop operations at Amplats' Bathopele mine on...

Dozens of Walmart employees at a Los Angeles store walked out as part of an ongoing labour dispute.

The action was the first time that Walmart retail workers have ever gone on strike, and has since spread to a total of twelve cities including; Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, Washington DC, Sacramento, Chicago, Orlando, Kentucky, Missouri and Minnesota.

The workers are protesting company attempts to "silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job," according to a United Food and Commercial Workers news release. Walmart...

Hundreds of people gathered yesterday in Cairo to commemorate the first anniversary of the Maspero clashes, which resulted in the deaths of twenty-seven protesters, mostly Coptic Christians.

Two different marches were organised. One leaving from Shobra, one of the largest districts of Cairo with a high Coptic population, and another one from Qasr el-Nile, located in the centre of the Egyptian capital.

Protesters also demanded justices for the victims of Maspero who were killed when a peaceful demonstration against the destruction of a church in Aswan was violently dispersed...