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ed. Seventy people have died in protests in Kashmir in the past three months.
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The authorities in Tajikistan say border guards have shot dead at least 20 Islamist militants trying to enter the country from northern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the border guards said the militants, members of the Taliban and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan were hiding on an island in the river Pyandzh. He said the militants appeared to be fleeing an operation by international forces in Afghanistan.
Serbian prosecutors have charged nine former members of a Serbian paramilitary group with killing 43 ethnic Albanian civilians during the Kosovo conflict. The Belgrade-based prosecutors said the killings took place in western Kosovo in May 1999. The statement alleged that the nine members of the Jackals paramilitary group fired large numbers of bullets into the backs of their victims and burned the corpses.
The national airline of Zimbabwe has sacked its pilots after they defied a 24-hour ultimatum to return to work. The pilots and cabin crew of Air Zimbabwe have been on strike since Wednesday, demanding thousands of dollars in allowances that haven't been paid since February. The airline says it cannot afford to pay them. Brian Hungwe reports.
Air Zimbabwe chairman Mr Jonathan Kadzura says they are not going to entertain the pilots' demands, and the pilots should consider themselves fired. The Air Zimbabwe board will be meeting again next Tuesday to make the way forward. Mr Kadzura says other regional airlines and pilots will be engaged to help the situation as the national airline is losing half a million US dollars a day as a result of the strike. Besides, close to 1,000 stranded passengers have been booked into hotels after Air Zimbabwe flights were cancelled.