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  • US seeks China's support on Iran sanctions

    The US treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, is visiting Beijing this week, hoping to gain China’s support for US sanctions on Iran's oil industry. China buys almost one-third of Iran's oil exports and has rejected the US sanctions as a tool to rein in Iran's nuclear programme. Criticizing the new set of sanctions approved by President.. More

  • UN says Syria has 'stepped up killings'

    A senior UN official has told the Security Council that Syria accelerated its killing of pro-democracy demonstrators after Arab League monitors arrived, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said. "The under-secretary-general noted that in the days since the Arab League monitoring mission has been on the ground, in fact an estimated 400 additional.. More

  • Nigerian fuel protests turn deadly

    Tensions are running high in the northern Nigerian city of Kano after thousands of protesters converged on the state governor's office, prompting police to push them back by firing tear gas and shooting live ammunition into the air. Protesters on Monday also set two vans ablaze and tried to torch the home of the central bank chief, Lamido Sanusi, but.. More

  • Deadly explosion in Pakistan's Khyber region

    A suspected bomb blast near a fuel station in the Jamrud area of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber tribal region has killed at least 26 people and wounded at least 40 others, regional government officials said. "It was huge blast and caused damage to a number of vehicles at the bus terminal," Khan Zaman, a Khyber tribesman from the Jamrud bazaar,.. More

  • Musharraf vows to return to Pakistan

    Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's self-exiled former president, has said he plans to return to the country in January to lead his political comeback, while sources said he is seeking foreign guarantees that he will not be arrested when he returns. "I will be coming between the 27th and 30th of this month. And I also announce that I will come to.. More

  • Iranian leader seeks support in South America

    Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has dismissed a US warning to avoid close ties with Iran, denouncing what he said was Washington's attempt to dominate the world as he welcomed the Iranian president to the Latin American nation. Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived at the start of a tour to shore up support from the region's leftist leaders,.. More

  • Yemen Cabinet approves immunity law for Saleh

    Yemen's interim government has agreed to grant President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and anyone who has worked under him, amnesty against prosecution, paving the way for his departure in line with a Gulf plan to end deadly protests against his rule. Sunday's decision came as a surprise to many in Yemen, who believed that a power transfer deal he signed.. More

  • UN official says Yemen amnesty may be illegal

    Granting amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and human rights abuses under Yemen's presidential transition deal would be against international law, the UN human rights chief has said. "I have been closely following the events in Yemen, particularly the very contentious debate about an amnesty law to be presented to Parliament shortly,".. More

  • Islamist parties lead Egypt polls

    Islamists have stretched their lead in the final round of Egypt's landmark parliamentary election, official preliminary results show. The voter turnout in the final round was 62 per cent, Abdel Moaez Ibrahim, the election commission chief said on Saturday. The Muslim Brotherhood, the country's best-organized political group, came out top in seven.. More

  • Arab ministers to discuss Syria mission

    Arab League foreign ministers are due to meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss Arab monitors' mission in Syria and whether Damascus is honoring its pledge to end a 10-month-old crackdown on unrest and protests. During the meeting, the Arab mission will issue its first findings and its chief Lt General Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi is scheduled to.. More

  • More soldiers defect from Syrian army

    Asenior military officer in the Syrian city of Hama has defected along with up to 50 of his soldiers, in protest against the government’s ten-month crackdown on peaceful demonstrations that has claimed thousands of lives across the country. Colonel Afeef Mahmoud Suleiman, who is from the air force logistics division, announced his defection live.. More

  • Eight NATO soldiers killed across Afghanistan

    A statement from NATO yesterday reported that at least eight soldiers from their occupation force were slain in a series of bomb blasts across southern Afghanistan over the past two days. The statement offered no details on the nationalities of the slain. However, an unnamed Afghan official quoted in several Western media outlets identified at least.. More

  • 'Dozens dead' in Damascus bombing

    Dozens of people are reported to be dead after a blast in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Syrian state TV said at least 25 people died and 46 more were wounded in Friday's attack which it blamed on a "suicide bomber". The explosion, which targeted the central district of al-Maidan, a hub for anti-government protests, was described by the opposition.. More

  • Turkish ex-army chief held in jail for trial

    A Turkish court has ordered a former armed forces chief to be remanded in custody overnight pending trial over charges of planning to overthrow the government. General Ilker Basbug is the highest ranking officer to be caught up in the so-called Ergenekon network, an ultra-nationalist group accused of conspiring against the government of Prime Minister.. More

  • Deaths in Philippine landslide

    A landslide that struck a community of gold prospectors in the southern Philippines has left at least 25 people dead and about 150 others missing, government officials say. The landslip hit a remote mountain community of about 100 families near Pantukan town, on Mindanao island, at dawn on Thursday, Benito Ramos, the civil defense chief, told the.. More