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  • Israel pushes harder Iran stance

    Benyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has told US Vice President Joe Biden that only a credible military threat can deter Iran from building a nuclear weapon, Israeli political sources said. The comments, made on Sunday, signal "growing Israeli impatience with diplomacy", the sources said. Netanyahu, beginning a five-day US visit,.. More

  • Somali pirates get hefty ransom

    Somali pirates have received their highest ransom payment yet - $9.5m for the release of Samho Dream, a South Korean oil supertanker they hijacked in the Indian Ocean in early April this year. Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of the East African Seafarers Assistance Program (SAP-NET), confirmed on Saturday that the supertanker was free, and that a Singapore-regi.. More

  • Merapi forces flight cancellations

    Nearly a dozen airlines have cancelled flights into Indonesia's main international airport after a volcano in central Java unleashed its most powerful eruption in a century. The move comes amid concerns that Merapi, about 450km to the west of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, may erupt again. Flights to cities closer to Merapi - including Yogyakarta,.. More

  • UK reassures Israel on arrest fears

    Britain's foreign minister has pledged that the UK will quickly amend a law that has allowed pro-Palestinian activists to request arrest warrants for visiting Israeli officials over war crimes. William Hague, in Israel on Thursday, said that Israeli officials could be sure they would not face arrest in the UK. "We are quite clear that there is.. More

  • UN body accuses US of rights abuses

    The United States has for the first time faced the United Nations Human Rights Council over accusations of human rights violations. Council members in Geneva, Switzerland, leveled a barrage of criticisms at the US administration on Friday, calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and for investigations into alleged torture by US troops.. More

  • Passenger plane crashes in Cuba

    A passenger aircraft carrying 68 people has crashed in Cuba, on its way from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to Havana, the capital. Cuban state media said that 38 of the passengers were foreigners, but did not give a breakdown of nationalities. There were 23 Cubans on board the flight and a crew of seven. Cuba's Civil Aviation Authority issued.. More

  • Fatal plane crash in Pakistan

    A small chartered aircraft has crashed minutes after taking off from Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, killing all 21 people on board, the army has said. The aircraft went down near a residential area, just outside the city on Friday. The private carrier was heading for Bhit Shah in the north, according to a civil aviation authority spokesperson. .. More

  • Indonesia volcano claims more lives

    At least 48 people have been killed in the past 24 hours after clouds of blistering gas erupted from Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano on the island of Java. Another 66 people were injured when the volcano erupted sending an ash cloud over a mountainside village on Friday. The gas eruptions were said by the country's volcanologists to be the largest.. More

  • Haiti braces for Tomas storm

    After struggling for weeks to contain a cholera epidemic, Haiti is bracing for the arrival of a tropical cyclone that threatens hundreds of thousands of people with deadly floodwaters, a United Nations official has said. Citing government estimates, Nigel Fisher, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, said on Wednesday that Tropical Storm Tomas.. More

  • Yemeni soldiers killed in clashes

    At least two Yemeni soldier have been killed after anti-government fighters attacked a military checkpoint in the country's south, a security official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said one of the attackers was also killed in Wednesday's assault in the town of Jaar in the southern Abyan province. He said the clashes were.. More

  • Qantas jet makes emergency landing

    A Qantas Airways A380 has landed safely in Singapore after running into engine trouble shortly after it had left the island state en route for Sydney. Fire engines immediately swarmed the aircraft as soon is it landed on the tarmac on Changi Airport on Thursday. The aircraft, carrying 459 people, suffered trouble with one of its four engines, in one.. More

  • Greece suspends air freight after bombs found

    More parcel bombs may have been sent abroad from Greece, police said on Wednesday as authorities suspended overseas shipments of mail and packages for 48 hours following a wave of attacks on European government targets. Small bombs exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens on Tuesday, a package with explosives was intercepted at the German.. More

  • UK and France sign defense treaties

    Britain and France have signed two treaties that will usher in a new era of "unprecedented" cooperation on defense between the two nations, including joint testing on nuclear warheads. David Cameron, the British prime minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said that the agreements, signed in London on Tuesday, would allow both.. More

  • Scores killed in Baghdad blasts

    A series of explosions across Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, has killed at least 63 people and wounded 285 others, hospital and police officials say. The bombings began at about 6:15pm local time on Tuesday and took place in at least 10 neighborhoods, involving booby-trapped cars, roadside bombs and mortar strikes. "Ten cars exploded with bombs.. More

  • Obama renews Sudan sanctions

    Barack Obama has renewed sanctions against Sudan's government, keeping pressure on Khartoum to stick to the timetable for holding a referendum on southern independence. Sudan is 10 weeks away from the scheduled start of a referendum that could lead to independence for its oil-producing south. If mishandled, the referendum could destabilize the region. The.. More