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  • Hopes rise for climate deal

    The UN has expressed optimism over international talks on climate change that are set to open in Denmark this week, billing it as a "turning point" in a bid to slow down global warming. Yvo de Boer, the head of the UN framework convention on climate change, said he was confident the summit would be a success. "Copenhagen is already.. More

  • Iraq MPs resolve poll law dispute

    Iraqi politicians have reached an agreement on a new version of a stalled electoral law, paving the way for elections early next year, Khalid al-Attiya, the deputy speaker of parliament, has said. The agreement came late on Sunday evening after a marathon emergency session of parliament. The agreement appears to resolve objections from Tariq al-Hashemi,.. More

  • Greece braces for teen killing demonstrations

    Greece on Sunday braced for demonstrations to mark the anniversary of a teenager's killing by a policeman, with authorities on the alert to avert a repeat of riots that tore through several cities last year. Over 6,000 police will be on duty in Athens alone as thousands set to join protest marches in the capital and other cities commemorating 15-year-old.. More

  • Turkish commanders testify in Ergenekon coup plot probe in civil court

    Three retired military commanders went to court on Saturday to testify in a probe into a plot to oust Turkey's government, under a trial which European Union says a test for Turkish democracy. The military, which has ousted four governments in the past 50 years, is seen as virtually untouchable and the appearance of the commanders would have been.. More

  • Climate protesters march in London

    Thousands of people have marched through central London calling for a deal on climate change at next week's conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Police said about 20,000 people participated in the event, which began on Saturday at Grosvenor Square, while organizers put the turnout at above 40,000. Organizers, Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, which includes.. More

  • Scores killed in Russian nightclub

    At least 100 people are reported to have been killed and 140 others injured after a blast ripped through a nightclub in Perm, a Russian city located near the Ural mountains, police officials have said. The explosion occurred in the Lame Horse bar in the centre of Perm where over 200 people were partying early on Saturday, ITAR-TASS news agency quoted.. More

  • Many missing in Egypt boat accident

    Dozens of people have been reported as missing after two passenger ferries collided in the north of Egypt's Nile river. At least 40 passengers were believed to be on board, but there were contradictory reports over how many of them might have gone missing. Security sources put the number of missing people at between 14 and 38, while Egypt's official.. More

  • US forces launch fresh Afghan offensive

    More than 1,000 US and Afghan troops have launched a fresh offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, in the first major operation since Barack Obama, the US president, announced his new Afghan strategy. US Marines, Afghan soldiers, and other Nato forces gathered behind Taliban lines in the northern end of the Now Zad Valley of Helmand.. More

  • EP Greens leader calls Muslims to empty Swiss bank accounts over ban

    Greens group leader of the European Parliament called wealthy Muslims to withdraw their money from banks in Switzerland in response to a ban on the construction of minarets in the country. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-president of the Greens in the European Parliament, has called on rich Muslims to empty their bank accounts in Switzerland in retaliation.. More

  • Europe reluctant to Obama's troop plan, Taliban vows more resistance

    European leaders were quick to offer verbal support on Wednesday for Obama's Afghanistan strategy, but not in a hurry to commit new troops to an uncertain and deadly military invasion. The Taliban also vowed on Wednesday to step up resistance and fight against the extra 30,000 American troops US President Barack Obama has ordered to Afghanistan, a.. More

  • Iran releases British sailors

    Iran has released five British sailors detained in the Gulf after their yacht reportedly strayed into Iranian waters. The official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday that the yachtsmen were released after an interrogation by Iranian authorities found "that their illegal entry was a mistake". The Britons disembarked their vessel in Dubai.. More

  • Barack Obama orders 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

    US President Barack Obama has ordered 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan but said America would begin to withdraw its military by 2011. The new deployment over six months will bring America's troops in the country to more than 100,000, in the fight against Taliban fighters. Obama also urged America's allies in Nato to send more troops. Defending.. More

  • Two freed from Guantanamo, sent to France, Hungary

    An Algerian man detained at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba for almost eight years was transferred to France on Tuesday, the French Foreign Ministry said, a year after a U.S. court cleared him. The U.S. Justice Department said later that another man, originally from the West Bank, had been released from Guantanamo and sent to Hungary. It.. More

  • Bomber kills Pakistani MP

    A teenage bomber has killed a provincial politician as he received guests at his home in Pakistan's northwest Swat valley. A man with explosives strapped to his body walked unchallenged into the grounds of the house of Shamsher Ali Khan, a provincial assembly member, and blew himself up. More than a dozen people were wounded in Tuesday's attack in.. More

  • Taliban claim French bribery ploy

    French troops deployed in Afghanistan are attempting to bribe Taliban fighters not to attack them, a senior Taliban leader has told Al Jazeera. In an exclusive interview, Saif-Allah Jalili, the Taliban commander of the Kabul district, said on Monday that his men have been offered gifts and money by the French soldiers in order to persuade the fighters.. More