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  • Helicopter crashes off Canada coast, 17 missing

    Seventeen people are missing in the frigid waters off Canada's Atlantic coast after a helicopter crashed while ferrying workers to an offshore oil platform, a search and rescue spokeswoman said on Thursday. The helicopter was on its way to the platform when it went down about 47 nautical miles southeast of the Newfoundland and Labrador capital of St... More

  • Aid workers kidnapped in Darfur

    Three aid workers from the Belgian office of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been kidnapped in Sudan's North Darfur region, the medical organization has said. A Canadian nurse, an Italian doctor and a French coordinator were among five staff members seized on Wednesday night by a group of armed men in Serif Umra, MSF said on Thursday. The charity.. More

  • Iraq 'shoe-thrower' sentenced

    An Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush, then-US president, has been given a three-year jail sentence after pleading not guilty to assaulting a foreign head of state. The sentencing of Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, by the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad on Thursday, was announced by Al-Baghdadiya television, his employer. Al-Zaidi plans.. More

  • Pakistan protesters begin march

    Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers and activists have started an anti-government march from the city of Karachi, the main city of Sindh province. Riot police on Thursday arrested dozens of protesters and stopped cars and buses from collecting hundreds of lawyers assembled at the high court ready for the journey to Islamabad. The lawyers, who are calling.. More

  • US, China try to defuse tension, focus on economy

    US President Barack Obama has invited Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to the White House after both powers tried to defuse military tensions and focus on stabilizing the global economy. With China also angry at US criticism over Tibet, Obama is making the gesture to meet the foreign minister following his talks Wednesday with Secretary of State.. More

  • Many dead in German school shooting

    At least 16 people, including pupils and teachers, have been shot dead, after a former pupil opened fire at a school in southern Germany. The 17-year-old attacker died later in a shootout with police in Wendlingen, near Stuttgart. The suspect, referred to as Tim K, shot indiscriminately at the Albertville high school in the small market town of.. More

  • Arab leaders aim to boost relations

    Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, is to hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Riyadh as part of efforts to improve relations between the countries. The leaders will hold talks in the Saudi capital on Wednesday, in the run-up to an Arab League summit expected to take part at the end of the month. &quo.. More

  • Gaza family sues Israel over deaths

    A Palestinian family is suing Ehud Olmert, Israel's outgoing prime minister, and other government officials over the deaths of their relatives during the recent assault on Gaza. The Al-Samouni family, which saw 29 of its members killed in the conflict, filed the case in Jerusalem on Tuesday, seeking $200m in damages for "criminal negligence". More.. More

  • Obama pick quits over Israel lobby

    The candidate for a leading US intelligence post has withdrawn his nomination after accusing the country's Israel lobby of plumbing "the depths of dishonor and indecency" to assassinate his character. Charles "Chas" Freeman, a former US ambassador who is now president of the Middle East Policy Council think-tank, had initially agreed.. More

  • Dozens killed in Iraq suicide blast

    At least 33 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a marketplace west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials have said. Tuesday's blast appeared to target a group of tribal leaders and security officials who were touring the crowded market in Abu Ghraib as part of an effort towards national reconciliation. One police source said.. More

  • Many killed in Sri Lanka bombing

    At least 14 people have been killed and scores injured in a suicide bomb attack near a mosque in southern Sri Lanka, authorities say. Tuesday's attack came at the end of a ceremony celebrating an Islamic holiday in Akuressa in the Matara district, about 160km south of Colombo, the military said. "Six ministers were there and terrorists used.. More

  • Israeli military seizes farmland, detains peace activists near Hebron

    Local sources reported that Israeli military forces confiscated over 50 dunums of farmland in the Hebron for the purpose of constructing a Jewish-only road to an Israeli settlement constructed illegally near the Palestinian town. The land is located in the village of Yatta, south of Hebron, an area that has been subject to a number of Israeli military.. More

  • Hamas's popularity rises after Israel's war on Gaza

    Hamas's popularity among Palestinians has risen sharply since a three-week Israeli war in January devastated the Gaza Strip, an opinion poll released Monday showed. If an election were held today, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh would beat Mahmoud Abbas, the Western-backed Palestinian president and leader of Fatah who advocates a peace deal with Israel. The.. More

  • Bolivia expels US diplomat

    Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, has ordered a senior US diplomat to leave the country, accusing him of siding with opposition groups in a "conspiracy" against the government in La Paz. Francisco Martinez, the second secretary of the US embassy in La Paz, is the second US diplomat to be expelled from the country in six months. Morales said.. More

  • Obama lifts stem cell funding ban

    Barack Obama, the US president, has reversed a ban on using federal taxpayer money for research using embryonic stem cells. Obama told a news conference at the White House on Monday that his administration would make up for the ground lost under George Bush, his predecessor. "The full promise of stem cell research remains unknown, and it.. More