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  • Developing countries '$270bn short'

    Developing countries may face a financing gap of $270bn to $700bn this year as trade income dwindles and rich nations vie for capital to deal with a global slump, the World Bank says. The World Bank said on Monday that international financial institution resources would not be sufficient to meet their needs as more and more emerging and developing.. More

  • Gaza aid convoy 'attacked' in Egypt

    A British convoy with medical relief for the Palestinian Gaza Strip has been pelted with stones and vandalized in the Egyptian town of El-Arish, 45km south of the Rafah border crossing. Several people in the convoy were injured in the incident on Sunday according to Yvonne Ridley, one of the convoy organizers. "It's an absolute disgrace... The.. More

  • North Korea threatens 'war'

    North Korea's military has gone on full alert and threatened "merciless retaliatory blows" just hours before US and South Korean forces began annual military exercises. Pyongyang has also warned of war if what it calls a satellite launch - but what intelligence analysts believe is cover for a long range missile test - is shot down. "Shooting.. More

  • Madagascar troops 'stage mutiny'

    Soldiers in a large militarycamp in Madagascar have staged a mutiny, claiming they would no longer take orders from the government, reports say. Access roads to a military camp in the Soanierana district outside of the capital Antananarivo were reportedly blocked by mutinous soldiers on Sunday. "We no longer take orders from our hierarchy,.. More

  • Iran test-fires new missile

    Iranian media reported on Sunday that Iran had test-fired a new missile, but differed over its range and purpose. The state-run Press TV said a long-range missile had been tested. But the semi-official Fars News Agency said it was an air-to-surface missile with a range of 110 km (70 miles) designed for use by military aircraft against naval targets. Tha.. More

  • Dozens killed in Iraq suicide blast

    At least 26 people have been killed and dozens more wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a police recruitment centre in Iraq, police said. Eight police were among those killed in the attack on Sunday at Baghdad's main police academy and the rest were would-be recruits. "Eight policemen... died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle.. More

  • Al-Bashir to attend Darfur rally

    Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, is to address a rally in Darfur, the region in which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has accused him of carrying out war crimes. Attendance at the rally in the city of El Fasher in northern Darfur on Sunday is in line with al-Bashir's defiant stance against the ICC arrest warrant issued last week. Al-Bashir.. More

  • Pakistan releases Taliban prisoners

    Pakistani officials have released 12 Taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture, following a pact signed last month. The release on Saturday night is a bid by authorities to consolidate a deal with Taliban fighters in the troubled Swat valley, a senior government official said. It followed talks between North West Frontier Province (NWFP) officials and.. More

  • Palestinian PM submits resignation

    Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, has submitted his resignation to Mahmoud Abbas. Announcing the decision on Saturday, Fayyad said the resignation would take effect after the formation of a Palestinian unity government. He, however, said he would quit no later than the end of March. Fayyad's announcement comes just before the resumption.. More

  • Morocco severs relations with Iran

    Morocco has severed diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the Iranian diplomatic mission in Rabat of seeking to spread Shi'ism Islam in the predominantly Sunni Muslim kingdom. A statement from Morocco's foreign ministry accused on Friday the Iranian embassy of "intolerable interference in the internal affairs of the kingdom", and of engaging.. More

  • Car bomb targets Pakistan police

    At least eight people, including five policemen, have been killed in a car bomb blast in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar, officials say. The blast on Saturday occurred as the police went to check a suspicious car parked by the side of a road. "An anonymous caller alerted the police that a suspicious car was parked on a roadside with a dead.. More

  • African states face warrant dilemma

    The African Union is facing a dilemma on how to act on the International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president. The AU, which claims the warrant will disrupt peace negotiations over Sudan's western region of Darfur, has said it will send a delegation to the UN Security Council to try to halt the indictment. The.. More

  • Kyrgyzstan cancels remaining air base agreements

    Kyrgyzstan, which last month decided to close a U.S. military air base, on Friday canceled similar agreements with other members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting Taliban in Afghanistan. The Central Asian state's parliament voted almost unanimously to cancel eleven agreements that allowed a number of European nations as well as Australia, South.. More

  • US officials head for Syria

    US officials are in Jordan, and have met the country's foreign minister, before heading to Syria for talks later this week. Jeffery Feltman, the US assistant secretary of state, held talks with Nasser Judeh in Amman, the Jordanian capital, on Thursday. Local media reported Feltman as saying that "the new US administration is committed to.. More

  • Jerusalem 'tractor attacker' killed

    A man has been shot dead in Jerusalem after he drove a tractor into two vehicles, Israeli police have said. The man was killed on Thursday after his digger turned over a police car and hit an empty bus, Mickey Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said. "It seems to be a terrorist attack from the evidence we have at the moment," he said. Two.. More