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  • Nato to restore ties with Russia

    Nato foreign ministers have agreed to formally resume top-level talks with Moscow, which were suspended last year following Russia's conflict with Georgia. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the military alliance's secretary general, made the announcement following a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers in Brussels, the Belgian capital. A Russian foreign ministry.. More

  • Beshir lashes out at West as fears mount for Darfur

    The Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Thursday dismissed an international arrest warrant against him for war crimes as thousands of his supporters joined a mass rally in Khartoum. "The true criminals are the leaders of the United States and Europe," Beshir told the crowds. The rally is the latest show of popular support for Beshir. Beshir,.. More

  • Several killed in Iraq bomb attack

    At least eight people have been killed and 40 injured in a car bomb blast in Iraq's southern Babil province, officials say. The explosion occurred at about 9am local time (0600 GMT) on Thursday at the al-Medhatiaya livestock market in Hamza, Khadim al-Shammari, a local police officer, told the AFP news agency. There has not been any claim of responsibility.. More

  • Faulty altimeter played part in Turkish crash

    A faulty altimeter shut down the engine of the Turkish Airlines flight before it crashed last week near Amsterdam airport killing nine people, Dutch authorities said. They said similar shutdowns had occurred twice before on the same plane and were overruled by the pilots, and warned its maker Boeing and any airlines using 737 models to be vigilant. When.. More

  • Court issues Bashir arrest warrant

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered the arrest of Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, on charges of "war crimes and crimes against humanity in the country's western Darfur region." The issuing of the warrant was announced at a news conference at the home of the court in The Hague in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Sudan.. More

  • Israel launches overnight strikes on Gaza tunnels

    Israeli warplanes launched two new raids early Wednesday on tunnels linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt without causing casualties, witnesses said. An Israeli army spokesman confirmed the bombings, saying three tunnels had been attacked and "secondary explosions took place in one of them, indicating the presence of explosives." On Tuesday, the.. More

  • Blast outside Afghan air base

    A suspected suicide bomber has detonated his explosives outside an air base used by US forces in Afghanistan, the US military says. Details of casualties in the attack at the Bagram air base, about 60km north of the capital Kabul, on Wednesday were not immediately clear. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack. Separately, the Nato-led.. More

  • Arrests made over Lahore attack

    Pakistani authorities have arrested up to 100 people as they search for at least 12 armed men behind an attack on a bus carrying Sri Lanka's cricket team. Tuesday's assault in the eastern city of Lahore left eight Pakistanis, including six policemen, dead and several Sri Lankan cricketers wounded. A reward of $125,000 has also been offered for help.. More

  • Guinea-Bissau army chief killed

    The chief of staff of Guinea-Bissau's armed forces has been killed in a bomb blast at the country's military headquarters, his aide says. General Tagme Na Waie was heading to his office at the military headquarters in Bissau, the capital, when the explosion occurred, his aide, Lieutenant-Colonel Bwam Nhamtchio, said on Sunday. Hours after the army.. More

  • Generals hold talks at Korea border

    Senior generals from North Korea and the US-led United Nations command in South Korea have met for talks for the first time in almost seven years. Monday's meeting at the Panmunjom truce village straddling the North-South border was requested by North Korea "to discuss tension reduction", the UN command said in a statement. "These talks.. More

  • Donors discuss rebuilding Gaza

    International donors meeting in Egypt are expected to pledge billions of dollars to rebuild the Gaza Strip after it was battered during Israel's 22-day offensive earlier this year. Up to 75 countries and international organizations are being asked to fund a $2.8bn reconstruction plan designed by Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, who wants.. More

  • Heavy gunfire in Bangladesh capital

    A fierce gun battle has broken out inside the headquarters of Bangladesh's border security force in the capital Dhaka, police say. "There has been a huge exchange of gunfire at BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) headquarters complex this morning. We have heard mortar fire," Nabojit Khisa, a local police chief, said on Wednesday. "The gunfire is.. More

  • Sudan says 28 killed in clashes with Darfur rebels

    Seventeen rebels and 11 Sudanese soldiers have been killed in clashes in Darfur, the army said, days after Khartoum signed a goodwill agreement with an insurgent movement. Sudan's armed forces spokesman said the army clashed with JEM in the Donki area on Thursday, just 25 km (15 miles) northwest of El Fasher, the capital of north Darfur and headquarters.. More

  • Guantanamo Uighurs denied release in US

    A US court has refused to release 17 of China's ethnic Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay into the United States, spelling more legal limbo for the men cleared by Washington of "war on terror" allegations. The Uighurs -- members of a Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority -- were captured in Afghanistan and fear torture if they return home. Beijing.. More

  • Suicide blast hits Pakistan funeral

    At least 20 people have been killed and more than 50 others wounded after a suicide bomber exploded at a funeral procession for a Shia in a northwestern Pakistani town. The explosion occurred on Friday in the city of Dera Ismail Khan, 270km southwest of Islamabad, the capital. The blast tore through crowds streaming toward a graveyard for the.. More