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  • Dozens missing from Philippine ship

    Rescuers in the Philippines are continuing to battle huge waves as they search for 28 people still missing after a ferry capsized in the northeast of the country. The Philippine coastguard said on Tuesday that the vessel was carrying twice its registered capacity. The Maejan was carrying about 100 passengers when it capsized off the northern coast.. More

  • Free Bush shoe-thrower, Iraqis urge

    Thousands of Iraqis have demonstrated in Baghdad's Sadr City in support of a journalist being held in custody after throwing his shoes at George Bush, the US president. Muntazer al-Zaidi was detained for what the Iraqi government on Monday said was a "barbaric and ignominious act" during a news conference the previous day. The outgoing.. More

  • Bush vows 'support' for Afghanistan

    The US president has arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit hours after having a pair of shoes hurled at him on another unannounced visit to Iraq. Moving from one war zone to another, George Bush flew secretly from Baghdad to Kabul, landing under cover of darkness early on Monday for talks with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president. The outgoing.. More

  • Deaths as Philippine ferry capsizes

    A ferry with nearly 100 passengers on board has capsized in the northeastern Philippines, leaving more than 50 people dead or missing. The wooden-hulled ferry was approaching its destination in Aparri town in Cagayan province when it overturned near the mouth of the Cagayan river on Sunday evening after being battered by big waves, police Senior Inspector.. More

  • At least 55 drowned in Egypt as bus plunges into canal

    An Egyptian bus crowded with passengers, many of them students, veered off the road into a canal south of Cairo on Sunday, killing at least 55 passengers, officials and survivors said. The accident happened on the main highway between the Nile Valley city of Minya and the capital Cairo when the bus driver swerved in a bid to avoid an oncoming truck. All.. More

  • Somali president sacks government

    Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the president of Somalia, has dismissed the transitional government led by Nur Hassan Hussein, the prime minister. "As of now, I have sacked the prime minister and his current government and I will nominate a new prime minister within days," Yusuf said on Sunday at a news conference in the town of Baidoa, where the.. More

  • Thousands mark Hamas anniversary

    Thousands of people have gathered in Gaza's main square to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Hamas, the Palestinian faction. Ismail Haniya, the Hamas leader, was set to address the rally on Sunday, just five days before a shaky six-month ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Palestinian factions expires. Haniya, the deposed Palestinian prime minister,.. More

  • US: Troops may stay in Iraqi cities

    A senior US commander in Iraq has said that some US troops may remain in Iraqi cities after June, contradicting the terms of an agreement between the two countries. General Ray Odierno said troops operating alongside Iraqi forces might remain because the US military believes they are essential to support Iraqi forces. Speaking to reporters on Saturday.. More

  • Canadian troops killed in Kandahar

    Three Canadian troops have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing Canada's death toll there to 103 since its military mission in the country began in 2002. The three were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in the Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday, a defense ministry statement said. The military said in.. More

  • Portugal to take Guantanamo inmates

    Portugal is willing to receive detainees from the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, Luis Amado, the foreign minister, has said. He said there had "been a clear consensus [in Europe] throughout on the need to close this detention centre". The detention of inmates without trial has tainted the US's human rights record, and Barack.. More

  • Israel 'wants 6.8% of West Bank'

    Israel has proposed annexing 6.8 per cent of the illegally occupied West Bank, the chief Palestinian negotiator has said in his first detailed comments about the stalled US-backed negotiations. Israel proposed a swap of some of its own territory in return for the annexed area but the Israeli land was not equal trade in size and quality, Ahmed Qureia.. More

  • Four British troops killed in Afghanistan blasts

    Four British troops were killed in two separate explosions Friday in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense said. "Four Royal Marines were killed in two separate incidents in the Sangin area of Helmand province this morning," the MoD said in a statement. In the explosion which occurred south of the town of Sangin, three marines.. More

  • EU agrees climate change deal

    European Union leaders have unanimously agreed on a deal to tackle climate change, which would see EU greenhouse gas emissions cut by one-fifth by 2020. Nine eastern European countries, heavily dependent on coal, had threatened to veto the deal before a two-day summit in Brussels on Friday. A number of concessions to industry helped secure the.. More

  • Deadly blast hits Russia mine

    At least nine people have died in an explosion at a Soviet-era mine in Russia that extracts raw material for fertilizer production, the emergencies ministry said. "The reasons [for the blast] are being investigated," Irina Gretskaya, a spokeswoman for the ministry in the Arctic city of Murmansk, said on Friday. "After the blast.. More

  • Nigeria's Supreme Court upholds president's election

    Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the April 2007 election of President Umaru Yar'Adua, dismissing an appeal by two opposition candidates that the vote be annulled on grounds of irregularities, the chief justice said. "The appeal is hereby dismissed and accordingly Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Jonathan Goodluck are president and vice-president.. More