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  • Rebel recruitment, banditry threaten Chad camps

    Recruitment by Darfur rebel groups in camps in eastern Chad and worsening banditry in the area are threatening aid supplies to hundreds of thousands of refugees, the U.N. humanitarian chief said on Wednesday. John Holmes, who has just visited Chad and Sudan, told the U.N. Security Council that the "politicization and militarization" of the.. More

  • NATO, Russia agree return to top level talks

    NATO and Russia agreed Wednesday to gradually resume high-level talks, frozen over Moscow's war against Georgia in August, even though a litany of differences remain to be settled. "NATO has taken a step towards Russia and it would be irresponsible of us not to sit down at the table," Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin told reporters at NATO headquarters.. More

  • Treaty signed to ban cluster bombs

    A landmark treaty to ban some forms of cluster bomb has been signed by more than 100 nations in Oslo. Norway, which played a key role in hammering out the worldwide ban on using, producing, transferring and stockpiling cluster munitions, was the first country to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) on Wednesday. Jonas Gahr Stoere, the.. More

  • Pirates free Yemeni cargo ship, no ransom paid

    Somali pirates have freed a Yemeni cargo ship they seized last week after successful talks between regional authorities, local clan elders and the gunmen, a local official said Wednesday. A surge in attacks at sea this year in the busy Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean shipping lanes off Somalia has pushed up insurance costs, brought the gangs tens of.. More

  • Lebanon's Aoun visits Syria

    Michel Aoun, leader of Lebanon's National Patriotic Movement, has been holding meetings with Syrian officials after arriving in Damascus. He said just before departing for Syria on Wednesday that his visit to Syria is justified now that diplomatic ties have been set up between Damascus and Beirut. "They are welcoming me with admiration and respect.. More

  • Thai demonstrators leave airports

    Anti-government protesters have left Bangkok's main airports after an eight-day siege that has paralyzed government and stymied tourism. They packed up bedding before handing over both the international and domestic airports to the authorities. The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) called off the protests after a court banned Prime Minister.. More

  • More deaths in Karachi violence

    At least four people have been killed in renewed clashes in Karachi between Urdu-speakers and Pashtuns from northwest Pakistan. Waseem Ahmed, the city police chief, said the four were killed in different incidents in the early hours of Tuesday but the city had been mostly calm since then. "There has been no major incident since the morning,".. More

  • Israeli air raid kills two in Gaza

    An Israeli air strike has killed two Palestinians and injured four others in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and hospital officials have said. The Israeli army confirmed the air strike in the town of Rafah, and said Palestinian fighters had launched six mortar bombs across the border. Relatives said both the Palestinians killed were civilians.. More

  • Explosion rips through India train

    Three people have killed and more than 30 wounded after a blast ripped through a passenger train in the northeastern state of Assam, police officials said. A police spokesman said on Tuesday the explosion went off as the train was stopped at a railway station about 300km east of Assam's main city of Guwahati. One person died on the spot and two succumbed.. More

  • Palestinians hurt in Hebron clashes

    Five Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, have been injured in clashes with Jewish settlers who are resisting an eviction order in the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian doctors have said. Settlers and Palestinians on Monday threw stones at each other and at least two cars belonging to Palestinians were set ablaze in what the Israeli army.. More

  • Youths invade mosque in Nigerian riot city

    Two thousand angry youths stormed a mosque in the riot-torn city of Jos as a top parliament official appealed for an end to religious troubles that have left hundreds dead, witnesses said. Thousands of troops and police patrolled the streets of the central city Monday after the clashes between rival Christians and Muslims however and a relative calm.. More

  • Blasts target Iraqi police recruits

    At least 16 people have been killed and another 45 wounded in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, in a double bomb attack. Iraqi officials said a teenage suicide bomber blew himself up as police rushed to respond to a prior car bomb blast on Monday. The two blasts occurred within minutes of each other on Palestine Street outside the heavily fortified.. More

  • Kuwait cabinet resignation accepted

    Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the emir of Kuwait, has accepted the recent resignation of his government, the parliament's speaker has said. The emir also asked for the outgoing prime minister, Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah, his nephew, to form a new cabinet, Jassim al-Kharafi, the parliament speaker, said on Monday. Kuwait's cabinet tendered.. More

  • Libyan aid ship blocked from Gaza

    Israeli boats have obstructed the path of a Libyan cargo ship en route to the Gaza Strip. The ship was said to be carrying about 3,000 tons of goods for residents of the Strip in defiance of an Israeli sea and land blockade of the territory. Monday's scheduled docking was the first attempt by a foreign government to break the blockade. "Navy.. More

  • Eight killed in suicide blast in Pakistan

    A suicide car-bomber killed eight people on Monday in an attack aimed at a military checkpost in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley, military officials said. Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters have stepped up attacks on security forces, especially in the northwest of the country. "The attacker was riding in a car packed with explosives. He blew up the.. More