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  • Migrant bodies wash up in Yemen

    Sixty corpses of migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia have been found on a beach in Yemen after smugglers forced many of them overboard on the weekend, an international aid agency said. Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the latest victims on the perilous smuggling route had came across the Gulf of Aden from the Somali port city of Bosasso, fleeing.. More

  • Obama carries lead into final day

    Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for US president, is leading against John McCain, his Republican rival, in six of eight crucial swing states with just one day of campaigning left, according to Reuters/Zogby polls. The polls, released on Sunday, indicate the Illinois senator has a lead in Missouri, Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Nevada, states.. More

  • Hamas urges Fatah to release political prisoners in WBank jails

    Hamas wants Fatah to halt a campaign of "arrests and repression" against the Islamist group in the West Bank, a top Hamas official said on Sunday. Egypt has invited Hamas and Fatah, President Mahmoud Abbas's group, along with smaller Palestinian factions to a meeting in Cairo on Nov. 9 to settle the conflict between the two heavyweights,.. More

  • Vietnam floods kill 49

    Floods triggered by torrential rains in northern and central Vietnam have killed about 49 people, state media said on Sunday, 18 of them in the capital Hanoi hit by the worst flooding in more than two decades. More flash floods were expected in the northern and central provinces later on Sunday and Monday, weather forecasters said. "The flood.. More

  • OIC, Hezbollah slam Israel over building on Muslim cemetery

    The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, expressed his strong condemnation of the decision made by an Israeli court to allow bulldozing Maman Allah cemetery in the City of Al Quds, as the graveyard is an Islamic Waqf that includes Islamic endowed buildings and the remains of tens of thousands.. More

  • Opec head urges production cuts

    Opec countries must implement agreed production cuts if they want stable oil prices, the cartel's head has warned. Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, would be key to the success of any cutbacks, said Chakib Khelil. Khelil said markets were waiting for Opec countries to cut output, as agreed in Vienna last month. Meanwhile Russia.. More

  • Turkish PM's visit angers Kurds

    A second day of protests have erupted across southeastern Turkey over a visit by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, to the mainly Kurdish region. Demonstrators clashed with police on Sunday in the city of Yuksekova as protestors loyal to the Democratic Society Party (DTP), Turkey's main Kurdish party. Erdogan arrived in the Kurdish.. More

  • Kremlin hosts Armenia-Azerbaijan peace talks

    The leaders of bitter ex-Soviet rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan were to hold talks Sunday in the Kremlin as Russia cast itself as peacemaker in the volatile Caucasus after its August war with Georgia. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian were to meet at 1130 GMT in a bid to secure a breakthrough in their frozen.. More

  • Troops die in Pakistan bomb attack

    At least eight Pakistan paramilitary soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack close to the Afghan border, the country's chief army spokesman said. The bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a Frontier Corps checkpoint in Zalai, 20 km west of Wana, South Waziristan, Major General Athar Abbas said on Sunday. South Waziristan is.. More

  • British PM appeals for IMF funds

    Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) needs "hundreds of billions of dollars" to assist economies hit by the global financial crisis. Brown made the comments on a tour of the Gulf region, where he is due to arrive in Qatar on Sunday. Talking in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, on Saturday,.. More

  • Diplomats push to end DR Congo war

    The United Nations and the European Union are attempting to ensure that a shaky truce in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo holds. The foreign ministers of Britain and France flew into DR Congo on Saturday for talks with Joseph Kabila, the president, after tens of thousands of people were displaced by fighting between government forces.. More

  • Russia, Libya discuss nuclear cooperation deal

    Russia and Libya are negotiating a deal under which Moscow would build nuclear research reactors for the North African state and supply fuel, officials said on Saturday. Russia earns billions of dollars each year by exporting its civilian nuclear expertise, but it has faced criticism from Western governments who say the nuclear technology could fall.. More

  • Iraq, Iran to exchange remains of 1980s war dead

    Iraq and Iran are to exchange the remains of soldiers killed during the 1980-88 war between the two countries, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said. "The delivery of the remains is set for November 15. We will receive the remains of 200 Iraqi soldiers in exchange for the remains of 41 Iranians," Dabbagh said in a statement issued.. More

  • Libya pays US victims of attacks

    Libya has paid $1.5bn into a fund that will compensate US victims of attacks it carried out in the 1980s, in a move expected to establish full diplomatic and economic ties between Washington and Tripoli. Sean McCormack, the US state department spokesman, called the move on Friday a "laudable milestone ... clearing the way for continued and expanding.. More

  • Bomb blast in northwest Pakistan

    A senior police official's home has been targeted by a suicide bomber in Pakistan's north western frontier town of Mardan, killing eight and injuring 15, according to news agency Associated Press (AP). The suicide bomber blew himself up close to a security convoy escorting Akhtar Ali Shah, Mardan's deputy inspector, near his home just after 13.30.. More