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  • Mauritania faces sanctions threat

    The European Union (EU) has threatened to permanently suspend all non-humanitarian aid to Mauritania within one month if its military rulers fail to begin restoring constitutional rule. General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz seized power in a military coup on August 6, removing Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who was elected president in March 2007. That.. More

  • Guantanamo Uighurs to stay in jail

    A US federal appeals court has refused to allow the immediate release into the US of 17 Muslim Uighurs from western China being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a split 2-1 decision on Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit sided with government lawyers who had argued against the men being released while they prepare a full appeal. The.. More

  • At least 21 dead in Mexico jail riot

    At least 21 prisoners died in a jail riot in Mexico near the Texas border on Monday when inmates from rival gangs staged a gun battle and set fire to the building. The riot started in the early hours in the prison in Reynosa, a rundown manufacturing city in northeastern Mexico where the powerful Gulf drug cartel is active. The inmates attacked.. More

  • Palestinian rivals invited to talks

    Egypt has invited the Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah to meet in Cairo on November 9 for talks aimed at restoring Palestinian unity. "We received yesterday a draft of the Egyptian vision for Palestinian reconciliation which includes a call for a full Palestinian dialogue in November," Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said on Monday. "Hama.. More

  • Iran accuses Japan of monopolizing UN seat

    Iran blamed on Monday a "blatant injustice" for its failure last week to win a seat on the U.N. Security Council, which has imposed sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear activities, but suggested it would try again. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi accused Japan of monopolizing the Asian seat on the 15-seat Council, after Tokyo.. More

  • Heavy rains leave 11 dead in Honduras

    A week of heavy rains in Honduras has caused landslides and flooding that have killed at least 11 people and left two others missing, officials said Monday. A landslide before dawn Monday buried a home in the capital, Tegucigalpa, killing two adults and three children, said the head of Honduras' firefighters, Carlos Cordero. Also killed were a.. More

  • Mauritanian junta to meet EU to stave off sanctions

    Members of Mauritania's ruling junta were to meet European Union delegates in Paris on Monday to discuss restoring constitutional order to the country following a coup in August. Under the threat of international sanctions, Mauritania's prime minister appointed by the military junta, Moulaye Ould Mohamed Leghdaf, is leading a delegation to persuade.. More

  • Rebel village in Sri Lanka 'seized'

    Sri Lankan government troops have seized a strategic village from separatist Tamil Tiger fighters, bringing the government closer to capturing the rebels' de facto capital in the north of the country, the military has said. The battle for Vannerikulam village, west of the rebels' capital, Kilinochchi, was challenging because the rebels had erected.. More

  • Turkey coup trial set to open

    A group of 86 people are to be tried at a Turkish court for allegedly plotting a coup against the country's Islamist-based government. Prosecutors in the case, which begins on Monday near Istanbul, say that the secretive, ultra-nationalist gang planned to assassinate leading Turkish figures and launch bomb attacks, all aimed at removing the incumbent.. More

  • India to hold polls in troubled Jammu and Kashmir

    India will hold elections in troubled Jammu and Kashmir state in November, ending months of central rule in the disputed region, the election commission said Sunday. Polling will take place from November 17 to December 24, a senior election commission official in New Delhi said, to replace a Congress party-led coalition which fell in July over a.. More

  • Seven die in Vietnam flash floods

    At least seven people have died in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam, officials say. Thousands of houses have been submerged in the provinces of Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai. A baby and two children are among the dead. More floods and landslides are expected and residents in the mountainous areas being urged.. More

  • Thousands 'displaced' in Sudan

    A surge in violence in north Darfur last month has displaced thousands of people, many of whom could be short of food and water, a UN official says. Gregory Alex, head of the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) in northern Darfur, said on Saturday around 24,000 people had fled their homes after clashes between government and.. More

  • Ingushetian fighters kill 40 Russian soldiers in tense Caucasus

    40 Russian soldiers were killed in recent clash when Ingushetian fighters hit military trucks in Caucasus region of Ingushetia, said regional source. Russia's armed forces launched an operation in the Caucasus region of Ingushetia on Saturday after an attack on a convoy of Interior Ministry troops, reported Reuters. State controlled Russian.. More

  • Oil producers set to cut output

    The chief of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has said that there must be a "substantial" cut in output when the group meets in Vienna next week. "There will be a reduction in production at the next extraordinary meeting of Opec, and it will have to be a substantial one to get the balance right between supply.. More

  • Iraqis stage mass anti-US rally

    Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr have staged a mass demonstration in Baghdad in protest against plans to extend the US mandate in Iraq. An estimated 50,000 protesters chanted slogans such as "Get out occupier!" Iraqi and US negotiators drafted the deal after months of talks but it still needs approval from Iraq's government. Under.. More