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  • Russians 'leaving Georgian port'

    Russian troops have begun withdrawing from the Georgian port of Poti, on the country's Black Sea coast, reports say. A column of trucks, soldiers and armored vehicles left the town, apparently heading towards Abkhazia, one of Georgia's pro-Russian regions. Russia had agreed to pull its troops out of Georgia under a ceasefire deal brokered by the.. More

  • Many killed in LA train crash

    At least 10 people have been killed in a train crash near the city of Los Angeles in the US state of California, according to the city's mayor. The commuter train, believed to be carrying about 350 people, collided with a goods train near the town of Chatsworth sparking a fire late on Friday. "The latest figures that we have is, there's somewhere.. More

  • Blast kills Afghan governor

    The governor of Afghanistan's Logar province has been killed in an explosion, according to police and interior ministry officials. Abdullah Wardak was killed outside his house in Paghman, about 20km west of the capital, Kabul, police said. His bodyguard was also reportedly killed in Saturday's attack. The Afghan interior ministry said that.. More

  • Bolivia split in two by protests

    Bolivia was split in two by protests and roadblocks on Friday, a day after eight people died in clashes between opponents and supporters of leftist President Evo Morales. The president and the governor of Tarija, home to most of the country's huge natural gas reserves, agreed to meet on Friday for talks to end four days of confrontation that have.. More

  • Venezuela expels US ambassador

    Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has ordered the US ambassador to leave the country amid a series of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions between Bolivia and the US. The US had ordered the expulsion of the Bolivian ambassador earlier on Thursday after Washington's envoy to Bolivia was expelled by Evo Morales, the president. Chavez, who gave.. More

  • Thousands flee storm's path in US

    Hundreds of thousands of people in the US state of Texas have fled coastal areas directly in the path of Hurricane Ike. The hurricane is expected to come ashore from the Gulf of Mexico late on Friday or early on Saturday, with forecasters warning of a storm surge up to six meters high. The National Hurricane Centre warned residents of Galveston,.. More

  • 'US drone' fires on Pakistan target

    At least 10 people are thought to have been killed after a suspected US drone fired a missile at a target in northern Pakistan. A Pakistani security official confirmed that a missile had been fired on Friday morning, saying: "We have reports that more than 10 people are killed." Ten more people were wounded. The missile hit a house.. More

  • Cyprus rivals begin key phase of peace talks

    Rival Cypriot leaders began talks on Thursday on how to share power in a future unified state, their first substantive negotiations in a bid to end the Mediterranean island's 34-year division. Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat discussed power-sharing and governance during what UN envoy Alexander Downer.. More

  • Cholera outbreak spreads in Iraq

    Babel, a central Iraqi province, is on alert after Iraqi authorities declared it a disaster zone marking the country's latest cholera outbreak. At least five people died on Thursday while 90 new cases had been reported, local and national health officials said. Babel's provincial council, said: "The laboratory reports from Babel health department.. More

  • No victory in Iraq says Petraeus

    The outgoing commander of US troops in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, has said that he will never declare victory there. In a BBC interview, Petraeus said that recent security gains were "not irreversible" and that the US still faced a "long struggle". When asked if US troops could withdraw from Iraqi cities by the middle of next.. More

  • AK Party accuses news group of ‘media terror'

    Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) yesterday accused the country’s largest news organization of “media terror” in its coverage of corruption allegations, prompting debate about press freedom in the EU candidate. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused media magnate Aydin Dogan of using his newspapers.. More

  • Pakistan army chief lashes out over US raids

    Pakistan's military chief has criticized U.S. cross-border raids from Afghanistan, saying his country's sovereignty will be defended and warning that the assaults could stoke militancy. In an unusually strong public statement Wednesday, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said that a raid last week into Pakistan's South Waziristan region killed innocent civilians.. More

  • Quakes rock Indonesia and Japan

    Powerful earthquakes have hit Indonesia and Japan, triggering tsunami warnings in both countries. The quake in northeastern Indonesia sent residents in Manado, a city on Sulawesi island about 290km from the epicenter, fleeing from their homes on Thursday, officials said. Indonesia's seismological agency said the temblor had a magnitude of 7.6 and.. More

  • Deadly earthquake strikes Iran

    At least four people have been killed and 26 injured in an 6.1 magnitude earthquake in southern Iran, state news media have reported. The earthquake on Wednesday afternoon was near Bandar Abbas in Hormuzgan province, home to one of Iran's major oil refineries. The island of Qeshm in the Gulf was also hit by the earthquake. "So far, four.. More

  • China mudslide kills 128

    Rescue workers rushed Wednesday to find survivors buried when a huge torrent of mining waste and sludge engulfed this small Chinese town, as the official death toll doubled to 128. An unknown number were still missing in Taoshi after a mining dam collapsed, but a resident and some sections of China's state-run press warned that hundreds may have.. More