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  • Pakistan's Musharraf will not stand down: spokesman

    Embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will not resign, his spokesman said on Monday, as parliament convened to discuss the impeachment of the key US anti-terror ally. The former general, who seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1999, faced further pressure when the biggest of Pakistan's provincial assemblies passed a no-confidence.. More

  • Thousands flee Philippine clashes

    Nearly 130,000 people have fled their homes following renewed fighting in the southern Philippines between the army and Muslim rebels, officials have said. There has been controversy in the region over a deal to expand a Muslim autonomous zone there. The tensions in North Cotabato province came a week after a formal deal on the expansion was blocked.. More

  • Georgia signs EU cease-fire pledge

    The Georgian president has said that he has signed a cease-fire pledge proposed by envoys from the European Union. Mikhail Saakashvili said on Monday he signed the document together with Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister and Alexander Stubb, his Finnish counterpart. While a Kremlin spokesman dismissed Saakashvili's cease-fire claim, Vladimir.. More

  • Georgia and Russia fight as envoy seeks peace

    Russian troops and armor pushed into two separatist regions of Georgia on Monday and Georgian forces shelled the Russian-held capital of South Ossetia as the Caucasus crisis worsened. Russian bombers again blasted Georgian targets overnight, the Tiblisi government said. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, in Georgia on a peace mission, called.. More

  • Turkish soldiers killed in blast

    At least seven Turkish soldiers have been killed in an explosion in the east of the country, Turkish media report. The private Dogan news agency said a roadside bomb went off as a military vehicle was passing by in the province of Erzincan. Four soldiers were also injured in the blast, reports said. Fighting between Turkish soldiers and PKK rebels.. More

  • Iraq demands US withdrawal timeline

    The US must provide a "clear timeline" to withdraw its troops from Iraq as part of an agreement allowing them to operate in Iraq beyond this year, Hoshiyar Zebari, Iraq's foreign minister, has said. His comments on Sunday are the strongest public assertion yet that Iraq is demanding a timeline for US withdrawal. The Reuters news agency quoted.. More

  • Georgia crisis spreads to Abkhazia

    The leader of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has decreed a "state of war" in areas close to Georgian-controlled territory, Russia's Interfax news agency said. The move, announced on Sunday, comes after Russian forces took control of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia's other breakaway region. "By a decree of.. More

  • Zimbabwe's rivals locked in talks amid signs of power-sharing deal

    South African President Thabo Mbeki held talks with Zimbabwe's political rivals on Sunday as they edged closer to a power-sharing deal following Robert Mugabe's widely condemned re-election. Zimbabwe President Mugabe, opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, the head of a smaller MDC faction, were all.. More

  • 'Dozens die' in Pakistan clashes

    More than 100 militants have been killed in four days of heavy fighting in a tribal area near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, officials say. Pakistan said nine of its soldiers were killed in the battles in Bajaur. Fighter jets, helicopter gunships and artillery were all reportedly used to pound the militants' positions in the strategically important.. More

  • Deaths in Algeria suicide blast

    At least eight people have been killed in a sucide bombing in Algeria, local radio has reported. Nineteen people were also injured in the blast, when a bomber rammed a van full of explosives into a police station in the northern part of the country on Saturday night. The attack happened at Zemmouri el-Bahri, a popular beach with holidaymakers, near.. More

  • Mudslide kills 31 in Burkina Faso

    At least 31 miners have died in a mudslide at an illegal gold mine in Burkina Faso, 500km (310 miles) from the capital, Ouagadougou. Rescue teams are at the scene in Boussoukoula in the south-west, and miners are digging through the mud. But officials said it was unlikely anyone would be found alive, due to flooding caused by heavy rain. Correspondents.. More

  • Russia 'prepares to invade Georgia'

    Georgia's interior ministry said that Russia has brought 6000 troops into its territory and another 4000 Russian troops are arriving by sea, allegedly preparing for an invasion on Sunday. It comes after Miikheil Saaskashvili, the Georgian president said his country is officially at war with Russia. According to Alexander Lomaia, the secretary of Georgia's.. More

  • Italy holds five on terror charge

    Five North Africans have been arrested in Italy on charges of conspiring to commit acts of international terrorism. Police in Bologna say they arrested four Tunisians and a Moroccan and are seeking a sixth man. They are investigating an alleged international terrorist ring, which they say recruited suicide bombers for Iraq and Afghanistan. Police.. More

  • Chinese man stabs Olympic tourists

    A Chinese man has attacked three people, two US tourists and a Chinese tour guide, leaving one of the Americans dead. The man then killed himself, jumping to his death from the second storey of the Drum Tower, a popular tourist spot, after the incident, China's official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. Xinhua did not give any motive for the.. More

  • Russia bombs Georgia as Ossetia conflict escalates

    Russian warplanes on Saturday bombed targets in Georgia, reportedly leaving scores dead, as a conflict over control of South Ossetia widened well beyond the breakaway mountain region. Georgia's president declared "a state of war" and the United States led international calls for Russia to halt its military assault. But Russia's President.. More