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  • Guinea Bissau 'foils coup plot'

    Guinea Bissau says it has foiled an attempt by the head of the country's navy to overthrow President Joao Bernardo Vieira. An army spokesman said Rear Admiral Americo Bubo Na Tchuto was arrested after telephoning senior officers to ask for help in ousting Mr Vieira. The alleged coup comes amid political turmoil in Guinea Bissau. The president has.. More

  • Fierce fighting reported in Georgia after Russian troop surge

    Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday that three of its peacekeeping troops had died in South Ossetia overnight, bringing to 15 the total number killed. "Another three died in overnight attacks. Altogether 15 peacekeepers have been killed," Russian ground forces spokesman German Zhitenyov told AFP. Russia and its pro-West neighbour.. More

  • China opens Olympic games

    China has opened the Beijing Olympics with a burst of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that celebrated ancient Chinese history and aimed to draw a line under months of political controversy. An army of 2,008 drummers pounded out the countdown to the games, in a display that gave China an opportunity to show off its economic might, but also galvanised.. More

  • Iraq's Sadr launches unarmed wing

    Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has announced the creation of a cultural wing of his organisation, known for its Mehdi Army militia. In a statement read at Friday prayers, he said only a "resistance" group was to remain armed, AP reported. A spokesman told Western media Mr Sadr's militias would disarm if the US set and followed a timetable.. More

  • Freak Czech train crash kills seven

    An express train crashed Friday into a Czech road bridge which collapsed during construction seconds before the train's passage, killing seven people and injuring dozens, rescue services said. The freak nature of the accident was underlined when rail investigators later revealed that the train had been running 10 minutes late as it approached the metal.. More

  • Russian tanks enter South Ossetia

    One hundred and fifty Russian tanks, armoured personnel carriers and other vehicles have entered South Ossetia to back the breakaway region against a military onsalught by Georgia. The separatist region has been under heavy atack from Georgian forces since a brief ceasefire on Thursday night. The Georgian military say it has "liberated".. More

  • Georgia surrounds rebel capital

    Georgia says its troops have surrounded the capital of separatist South Ossetia as Russia warns further aggression would lead to retaliation from Moscow. Fighting around Tskhinvali resumed overnight, breaking a ceasefire deal, and bombardments are continuing. Georgian President Mikhail Saakasvili has called on reservists to sign up for duty.. More

  • Indian Kashmir protests continue

    The Indian government is reportedly ready to negotiate in an attempt to quell rising tension in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Kashmir valley is currently facing shortages of food, fuel and medicine due to rising Hindu-Muslim tensions, local residents say. Shops, businesses and schools remained closed on Thursday in protest for a third day.. More

  • Georgia offers S Ossetia ceasefire

    Georgia has offered South Ossetian separatists an immediate ceasefire following days of heavy fighting. Following clashes on Thursday, Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, said he had ordered Georgian forces not to return fire. In a televised address, Saakashvili said: "I offer you an immediate ceasefire and the immediate beginning of talks.".. More

  • Worldwide protests on eve of China Olympics

    Critics of China's human rights record made sure they were not forgotten on Thursday, a day before the grand opening of the Beijing Olympics, with protest actions the world over and in China itself. A day after cheering crowds welcomed the Olympic torch to Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- scene of a 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters -- activists.. More

  • Musharraf faces impeachment bid

    Pakistan's ruling coalition parties say they will begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf. Party leaders Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif made the announcement after three days of talks. They would need a two-thirds majority to impeach. Mr Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup in 1999. He gave up control of the army last.. More

  • Coup leaders vow Mauritania vote

    Leaders of a military coup in Mauritania have vowed to hold "free and transparent" presidential elections "in the shortest time possible". The coup leaders made the statement on Thursday after their actions drew widespread condemnation and calls for Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the ousted president, to be returned to power. The.. More

  • Nine feared dead in US air crash

    Nine people are missing, feared dead, after a helicopter carrying firefighters crashed on its way to a forest fire in northern California. The helicopter went down on Tuesday night in a remote area about 35 miles (56km) north-west of Redding. The cause of the crash of the Sikorsky S-61 was not immediately known. The helicopter was carrying 11 firefighters.. More

  • Many dead in Pakistan border clash

    At least 25 pro-Taliban fighters and two Pakistani soldiers have been killed in clashes in a tribal region along the Afghan border, government officials say. The fighting erupted late on Wednesday in the Loi Sum area in Bajaur, a reputed sanctuary for al-Qaeda and the Taliban fighters. "We have reports of 25 militants. Two paramilitary soldiers.. More

  • Justice: Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers

    Eleven people were indicted Tuesday for allegedly stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers, federal authorities said. The indictments, which alleged that at least nine major U.S. retailers were hacked, were unsealed Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California, prosecutors said. It is believed to be the largest hacking.. More