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  • Global Aids conference opens in Mexico

    The global Aids conference has opened in Mexico with an appeal for the world not to waver in fighting a disease that has claimed more than 25 million lives and placed 33 million others under its shadow. "Aids is the most complex, the most challenging and probably the most demanding infectious disease humanity has ever had to face," Margaret.. More

  • Deadly attack hits China's Xinjiang

    An attack on a border patrol in China's northwestern Xinjiang region has left 16 policemen dead, Chinese state media says. The Xinhua news agency said "rioters" tossed grenades into a border patrol station in the Kashi region on China's frontier with Central Asia on Monday. Sixteen other policemen were injured in the attack in the Xinjiang.. More

  • Fatah supporters sent back to Gaza

    Israel has begun returning more than 150 Fatah supporters who fled the Gaza Strip following fierce fighting with Hamas-controlled security forces. A group of about 30 men from the Helis clan arrived back in the territory on Sunday, and were detained by Hamas officials. The men had sought refuge in Israel on Saturday after a Hamas raid on their family's.. More

  • 'At least 68 dead' in temple stampede in north India

    At least 68 Hindu worshippers, nearly half of them children, were killed Sunday in a stampede during a religious festival in the northern Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh, police said. The accident took place at the famed Naina Devi temple in the state's Bilaspur district, where tens of thousands of people have been gathering for the festival.. More

  • Ahmadinejad: Iran aims to reinforce nuclear rights

    Iran will not give up "a single iota of its nuclear rights," the country's president said Saturday, rebuffing an informal deadline to stop expanding uranium enrichment or face more sanctions. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the remarks during discussions with Syrian President Beshar Assad, who arrived in Tehran Saturday for a two-day visit, the.. More

  • India, Pakistan agree to give peace a chance

    Tensions between India and Pakistan overshadowed a South Asian summit ending in Sri Lanka Sunday, although the two nuclear-armed rivals said they would stick to their embattled peace process. In the highest level talks between the two countries in over a year, Pakistan's Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani agreed to look into allegations his spy service was.. More

  • Seven killed in Baghdad bombing

    A truck bomb has killed at least seven people and injured 14 near a passport office in a busy Sunni area of Baghdad. The parked vehicle exploded near al-Maghreb street in the northern district of Adhamiya, reports said. The explosion came days after dozens of people died as female suicide bombers struck a major Shia pilgrimage. But correspondents.. More

  • Somali cabinet ministers resign

    Two-thirds of Somalia's cabinet ministers are said to have resigned, widening a rift between the president and prime minister of the UN-backed interim government. The 10 ministers who quit were allies of the Abdullahi Yusuf, the president, who has appeared increasingly at odds with Hassan Hussein Nur, the prime minister. The resignations came after.. More

  • Israel warns on Iran nuclear aims

    Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz has warned that Iran is near a breakthrough in its nuclear programme. Mr Mofaz accused Iran of pursuing a strategy of buying time in talks aimed at limiting its nuclear ambitions. The EU and the US have offered Tehran a series of incentives in a bid to halt its uranium enrichment. Iran has not yet responded.. More

  • Four days of heavy fighting in Swat

    Fighting in Pakistan's Swat Valley, has continued into a fourth day as Pakistani government forces and pro-Taliban fighter groups clash in the volatile region. The confrontations have left 45 pro-Taliban fighters dead and 11 Pakistani troops dead, Pakistan's military information office said on Saturday. The wave of violence started when pro-Taliban.. More

  • Karadzic protected by US until he broke 'deal': Belgrade report

    Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his 'deal', Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source. Partly echoing what Karadzic himself told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in his opening written.. More

  • Georgia accused of lethal attack

    The separatist government in the breakaway province of South Ossetia has accused Georgia of killing six people and injuring seven in an attack. It quoted hospital sources as saying five civilians and a peacekeeper from the Russian province of North Ossetia were killed. Georgia said its forces had come under attack and had returned fire. Skirmishes.. More

  • McCain mocks 'anointed' Obama in new broadside

    Republican John McCain ratcheted up his attacks on Barack Obama, debuting a new web ad mocking the Democrat as a quasi-divine figure who had anointed himself to rule the world. The Arizona senator sharpened his newly negative tone on a day when Obama was heckled by African American protestors in Florida, and denied McCain campaign claims he had injected.. More

  • Iran faces new set of sanctions

    Iran faces a fourth set of sanctions if it rejects incentives offered to it by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing programme. The informal two-week deadline set on July 19 expires on August 2. The Security Council had already slapped three sets of sanctions on Iran over.. More

  • Defence rests case in first Guantanamo trial

    Military defence lawyers finished presenting their case in the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver on Friday in the first trial in the U.S. war crimes court at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. Both sides will be allowed to call rebuttal witnesses before the jury of six military lawyers begins deliberating in the trial of Yemeni prisoner Salim Hamdan, who.. More