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  • Court acquits Egyptian ferry owner

    An Egyptian criminal court has found the owner of a Red Sea ferry not guilty of manslaughter over the deaths of more than 1,000 passengers in an accident in 2006, court sources say. Owner Mamdouh Ismail, a member of Egypt's upper house of parliament at the time of the disaster, was tried in absentia because he left for the UK after the ferry disaster. The.. More

  • Indian leaders urge calm, army called out after attacks

    Indian leaders issued appeals for calm Sunday as the army was called out after a wave of bombings killed 45 people in Ahmedabad, a city rocked by deadly Hindu-Muslim riots six years ago. The string of 16 bombings, which left more than 160 people injured, ripped through crowded places in the tinderbox western city -- markets, buses and then hospitals.. More

  • NATO air raid kills dozens of Taliban

    NATO killed dozens of Taliban fighters in an air strike on Sunday in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost, the provincial governor said. Violence has escalated in Afghanistan over the past two years after the ousted Taliban regrouped and launched their fighting against the government and the foreign troops backing it. The pre-dawn raid was.. More

  • Serial blasts in second Indian city; 29 killed

    Sixteen small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad yesterday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 88, a day after another set of blasts in the country’s IT hub, officials said. On Friday, eight bombs exploded in quick succession in the southern information technology city of Bangalore, killing at least two people and wounding six.. More

  • Hamas hunts down Fatah activists after Gaza bombing

    Hamas-run security forces stormed across Gaza yesterday, clashing with rival Palestinian gunmen and arresting dozens of people after a bomb killed five of its fighters and a little girl. The explosion late Friday near a beach outside Gaza City was the deadliest incident in weeks in the impoverished Palestinian territory which has been ruled by the.. More

  • Plane hole 'not due to corrosion'

    Qantas boss Geoff Dixon has denied corrosion caused a hole in the body of the plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Manila. Safety engineers have begun examining the plane to establish the cause. More than 360 people were on board the flight when it was forced to land. They have since arrived back in Australia. Possible causes include.. More

  • Iran has up to 6,000 uranium centrifuges: Ahmadinejad

    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Iran has boosted the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges to up to 6,000, in an expansion of its nuclear drive that defies international calls for a freeze. "Today they (the West) have agreed that the existing 5,000 to 6,000 centrifuges do not increase and that there is no problem if this.. More

  • Nato soldiers kill Afghan civilians

    Nato-led soldiers in Afghanistan have killed four civilians after opening fire on a car at a checkpoint. Another three civilians were wounded in the shooting in the south of the country on Saturday, the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said. "Isaf soldiers opened fire on a vehicle that failed to stop at a checkpoint earlier today,.. More

  • Palestinians killed in Gaza blast

    At least five people, including a child, have been killed in an explosion near a beach outside Gaza City, according to medical sources. At least two of the dead on Friday were members of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. Up to 20 other people were said to have been wounded in the blast. The interior ministry labelled the.. More

  • Deadline passes for Karadzic appeal over war crimes transfer

    A deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal expired Saturday, but it remained unclear whether his lawyer has lodged a complaint. Karadzic's lawyer Svetozar Vujacic could not be contacted by telephone as the deadline expired at Friday at midnight (2200 GMT). Vujacic, who earlier said he would lodge an appeal,.. More

  • Obama to meet Brown on UK visit

    White House hopeful Barack Obama will hold talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown after flying into London. The Democrat presidential candidate is on the final part of the European leg of his world tour. Mr Obama will also meet Conservative leader David Cameron and former prime minister Tony Blair while in the UK. He has already visited Germany,.. More

  • Sudanese warning on peacekeepers

    Sudan has again warned it cannot guarantee the safety of UN and African Union peacekeepers in Darfur if its president is indicted for war crimes. A presidential adviser said that if the International Criminal Court indicted Omar al-Bashir, Sudan could not be held responsible for the troops' well-being. Earlier this month, the ICC prosecutor asked.. More

  • Cyprus leaders set peace talks date

    The leaders of the divided island of Cyprus are to enter direct peace negotiations on September 3 aimed at ending the 34-year-old division of the island, with a solution to be put to simultaneous referendums. The announcement was made after the UN Cyprus chief of mission hosted more than two hours of talks between Demetris Christofias, Cyprus' president.. More

  • Obama meets pro-US Sarkozy in Paris

    Barack Obama met in Paris Friday with the pro-US President Nicolas Sarkozy on a world tour aimed at burnishing the White House hopeful's foreign policy credentials ahead of November elections. His plane, bearing the slogan "Change we can believe in," landed at Le Bourget airport and the Democrat then headed into Paris to be greeted on the.. More

  • Hole forces Qantas plane to land

    A passenger plane en route from London to Melbourne has made an emergency landing in the Philippines after a large hole appeared in its fuselage. Qantas Airways said its Boeing 747-400, with 346 passengers and 19 crew, diverted to Manila shortly after leaving Hong Kong and landed safely. Engineers are investigating what caused the hole - about 2.5m.. More