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  • Obama meets Iraqi PM in Baghdad

    Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has met Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, for talks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Obama, who also met Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, and US troops stationed in the country, arrived on Monday for talks. He is also expected to hold talks with General David Petraeus, the senior.. More

  • Bin Laden's driver denies charges

    A former driver of Osama Bin Laden has pleaded not guilty at the first war crimes trial to be held in the US prison in Guantanamo Bay. Yemeni national Salim Hamdan, 37, is accused of conspiracy and supporting terrorism, and faces life in prison if he is convicted. The right of the military tribunal to try him was earlier unsuccessfully challenged.. More

  • Zimbabwe rivals draw line with pact signing

    President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pledged Monday to draw a line under Zimbabwe's months-long political crisis as they agreed to sit down and resolve their differences. At a ceremony in Harare overseen by long-time mediator South African President Thabo Mbeki, Mugabe and Tsvangirai signed a joint agreement on a framework.. More

  • Israeli soldier shoots Palestinian activist

    An Israeli human rights group has released a video that shows an Israeli soldier shooting a blindfolded Palestinian man with a rubber coated steel bullet at close range. BTselem released the video on Sunday, saying it had forwarded a copy to the Israeli military police and was demanding an investigation be opened. The video shows a Palestinian man,.. More

  • Arab League to propose 'Sudan plan'

    Amr Mussa, the Arab League chief, has visited Sudan's capital Khartoum with a plan aimed at stalling a possible legal move against Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, for alleged genocide in Darfur. Bashir was to receive Mussa on Sunday, following an agreement from Arab foreign ministers seeking a politicalsolution to the crisis sparked when the.. More

  • Lebanese funeral held for fighters

    A Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon's capital, is hosting a mass funeral to mourn the remains of 21 fighters from various Lebanese and Palestinian groups. The bodies arrived on Monday in Shatila, a southern district of Beirut, after more than 190 bodies were handed over by Israel as part of a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah last week. In.. More

  • Zimbabwe rivals agree draft for crisis talks: UN official

    Parties in Zimbabwe have reached consensus on a draft agreement towards holding substantive crisis talks, a UN special representative to the country said Sunday. "There is a draft which we are informed the two negotiating parties have agreed to, but the two principals, that is Mr (President Robert) Mugabe and Mr (Morgan) Tsvangirai, would have.. More

  • German hostages freed in Turkey

    Three German climbers taken hostage by Kurdish armed rebel group the PKK have been freed and are in the hands of the Turkish government, officials say. The tourists were seized from their camp on Mount Ararat in Turkey's eastern Agri province on 9 July. The PKK had vowed not to release them unless Germany renounced its crackdown on the group, defined.. More

  • Obama meets Afghan president

    Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has met the president of Afghanistan on the second day of his tour of the country. Obama, in Afghanistan as part of a congressional delegation, met Hamid Karzai shortly after meeting US troops at a military base in the capital, Kabul. Obama's visit to Afghanistan is the second stop on an international.. More

  • Coalition 'bombs Afghan police'

    Nine Afghan policemen have been killed in a air strike after an apparently mistaken clash with international-led coalition forces, local officials say. The deputy governor of Farah province, Younus Rasuli, said the foreign troops did not inform police they were coming and were mistaken for enemy fighters. The two sides fought from midnight until.. More

  • Arab League criticizes ICC for Bashir warrant

    The Arab League criticized the International Criminal Court's prosecutor Saturday for seeking the arrest of Sudan's president on genocide charges, saying diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur. Arab foreign ministers, holding an emergency meeting in Cairo, said Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa would head to Khartoum.. More

  • Iran, EU and US prepare to continue nuclear talks in Geneva

    Iranian, European and US officials were preparing to resume talks Saturday in Geneva's historic Town Hall after a break, as part of a bid to resolve the dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme. The EU's diplomatic chief Javier Solana was consulting with his officials after the morning session with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and US State.. More

  • UK PM refuses Iraq troops timetable

    Gordon Brown has said he favours reducing troop numbers in Iraq but would not set an "artificial timetable" during talks with Iraqi leaders. The prime minister also met senior US officials during a surprise visit to the country, ahead of a statement next week on Britain's involvement there. He said "enormous progress" had been.. More

  • UN to end Myanmar aid flights

    The UN is to end aid flights to Myanmar at the beginning of August. The UN said on Saturday that it was a routine step as the country shifts to rebuilding homes, buildings and schools destroyed by Cyclone Nargis. The May cyclone devastated much of the region south of Yangon, killing 85,000 people and leaving 50,000 missing. The announcement came.. More

  • Bush, Maliki, agree on 'time horizon' for US troop cut

    US President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed to set a "time horizon" for US troop withdrawals as part of a long-term security pact. But White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Friday any reduction in the US force presence "would be based on continued improving conditions on the ground and not an arbitrary.. More