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  • Chavez and Uribe in trade talks

    Hugo Chavez, Venezuela'spresident and Alvaro Uribe, his Colombian counterpart, will be holding talks to revive bilateral relations after months of bickering that threatened trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis. One of Latin America's fiercestUS opponent and its closest ally will set aside their differences on Friday to discuss energy and trade deals.. More

  • SKorea offers NKorea talks on implementing summit pacts

    South Korea's new conservative president on Friday offered North Korea an olive branch after months of hostility, proposing talks on ways to implement summit agreements reached by his predecessors. Lee Myung-Bak, in a speech to parliament, also offered to help alleviate the communist state's acute food shortages. Lee's proposal for dialogue on summit.. More

  • Two detained over Turkey attack

    Two men have been detained over alleged links to an attack on the American consulate in Istanbul, Turkish television has reported. The men, who are said to be Turks, were arrested an hour after the attack. On Wednesday, gunmen opened fire on the consulate before the attack turned into a seven-minute gunfight that killed three officers and three attackers. .. More

  • Iran fires more missiles in war games

    Iran test-fired more weapons on Thursday as it continued war games, ignoring global concern over its launch of a broadside of missiles in the midst of efforts to end the nuclear crisis. The weapons fired in the Gulf by the naval section of the Revolutionary Guards included shore-to-sea, surface-to-surface and sea-to-air missiles, state television said... More

  • Zimbabwe rivals hold talks

    South Africa has confirmed that officials from Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have met in Pretoria. "They started talking this morning" Mukoni Ratshitanga, a spokesman for Thabo Mbeki, the South African president and Zimbabwe mediator, said on Thursday. However, Morgan Tsvangirai, the.. More

  • Swiss minaret ban gains momentum

    In Switzerland some 115,000 people have signed a proposal to ban the building of minarets. The campaign is being organised by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), the largest party in parliament. Under Swiss law, a group can request a national referendum if it manages to collect 100,000 signatures. The SVP claims the minaret is not needed.. More

  • Pakistan rejects foreign troops

    Pakistan's top diplomat Wednesday rejected the idea of any foreign troops operating inside Pakistan, reinforcing its refusal to accept U.S. military aid in battling insurgents near the Afghan border Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's comments during a U.N. Security Council session on Afghanistan's future could deal a blow to the United.. More

  • Defiant Iran angers US with missile test

    Iran on Wednesday test-fired a missile it said is capable of reaching Israel, angering the United States amid growing fears that the standoff over the contested Iranian nuclear drive could lead to war. The Shahab-3 was among a broadside of nine missiles fired off simultaneously at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) from an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert,.. More

  • Gunfight at US Istanbul consulate

    Three Turkish policemen have been killed and two others injured after assailants opened fire in front of the US consulate in Istanbul, the local governor and media reports say. Three of the attackers were killed in the gunfight, while a fourth man escaped from the scene. "The 20- to 25-year old attackers used pump-action shotguns and handguns.. More

  • Ambush kills Darfur peacekeepers

    Those who died included four Rwandan peacekeepers, one policeman from Ghana and another from Uganda. State media reports that 40 armoured vehicles ambushed the peace force while on patrol in North Darfur. The UN-AU mission has been struggling to contain the violence and has just 9,000 of the planned 26,000 troops. Reports say at least seven.. More

  • G8 adopts carbon emissions cut plan

    The Group of Eight (G8) nations have said they want to work with the nearly 200 states involved in UN climate change talks to adopt a goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The final climate change statement approved by the G8 at a summit in northern Japan on Tuesday also said mid-term targets would be needed to achieve the shared.. More

  • Iran says would strike Israel, US navy if attacked

    Iran would attack Israel and the US navy in the Gulf as its first response to any American attack over its nuclear programme, an aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday. "The first US shot on Iran would set the United States' vital interests in the world on fire," said Ali Shirazi, a mid-ranking cleric who is Khamenei's.. More

  • UK hits bear market as stocks dip

    Asian and European stock indexes have fallen amid concerns about the state of the world economy and the impact slower growth will have on company earnings. The UK's FTSE 100 index fell below 5,385 points in early trading, 20% below its June 2007 peak of 6,732. The UK market was thus briefly in bear territory, often defined as a 20% fall from a stock.. More

  • Pakistan rejects Kabul bombing link

    Pakistan is not behind the suicide car-bombing that targeted the Indian embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people, including two senior Indian diplomats, Yousaf Raza Gillani, the country's prime minister, has said. The Afghan interior ministry said it thought the blast was carried out "with co-ordination and advice from regional intelligence.. More

  • Iraq wants US pullout timetable

    Iraq's prime minister has for the first time publicly called for a US troop withdrawal timetable. Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that a military agreement the two countries are negotiating should include provisions for the withdrawal of American troops. In a meeting with Arab ambassadors in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, al-Maliki said Iraq had.. More