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  • Briton jailed over coup plot

    Simon Mann, a British mercenary accused of plotting to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, has been convicted and sentenced to 34 years and four months in prison. The court in Malabo, the capital, also fined Mann $235,000 on Monday, and ordered that he be barred from entering Equatorial Guinea's territory for a further 20 years after his.. More

  • EU close to deal on new immigration guidelines

    EU interior ministers pushed Monday for a rapid agreement on new guidelines to control immigration, rejecting concerns that the plan would turn Europe into a fortress. The ministers, at informal talks in the Riveria resort city of Cannes, expressed optimism that the "European Pact on Immigration and Asylum" could be finalised by October,.. More

  • Israel locks down West Bank village

    Israeli forces have blockaded the Palestinian West Bank village of Ni'lin. Troops encircled Ni'lin on Sunday to prevent foreigners from joining protests against a network of razor-wire fences and concrete barricades that cut into occupied Palestinian land. "The protests have been getting more violent, and that is what we're trying to stop,".. More

  • Large blast rocks Afghan capital

    There has been a large explosion during the morning rush hour in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Local police told the BBC the blast was a suicide bombing near the Indian embassy, opposite the country's interior ministry in the city centre. Ambulances were carrying away wounded from the scene. Initial reports say a number of people may have been killed... More

  • Top UN official killed in Somalia

    Gunmen have killed the head of the UN Development Programme in Somalia, UN officials say. Osman Ali Ahmed was shot as he left a mosque in the capital, Mogadishu, and died in hospital of his injuries. It is the latest in a string of attacks on officials, which is plagued by lawlessness after years of conflict. Islamist groups have been staging.. More

  • Deadly car bomb hits Baghdad

    A car bomb has exploded near one of Baghdad's major hospitals, killing six people and wounding 14, security officials said. "Six people have been killed and 14 others wounded," an interior ministry official said. The explosion took place in front of the morgue of Baghdad's Al-Yarmuk hospital, one of the main medical facilities in Iraq's.. More

  • Rich nations poised to tackle soaring oil, food prices

    Leaders of the world's richest countries began arriving in northern Japan on Sunday for a summit aimed at tackling red-hot oil and food prices that could derail global economic growth. Authorities sealed off Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, with demonstrations relegated to the island's largest city of Sapporo where four people were arrested Saturday. .. More

  • Mugabe rule 'not legitimate' - UK

    UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said it is "imperative" there is a new government in Zimbabwe. He said he would redouble efforts to ensure Robert Mugabe's regime was not seen as "a legitimate representation of the will of the people of Zimbabwe". President Mugabe was the only candidate in a run-off election after opposition.. More

  • Anger over Afghan air raid deaths

    At least 15 people, including a woman and a child, have been killed in a US air raid in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial governor has said. The US military said its raid in Nuristan province hit anti-government fighters who had earlier launched mortar attacks on a nearby army base. But Tamim Nuristani, the governor, told Al Jazeera that two cars.. More

  • Iran nuclear position 'unchanged'

    Iran says its stance on its nuclear programme remains unchanged, despite an EU offer of incentives to suspend uranium enrichment. A government spokesman said the country was prepared to negotiate with major world powers, but insisted the talks must address Iran's nuclear rights. He was speaking a day after Iran formally responded to the EU offer... More

  • 'Many killed' in Syrian jail riot

    Clashes between guards and prisoners at a jail in Syria have resulted in many deaths, human-rights groups have said. At least 25 people were killed after military police fired live bullets at pro-Islamic inmates, the groups said. The Syrian authorities have so far not commented on the situation. Prisoners said the clashes were sparked by raids in.. More

  • Film of Zimbabwe 'vote-rigging'

    New evidence of vote-rigging in last month's presidential election in Zimbabwe has emerged in the form of a secret film made by a prison guard. The guard, Shepherd Yuda, filmed the vote-rigging at his jail in a production for Guardian Films. Prison officers, including Mr Yuda, who has now fled Zimbabwe, were forced to vote for President Robert Mugabe.. More

  • Pakistan 'knew of nuclear cargo'

    Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear programme, has said the Pakistani army, under Pervez Musharraf, the president, supervised a shipment of centrifuges to North Korea in 2000. The claim, which came in a telephone interview with the Associated Press on Friday, contradicts his 2004 confession that he was solely responsible for spreading.. More

  • Protesters rally ahead of G8 summit

    Thousands of activists and farmers from around the world gathered in northern Japan Saturday for a major protest ahead of next week's summit of the Group of Eight rich nations. Security was tight for the rally, which brought together union activists, anti-war demonstrators, farmers and students in a park in Sapporo, the closest city to the lakeside.. More

  • Poland holds out over US missiles

    Poland's prime minister has rejected the latest terms offered by the US to host a missile defence shield. Donald Tusk said any deal must increase Poland's own security, and he dismissed the latest offer as unsatisfactory. "We are ready to co-operate but we are waiting for an answer from the American side," Mr Tusk told a news conference. The.. More