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  • Gaza rocket hits Israel

    A rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip has landed in southern Israel, an Israeli army spokesperson has said. The rocket, which landed in an open field near the town of Sderot on Thursday, is the fourth to be fired since a ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas came into effect on June 19 Israeli medical officials said there were.. More

  • NKorea hands over nuclear dossier

    North Korea handed over details of its nuclear programmes Thursday, paving the way for its removal from the US terrorism blacklist amid years of efforts to persuade the North to abandon the atom bomb. Six months behind schedule, officials delivered the dossier to China -- the host country for the six-nation talks since 2003 that have worked to entice.. More

  • Hundreds arrested in major US child prostitution raid

    US police arrested 389 people on child sex trafficking charges in a major sweep across several states, The New York Times reported Thursday. The five-day operation spanned 16 cities and involved hundreds of local, state and federal agencies dealing with missing children, many of them runaways, and identifying networks behind child trafficking for the.. More

  • Korea set to deliver nuclear list

    North Korea is expected to hand China a long-delayed account of its nuclear programmes on Thursday, a move which could lead to its removal from a US terror blacklist. Pyongyang also said it would blow up an old cooling tower at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex on Friday in a public display of its commitment to its obligations under a disarmament deal. The.. More

  • Ecuador puts off Colombian ties

    Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has said he will not restore diplomatic ties with Colombia until its president, Alvaro Uribe, leaves office in 2010. It is the latest diplomatic salvo between the two countries since they broke off relations in March following a Colombian raid into Ecuador. Colombian planes bombed a Farc camp near the border, killing.. More

  • Court hands Sharif poll lifeline

    Pakistan's supreme court has ordered the postponement of a by-election in the district of Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister, pending the outcome of an appeal against his disqualification from the poll. A panel of three judges ruled that Thursday's election for the parliamentary seat in Lahore must be delayed until the supreme court rules on the.. More

  • Tsvangirai urges negotiated deal

    Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has called for a "negotiated political settlement" which would allow the country to begin "healing". He also called for the immediate release of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) deputy Tendai Biti, held on treason charges. He spoke after briefly leaving the Dutch embassy, where.. More

  • US may lift terror label from NKorea: White House

    The United States said Wednesday that it could move to take North Korea off its list of state sponsors of terrorism "quite soon" after the North makes a full accounting of its nuclear programs. "We'll have to wait and see. It could be quite soon if that were to happen," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, as Washington hoped.. More

  • Israel closes Gaza crossings

    Israel says it will not open its border crossings with the Gaza Strip after several rockets were fired into southern Israel. Restrictions at the Karni, Nahal Oz, and Sufa crossings, which handle goods traffic between Israel and the territory, were eased following a ceasefire agreed with the Hamas movement. The crossings were to have opened at 8am.. More

  • Philippines inquiry opens as 800 believed dead in ferry disaster

    Philippine investigators opened an inquiry Wednesday into a ferry disaster believed to have killed 800 as rescuers ended slim hopes of finding survivors in the stricken vessel. More than 100 US and Filipino divers combed the wreckage of the 24,000-tonne Princess of the Stars, whose upturned bow remained jutting above waters off the the central island.. More

  • US factory worker in gun rampage

    Police in the US state of Kentucky say a member of staff at a plant shot four people dead before killing himself. The shooting, in the city of Henderson, happened after the employee at Atlantis Plastics had an argument with a supervisor, authorities said. Police Lieutenant David Piller told AP news agency that two other people were injured in the.. More

  • Violence threatens Gaza truce

    Three rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have hit southern Israel, hours after Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the West Bank. Tuesday's incidents cast doubt over the future of a fragile truce that has been in force in Gaza between Israel and armed Palestinian groups during the last five days. Al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad.. More

  • 'Many' bodies found in Philippine ferry

    Philippine rescue divers said they found many bodies Tuesday inside the ferry that sank with more than 850 people on board, confirming the worst fears of desperate relatives. Anxious and angry family members had been clinging to hope their loved ones might still be found alive inside the doomed Princess of the Stars, which capsized and sank Saturday.. More

  • Baghdad office bombing kills 10

    Six Iraqis, two American soldiers and two US civilians have been killed in a bomb attack at a local council office in eastern Baghdad. One of the US civilians was an official with the state department and the other worked for the defence department, US embassy officials said. Ten people were wounded including three members of the Sadr City council... More

  • Iran condemns 'illegal' new EU nuclear sanctions

    Iran on Tuesday condemned the European Union's adoption of new sanctions over its controversial nuclear drive, warning the measures could damage fresh diplomatic efforts to solve the atomic crisis. The foreign ministry accused the bloc of "double standards" in imposing the sanctions just over a week after world powers presented Iran with.. More