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  • Bush, Brown in united front on Iran, Afghanistan

    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday announced new troops for Afghanistan and tougher sanctions on Iran, delighting visiting US President George W. Bush. Bush reiterated that "all options" remain on the table against Iran, although stressing he would prefer a diplomatic solution to the West's standoff with Tehran over its suspect.. More

  • Japan quake death toll rises to 10

    The death toll in a powerful earthquake that hit northern Japan at the weekend rose to 10 on Monday as troops and rescue workers searched for survivors in the remote, mountainous area worst hit by the tremor. A fourth body was pulled from the ruins of an inn in the northern prefecture of Miyagi, a local official said. The building was crushed in a.. More

  • Police killed in Sri Lanka bombing

    At least 12 police officers have been killed in a suicide bombing in Sri Lanka's northern town of Vavuniya, officials say. About 40 people, many of them school were also injured when the bomber detonated an explosives-packed motorcycle on Monday in front of a police office, a police spokesman said. "A Tiger suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle.. More

  • Saudi oil output to rise in July

    Saudi Arabia will increase its oil production by 200,000 barrels a day next month in a move to meet growing world demand, the United Nations says. The news was announced after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon met Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi in Jeddah for talks on the high oil price. Last month, the Kingdom increased its production by 300,000.. More

  • Karzai issues warning to Pakistan

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has threatened to send troops over the border into Pakistan to confront militants based there. He said that when militants crossed over from Pakistan to kill Afghans and coalition troops, his nation had the right to retaliate in "self-defence". Mr Karzai's remarks came two days after Taleban fighters attacked.. More

  • Newly independent Kosovo's constitution enters force

    Kosovo's constitution entered into force Sunday, four months after it split from Serbia, opening the way for majority Albanians take over from a nine-year-old UN mission under European guidance. President Fatmir Sejdiu marked the imposition of the newly independent state's first charter by signing a set of laws for the first time, in the presence of.. More

  • Scores killed in China floods

    Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 62 people dead or missing, besides forcing more than a million residents to flee homes, the government and state media say. According to the civil affairs ministry, at least 55 people are dead and seven others are missing following heavy rains in nine provinces over the last week. Rising.. More

  • UN hands over to Kosovo Albanians

    A new constitution has come into force in Kosovo, after the territory declared independence from Serbia in February. Majority ethnic Albanian authorities will now take over the territory from the UN though it remains unclear who will oversee Kosovo's Serb areas. Security has been increased in the flash-point town of Mitrovica after a gunman attacked.. More

  • EU looks to pick up the pieces after Irish treaty shock

    European foreign ministers gather Monday to take a first look at the EU's battered reform plans after Ireland's stunning rejection of the Lisbon Treaty. The ministers, in a day of talks in Luxembourg, will want to hear from their Irish counterpart Micheal Martin on whether Dublin believes anything more can be done to get his country to accept the.. More

  • Thousands forced out by US floods

    At least 24,000 people have been forced from their homes in Iowa by flooding, which has also severely damaged crops in America's main corn state. Authorities issued mandatory evacuation orders as Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and other Iowa cities were partly deluged. The disaster was triggered by storms blamed for at least nine deaths in the US Midwest.. More

  • Saudis 'to increase oil output'

    Saudi Arabia plans to increase its oil output in July by about half a million barrels a day, the New York Times reports. Citing analysts and oil traders briefed by Saudi officials, the US daily said on Saturday that the plans by the world's largest oil exporter had been privately disclosed recently by Saudi officials. The analysts have declined.. More

  • Desperate hunt for 1,100 who fled Afghan jail in Taliban raid

    Afghan and international troops launched a desperate hunt Saturday for more than 1,100 prisoners NATO said escaped a jail in Afghanistan when Taliban rebels blasted it open, killing prison guards. The Taliban said 400 of its own fighters escaped when the rebels attacked the facility in the southern city of Kandahar late Friday, blasting it open with.. More

  • Mugabe vows to fight 'traitors'

    President Robert Mugabe has vowed that the main opposition party will never lead Zimbabwe and said he was prepared to "go to war" for his country. He is due to face Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, in a 27 June run-off poll. Mr Tsvangirai was released after being arrested for the fifth time this week. Meanwhile.. More

  • Hundreds of prisoners escape from Afghan jail: minister

    Most of the 1,000 inmates of a prison in southern Afghanistan, including militants, escaped during a Taliban suicide bomb attack on the building, a senior official said Saturday. "There were nearly 1,000 inmates in that prison. A large number of them have escaped," deputy justice minister Mohammad Qasim Hashimzai told AFP. He declined.. More

  • Deaths in Japan earthquake

    At least two people have been killed and eight others injured in a earthquake which shook northern Japan. The earthquake, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, originated on Saturday in Iwate prefecture, about 500km north of the capital Tokyo, the country's meteorological agency reported. One person was killed by a landslide in Fukushima prefecture.. More