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  • Tigers bomb Sri Lanka commuter buses, 23 dead: officials

    At least 23 people were killed and 67 wounded in Sri Lanka in two Tamil Tiger bomb attacks on public buses packed with civilians, officials said Friday. A crowded state-run bus travelling just south of Colombo was peppered with red-hot shrapnel from a powerful fragmentation mine placed on the roadside. "Twenty-one people have been killed, eight.. More

  • Japan and N Korea to resume talks

    Japan is to resume talks with North Korea after a gap of more than nine months, its foreign minister said. Masahiko Komura said senior officials from the two sides would meet in Beijing over the weekend to exchange views on bilateral ties. Tokyo wants a dispute over abducted Japanese nationals to be resolved before establishing a formal diplomatic.. More

  • Deadly bus blast hits Sri Lanka

    An explosion on a bus near the Sri Lankan capital Colombo has killed at least 20 people, police said. The suspected bombing happened on a passenger bus in Moratuwa during rush hour on Friday. Ranjith Gunasekara, a police spokesman, told the Associated Press news agency that at least 40 other people were injured. Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara,.. More

  • US, British diplomats in confrontation with Zimbabwe police

    The UN Security Council expressed concern after Zimbabwe police detained US and British diplomats in a dramatic confrontation at a roadblock amid signs of an intensifying crackdown ahead of a presidential run-off election. Thursday's incident came as the Zimbabwe government moved to indefinitely suspend all aid work, a source with a national NGO said.. More

  • Summit haggles over hunger declaration

    A summit on the global food crisis was at risk of closing without a declaration of intent on Thursday because of squabbling over side issues. Delegates from 183 countries at the Rome talks missed their Wednesday deadline for agreeing a final statement about "eliminating hunger and securing food for all". "The food crisis which the.. More

  • 9/11 'mastermind' to face tribunal

    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the US in 2001, is set to face a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay on nearly 3,000 counts of murder. Mohammed and four other detainees will be arraigned for the first time on Thursday inside a high-security courthouse at the US naval base. The United States claims Mohammed.. More

  • Clinton will quit and back Obama

    Hillary Clinton will withdraw from the race to become the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, and back her rival Barack Obama, her campaign says. On Tuesday, Mr Obama gained enough delegates to win the nomination, after the final votes of the primary season. Mrs Clinton has not publicly admitted losing, but at an event on Saturday she will.. More

  • Zawahiri urges more Israel attacks

    Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, has called on Palestinians to step up attacks on Israel, according to a new audio clip. Increased suicide and rocket attacks were the only way to end Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, a voice attributed to the Egyptian-born al-Qaeda deputy said in the message posted online on Wednesday. The message.. More

  • Abbas calls for talks with Hamas

    Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has advocated talks between his Fatah party, which controls the West Bank, and Hamas, which seized power in the Gaza Strip last June. The call in a speech broadcast on Wednesday came after months of Abbas' insistence that Hamas must relinquish control of Gaza before any dialogue begins. "For the sake.. More

  • Slovenia sparks EU nuclear alert

    A leak of coolant prompted Slovenia to completely shut down the reactor at its only nuclear power plant. The European Commission said parts were still cooling after the shutdown, but the situation was under control. It said there appears to have been no discharge into the environment at the Krsko plant, which supplies energy to Slovenia and Croatia... More

  • MDC say Zimbabwe police detain Tsvangirai

    Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been detained by police for several hours at a roadblock while campaigning in the country's run-off presidential vote, his Movement for Democratic Change said on Wednesday. "We are currently held up. They are saying there's a commanding officer whom we should wait for. They are not saying why.. More

  • Obama clinches historic victory over Clinton

    Democrat Barack Obama plunged Wednesday into a five-month election battle with Republican John McCain after making history by becoming the first black presidential nominee of a major US party. The Illinois senator's giant-killing win over Hillary Clinton -- who refused formally to concede -- came at the climax late Tuesday of the longest, most expensive.. More

  • Olmert warns Iran over nuclear work

    Iran's nuclear programme must be stopped by "all possible means", Ehud Olmert has told a pro-Israeli lobby group. The Israeli prime minister, who is on a three-day visit to Washington, said on Tuesday Tehran must also be made to see it will suffer "devastating repercussions" if it pursues atomic weapons. "The Iranian threat.. More

  • Israel to expand settlements

    The Israeli government has announced the construction of about 900 new homes in East Jerusalem amid international criticism against its policy on settlement expansion. Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, on Sunday praised the plan to build new homes. The plan envisages building 763 housing units in Pisgat Zeev and 121 housing units in Har Homa.. More

  • Child killed in Afghan bomb attack

    A child has been killed in a suicide bomb attack close to a Nato military convoy near the southern Afghan border with Pakistan, a police chief has said. The troops, believed to be Canadians, were unharmed in Wednesday's attack near the town of Spin Boldak, Abdul Raziq, a border police commander, told the AFP news agency. "There was a suicide.. More