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  • Lebanon to hold presidential vote

    Lebanon's leaders are set to elect Michel Suleiman, the country's army chief, as president in a first step toward defusing an 18-month standoff between rival factions. Suleiman is expected to be elected on Sunday in a parliamentary session attended by several foreign dignitaries, including Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the emir of Qatar. Bernard.. More

  • China rebukes Brown for meeting Dalai Lama

    China voiced "strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition" on Saturday after a meeting between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Although Brown met the Dalai Lama in London on Friday, Tibetan activists lamented that their talks were held at the Lambeth Palace residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.. More

  • Tsvangirai flies back to Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has returned to Harare to begin his presidential run-off campaign, after spending weeks abroad. Police stood by as a convoy carrying the Movement for Democratic Change leader left the airport after touching down from neighbouring South Africa. Mr Tsvangirai's scheduled return last weekend was delayed.. More

  • China quake toll rises to 60,000

    China has said more than 60,000 people were killed as a result ofan earthquake in southwest China on May 12. Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister, said on Saturday that the final tollcould climb higher than80,000 as he toured quake-hit Sichuan province with Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general. Around 25,000 people are reported still missing after.. More

  • Mexico drug-related killings soar

    The number of murders in Mexico linked to organised crime has jumped by almost 50% so far this year to 1,378, according to Mexico's attorney general. Eduardo Medina Mora also said more than 4,000 people have died since President Felipe Calderon took office 18 months ago, declaring war on the drug cartels. About 450 of those were police, soldiers,.. More

  • Canada censured in Guantanamo case

    Canada's highest court has ruled that the country violated international law in the case of Omar Khadr, the only Canadian being held at the Guantanamo Bay US detention centre in Cuba. Khadr, has been held on terrorism charges for the past six years since he was detained at the age of 15 on claims he killed a US soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. The.. More

  • Chinese leader says quake death toll may top 80,000

    China said Saturday at least 60,000 people have been killed in its worst earthquake in a generation and that the death toll could climb past 80,000. UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited the ravaged epicentre of the earthquake in southwestern Sichuan province as international efforts picked up steam to help China shelter and care for millions of homeless. China'.. More

  • Tornado kills 1, injures 13 in northern Colorado

    Residents of a devastated neighborhood grabbed what they could from their debris-strewn homes before police imposed an overnight curfew after a tornado swept through northern Colorado, killing one person and injuring 13. The twister skipped through several towns in Weld County on Thursday, damaging or destroying dozens of homes, businesses, dairies.. More

  • UN chief: Myanmar opening up to aid

    The UN secretary-general has said Myanmar's military leader has agreed to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors. Ban Ki-moon's comments indicate a major breakthrough as Myanmar's government has until now refused to allow an unimpeded influx of foreign aid and experts to reach survivors of Cyclone Nargis. Ban's.. More

  • Olmert questioned on 'corruption'

    Police in Israel are questioning Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a second time in a corruption investigation. Prosecutors say they suspect Mr Olmert misused large amounts of cash received from a US businessman when he was mayor of Jerusalem. Earlier this month Mr Olmert denied any wrongdoing, saying the money he had received was to be used to.. More

  • By-election defeat spells fresh woe for British PM

    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was dealt a fresh blow on Friday after his party suffered a crushing by-election defeat in a previously safe Labour seat. Just three weeks after trouncing the ruling Labour party in local elections, the opposition Conservatives won their first by-election victory over Labour since 1982, taking the Crewe.. More

  • Burma 'to let in all aid workers'

    Burma's top leader has agreed to let all foreign aid workers into the country for relief work in cyclone-hit areas, UN head Ban Ki-moon has said. Mr Ban announced the news after talks in Burma's remote capital, Naypyidaw, with Gen Than Shwe. Burma's military leaders had previously refused to allow a full-scale relief effort by foreign aid workers,.. More

  • China to rebuild quake-hit Sichuan

    China has announced a three-year plan to rebuild Sichuan province as the death toll passed the 55,000 mark 11 days after the massive earthquake. Another 25,000 people are still missing. On Friday, Li Chengyun, Sichuan's vice-governor, said the priorities were to find survivors and to work on disease prevention in the disaster zone. .. More

  • UN: Food costs hitting world's poor

    Food import costs to the world's poorest nations are set to rise by 40 per cent in 2008 on the previous year, a report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says. The bill for food imports to poor countries will reach $169bn this year, the Rome-based organisation said on Wednesday. The overall cost of food is set rising by 53.. More

  • South Africa army mobilises to quell mob violence

    South African troops helped embattled police on Thursday in trying to quell a wave of violence against immigrants that has claimed 42 lives and displaced 16,000. For the first time since unrest broke out more than 10 days ago, soldiers deployed on Johannesburg's streets to help stem a tide of violence that has seen mobs of armed youths attack foreigners.. More