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  • Pakistan Afghan ambassador freed

    Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, who was abducted by suspected Taleban militants in February, has been freed. Tariq Azizuddin was seized in the border area between the two countries, en route to the Afghan capital, Kabul. In April he appeared in a video on Dubai-based al-Arabiya television in which he said that had been taken by.. More

  • Myanmar says more than 133,000 dead, missing in cyclone

    Myanmar has said that more than 133,000 people were dead or missing in the cyclone disaster, nearly doubling the official toll two weeks after the storm left the country's rice-growing south in ruins. The announcement came as Myanmar's military rulers, welcoming aid from abroad but suspicious of the outside world, again rejected calls to let foreign.. More

  • Kuwait goes to the polls

    Kuwaitis head to the polls to choose a parliament that they hope will be able to work with the cabinet to end a period of political stagnation. A total of 275 candidates are running for the 50 seats in parliament on Saturday. A contentious issue has been what to do with the huge revenue the government is enjoying from record oil.. More

  • Israel Tells UN to Strike ‘Nakba’ From Lexicon

    Israel is demanding that the UN strike the word “Nakba” from its lexicon after an official communique released by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s bureau made specific reference to the word “Nakba.” Nakba, or catastrophe, refers to the tragic events that followed Israel’s inception in 1948. The Israeli Radio quoted Ban’s spokeswoman.. More

  • Bin Laden slams West over Israel, vows to fight on

    Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden slammed Western leaders for taking part in Israel's 60th birthday celebrations and vowed that Muslims would fight and not give up "one inch of Palestine," in an audio message Friday. "The participation of Western leaders with the Jews in this celebration confirms that the West supports this ugly Jewish occupation of.. More

  • Qatar to host Lebanon peace talks

    Lebanon's government and opposition leaders are to meet for talks brokered by the Arab League in the wake of the country's worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war. The meeting, due to beginat 9pm(1800 GMT) on Friday in the Qatari capital Doha, comes after nearly a week of clashes in Lebanonthat left at least 65 people dead. The government.. More

  • Bush asks Saudis to increase oil production

    President Bush is appealing to oil-rich Saudi Arabia to increase production just as oil prices have hit another record high. As U.S. consumers cope with rising prices at the gas pump, Bush is on a one-day visit to Saudi Arabia for another burst of diplomacy with King Abdullah. When the two met here in mid-January, the president asked Saudi Arabia.. More

  • Deadly blast hits Sri Lanka capital

    At least 10 people have been killed, and more than 85 people wounded after a suicide bomber on a motorbike targeted a police bus in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital. The attack occurred on Friday morning outside a Buddhist temple in the fort area of Colombo. Sri Lankan defence ministry officials said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.. More

  • New bin Laden message to focus on Israel: monitors

    Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will address the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding in a Web message expected to underscore a growing focus on the Jewish state, U.S.-based Internet monitors said on Thursday. Militant Islamist message boards on the Internet carried a banner announcing the statement with Israel's anniversary as the topic, said the.. More

  • Myanmar resists world pressure

    Myanmar's military rulers appear to be digging in their heels in the face of mounting international pressure to allow more aid into the country. John Holmes, the leading UN humanitarian affairs official, is waiting for visa approval to visit Myanmar so he can urge the military government to open up to a full-scale international relief effort. But.. More

  • Time running out in search for China quake survivors

    China on Friday allowed the first foreign rescue teams to join the desperate search for earthquake survivors, but time was running out with an estimated 50,000 people already dead. Across the devastated southwest province of Sichuan, troops, volunteers and medics clawed through mounds of shattered concrete that were once homes, schools and factories,.. More

  • Bush predicts Israel will have a Palestinian neighbor by the end of its next 60 years

    President Bush feted Israel on Thursday in honor of the 60th anniversary of its founding and predicted that its 120th birthday would find it alongside a Palestinian state and in an all-democratic neighborhood free of today's oppression, restrictions on freedom and extremist Muslim movements. Delivering this rosy forecast for the Middle East in 2068.. More

  • China says quake toll likely above 50,000

    China said Thursday that over 50,000 people had likely died in the devastating earthquake that hit its southwest as time runs out to save survivors buried in the rubble of broken communities. Experts said the search-and-rescue operation was entering its most crucial phase yet four days after the 7.9-magnitude quake struck, with the chances.. More

  • Palestinians mark the 'Nakba'

    Palestinians have held protests across the occupied territories to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe", when they were uprooted from their homes by the establishment of Israel. In the West Bank on Thursday, rallies and sirens commemorated the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 war. Ma.. More

  • Suicide blast kills 18 Afghan police, civilians

    A suicide blast killed 18 police and civilians on Thursday in Afghanistan's western province of Farah, officials said. The incident occurred in a bazaar near a police station in Del Aram district of Farah, they said, adding 15 more were wounded. "So far, 18 people, including police and civilians, have been killed," Farah's governor Rohul Amin told.. More