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  • Bush vows to help Turkey tackle PKK

    The US president has offered to share intelligence on Kurdish separatist fighters in northern Iraq with the Turkish government. Before meeting George Bush at the White House on Monday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, had demanded Washington take "solid steps" against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). "The PKK is a terrorist organisation... More

  • Pakistan 'to keep elections date'

    Pakistan's prime minister says national elections will be held as scheduled, despite President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule. Elections are due by mid-January, but there were fears they might be abandoned because of the crisis. Police have broken up street protests and hundreds of lawyers and opposition activists have been arrested... More

  • Hezbollah holds 'military exercise'

    Hezbollah fighters have carried out military-style exercises in the south of Lebanon in response to Israeli war games last week, according to security and political sources. Two pro-Hezbollah newspapers reported on Monday that thousands of unarmed men from the Shia Muslim movement had taken part in the maneuvers over the weekend Al-Akhbar newspaper.. More

  • Turkey PM in 'decisive' US talks

    Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Washington for what Ankara has called a decisive meeting with President George W Bush on Kurdish rebels in north Iraq. Turkey has threatened to send troops across the border to hit bases used by the Kurdish PKK rebels unless the US and Iraq do more to stop attacks. The Turkish government is under public pressure.. More

  • Tensions over Spanish king's trip

    King Juan Carlos of Spain is to pay a controversial visit to two Spanish-held enclaves on the tip of North Africa for the first time in his 32-year reign. Morocco considers the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla to be occupied Moroccan territory and recalled its ambassador to Spain in protest at the visit. Moroccans are planning protest rallies in.. More

  • Food, water scarce in Mexico floods

    At least 10 have died and drinking water and food supplies are falling short after floodwaters took over large parts of Mexico's southern Gulf coast on Sunday. Police said they had detained about 50 people for looting in the past two days, as people struggled to find supplies. "People are fighting over food and water, and the lack of electricity and.. More

  • Pakistani police 'beat lawyers'

    Police have baton-charged a rally by Pakistani lawyers protesting outside the High Court in Karachi against the state of emergency, lawyers say. They made many arrests after breaking up the demonstration, news agencies were told by members of the judiciary. Reports say hundreds of members of the main Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, were arrested.. More

  • Emergency may delay Pakistan poll

    Planned elections in Pakistan could be delayed by up to a year after President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule, the country's PM says. Shaukat Aziz told a news conference that the government remained committed to the democratic process. But he said parliament might change the date of elections planned for January, and gave no end.. More

  • Israel - No peace before security

    Israel has told the US there can be no deal for a Palestinian state unless its own security is guaranteed. Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that security for her country had to come first. Ms Rice is in the region to prepare the ground for a planned peace conference in the US city of Annapolis,.. More

  • Israeli air raids kill Palestinians

    Israeli strikes have killed four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip after Palestinian fighters launched rockets into Israel, medical and security officials say. The civilians, mainly factory workers, were killed when an Israeli shell exploded near Jabaliya on Sunday as they were changing into their factory uniforms, officials said. According.. More

  • Kurdish group frees Turkish troops

    Eight Turkish soldiers kidnapped last month in an ambush by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been released in northern Iraq, a Kurdish official says. Their release on Sunday came just after Iraq vowed to hunt down PKK leaders responsible for cross-border raids into Turkey in an effort to avert a major incursion by the Turkish military. It.. More

  • Mexico floods leave many homeless

    Hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless as severe floods continue to rage through Mexico's southern state of Tabasco, in the country's worst natural disaster for decades. Rescue workers and police were out in force on Saturday helping flood victims, as fears grew of a looming health crisis. The floods have affected more than one.. More

  • Musharraf imposes emergency rule

    Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has declared emergency rule and suspended the country's constitution. He defended his actions in a national address, saying he was curbing a rise in extremism in Pakistan. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has been replaced and the Supreme Court surrounded by troops, who also entered state-run TV and radio.. More

  • Iraq vows to arrest PKK rebels

    Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki says Baghdad is ready to pursue and arrest the Kurdish rebel leaders carrying out cross-border raids into Turkey from northern Iraq. Mr Maliki also said his government would not rule out taking joint action with Ankara against the PKK fighters. The pledge was made at international talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul on the.. More

  • Egypt ruling party keeps Mubarak

    Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party has opened its general congress by voting to keep 79-year-old President Hosni Mubarak as its head. Party delegates voted overwhelmingly to retain Mr Mubarak for another five years in an uncontested secret ballot. There had been speculation that the congress would elevate the president's son, Gamal Mubarak,.. More