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  • Darfur factions to miss Libya talks

    Hopes for peace in the violence-torn Sudanese province of Darfur have been blighted by the decision of the two main rebel groups to not attend peace talks mediated by the African Union and UN in the Libyan city of Sirte. "We decided not to go," said Ahmed Tugod Hassan, the chief negotiator of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). He said the.. More

  • Iran defiant at new US sanctions

    Iran has responded defiantly to new sanctions imposed by the US targeting Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and three state-owned banks. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the sanctions were doomed to failure. The US move came as a senior American diplomat accused Russia and China of aiding and abetting Iran's military. US Assistant Secretary.. More

  • Syria air strike target 'removed'

    Newly-released satellite images of the presumed site of an Israeli air raid on Syria last month suggest that a large building has been completely removed. US research group, the Institute for Science and International Security, obtained and analyzed the images. The industrial-style building may have been a nuclear reactor under construction, says.. More

  • Libya seals peace deal for Chad

    Four Chadian rebel groups have sealed a peace agreement with the government, three weeks after negotiating the preliminary deal. Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi hosted the talks alongside the presidents of Chad and Sudan. The insurgent groups have waged an on-off rebellion against Chadian President Idriss Deby for years. The fighting was.. More

  • Turkish troops repulse rebel attack, Gul vows action

    Turkish forces said they repelled a Kurdish rebel attack near the Iraqi border and President Abdullah Gul warned the PKK on Thursday that Turkey's patience was running out. Ankara has massed as many as 100,000 troops along the mountainous border ahead of a possible cross-border operation to crush around 3,000 rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).. More

  • Strong quake strikes western Indonesia

    A powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia before dawn Thursday, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and briefly triggering a tsunami warning. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 and struck 85 miles west of Bengkulu, a coastal town on Sumatra island, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered 18 miles beneath the.. More

  • Winds slow California fires

    Fires raging across California have caused more than one billion dollars in property damage and left three people dead, officials say. However, firefighters said on Wednesday that a break in the weather had given them a chance to go on the offensive. Around 1,700 buildings have been destroyed in the 18 fires that have erupted since Sunday. The.. More

  • Turkey 'hits PKK targets'

    Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets along the Iraqi border in southeast Turkey, the country's semi-official Anatolia news agency has said. The agency said fighter jets from an air force base at Diyarbakir, the main city in the mainly Kurdish southeast, bombed and destroyed several PKK positions on Wednesday. It.. More

  • Iraq clamps down on security firms

    The Iraqi government has decided to formally revoke the immunity from prosecution granted to private security companies operating in the country. The immunity granted to private contractors such as Blackwater has become controversial since a series of shootings involving foreign security guards. The most infamous incident was on September 16 in.. More

  • Nato urged to up Afghan commitment

    The United States is urging its European allies to commit more troops and equipment to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Nato currently has more than 40,000 troops deployed in the country, but generals say a sharp rise in violence over the past two years has left them undermanned. However, Nato sources said a meeting on Wednesday in the Dutch coastal.. More

  • Australia imposes Myanmar sanctions

    Australia has announced financial sanctions against Myanmar's rulers as the government agreed to a return visit by a UN mediator in early November. Australia's foreign minister said that sanctions would apply to 418 individuals, including Senior General Than Shwe, the county's leader as chairman of the State Peace and Development Council. In a statement,.. More

  • California fire forces mass exodus

    About 500,000 people have been evacuated to temporary shelters in southern California as wildfires rage out of control across the state. More than a dozen fires blazed from north of Los Angeles to the Mexican border 240km south, destroying more than 1,500 buildings, blotting out the sun with smoke and raining ash on the streets. Most of the destroyed.. More

  • Iran nuclear envoy vows no change

    Iran's new nuclear negotiator has said his country will continue nuclear discussions "with strength". Saeed Jalili, who was in Rome for talks with EU envoy Javier Solana, said there was a consensus on the issue in Iran. Mr Jalili's predecessor - who resigned on Saturday - backed him, saying Iran's nuclear policy would not change. Ali Larijani.. More

  • Nato strike 'kills Afghan family'

    At least 11 members of one Afghan family have been killed in a Nato-led air raid in Wardak province near the capital Kabul, according to local officials. The International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that it was probing the claims, while the Afghan defense ministry said it was "12 enemies" that had been killed. "In.. More

  • US air raid kills Iraqi civilians

    The US military has said it killed 11 people in a helicopter attack on a group of men planting a roadside bomb in Iraq, but residents said those killed were farmers and that the dead included children. The US military acknowledged that six of those killed in the attack on Tuesday were civilians and blamed fighters for using civilians as shields. The.. More