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  • Rice warns Israel over land seizure

    The US secretary of state has warned that Israel's plan to seize Palestinian land in east Jerusalem could damage confidence in next month's meeting on Palestinian statehood. Ahead of her arrival in Jerusalem on Sunday, Condoleezza Rice said that Israeli clarifications that the project was to ease Palestinian movement did little to ease concerns. The.. More

  • Tension rises on Turkey-Iraq border

    Tensions have been increasing along Turkey's border with Iraq ahead of an expected parliamentary vote seeking Turkish MPs' approval for a ground incursion against Kurdish fighters based in the region. Ankara says the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) used bases across the border to launch attacks inside Turkey that saw 15 soldiers killed last week. A.. More

  • South Sudanese present demands

    Officials of south Sudan's former rebel movement have presented demands to the government, as a crisis threatens to destroy a two-year peace agreement. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) decided on Thursday to withdraw from a national unity government. A delegation led by south Sudanese Vice-President Riek Machar had hoped to meet Sudan's.. More

  • Ex-general calls Iraq a 'nightmare'

    A former top US military commander in Baghdad has described the war in Iraq as "a nightmare with no end in sight". In the bluntest assessment of Iraq by a former senior Pentagon official yet, retired Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez also lambasted US political leaders as "incompetent, inept, and derelict in the performance of their duty". Addressin.. More

  • UN in talks to rescue Sudan deal

    The top UN official in Sudan has met members of the former southern rebel movement to discuss its recent decision to withdraw from the unity government. The announcement by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) had raised fears that a 2005 truce might collapse. UN representative Taye-Brook Zerihoun said he was encouraged to hear the SPLM.. More

  • US rejects Russian security concern

    The US has rejected Russian calls to freeze a planned missile defense system in central Europe, despite a warning from Moscow that it would move to "neutralize" the threat. Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said after talks in Moscow on Friday that "negotiations with our allies" over the deployment of such a system "will continue". Sergei.. More

  • Abbas urged to be firm with Israel

    Ismail Haniya of the Hamas has urged Mahmoud Abbas not to "fall into a trap" and make concessions to Israel at a planned peace conference next month. Abbas, the Palestinian president, who dismissed a Haniya-led government following the Gaza takeover, plans to attend the US-sponsored summit on Palestinian statehood. "We tell President Abu Mazen [Abbas].. More

  • Turkey recalls ambassador to US

    Ankara is recalling its ambassador to Washington for consultations amid anger at a vote in Congress labeling the mass killing of Armenians as genocide. The passing of the resolution by a House committee on Wednesday despite appeals by the Bush administration was denounced by President Abdullah Gul. Turkey accepts there were mass killings in 1915-17.. More

  • Sudan's southern rebels walk out

    The main political party in south Sudan has suspended its participation in the national government because of what it called Khartoum's failure to implement a peace deal. Pagan Amum of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement said: "The SPLM has recalled all ministers and presidential advisers from the government of national unity. "Presidential advisers,.. More

  • Kurds call on Turkey not to attack

    The regional government of Iraq's northern Kurdish region has called on Turkey not to carry out its threat to mount an armed cross-border incursion. The Kurdish statement came on Thursday as legislators in Turkey vowed to submit a request to parliament that it authorize military operations against Kurdish fighters based in Northern Iraq. "The.. More

  • UN urges action over Iraq killings

    The UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) has said it is considering charging private security guards hired to support US-led forces in Iraq with war crimes or crimes against humanity for killing civilians. "International humanitarian rights law applies to them as well," Ivana Vuco, a human rights officer with the agency, said on Thursday. "We.. More

  • Doors closing on Iraqi displaced

    A growing number of Iraqi provinces are refusing entry to internal refugees, the UN refugee agency has warned. The head of the UNHCR Iraq Support Unit told the BBC up to 11 governors were restricting access because they lacked resources to look after the refugees. Andrew Harper warned that, with no imminent end to the displacement, Iraq was becoming.. More

  • Gunmen attack Afghanistan mosque

    Two people have been killed and at least 10 injured in Afghanistan after gunmen opened fire in a mosque during prayers in a province bordering Kabul. In a separate incident, also near the capital, a mullah was shot dead. The mosque shooting took place in Wardak province which borders Kabul. A police chief said around 10 gunmen entered the building.. More

  • Putin plays down Iran bomb fears

    Moscow has no information that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. But he said Moscow shared the West's concerns that Tehran's nuclear program had to be "transparent". Mr Putin was speaking after talks in Moscow with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who said the two countries had made progress on the.. More

  • Two car bombs kill at least 12 in north Iraqi town

    Two suicide lorry bombs, separately targeting a police chief and a tribal leader, have killed at least 12 people in Baiji, about 200km north of Baghdad, police said. At least 30 people were injured when the lorries, loaded with barrels of petrol, exploded within minutes of each other at about 6am (0300 GMT) on Tuesday, police officials said. One.. More