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  • Mid-East summit to include Syria

    Arab states including Syria - a bitter opponent of Israel - will be asked to a Middle East peace meeting in November, the US secretary of state has said. Condoleezza Rice described the Arab nations as "natural invitees" but said they would have to renounce violence. She was speaking after the four backers of the peace process - the US, EU, Russia.. More

  • Deaths in Iraq mosque bombing

    At least 18 people have died and at least 30 injured in a suicide bomb attack on a crowd of tribal leaders and provincial officials near the Iraqi city of Baquba, officials have said. Seven policemen, three of them senior officers, were among those killed in Monday's attack at Shifta, west of Baquba, said Khaider al-Timimi, a police brigadier. The.. More

  • Deadly blast hits Kosovo capital

    An explosion killed two people and injured 11 when it tore through shops early on Monday in the capital of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province. The explosion scattered glass and debris from a dozen shops on Pristina's Bill Clinton Boulevard. Part of a building collapsed. "Two people have now died," said police spokesman Veton Elshani. He said another.. More

  • Brown to promise change amid election fever

    Gordon Brown, who has refused to rule out calling a snap general election, will promise new policies to create a "fairer, stronger Britain" on Monday when he addresses the Labour party's annual conference. The party faithful will be listening closely for clues to any plans to call an election as early as next month, but Brown is expected to give.. More

  • Quartet announces new peace summit

    The Quartet of Middle East negotiators has pledged support for another Middle East peace conference, with the US indicating Syria would be one of the "natural invitees". Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said the summit would be "substantive and serious" and deal with the core issues of Palestinian refugees, Jerusalem and borders. But.. More

  • Pakistan detains opposition leaders

    Pakistani police have arrested more than a dozen opposition leaders saying they want to prevent further protests against the re-election of Pervez Musharraf, the president. Officers started arresting political figures on Saturday night and continued into Sunday, taking 14 people in total. Further arrests are expected during the day. Most of those.. More

  • Israel to release 90 Palestinians

    The Israeli cabinet has voted to release 90 Palestinian prisoners in what is seen as an effort to shore up Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in his power struggle with rival faction Hamas. The size of the release disappointed many Palestinians at a time when both sides have been trying to move peace talks into a higher gear. David Baker,.. More

  • Iraq expands Blackwater probe

    The Iraqi government is expanding its investigation into the security company Blackwater USA to look at six other incidents. An interior ministry spokesman said violent episodes over the past seven months have left at least 10 Iraqis dead. Blackwater is being investigated for the fatal shooting of Iraqi civilians last week. The company is also.. More

  • Israel agrees to free dozens Palestinian prisoners

    Israel agreed on Sunday to free another 90 Palestinian prisoners to try to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood, officials said. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's cabinet approved the release in principle after about a two-week delay. A ministerial committee will meet later on Sunday to approve.. More

  • Extradited Fujimori back in Peru

    Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has arrived home after extradition from Chile to face charges of human rights abuse and corruption. Hundreds of supporters were waiting at a police base in Lima but his plane landed at a nearby military air base. The ex-leader denies the allegations, which date back to the early 1990s, and has fought extradition.. More

  • Blackwater denies Iraq smuggling

    A US company that provides security for US diplomats in Iraq has denied as "baseless" allegations that it was involved in weapons smuggling. Blackwater's statement follows reports of a US investigation into allegations that some employees sent unlicensed weapons and equipment to Iraq. The weapons could have been used by a group labeled as.. More

  • Algeria bomb attack injures nine

    A bomb attack in Algeria has wounded nine people, including foreign workers and members of their police escort, state media reports. The injured were said to be five Algerian police, an Algerian driver, two French workers and an Italian. A group calling itself al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it carried out the attack, which took place in Bouira,.. More

  • Ahmadinejad warns against attack

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has issued a tough warning to any country considering an attack on Iran. He said Iran's forces were just for defense, but that anybody who attacked would experience nothing but regret. He urged those he called the occupiers in the region - an apparent reference to the US and its allies in Iraq - to admit defeat.. More

  • Two Sistani aides killed in Iraq

    Two aides of Iraq's most senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, have been shot dead in separate incidents in southern Iraq. The ayatollah's office said one of the men, Amjad al-Janabi, had been attacked after leaving a mosque near Basra on Thursday evening. The other Ahmad al-Barqawi was shot as he drove home to the city of Diwaniya.. More

  • Lebanon government defies bombers

    Lebanon's pro-Western government says it is determined to hold a presidential election, despite the assassination of another anti-Syrian politician. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said the killers of MP Antoine Ghanim would not be allowed to succeed in their aims. Syria has been accused of being behind the killing, but it denies involvement. MPs.. More