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  • More unrest in France after Sarkozy victory

    France has been rocked by another night of disturbances in the wake of the Presidential election victory of Nicolas Sarkozy. In Paris, up to 400 people, many of them students, gathered in the Place de la Bastille to vent their anger, leading to clashes with police when they were moved on. 35 people were arrested. It was a similar story in Nantes,.. More

  • Historic Northern Ireland devolution day comes

    DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness are to take their pledge of office as devolution returns to Northern Ireland. British and Irish Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern will travel to Stormont to witness the ceremony later. Direct rule over NI by London ministers officially ended at midnight, almost five years since it.. More

  • Senior Wolfowitz aide steps down

    A senior aide to embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz has announced his resignation. Kevin Kellems said an ongoing scandal surrounding his boss made it difficult for him to remain effective in his role at the Washington-based institution. Mr Wolfowitz has been mired in a controversy involving his handling of a pay package for his girlfriend... More

  • Ramadi hit by twin bomb attacks

    Two suicide car bombers have killed at least 24 people near the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, police say. The first exploded in a busy market in Albu Thiyab, to the east of Ramadi, killing at least 15 and injuring 30. The other targeted a police checkpoint some 15 minutes later in the town of al Jazeera. Five police officers and five.. More

  • Palestinian groups clash in Lebanon

    Two Palestinian were killed and four wounded during clashes between rival factions in Lebanon's main refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh. Palestinian security sources said the two dead men belonged to the Fatah movement of Mahmud Abbas, the Palestinian president.One, Abu Omar, was allegedly killed by a rival from the Jund ash-Sham movement who was himself.. More

  • Anti Sarkozy Protest in Paris

    French riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at youths lobbing bottles and stones in central Paris to protest the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president on Sunday. A number of similar incidents involving thousands of anti-Sarkozy protesters were reported in the suburbs. Police said at least four police officers and one civilian were injured.. More

  • US soldiers killed at Kabul prison

    Two US soldiers have been shot dead by a man dressed in Afghan army uniform outside a prison on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, US military said. The man shot at vehicles leaving the high-security Pul-e-Charkhi prison east of the capital on Sunday, injuring two other US soldiers in the attack. The gunman was killed by Afghan troops stationed.. More

  • Rescuers reach edge of plane crash site

    A Kenya Airways jetliner that plunged in a central African swamp was broken into pieces no bigger than a car door, a muddied searcher said Monday as he emerged from a night at the crash site. There was no information on survivors. The searcher, Guiffo Gande Adolphe, said he had seen one body and a body part. Adolphe, a 35-year-old Douala resident,.. More

  • Sarkozy takes French presidency

    Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy has won the hotly-contested French presidential election, according to projections made from partial results. Mr Sarkozy is estimated to have won 53% of the vote, compared with 47% for socialist Segolene Royal. The turnout was the highest for more than two decades, at about 85%. Mr Sarkozy, 52, the son of a Hungarian.. More

  • Baghdad car bomb blast kills 33

    A car bomb has killed at least 33 people and injured dozens more in a mostly Shia Muslim district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say. The blast happened in Bayaa in the south-west of the city - an area which has been targeted several times by car bombs blamed on Sunni insurgents. Bystanders used blankets to carry away dead and injured,.. More

  • New Turkey president poll fails

    Turkey's parliament has failed for a second time to elect the Islamist-rooted governing party's candidate for president, Abdullah Gul. Mr Gul, the only nominee, withdrew his candidacy after the vote was rendered invalid by an opposition boycott. Turkey's governing AK party is now expected to focus its attention on early parliamentary elections in.. More

  • Taliban extends hostage deadline

    The Taliban has again extended its deadline to complete talks to secure the release of a French aid worker until after the French presidential elections end on Sunday, a spokesman for the fighters has said. Qari Mohammad Yousuf said on Saturday that the extension had been awarded as "a sign of mercy". The original deadline had already been extended.. More

  • Pakistan judge to address rally

    Pakistan's ousted chief justice has entered the eastern city of Lahore where thousands of supporters lined the streets to welcome him. Iftikhar Chaudhry had travelled at the head of a procession of supporters from the capital, Islamabad. Chaudhry will address a rally where he is likely to challenge the authority of President Pervez Musharraf. He.. More

  • Tornado flattens town in Kansas

    A massive tornado killed at least nine people and flattened almost all of a small town in Kansas on Friday. More than 60 people were injured when the tornado - said to be up to a mile wide - hit the town of Greensburg. More than 95% of the 1,500-population town was destroyed, including the hospital and schools as well as homes, local officials.. More

  • Crews search Cameroon rainforest for jet

    Fog, thick forest and an unexplained silence from an emergency transponder hampered search efforts Sunday as rescuers combed a remote area for a Kenya-bound flight that crashed with 114 people on board. A Kenyan Airways official said at a news conference in Nairobi that the company's plane had stopped emitting signals after an initial distress call,.. More