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  • Iran offers UK access to sailors

    Iran has offered to let UK officials visit the 15 Royal Navy personnel who were captured in the Gulf on Friday. Iran's foreign minister also said the only woman being held, Faye Turney, who has been interviewed on Iranian state television, could be released. However, he added the stand-off would be resolved only if the UK stated that the sailors.. More

  • Many killed in fresh Mogadishu clashes

    At least 10 people have been killed in heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and armed Somali groups in the capital, Mogadishu. Two Ethiopian helicopter gunships fired missiles at southern areas of the capital. The clashes are the heaviest since the major Hawiye clan, which has partly controlled the Somali capital since 1991, reached a ceasefire.. More

  • Iran TV shows seized UK navy crew

    Iranian state television has broadcast an interview with captured British female sailor Faye Turney and footage of the 14 servicemen seized with her. Leading Seaman Turney, 26, said they had been seized in the Gulf because "obviously we trespassed" in Iranian waters - something the UK disputes. She said her captors had been friendly and the 15 personnel.. More

  • Gunmen kill dozens in Iraqi town

    Gunmen are reported to have killed at least 70 Sunni men in the north-western Iraqi border town of Talafar. The deaths were in apparent reprisal for bombings in a Shia area on Tuesday, which left about 55 people dead. Iraqi officials said the attack occurred in a district of the town where tensions have been rising between Shia, Sunni and Turkmen.. More

  • New Arab summit in Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia has said it will press leaders to support a plan ending decades of Israeli-Arab conflict at a two-day Arab League summit. The meeting, being held on Wednesday in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, is expected to renew an offer of full peace and normal ties with Israel if it complies with the conditions of an Arab peace blueprint. The plan, first.. More

  • Bomber kills four in Afghan capitol

    A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated a blast on Wednesday near the car of a senior Afghan intelligence official in a central Kabul business district, killing four Afghans. The target of the attack, Kamaluddin, who heads an intelligence department, was among 12 wounded in the attack, the latest in a series of raids by the Islamist rebels,.. More

  • Children held in Manila bus siege

    The head of a day care centre in the Philippines has seized a busload of his children, saying he is demanding better housing and education for them. The man identified as Jun Ducat, and at least one other armed hostage-taker, took the 32 children and two teachers hostage as they departed for a trip. Police and worried parents surrounded the bus.. More

  • UK in 'discreet talks' with Iran

    The government is attempting to "discreetly" talk to the Iranians to secure the release of 15 Royal Navy personnel, Downing Street has said. Tony Blair's spokesman said that if the talks were unsuccessful, the government may have to become "more explicit". He said they were "utterly confident" the 15 had been in Iraqi, not Iranian, waters, when.. More

  • Truck blasts kill 48 in Iraq town

    Fighters have blown up two trucks in the Iraqi town of Talafar, killing 48 people and injuring 100, police say. One bomb was hidden in a truck that arrived at a market loaded with food supplies, and was detonated by the driver, a police spokesman said. It was one of the largest attacks in Talafar since US President George Bush used the town to illustrate.. More

  • 'Up to 600 dead' in Congo clashes

    Up to 600 people may have been killed in last week's clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa, European Union diplomats say. The authorities have said about 60 people died in violence between the army and armed guards loyal to opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba. The EU diplomats expressed concern at the government's "premature".. More

  • Two Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in West Bank

    Israeli troops have killed two Palestinian fighters during a raid in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian resistance group and the Israeli army have said. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, linked to the Fatah faction of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, announced the deaths over loudspeakers in the city of Nablus on Tuesday. An Israeli army spokeswoman.. More

  • Low turnout for Egypt referendum

    Polls have closed and counting is under way after Egyptians voted in a referendum on constitutional amendments which would help the government exclude opposition groups from the political system. Anas al-Fiqi, Egypt's information minister, said turnout on Monday stood between 23 and 27 per cent, according to early estimates. The independent Committee.. More

  • EU renews offer to Iran on nuke talks

    A top European envoy on Monday renewed an offer from six world powers to talk with Tehran over its nuclear ambitions, and a senior Iranian negotiator agreed to stay in contact in an effort to find common ground. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana's telephone conversation with Ali Larijani, Tehran's top nuclear negotiator, was the first.. More

  • Eight killed in suicide attack on Sri Lanka army

    Tamil Tiger rebels Tuesday drove a tractor and trailer loaded with explosives on a suicide mission into an army camp in eastern Sri Lanka, killing at least eight people, a day after their spectacular first ever air raid. Ten people were also wounded in the attack on the Chenkaladi army camp, a military official in the area said. The attack came a.. More

  • Moscow's Opposition Threatens UN's Kosovo Plan

    There has been talk of war in the Balkans once again. The European Union has warned that the region could plunge into chaos unless a prompt decision is made on Kosovo's status. A German government study has warned of riots and a "revolution-like development." The threat of such a dire scenario will be in the back of UN Security Council members' minds.. More