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  • Armenian Jet Crashes into Black Sea

    A plane flying from Armenia's capital, Yerevan, to the city of Sochi in southern Russia with 113 on board has crashed into the Black Sea. Fifteen bodies have reportedly been recovered so far, but no survivors, as rescue teams work in bad conditions. The Airbus A-320 plane from Armenia's Armavia airline disappeared from radar screens about 0215 (2215GMT.. More

  • Chad Holds Election Amid Threats

    Chad is holding anelectionthat is expected to keep thepresent president in power, but opposition parties are boycotting it andarmed fightershave threatened to disrupt voting. Idriss Deby, a former army chief who seized control of the former French colony in 1990 and won elections in 1996 and 2001, is seen easily winning a third five-year term in Wednesday's.. More

  • UK Soldiers in Dock for Iraqi Death

    Four British soldiers are facing a court martial in the UK over the death of an Iraqi prisoner who drowned in a canal in Basra. Soldiers James Cooke, 22, Joseph McCleary, 24, and Martin McGing, 22 of the Irish Guards and Colour Sergeant Carle Selman of the Coldstream Guards, 39, all deny manslaughter in the death of Ahmad Karim. The Iraqi youth was.. More

  • Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Woman

    A Palestinian woman killed by Israeli forces inside her West Bank house was buried late onMonday in her home town. Israeli occupation forces killed Itaf Yusuf,45,a mother of five in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarim early on Monday, a Palestinian security source said. Her two daughters, aged 22 and 20, were also present when the troops opened.. More

  • France Set to Tackle Immigration Bill

    France is set for adivisive fight over immigration policy as the interior minister submits a bill in parliament to attract skilled newcomers while keeping poorer ones out. Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal, widely seen as part of his campaign for the presidential election next year, has attracted criticism from left-wing parties and church leaders, and prompted.. More

  • Immigrant Protests Hit US

    Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the US have taken part in a day of protests and boycotts aimed at highlighting their role in the country's economy. Supporters of the Day Without Immigrants stayed away from work, kept children out of school and stopped shopping on Monday in protest at a new law that makes illegal entry into the US a full criminal.. More

  • Arab League to Pay Palestinian Salaries

    The Arab League, which has collected 70 million US dollar for the Palestinians, will pay the salaries of civil servants straight into their bank accounts. A Hamas government spokesman said on Monday: "We have given the list and bank account details of the civil servants to the Arab League so that the salaries can be paid to them directly. "We have.. More

  • Rebels Reject Darfur Peace Deal

    Mediators have givenwarring parties in Sudan's Darfur region an extra 48 hours to reach a peace deal after tworebel groups said they would refuse to sign a proposed agreement in its current form. The last-minute extensionby African Union mediators came after an initialdeadline to reach a deal expired at midnight,throwing into doubt two years of talks.. More

  • Iran: Maximum Cooperation Offered to IAEA, not Security Council

    Iran says it could allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to resume snap inspections of its nuclear facilities, but only if the UN Security Council returns Iran's case to the jurisdiction of the UN's nuclear watchdog. Iran announced it would show "maximum" cooperation" if its case was returned to the IAEA from the UN Security Council. "The.. More

  • EU Mladic Handover Deadline Pushed Back

    The deadline for war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic to be handed over by Belgrade has been pushed back yet again by Brussels. The EU had officially said that if the former Bosnian Serb commander was not captured by the end of April the next round of talks on Serbia joining the bloc would be suspended. But Mladic is still on the run, with the Serbs now.. More

  • US Journalist Released from Afghan Jail

    A US journalist sentenced to two years imprisonment for torturing Afghans in a private Kabul jail has been released two months before the end of his sentence. EdwardCaraballo, a television cameraman from New York, was flown out of Afghanistan under heavy US security on Sunday. Afghan authorities discovered the jail, which contained eight Afghans who.. More

  • Russian Nuclear Reactor Shut Down

    A Russian nuclear reactor shut down yesterday after an automatic protection system was activated, but caused no radiation leak. "The automatic defence system was activated" for reactor number one at the Kalininskaya power plant, some 330km northwest of Moscow, an official from Rosenergoatom, the country's nuclear reactor agency said. The Kalininskaya.. More

  • Egypt Extends Emergency Law

    Egypt's parliament agreed on Sunday to a two-year extension of emergency law requested by the government. The Muslim Brotherhood, the strongest opposition force, said there was no justification for extending the law, whichHosni Mubarak, the president, last year promised to substitute with anti-terrorism legislation. Mubarak had signalled that the.. More

  • China Mine Blast Kills 24

    Twenty-four miners were confirmed dead and eight were missing after an explosion tore through a coal mine in northwest China's Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua News Agency has reported. The blast shook the Wayaobao Coal Mine in Yanan on Saturday after a gas build-up in the mine ignited, Xinhua said. Unlike many smaller mines across China, this.. More

  • Italy's Berlusconi Set to Resign

    Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is to resign on Tuesday - more than three weeks after his narrow election defeat. His announcement came after his centre-right alliance failed to get its candidate elected as Senate speaker. Italy's highest court has confirmed the victory of the centre-left coalition in both houses of parliament. Berlusconi.. More