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Pakistan, India leaders agree to kickstart peace talks
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed after summit talks on Wednesday to resume their strained peace process be scheduling a new round of talks by year's end. The two leaders directed their foreign secretaries to "schedule meetings of the fifth round of the composite dialogue in the next three months,&quo.. More -
Several killed in Iraq ambush
Gunmen have ambushed and killed at least 20 people in a village northeast of Baghdad. The deaths on Wednesday in al-Dulaimat in Diyala province included 12 policemen and members of the US-backed Sunni patrol groups, police said. The attack occurred at about 3.30 pm (1230GMT) when the victims gathered for a raid in the Sunni village, which is surrounded.. More -
Somalis flee Mogadishu gun battles
Hundreds of Somalis have fled Mogadishu after several days of heavy fighting between anti-government fighters and Somali troops, supported by the Ethiopian military and African Union peacekeepers. Witnesses said residents could be seen leaving the city aboard packed minibuses and lorries or on foot early on Wednesday "I believe staying in.. More -
Bosnia unearths 362 more Muslim victims in Srebrenica
orensic experts said on Wednesday they had unearthed the remains of 362 Muslim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia. It was the 10th mass grave found in the village of Kamenica, in an area labeled "Death Valley", that contained the remains of many of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed by Bosnian.. More -
Iraq passes provincial election law
Iraq's parliament has passed a law allowing provincial elections to go ahead after months of wrangling over how the poll should be conducted and the future of the northern city of Kirkuk, according to MPs. The law will now be sent to Iraq's three-member presidency council, headed by Jalal Talabani, Iraq's president, for approval. Talabani rejected.. More -
Turkish police detain 17 in plot investigation
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 17 people, including a former television station owner, as part of an investigation into the right-wing Ergenekon group accused of plotting to overthrow the government, CNN Turk said. Media reports said police carried out a dawn search of the Istanbul house of former Kanalturk owner Tuncay Ozkan before taking him.. More -
Attacks kill 5 police in Afghan capital Kabul
Zemerai Bashary says Wednesday's bomb blast appears to have targeted Gen. Ali Shah Paktiawal, the head of criminal investigations for the Kabul police. Bashary says Paktiawal was investigating the overnight killing of three officers at the checkpoint in Kabul's western outskirts when a blast struck his team. Paktiawal was lightly wounded and two of.. More -
Ahmadinejad: US empire nearing end
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has criticized the administration of George Bush, the US president, saying the "American empire ... is reaching the end" in a speech at the annual UN general assembly. In a confrontational speech on Tuesday in New York, he said: "The American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road,.. More -
Economic crisis overshadows UN meet
Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary general, has urged world leaders to put aside their national interests and show "global leadership" in the face of world economic turmoil. Addressing 120 world leaders at a UN general assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, he said the economic problems could have a "very serious negative impact".. More -
'Several dead' in Finland shooting
At least nine people have been killed and dozens injured in a gun attack at a vocational school in southwestern Finland, the country's prime minister has said. The shooting on Tuesday in Kauhajoki, 300km from the capital Helsinki, was carried out by a 22-year-old male student of the college, Matti Vanhanen said. "There are nine dead. We have.. More -
'Scores killed' in Pakistan raids
At least 50 al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked fighters and one solider have been killed in fighting in northwest Pakistan, a military spokesman has said. The clashes broke out on Monday in the region of Dara Adam Khel, Major Murad Khansaid on Tuesday. "Since yesterday, security forces have been carrying out search and cordon operations," he said. News.. More -
Rich nations urged to honor Africa aid pledges
A UN summit on Africa's development wrapped up with a call on rich countries to honor their pledge to double their annual aid to the continent, which is struggling to meet poverty reduction goals by 2015. Representatives of more than 160 countries adopted by consensus a political declaration on Africa's development needs. "We are concerned that,.. More -
Abbas forces raid Hamas office in West Bank
Palestinian security men raided the office of a legislator of Hamas in the occupied West Bank on Monday, in an ongoing crackdown of Abbas forces against the Islamist group. Samira al-Halayka of Hamas's Change and Reform bloc said they took away computers and documents and arrested her guard. A security official in Hebron said officers confiscated.. More -
Taliban denies role in hotel attack
Asenior commander of the Taliban in Pakistan has denied that his group was responsible for a bomb attack at Islamabad's Marriott hotel, in which at least 53 people died and 270 were injured. Baitullah Mehsud said on Monday that the Taliban had no role in Saturday's attack, Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, reported. "Mehsud.. More -
Tourists 'abducted' in Egypt
At least 15 people, including 11 foreign tourists, have been abducted in Egypt, according to the Italian foreign ministry and Egyptian security sources. The Italian foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that at least five Italian nationals were among those taken in the south of the country. "Foreign Minister Franco Frattini... is following.. More
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