Thailand's supreme court has begun proceedings against Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister ousted in a military coup nearly two years ago. Thaksin did not attend the opening of the trial on Tuesday, the first in a number of cases against him and his aides. He faces corruption charges...
Kenya's finance minister has announced his resignation from the country's coalition government amid allegations of corruption in the sale of a luxury hotel in the capital, Nairobi. Amos Kimunya said he was standing down to allow an inquiry into his involvement in last month's sale of the Grand Re...
KUALA LUMPUR -- Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad says his country does not fear an attack by the United States over its disputed nuclear activities. "The economic, political, and military situation will not lead Mr. Bush to do that, everybody knows this fact," Ahmadinejad told repor...
The United States secretly shipped hundreds of tons of uranium from Iraq to a customer in Canada on the request of Baghdad, a spokesman for the Pentagon has said. About 550 metric tons of yellow cake uranium was moved to Baghdad's fortified Green Zone before being flown to a third country, where ...
Pakistan is not behind the suicide car-bombing that targeted the Indian embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people, including two senior Indian diplomats, Yousaf Raza Gillani, the country's prime minister, has said. The Afghan interior ministry said it thought the blast was carried out "w...
Ethnic Hazaras Protest In Kabul In Feud With Afghan NomadsKABUL -- More than 10,000 ethnic Hazaras have protested in the Afghan capital, calling for President Hamid Karzai to resign over killings of their kin by rival Kuchi nomads. The angry marchers sent police fleeing on the outskirts of Kabul, then chased them until hundreds of officers and soldiers blocked one of the main roads into the city, next to Kabul zoo. The marchers then sat down in the middle of the road until one... Readmore |
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Parliament Moves To Approve Polygamy, Over Iranian Women's ProtestsAn Iranian parliamentary committee has approved in the first reading a controversial draft law that allows men to take a second wife, a bill that wome... Readmore |
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Troop Withdrawal Timetable Becomes Focus Of Obama's Iraq VisitSenator Barack Obama, the presumed U.S. Democratic candidate for president, is wrapping up a two-day stop in Iraq which has seen him meet Iraqi govern... Readmore |
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KABUL -- More than 10,000 ethnic Hazaras have protested in the Afghan capital, calling for President Hamid Karzai to resign over killings of their kin by rival Kuchi nomads. The angry marchers sent...
ANKARA -- Two Turkish engineers kidnapped in western Afghanistan last week have been set free and are returning home, authorities have said. "They are safe and now are flying to Turkey with a...
Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has met the president of Afghanistan on the second day of his tour of the country. Obama, in Afghanistan as part of a congressional delegation,...
KABUL -- U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan on the first leg of a trip aimed at proving his foreign policy credentials that will also take in the Middle East...
TOKYO -- Japan has dropped a plan to send ground troops to Afghanistan after the ruling coalition failed to reach a consensus due to fears over the continuing violence in the area, Japanese media have...
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a prominent Somali Islamist figure, has claimed the leadership of an opposition alliance, underscoring an ongoing power struggle. "We have elected Aweys as the head of...
Sudan's president has dismissed accusation that he is responsible for atrocities in Darfur, as he began a two-day tour of the troubled western region. Omar al-Bashir, who faces a possible international...
Zimbabwe's ruling party, the Zanu-PF, and two factions of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have signed a memorandum of understanding that will set the stage for formal talks to solve...
The chairman of an emergency Arab League meeting has said that a decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to charge Sudan's president with genocide and war crimes sets a dangerous...
Somalia's opposition coalition has endorsed a truce with the country's transitional government amid efforts to end years of bloodshed. Suleiman Olad Roble, a spokesman for the Alliance for the Re-liberation...
The first trial at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay has opened with the former driver of Osama bin Laden accused of knowing key details of the September 11 attacks and the judge declaring that evidence...
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II has begun at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, nearly seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks prompted...
Alvaro Uribe, the Colombian president, has cancelled his plan to repeat the 2006 election in which he won, the government says. "We are not going to call a referendum," Fabio Valencia, the...
Cristina Kirchner, the Argentine president, has cancelled plans to increase taxes on soy exports after the senate voted against the bill. Thursday's rejection of the increase, which had prompted...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says it is unclear whether Iran will respond positively this weekend to an offer to suspend sensitive nuclear work in exchange for incentives. ...
Senior Thai and Cambodian defence officials have begun talks to find a solution to the week-long standoff over disputed land near an ancient temple along their border. Thai Supreme Commander General...
The UN is to end aid flights to Myanmar at the beginning of August. The UN said on Saturday that it was a routine step as the country shifts to rebuilding homes, buildings and schools destroyed by...
Nepal is due to elect its first president since the abolition of the Hindu monarchy earlier in the year. Members of the parliament are expected to choose Ramraja Prasad Singh, 73, in a secret ballot...
A powerful tropical storm has battered southern Taiwan with torrential rains, triggering flash flood and landslides that have left at least seven people dead. Tropical storm Kalmaegi hit the island...
South Korea has rejected a Japanese proposal to hold bilateral talks on the status of a disputed group of islets in the Sea of Japan, roughly halfway between the two countries. Japanese officials...
OTTAWA– Yesterday, a Canadian soldier was killed just before midnight Kandahar time. The soldier was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device while on a foot patrol in Panjwayi District. The...
OTTAWA - The contingent of some 205 Canadian Forces (CF) personnel participating in this year’s Nijmegen Marches will pay their respects on July 17 at the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, the final...
TORONTO -- Omar Khadr, the only Western prisoner still held in the U.S. prison on Guantanamo Bay, pleaded with Canadian interrogators to be allowed home in videos released by his lawyers. The videos...
OTTAWA - The contingent of some 205 Canadian Forces (CF) personnel participating in this year’s Nijmegen Marches will begin their journey though the countryside and crowded streets of towns and villages...
OTTAWA—A contingent of about 205 Canadian Forces (CF) personnel leaves Canada today for Nijmegen, Netherlands, to take part in the International Four Days Marches Nijmegen, a prestigious Dutch marching event...
At least four explosions have been reported along the de facto border between Georgia and the breakaway region of Abkhazia, according to officials. One person was reportedly slightly injured in the...
A Turkish court has ordered the arrest of two former generals for organising and leading a "terrorist group" that planned to oust the government, the state Anatolian news agency has reported....
France's banking commission has fined Societe Generale about 4 million euros ($6.3 million) for its faliure to prevent a massive rogue trading loss. A statement from the regulator on Friday cited "grave...
Poland has said a US offer to boost its air defences in return for basing anti-missile interceptors on its soil is insufficient, but that it remained open to talks with Washington. The decision...
Officials said a homemade bomb exploded at an outdoor concert in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, overnight, injuring some20 people. The blast happened after midnight, at a concert to celebrate the...
For years, Iranian women have been active in regional and international sports competitions, but religious laws in Iran prevent women from being seen on TV without an Islamic hijab. While Iranian women...
An Iranian parliamentary committee has approved in the first reading a controversial draft law that allows men to take a second wife, a bill that women's rights activists have dubbed the "Antifamily...
Western powers are stepping up pressure on Iran to reply in two weeks to the international community’s latest offer of incentives for Tehran to give up uranium enrichment. The new pressure comes...
TEHRAN -- At least eight women and one man have been sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran and may be executed at any time, the lawyers defending several of those sentenced said. The eight women,...
Iran officials have ruled out any halt to uranium enrichment, as widely anticipated talks on its nuclear programme began in Switzerland. There had been a positive mood before the meeting on...
Senator Barack Obama, the presumed U.S. Democratic candidate for president, is wrapping up a two-day stop in Iraq which has seen him meet Iraqi government leaders, former Sunni insurgent leaders, and...
Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has arrived in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, on the next stage of an overseas trip aimed at highlighting his foreign policy objectives. He arrived...
A group that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq more than a year ago, has said one of its hostages committed suicide, London's Sunday Times reports. Gordon Brown, the...
Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc has rejoined the Shia-led government in a breakthrough for national reconciliation. Parliament approved six Accordance Front candidates for several vacant cabinet posts on...
BAGHDAD -- Iraq hopes to have security control of all its provinces by the end of the year, the national security adviser said on July 16, underscoring the government's growing confidence in its own...
The Israeli defence minister has condemned an incident, captured on video, in which an Israeli soldier shoots a Palestinian detainee. Ehud Barak vowed on Monday that the incident would be investigates, but...
T housands of people have attended a memorial service in Beirut for eight Hezbollah fighters killed in the 2006 war with Israel. The bodies of the men were returned to Lebanon two days ago as part...
Five Lebanese prisoners have been handed over to the Hezbollah movement by Israel, as part of a swap for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. The freed men arrived to a heroes' welcome at the Naqoura...
Israel's cabinet has given its final go-ahead to a prisoner swap with Lebanon's Hezbollah, despite comments from Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, that the Shia group had not fully kept its side...
PARIS -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said a military attack on Iran over its nuclear program would have grave consequences for the United States, Israel, and the world. Speculation of a...
KABUL -- The NATO-led international force in Afghanistan has rejected reports from Afghan officials that it killed more than 50 civilians in air strikes the previous day in the west of the country....
ISAF responds to attacks from inside Pakistan KABUL, Afghanistan — ISAF’s Task Force (TF) Currahee in Paktika province received multiple rocket attacks from militants inside Pakistan on 15 July....
BRUSSELS -- NATO has said it is troubled by Russian military overflights of Georgian territory, saying they called into question Moscow's role as a peacekeeper and facilitator of talks between Tbilisi and...
NATO TV is launching a six-part video story on the deployment of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24 MEU) in Afghanistan. The 24 MEU is conducting operations in southern Helmand Province as part...
ISAF helps wounded following Deh Rawod suicide attack KABUL, Afghanistan - After the bloody attack of a suicide bomber on the people of Deh Rawod at the bazaar July 13, ISAF Dutch soldiers...
Ingrid Betancourt, the French Colombian politician held hostage by Colombian Farc rebels for more than six years, has been rescued from captivity, Colombian officials have said. Three US hostages...
Prohibitions dictated by the Koran make it difficult for Islamic financial institutions to work in the same way as conventional Western banks (file photo) (epa) The rise...
The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said Bush's remarks were "beneath the dignity" of his office. (AFP) U.S. President George W. Bush...
About 3,000 to 5,000 people may have been killed in one county alone after a powerful earthquake hit southwest China. Buildings have collapsed and telephone links in several...
Mark Canning, Britain's ambassador to Myanmar, has told Al Jazeera that the relief operation for Myanmar is likely to be twice the size needed in Aceh province in Indonesia, after...
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has said it would neither allow Islamist militants to plot attacks on its soil nor let foreign troops take military action on its territory. The declaration by leaders of Pakistan's...
KOHAT, Pakistan -- A Pakistani Army helicopter has killed five Taliban militants in a restive northwestern town, taking the death toll in three days of fighting to 13, government and military officials...
KOHAT, Pakistan -- Pakistani security forces backed by gunship helicopters cleared two northwestern towns of Taliban militants, after 15 soldiers were killed in an ambush last weekend, the military said...
At least 13 Pakistani soldiers have been killed by suspected Taliban fighters in an attack on their convoy in the northwest of the country. A senior security offical said that many others were also...
In Latin, the question is simple: "Cui bono?" Who benefits? Not Pakistan, says retired Lieutenant General Asad Durrani, a former head of the country's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency,...
The killings, which took place in front of about 5,000 people in the Bajur tribal region, were said to be in retribution for a suspected U.S. missile strike last month targeting Al Qaeda militants. That strike,...
Taliban militants say they have executed two women in central Afghanistan after accusing them of working as prostitutes on a US army base. A spokesman for Ghazni's governor, said the women, dressed...
The UN said recently that the number of civilians killed in fighting in Afghanistan had jumped by nearly two thirds compared to last year. At least 250 Afghan civilians have been killed or wounded...
The killings, which took place in front of about 5,000 people in the Bajur tribal region, were said to be in retribution for a suspected U.S. missile strike last month targeting Al Qaeda militants. That strike,...
June 25,2008 -- This year 10 cases of violence against women and girls has been reported in Badakhshan. This includes two cases...
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Thailand's supreme court has begun proceedings against Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister ousted in a military coup nearly two years ago.