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A Hamas official said his group will resume reconciliation talks with rival Fatah if that group releases all imprisoned Hamas members, a newspaper reported Friday.
"If (Palestinian President) Abu Mazen released the prisoners and stopped his security measures, talks would start immediately," Mussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of...
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Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said Thursday that he and former United States president Jimmy Carter planned to forge ahead with a visit to Zimbabwe at the weekend, despite their visit being rebuffed by President Robert Mugabe's regime.
Annan, Carter and Mozambican social activist Graca Machel, members of The...
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Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan assured Thursday that he, former United States president Jimmy Carter and a third member of The Elders had "no intention" of interfering in Zimbabwe's power-sharing talks.
Annan was responding to the Zimbabwean government's put-down of the trio's plans to visit Zimbabwe to...
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Cambodia Tuesday urged developed nations to focus on poverty alleviation in less developed economies as part of a strategy to bolster the global economy.
In a speech to the annual International Monetary Fund and the World Bank meetings in Washington dated Monday and received Tuesday, Cambodia's IMF chair Chea Chanto and World Bank...
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While markets in the United States, Europe and Asia were receiving their worst battering in decades last week, Africa's economy, which has been relatively unscathed by the global financial meltdown, came in for some rare praise.
British liberal weekly, the Economist, which once described Africa as "the hopeless continent,"...
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A delegation of senior members of the Palestinian group Hamas arrived in Cairo Tuesday for talks with Egyptian officials aimed at ending the Hamas-Fatah power struggle in Gaza and the West Bank and achieving Palestinian national reconciliation.
Headed by Musa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, the delegation is...
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit has offered his country's assistance in rebuilding Lebanon's army, in a bid to improve security amid ongoing sectarian tensions.
North Lebanon has witnessed in the past two months repeated clashes between Sunni followers of the western-backed government and others loyal to the opposition, led...
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Sudanese President Omar El Bashir on Monday brushed off criticism of
the appointment to his personal staff a Janjaweed leader suspected of
involvement in ethnic cleansing in Darfur saying that allegations he
was involved in murders was blatantly wrong.
"These allegations (against Musa Hilal) are untrue and we
definitely do...
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 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe during a congress of his ruling
ZANU(PF) party on Thursday became its sole presidential candidate in
elections due next year.
There was no vote or debate among the 10,000 delegates. The
chairmen of each of the party's 10 provincial organizations read out
reports in which they said he had been...
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Although Kevin Garnett missed the game on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics seemed to be just fine without their emotional leader.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points and fan favourite Brian Scalabrine, filling in for the suspended Garnett, fired in a game-sealing three- pointer with just over a minute left to play as the Celtics held off...
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The Houston Rockets picked up the win, but may have lost one of their All-Stars, indefinitely.
Argentina's Luis Scola scored a season-high 23 points, and the Rockets pulled away in the second half without injured Tracy McGrady to roll past the slumping Oklahoma City Thunder 100-89 on Monday night.
"Luis made big plays for us...
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The US financial crisis has gone global, putting the world on the brink of a recession that can only be resolved through international cooperation, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Thursday.
In a press conference at IMF headquarters in Washington, Strauss- Kahn warned that a lack of confidence...
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A military judge at Camp Pendleton dismissed on Tuesday the case against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, the highest-ranking marine charged in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
Col. Steven Folsom, the judge, made his ruling in response to a motion from defense attorneys charging that undue influence was exercised on the convening...
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 The World Bank has announced a new $1.2
billion program to get emergency aid to countries suffering from global food
shortages and to address the immediate needs in the global food crisis. The financing
facility includes $200 million in grants for the world’s poorest countries.
The World Bank announced that it will boost
its...
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 Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, pleaded guilty before US
Magistrate Judge Theodore H. Katz in Manhattan
federal court to charges of promoting prostitution and money laundering while
she was chief booker for the Emperor’s Club V.I.P, a high-priced prostitution
ring.
Prosecutors said that the woman participated, from November
2005...
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After firmly sustaining that Cole Hall, the building where
the shooting took place, should be torn down, the president of Northern Illinois University,
John G. Peters, has changed his mind after the community strongly disagreed
with his plan.
Chicago Tribune reports that more than 5,000 people provided
feedback after the...
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 The World Bank attempted to hijack the real efforts made to support
the solutions found to minimize the negative effects of climate change; this
was the accusation brought by Friends of the Earth campaigner Tom Picken at the
end of climate change conference in the Thai capital, Reuters reports.
At the latest meetings, poor...
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 According to records of Hillary Clinton’s 11, 000-pages schedule
which was released Wednesday, the first lady was at the White House during the seven
days when her husband Bill Clinton had sexual encounters there with Monica
Lewinsky.
A year later, the first lady’s schedule describe her
pressing ahead with public events and...
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 Thousand of pages of Hillary Clinton’s schedules for her
eight years in the White House will be released after months of delaying making
them public, the Associated Press reports.
The National Archives announced on Tuesday that 11,046 pages
of the first lady’s schedule would be available for public due to...
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 Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won the Nevada
caucuses on Saturday in the latest contest to represent each party
ahead this year's US presidential elections.
With 97 per cent of caucus sites reporting, Clinton led the
Democratic vote with 51 per cent over chief rival and fellow senator
Barack Obama, who had 45...
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 A smoky fire at a building next to the White House on Wednesday damaged
an office used by US Vice President Dick Cheney and forced more than
1,000 employees to evacuate.
Cheney was in a meeting with President George W Bush across the way
in the White House when the blaze broke out, but the vice president's
ornate ceremonial office...
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 The United States on Monday rejected a proposal to include 25- to
40-per cent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 in a UN
draft agreement at a climate change conference.
To agree to greenhouse gas reductions would require "a lot of
analysis," said Harlan Watson, head of the US delegation at the Bali
talks,...
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 US President George W Bush was set to kick off the first Middle East
peace conference in seven years Tuesday by cautioning that it marked
only the beginning of efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and that difficult challenges lie ahead.
The parley is aimed at relaunching peace talks between the sides,
and an Israeli...
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New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday ahead of meetings at UN headquarters on religion and peace that the opportunity it would provide for Arab and Israeli leaders to meet was "quite unique."
Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa and Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah...
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Wednesday that he is concerned about ongoing sectarian tensions in Lebanon.
"We are worried about the situation in Lebanon, particularly Tripoli in north Lebanon," Abul Gheit said after meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora.
North Lebanon has witnessed in the...
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 Saudi Arabia responded favourably Tuesday to a call by visiting US
President George Bush for an increase in oil output to tame spiralling
prices. But Bush's warnings about Iran's "threats" to regional security
fell on deaf ears.
In response to a complaint by Bush about high energy prices, Saudi
Arabia's oil minister on...
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 Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met Monday for their first talks in
seven years on the so-called core issues of the decades-old conflict.
In contrast to previous Israeli-negotiating sessions, there were no
immediate leaks from the two-hour meeting, as the chief negotiators -
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for the Israelis and...
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 Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met
Thursday afternoon, in the shadow of a row over Israeli settlement
building which has prevented progress in two rounds of talks between
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators.
An Israeli official said the two men would attempt to find "common
ground" in...
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 Israel and the Palestinians are due to end a seven-year freeze in their
peace process Wednesday with the formal launch of new negotiations.
A new, joint "steering committee" that will lead the negotiations,
announced by President George W Bush at last month's Middle East
conference in Annapolis, Maryland, is scheduled to...
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 The United States and Iran have agreed in principle to hold another
round of talks over US concerns that the Islamic state supplies weapons
and training to militants in Iraq.
The two foes have already held three rounds of discussions that
have concluded without any tangible results, and Tehran has denied it
is playing a meddling...
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 The military wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah
movement claimed responsibility Saturday for firing rockets into
southern Israel as the United Nations body for Palestinian refugees
expressed concerns over Israeli plans to reduce electricity to the Gaza
Strip.
Israeli radio reported three home-made missiles landed...
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 France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says Europe and especially France needs to play a bigger role in pacifying Iraq. He is on a three-day series of meetings with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad. He also pointed out that the United States cannot solve the country's problems alone.The former President of France, Jacques Chirac, strongly...
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 Both US and Israel pledged to support the newly-formed government of Mahmoud Abbas for the sake of peace in the region and ending a historical feud between Palestinians and Israel.A new era began on Monday in Jerusalem, where Premier Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Abbas met for the first time after a long period of lagging....
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 Israeli sources said members of the Arab League will visit Israel this month after more than 50 years of cold relations and conflicts that tore apart the Jewish state.According to a spokesman of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, a delegations from the organization is due to arrive in the country on July 25.The stressing issue of peace between...
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 The President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas called off a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert scheduled to take place Thursday because a number of conditions previously established haven’t been met until now.Abbas was angered by the fact that Israel failed to release about 700 million dollars in...
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The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan will come within weeks to Jerusalem as evoys of the Arab League to discuss the Arab peace initiative with the Israelis. The decision was taken after Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's visit to Cairo, Egypt.Livni met in Cairo with the two FMs and with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The Arab...
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 When you hear that Role Models is a comedy with the guys and for the guys, you think that you’ve already seen this movie. Well, the misconception about this movie also includes the obsession for girls and how they don’t understand them, meetings where it’s all about beer and football and not so funny jokes. Still, the heroes in this guy...
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Swedish heavy-vehicle maker Scania Wednesday said it has inked a deal to assemble trucks and buses with the government of Iraq.
The deal was announced in connection with a visit to Iraq by Swedish Trade Minister Ewa Bjorling and a delegation of Swedish businesses, including Scania and telecommunications equipment maker...
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The delegations from Russia, Georgia and the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia arrived Wednesday morning at the United Nations in Geneva for a second round of talks since they went to war in the summer.
Also attending the meetings are representatives from the United States, European Union, UN and Organization for...
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Schalke midfielder Jermaine Jones has won a place in midfield for Germany against England in Berlin on Wednesday.
Jones, who missed out on the Germany squad for Euro 2008, gets his chance in defensive midfield after the omission of Torsten Frings.
It will be a first start for the 27-year-old son of a US serviceman who grew up in...
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The main parties in the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland ended five months of political stalemate in the province Tuesday by agreeing a deal that maps out the road ahead for a completion of the peace process.
First Minister Peter Robinson, who also leads the Protestant Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and his deputy,...
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Neither Germany nor England will be at full strength when they meet on Wednesday in a match both coaches will use to test some new players.
However a meeting between the two old foes is never one to dismiss even though the friendly nature of the international will be more pronounced than previous meetings.
"Everyone has told...
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A cabinet minister ruled out a government bailout for the German auto industry on Monday as Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to meet the management of Opel to discuss state aid.
The troubled carmaker has requested credit guarantees from Berlin to counter a financial squeeze, triggered by dwindling sales and problems with its parent...
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Franz Beckenbauer says whenever he climbs into a taxi in London the driver invariably has one subject on his mind: whether it was a goal or not.
The 1966 World Cup final - and Geoff Hurst's controversial strike off the underside of the bar for England's third in the 4-2 win - is still a cause for intense debate in both...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited leaders from automaker Opel to talks on Monday to discuss the company's financial status.
On Friday, the car company requested credit guarantees from the government, saying it wants the guarantees to counter a downturn in car orders. However, the unit of General Motors Corp, which itself is...
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On Friday, European Union and Russian leaders agreed to re-launch negotiations on a "new EU-Russia agreement" on December 2, with expert meetings due on November 21-22.
The new deal is meant to replace an earlier Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) agreed for 10 years with Boris Yeltsin's Russia in 1997.
The PCA...
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The European Union and Russia are set to re-launch on December 2 talks on a strategic treaty which EU leaders froze in protest at Russia's August invasion of Georgia, officials said Friday.
The two sides' top negotiators are due to hold a fresh round of talks on December 2 in Brussels, diplomatic sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday in London that he does not see security worsening in Afghanistan, even as the British death toll in the conflict rose to 124.
"Violence is not getting worse. It is the same level as it was for the past year or two. The whole effort is to make it better and to bring violence down,"...
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A detailed French set of proposals on how to reform the global financial system was at the top of the agenda on Tuesday as European Union finance ministers met in Brussels.
The plans "can still be better, but it's a good start ... I think we'll turn them into European plans," Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos said as the...
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Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi will travel to Moscow on Friday for his first visit since 1985, the Kremlin said Wednesday.
Gaddafi is to discuss weapons purchases and energy ties with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he had "no doubt" Gaddafi's visit...
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European shares staunched early big losses Monday amid renewed hopes about interest rate cuts and after some positive US economic data.
As trading on European stock markets drew to a close, Europe's blue-chip Stoxx 50 was down by 2.0 per cent at 2076 points.
However, with Wall Street swinging between positive and negative...
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European Central Bank (ECB) chief Jean Claude Trichet signalled Monday that the bank's rate-setting council might deliver another cut in borrowing costs at its meeting next month.
"I consider possible that the Governing Council will decrease interest rates once again at its next meeting on November 6," said Trichet in a...
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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Paul Krugman of the United States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced, citing his work on international trade and economic geography.
The academy cited Krugman for his "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" in awarding him this...
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NATO on Thursday said Russia had been fully informed about a cooperation agreement signed in late September by the alliance and the United Nations.
"We briefed the Russians on a regular basis on this. Everybody in the UN knew. We don't understand their concern at this stage," NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters on...
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Russian army leaders on Tuesday said they would not permit European Union observers to operate in a buffer zone in Georgia's renegade provinces Abkhazia and South Ossetia, despite an August promise seemingly allowing it.
Observers from an EU military mission taking up positions in the region to monitor a Russo-Georgian ceasefire...
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Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Friday for stabilizing the international financial markets roiled by the credit crunch in the United States and for reviewing the role of major financial institutions created after World War II.
Brown said the US needs global support as it is trying to work out details of the bailout of the...
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Porsche has increased its stake in Volkswagen (VW) to 35.14 per cent, taking an effective controlling stake in Europe's largest carmaker, the luxury producer announced from its Stuttgart headquarters Tuesday.
The move gives Porsche an effective majority at VW general meetings and makes VW a Porsche subsidiary under German company law.
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The finance ministers of the 15 countries which share the euro gathered in Nice on Friday to find ways of avoiding a recession and to prevent a repeat of the ongoing turmoil seen on the financial markets.
Ministers were set to discuss the latest economic forecasts of the European Commission, which on Wednesday cut its 2008 growth...
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The finance ministers of the 15 countries which share the euro gathered in Nice on Friday to find ways of avoiding a recession and to prevent a repeat of the turmoil seen on the financial markets.
Ministers were set to discuss the latest economic forecasts of the European Commission, which on Wednesday cut its 2008 growth forecast for...
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Germany's Commerzbank AG and Allianz SE have reached a deal worth up to 9 billion euros (13.3 billion dollars) to sell the giant insurer's banking offshoot, Dresdner, to Commerzbank, sources close to the negotiations told dpa-AFX Friday.
Allianz chief executive Michael Diekmann and his Commerzbank counterpart Martin Blessing met late...
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Germany's Commerzbank AG and insurer Allianz SE said Thursday their boards are to meet Sunday amid mounting speculation of a merger between two of the nation's leading banks.
While an Allianz spokesman declined to comment on what the insurer's board members will discuss, the meeting in Munich is widely expected to agree to selling off...
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The European Parliament has been forced to move its first session of the autumn to Brussels following the collapse of part of the roof of its home in the French town of Strasbourg, officials said Thursday.
Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering decided on the move on the basis of expert reports, a statement from the parliament...
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday accused the West of spreading "total disinformation" in an effort to isolate Russia after its conflict with Georgia, and pledged to expand military ties with Moscow.
"On this question, we fully support Russia ... Georgia started this crisis, but the West is blaming...
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The UN Security Council was studying Tuesday a draft resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional end of hostilities in Georgia and the complete withdrawal of Russian and Georgian forces to their positions held prior to August 7.
The draft written by France, which holds the current presidency of the European Union, was...
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NATO's 26 members on Wednesday signed a set of protocols giving the green light for Albania and Croatia to join the alliance.
'This is a historical achievement, not just for these two countries
but for the entire Atlantic community of nations ... Albania and
Croatia have implemented major political and military reforms and
therefore...
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The two leaders of the ethnically divided
island of Cyprus will decide on July 25 whether to proceed to direct
reunification talks, Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias said
Tuesday.
Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat have held
several meetings to discuss progress made by working and technical
groups...
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 U.S. President George W. Bush opened the meeting of NATO
leaders in Bucharest, Romania on Wednesday. He held a speech
at the Palace of the Deposit and Savings Bank and demanded the alliance to “finish
the fight” in Afghanistan
and fortify its military forces in order to defeat Al Qaeda.
Bush also said that efforts must be made...
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 On the second day of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit in Sofia,
Bulgaria on Friday signed a deal and took a stake in the project of a
huge pipeline to supply Western Europe with Russian gas.
Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev's cabinet passed the deal in an
emergency session earlier Friday, held just before meetings with...
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 Positions remained inflexible on the second day of the last round of
talks on the future status of Kosovo as delegates from Belgrade and
Pristina continued their meetings Tuesday in the Austrian spa town
Baden, near Vienna.
But it became apparent that the efforts to find a compromise were
becoming ever more elusive as time was...
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 Kosovo topped the agenda at talks between German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi at Meseberg near Berlin
Tuesday.
"Here Europe will have a large responsibility but we are completely
of one view...that we want to push through a coordinated and united
European position," Merkel...
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According to Russia's prosecutor general, Yury Chaika, ten
suspects in the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya were
arrested. He added that significant progress had been made in the investigation
and assured that the suspects would go to trial very soon.
Chaika revealed the information in a television meeting...
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 It seems that Nicolas Sarkozy’s holiday has reached its end literally
as he is soon to face problems like the slow-paced
economy, a court decision to remove a tax break as he promised and the shocking
scandal over a pedophile taking Viagra on prescription from a prison doctor.
Ever since his election in May, Sarkozy gains more and...
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 Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to amaze with his surprise meetings, Tuesday having a close encounter with California’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, also known as “the Governator” as a parallel between his current function and The Terminator movie series.The two charismatic political figures held a joint press...
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 Climate change was the top issue at this week’s summit in Heiligendamm and the Group of Eight leaders did their best to contradict many skeptics that were lisping a major failure regarding a new climate policy.A major accomplishment was the reducing with 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a benchmark that all participating...
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 The Serbian breakaway province Kosovo receives more and more support in its initiative to become independent from motherland Serbia, as the United States expressed its belief that “Kosovo independence is inevitable.”Through the voice of the US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States showed once more support for Kosovo’s...
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was caught off guard on Tuesday when her press secretary prayed for a possible extension of her term beyond 2010 as lawmakers debated on an impeachment complaint against her.
Arroyo and her cabinet often start their meetings with a prayer, which is led by different officials.
But the...
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Businesses and schools shut down Monday in India's north-eastern state of Assam as part of a strike called to protest serial bombings there last week, which left 81 people dead and more than 300 injured, news reports said.
The 11-hour dawn-to-dusk strike was called by the influential All Assam Students' Union, which has accused the...
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The head of Lebanon's anti-Syrian ruling majority, Saad Hariri, has met for the first time in two years with pro-Syrian Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, it was confirmed Monday.
The meeting, which took place Sunday night, was described by close sources to both leaders as "fruitful and essential to preserve national...
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The Syrian government Thursday hailed a visit from the European Union's chief diplomat as a sign that its foreign policy is reaping successes.
"With the visit of (EU foreign policy chief Javier) Solana, Europe has truly and officially announced that it wants to open up to Syria," said Buthaina Shaaban, spokeswoman for...
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India on Monday voiced its concern to Pakistan over a recent increase in border ceasefire violations and the attack on its embassy in Kabul, a news report said.
The issues were raised during talks between Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan and his Pakistani counterpart Mehmud Ali Durrani in New Delhi, the PTI news agency...
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Two blasts occurred outside Iraq's foreign ministry on Tuesday as visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was due to hold a press conference in the Green Zone compound, al-Jazeera satellite channel has reported.
Two mortar rounds had landed in the area. At least five people were injured in the incident.
The Foreign...
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