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The New Forces rebel group in Ivory Coast has announced it is rejecting South African mediation.5

An Air New Zealand pilot has been stood down and ordered to undergo communications training after wrongly accusing Prime Minister Helen Clark of delaying his plane and being ...5.2

Veteran diplomat and journalist Max Jakobson says that Finland should become a member of NATO even if there is no immediate threat of war at the moment.4.5

Tehran claims breakthrough By Charles Recknagel PRAGUE - Iran continues to press ahead with its controversial efforts to master technologies that could one day give it the ...3.1

Police in Malaysia's northern state of Kelantan have intensified security checks and patrols at all border points there to prevent more Thais from entering the country, ...4.5

Mikheil Saakashvili leaves Gdansk, Poland today; he has attended 25th anniversary ceremony of the movement Solidarity.3.2

Last month's surrender of the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria to the Palestinian Arabs is the fruit of Yasser Arafat's 40-year terrorist campaign against Israel's Jews, PLO ...3.1

A Chinese Movie Week aiming to improve culture exchange between China and Thailand was unveiled at Bangkok on Thursday afternoon in the 30th year of the establishment of ...3.1

According to a member of the National Bureau of Investigation, Finland's central criminal police arm, Nils Gustafsson - the man charged with the triple murder at a lakeside ...3.1

France is prepared to send humanitarian and military aid to the United States to help the country cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating ...4

Consumer spending has slowed but people are still spending cautiously, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said on Thursday, adding that the overall picture for ...3.2

A Chinese military band participates in a rehearsal for the upcoming 40th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region, at the Potala Palace Square in Lhasa, ...4.3

Grieving relatives of about 1,000 Iraqis killed in a stampede combed hospitals and morgues on Thursday for missing loved ones as the nation grieved over a tragedy which has ...4

A British engineer and his Afghan interpreter were kidnapped when gunmen attacked a convoy in western Afghanistan and killed three police escorts, the Interior Ministry said ...3.8

The Australian dollar ended more than three quarters of a US cent stronger today, taking advantage of a weaker US dollar in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.4.5

On the eve of the first anniversary of the terrorist act in a Beslan school, ROMIR Monitoring research company held a public opinion poll on the most efficient means of ...4

LONDON: Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, pop star wife of England capitain and Real Madrid star David Beckham, does read books after all, she says.3.1

The Managing Director of Petroleum Products Marketing Company , Sulaiman Achimugu, says pipeline vandalism is not reducing given the huge losses involved.3.1

Industrial holding company and multifaceted global contractor Murray & Roberts has announced a R494-million investment extending its current black economic empowerment ...4

A MANX thriller will hit the small screen next week. The two-part drama Marian, Again will be shown on ITV1 at 9pm on Monday and Tuesday.3.1

A renegade Tutsi general who led an uprising in the Democratic Republic of Congo last year has broken months of silence and said the time had come to overthrow President ...3.1

Top diplomats from India and Pakistan began talks in a slow-moving peace process on Thursday, hours after Indian troops shot dead nine rebels trying to cross into its part ...4

Nairobi - Kenyan police have arrested a man accused of strangling a goat with which he was having sex in a region where reported acts of bestiality are increasing, officials ...4

Indonesia and East Timor have begun work to mark out their common border, which has remained porous and unmarked since East Timor split from the vast archipelago in 1999, ...4.2

Egypt will begin deploying troops on the Gaza border over the weekend, a milestone in ending Israel's 38-year occupation, Israeli defence officials said Thursday, even ...4.2

A protestor holds a burning picture of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during a rally demanding the resignation of Arroyo outside the Philippine Congress in ...3.2

REUTERS, TAIPEI:Aug 31: A powerful typhoon lashed Taiwan on Wednesday, sparking worries of flash floods and landslides and forcing offices and schools to close.3.5

Orhan Pamuk, one of Turkey's best-known novelists, has been charged with insulting the nation and its people by speaking out against the mass deaths of Armenians during and ...3.4

Beleaguered South African Rugby Union president Brian van Rooyen lashed out on Wednesday at his vice-president Mike Stofile and President's Council member Oregan Hoskins.4

A NEW national park is to be proclaimed in Pondoland that will "protect this unique heritage for our generations to come", Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister ...4.5

Edmonton Symphony moves outside Sarah Chan Symphony Under The Sky Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Timothy Vernon Hawrelak Park Ampitheatre 1-5 September Sarah Chan ...4.5

A battle between a Bollywood star and her husband over their baby daughter is captivating India, where millions worship film stars and follow their personal lives closely.3.3

A day after he announced that his candidacy for the Likud leadership and prime minister, MK Benjamin Netanyahu continued his election campaign with a tour of the area dubbed ...4.5

Treasurer Peter Costello is a sook, according to Opposition Leader Kim Beazley. Mr Beazley says Mr Costello should either challenge Prime Minister John Howard for the ...4.7

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry published a new release saying that on Wednesday, Aug 31, the United States lifted sanctions against Ukrainian-made goods that were imposed in 2002.4

The UG Faculty of Social Sciences has condemned "the apparent interference by the executive" in the University of Guyana's administration and called for Dr Mark Kirton's ...3.1

Labour has executed a u-turn on the issue of an organ donor register. Health Minister Annette King rejected the suggestion after a select committee made the recommendation ...4.1