| Ethnic tensions simmer in crisis-struck Guinea Junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara is in a hospital in Morocco after rogue soldiers attacked him and fled last week. "I am worried that if Camara comes back and he chooses to bl ...[more] |
| PLO set to extend Abbas term as Palestinian leader The meeting of the PLO Central Council on Tuesday will remove any doubt over the fate of the presidency when Abbas's term expires on January 25 and back his opposition to U.S. calls for an im ...[more] |
| Chile's main presidential candidates Polls show Sebastian Pinera is likely to face off against former President Eduardo Frei, the ruling center-left coalition's candidate, in a second round in January. Left-leaning indep ...[more] |
| India test fires ballistic missile off east coast The Dhanush (meaning "bow") missile was fired at 11.31 a.m. local time (0601 GMT) from naval ship INS Shubhadra off the Chandipur coast in Orissa state, S. P. Dash, the director of the test r ...[more] |
| Sudan leaders reach deal on disputed reforms The south's dominant Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) joined a coalition government with President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's northern National Congress Party (NCP) as part of a 2005 ac ...[more] |
| Thailand to charge plane crew over North Korean arms Military and police sources, declining to be named, said the United States had tipped the Thai authorities off about the 35 tons of arms that the plane held, which flouted United Nations sanc ...[more] |
| Leader of rebel Abkhazia wins second term Abkhazia held its first election on Saturday since Moscow recognized the Black Sea territory as an independent state after a brief war with Georgia last year. The vote was branded a farce by ...[more] |
| Iran opposition warns of action against reformers Some reformist websites suggested opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi may be arrested, six months after his defeat by conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a disputed election plunge ...[more] |
| Brown in Afghanistan, seeks to fix rift with Karzai Brown, whose troops have this year faced Britain's deadliest fighting in a generation, made an unannounced visit to Kandahar air base, headquarters of NATO troops in southern Afghanistan, and ...[more] |
| Sudan leaders "make progress" in reform row talks The south's dominant Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) joined a coalition government with President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's northern National Congress Party (NCP) as part of a 2005 ac ...[more] |
| North Korea, U.S. agree to resume peace talks: report The two countries agreed on a path toward resuming the peace talks when U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth visited North last week, Yonhap quoted South Korean government officials as saying. ...[more] |