There are 17999 articles

  • Medvedev warns of new arms race

    Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has warned that a new arms race could erupt if Russia and the West could not agree on building a missile defense system. Speaking at his annual state of the nation address on Tuesday, Medvedev said questions remained about the proposed missile shield, which Russia has agreed to work on with Nato. "In the.. More

  • Ecuador offers refuge to Assange

    An Ecuadorean minister has offered residence in his country to Julian Assange, the reclusive founder of WikiLeaks, without conditions. "We are ready to give him residence in Ecuador, with no problems and no conditions," Kintto Lucas, the deputy foreign minister, told the website Ecuadorinmediato on Monday. "We are going to invite him.. More

  • Rifts mar Cancun climate conference

    Frustrated at past failures, climate negotiators have begun a critical two-week conference with a call from Mexico's president to think beyond their nations' borders and consider all humanity as they bargain over an agreement to fight global warming. "The atmosphere is indifferent to the sovereignty of states," Felipe Calderon, Mexico's president,.. More

  • Nato troops killed in Afghan attack

    Six Nato troops have been killed by a man disguised as an Afghan policeman in during a training session in eastern Afghanistan. The attack, which took place on Monday in Nangarhar province, is the latest in a series of similar attacks targeting foreign troops in Afghanistan. "An individual in an Afghan border police uniform turned his weapon.. More

  • Iran blasts kill one nuclear scientist, wounds other

    A university teacher was killed in a car bomb blast in Tehran and three people were wounded in another explosion on Monday, Iran's al Alam Arabic language television reported. Al Alam said the dead person and one of the wounded were nuclear physics teachers. State radio said the attackers planted a bomb on each of the teachers' vehicles. Iran says.. More

  • 'Vote rigging' mars Egypt election

    Slow voting, isolated protests, clashes and claims of vote rigging have marked Egypt's parliamentary election, the result of which is expected to strengthen the ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP) grip on power and further weaken the opposition. Polls closed at 1900 (1700 GMT) on Sunday, with the NDP is expected to win a solid majority of the.. More

  • Swiss voters back deportation plan

    Switzerland has endorsed a far-right push to automatically expel foreign residents convicted of certain crimes, to the dismay of critics who described it as a "dark day for human rights". The approval of the initiative in a referendum was an expression of insecurity, Simonetta Sommaruga, the country's justice minister said, stressing the.. More

  • S Korea-US begin military exercises

    The United States and South Korea have begun joint military exercises in waters west of the Korean Peninsula. An official from US forces-Korea said that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington had joined the four-day exercises. North Korea responded by placing surface-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the Yellow Sea, the Yonhap.. More

  • Cargo plane crashes in Karachi

    A cargo plane has crashed in a residential area in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, killing all eight crew members on board, the civil aviation authority says. The Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft had been bound for the Sudanese capital Khartoum,Pervez George, the civil aviation authority spokesman said on Sunday. George said that the plane went down soon.. More

  • Hamas faces "huge challenges" in West Bank

    Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Saturday that his group faced "huge challenges" in the West Bank as a force against Israel. Armed struggle has a powerful appeal among the inhabitants of the occupied territory, where the rival Fatah faction has been extending influence since a civil war with Hamas in 2007, Meshaal told a conference in.. More

  • Fraud fears cloud Egypt vote

    Egyptians are set to go to the polls to elect a new parliament amid fears of vote fraud, following a campaign marred by violence and a crackdown on the opposition. The Middle East's most populous nation will elect 508 members of parliament in Sunday's polls. Security forces are on high alert after violent clashes erupted throughout the Nile Delta.. More

  • Sudan extends vote registration after huge turnout

    Sudanese authorities said on Friday they would give southerners an extra week to register for a referendum on the independence of their region, but promised the extension would not delay the January 9 vote. The referendum gives people from the oil-producing south the chance to decide whether they should secede or stay part of Sudan, a vote promised.. More

  • China issues warning ahead of U.S.-South Korea drills

    China warned on Friday against military acts near its coastline ahead of U.S.-South Korean naval exercises that North Korea, days after shelling a South Korean island, said risked pushing the region toward war. Beijing's warning came as the Seoul government named a career soldier as its new defense minister amid mounting criticism of the response to.. More

  • Brazil police 'retake' Rio slum

    Police say they have retaken a sprawling slum area from drug gangs in Brazil's second-largest city after a five-day assault that killed more than two dozen people. The government sent armored military vehicles with high-caliber machine guns into Vila Cruzeiro, a major shantytown in northern Rio de Janeiro, in a concerted crackdown on drug gangs on.. More

  • U.N. mulls 2,000 extra troops for Sudan vote

    The United Nations is considering sending up to 2,000 more peacekeepers to southern Sudan to boost security around a vote on whether the South should secede from the North, U.N. envoys said on Wednesday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, Western diplomats said that Khartoum had not yet consented to the proposal, which would increase the 10,000-strong.. More