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  • Pope claims "immunity" from cases over child sexual abuse

    Pope Benedict, accused by victims' lawyers of being ultimately responsible for a cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests, cannot be called to testify at any trial because he has "immunity" as a head of state, a top Vatican legal official said on Thursday. The interview with Giuseppe dalla Torre, head of the Vatican's tribunal, was.. More

  • More candidates quit Sudan poll

    Sudan's main opposition parties have withdrawn from the country's upcoming presidential polls, effectively handing a hollow victory to Omar al Bashir, the sitting president. A spokesman for the Umma party leader said that "most" of Sudan's opposition groups had decided to withdraw their candidates. Sadiq al-Mahdi, a former prime minister.. More

  • Belgian politicians back veil ban

    A Belgian parliamentary committee has voted to impose a nationwide ban on wearing face-covering veils in public. The country's home affairs committee agreed unanimously to support the move, which must be approved by parliament to become law. The ban includes any clothes or veils that do not allow the wearer to be fully identified, including the full-face.. More

  • Israel kills Gazan teen as Palestinians mark Land Day

    Israeli troops killed Tuesday a Palestinian teenager and wounded several others, opening fire on protestors near the Gaza border while Israeli Arabs and Palestinians marked "Land Day." The murder came as six separate Land Day rallies across the Gaza Strip, with residents and internationals marching toward the Israeli-imposed buffer zone,.. More

  • Resolution 'means nothing': Srebrenica survivors

    Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre said on Wednesday that a Serbian parliament resolution condemning the crime was meaningless since it failed to label it as genocide. "For us it really means nothing" since it fails to mention the term genocide, Hajra Catic, head of an association of Srebrenica survivors, told AFP. Some 8,000 Bosnian.. More

  • Deaths in North Caucasus blasts

    Nine people have been killed in two explosions in Russia's North Caucasus, police have said. The bomb blasts on Wednesday morning happened in the centre of the town of Kizlyar in Dagestan region. Eighteen people were reportedly injured, and a local police spokesman said most of the victims were believed to be policemen. Vyacheslav Gasanov, a local.. More

  • Serbia debates Srebrenica apology

    Serbia's parliament has begun debating whether to apologize to Bosnian Muslims over the massacre of 8,000 men and boys in the town of Srebrenica in 1995. Serbia's ruling parties have already agreed the draft resolution being discussed on Tuesday, which expresses sympathy for the victims and acknowledges that Belgrade did not do enough to prevent the.. More

  • Turkey reforms envisage top civilian court for top military leaders

    A Turkish constitutional reform package to be submitted to parliament on Tuesday will make it possible for military top brass to be tried by a civilian court, media reported late on Monday. Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin told state TV, the Constitutional amendment package paves the way for trials of Chief of Staff, force commanders by constitutional.. More

  • US deaths double in Afghanistan as troops pour in

    The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional troops in order to reverse the Taliban's momentum. Those deaths have been accompanied by a dramatic spike in the number of wounded, with injuries more than.. More

  • Moscow metro blasts kill dozens

    Up to 40 people have been reported killed in twin explosions at stations on Moscow's metro rail network. The first blast took place at the Lubyanka metro station in the centre of the city, followed by a second explosion at Park Kultury in the southwest of the city. Moscow's chief prosecutor told reporters that the explosions were carried out by bombers.. More

  • Bomb blasts hit Iraqi town

    A series of explosions in western Iraq killed six people on Sunday, including an official of a political faction in former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's electoral coalition, police said. Four bombs went off near the house of Ghanim Radhi, a member of the Development and Reforms movement, in the town of Qaim in Anbar province, 300 km (185 miles) west.. More

  • Israel condemned at Arab summit

    Regional leaders meeting in Libya have been united in their condemnation of Israel's settlement activity in occupied Palestinian land. The Arab League summit began on Saturday in the Libyan city of Sirte, with Amr Moussa, the Arab League chief, warning that continued Israeli settlement building would end efforts to revive the Middle East peace process. &quo.. More

  • S Koreans missing after ship sinks

    A South Korean navy ship has sunk near the disputed maritime border withNorth Korea after an unexplained explosion, leaving 46 sailors missing. A military spokesman said that the blast in the stern of the shipwith 104 people on board occurred on Friday and that a rescue operation was under way. South Korea's government called an emergency security.. More

  • Allawi's bloc wins most Iraq seats

    The secularist Iraqiya coalition led by Iyad Allawi, the former premier, won the most seats in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election, two more than incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bloc. Iraqiya won 91 seats in the 325-member Council of Representatives, while al-Maliki's State of Law Alliance won 89 seats, the independent electoral commission.. More

  • Casualties reported as Israel raids besieged Gaza

    Two Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers have been killed in a clash east of the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. Themilitary saidan officer and a soldier have been killed and two soldiers were injured. Hamas confirmed the attack, saying Israeli soldiers are firing artillery and tank rounds. "An Israeli army force raided 500 meters (yards).. More