Israel Trades 20 Palestine Women for 1 Soldier
Israel has said it will release 20 Palestinian women from detention in return for proof that captured soldier, Gilad Shalit, is still alive.
Israel has said it will release 20 Palestinian women from detention in return for proof that captured soldier, Gilad Shalit, is still alive.
The United States will withdraw another 4 000 troops in Iraq by the end of October 2009.
A tsunami triggered by a strong quake in the South Pacific has killed at least 65 people in Samoa and more than 20 in American Samoa, BBC reported.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday it was important to work with Russia on a new generation missile shield, following his abandonment of an earlier US system that Moscow opposed, in Eastern Europe.
A powerful earthquake has struck near the Samoa islands, triggering a tsunami that has hit the shores of several Pacific nations.
At least 157 people were killed when Guinean troops opened fire on opposition protesters on Monday, rights groups and opposition figures claim.
Iran has said it will soon inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of a timetable for inspection of its second uranium enrichment plant.
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Two earthquakes have been registered in the Southern part of the Japan archipelago since Monday midnight.
A roadside bomb which blew up a bus have killed at least 12 civilians in southern Afghanistan.
The US Secret Service is investigating a poll posted on social networking site Facebook, asking people if they think President Obama "should be killed".
The Philippines government says 240 people are now known to have died in severe flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana.
The mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kiev says he has overruled a decision by the city's council to allow a hotel to be built at the site of a Nazi massacre during World War II.
The death toll from flooding in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana climbed to at least 100 on Monday.
Iran has test-fired its long-range Shahab-3 missile, the country's state TV has reported.
Portugal's governing Socialist Party has been re-elected, but has lost its overall majority. Final results from Sunday's general election gave PM Jose Socrates 36% of the vote, seven points ahead of the centre-right Social Democrats.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the priority of her second term in office will be to return prosperity to Europe's largest economy.
At least 73 people have been killed in the worst flooding in decades in the Philippines Sunday.
Germany’s ruling party CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU have received the largest number of votes in Parliamentary Elections.
The prominent film director, Roman Polanski, has been detained on a 31-year-old US arrest warrant, BBC reports Sunday, citing Swiss police officials.
Turkey and Armenia are set to sign in Zurich, on October 10, an agreement to establish diplomatic relations.
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