Right-wingers Grab Surprise Result in Estonia
Estonia's right-wing Res Publica party won a surprise result in the country's poll. The right-wingers took 24.
Estonia's right-wing Res Publica party won a surprise result in the country's poll. The right-wingers took 24.
Eight Palestinians including a pregnant woman and a child are reported dead and 35 injured during an incursion by Israeli tanks and soldiers into the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces exchanged fire with Palestinian fighters as they entered a refugee camp at El
A proposal urging Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to go into exile to avert a war is gaining support among Arab Gulf states. Kuwait and Bahrain have backed a proposal made by the United Arab Emirates for the Iraqi leader to go into exile, in return for gua
Turkey's prime minister said Sunday his country's "friendly relationship" with the United States would not change despite parliament's rejection of a proposal to let 62,000 U.S.
Fire broke out in Egypt's new Alexandria library on Sunday, and 29 people were rushed to local hospitals suffering from smoke inhalation. The fire was blamed on a short circuit.
Jacques Chirac is going to Algeria for the first full state visit by a French president since the country won independence in 1962 following a brutal war. President Chirac - who served as a second lieutenant in the French army during the campaign - arrive
The suspected planner of the September 11 attacks has been handed over to the US following his arrest in Pakistan on Saturday. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been on the run for a decade, was turned over to US custody and taken to an undisclosed location
Rio's famous carnival celebrations have officially kicked off, after Friday morning was marred by more street violence between security forces and drug gangs. One armed gang of about 30 men initiated a three-hour shoot-out with police on one of Rio's bigg
Pope John Paul II has decided to send a personal envoy to Washington to deliver a message to United States President George W Bush about the threatened war against Iraq. The Vatican has already made it amply clear that it opposes the US administration's p
Iraqi technicians have begun destroying four of its al-Samoud II missiles after agreeing a schedule for their destruction with United Nations weapons inspectors. The work is taking place at a military base near Baghdad under the supervision of UN official
A tourist train carrying over 100 passengers has derailed on a mountain track in Taiwan's central Chiayi area, local cable television news stations have reported. Forestry officials quoted by AFP news agency said eight people were killed and another nine
Former conservative Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus has been elected as Czech president to succeed Vaclav Havel. Mr Klaus beat the candidate of the centre-left coalition government, Jan Sokol, in a third and final round of voting in the parliament.
The US air force is preparing to position its B-2 stealth bombers ahead of a possible strike against Iraq, BBC reported. Air force sources said that four of the radar-evading aircraft are to be deployed to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.
Thousands of troops and armed police have been sent onto the streets to help guard Rio de Janeiro's carnival following a wave of violence by drug gangs. The Brazilian Government's decision to use troops came after gangs burned and machine-gunned buses, se
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Friday that the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders had agreed to a 10 March deadline to accept his peace plan for the divided island. "The two leaders have just told me they accept my invitation to come to The Hague
At least two policemen have been killed in a gun attack outside the US consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi. A number of policemen were also injured.
Iraq has agreed in principle to destroy its al-Samoud II missiles, a United Nations spokeswoman has said. The announcement came after the UN's chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said the inspections aimed at disarming Iraq had produced "very limited" resul
The Turkish government has finalised the military details of a deal allowing US troops to use its bases for an attack on neighbouring Iraq. But a parliamentary vote on the controversial issue has once again been postponed and is not expected to be held un
The former Bosnian Serb president, Biljana Plavsic, has been sentenced by the International War Crimes Tribunal to 11 years in prison for crimes against humanity. Plavsic, 72, had pleaded guilty to the crimes committed during the Bosnian war from 1992 to
Turkey has stopped all traffic crossing its southern border with Iraq amid growing expectations of a US-led war with Saddam Hussein. The transportation of goods from Turkey to Iraq has been halted and oil tankers within Iraq have been told to return to Tu
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has removed long-time rival Binyamin Netanyahu as Israeli foreign minister. In a surprise move, Mr Sharon offered the post to Finance Minister Silvan Shalom, who accepted.
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