Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has declared a state of emergency a day after stunning the country as she sacked three ministers, suspended parliament and sent troops onto the streets. The president has accused the government of making too many
Turkey's unwillingness to send troops to Iraq without clear support from US-installed Iraqi leaders could deal a major blow to US efforts to attract other countries' help against an increasingly deadly resistance. Tuesday's statements by Turkey's ambassad
Firefighters contained the biggest and deadliest of Southern California's wildfires Tuesday and turned their attention to mopping up other blazes and heading off mudslides when rains come. San Diego County's 280,000-acre Cedar Fire was surrounded after co
Sri Lanka's president stunned this island nation when she suspended Parliament, sacked three Cabinet ministers and deployed troops around the capital - moves that endanger the fragile peace process with Tamil Tiger rebels. President Chandrika Kumaratunga
Police arrested a man after he allegedly threw a bag of flammable material at the Turkish Embassy, touching off a small fire in the building, Dutch authorities said. Initial reports quoting the Turkish ambassador to the Netherlands said there had been an
Russia's largest oil producer Yukos chose as its new chief executive a Russian-born American, who insisted the embattled firm would survive the arrest and jailing of its founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Simon Kukes, appointed to replace Khodorkovsky after hi
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia said Tuesday he would present a new Cabinet to parliament for approval next week, slowing recent momentum toward resuming peace talks with Israel. The main obstacle to forming a government quickly is Qureia's ongoin
Insurgents killed an American soldier in a roadside bombing in Baghdad on Tuesday and lobbed mortars into the US headquarters area of the capital, wounding four people and raising huge explosions downtown for the second night in a row. Rebels fired mortar
US Senate has okayed President George Bush's USD 87.5 B emergency funding package for Iraq and Afghanistan.
The confirmed death toll from an Indonesia flood disaster blamed on illegal logging has risen to 75, officials said, and hopes were fading for another 100 people who were still missing. The bodies of 39 women and 36 men have so far been found in the North
The head of the Russian oil giant Yukos arrested and jailed last week on charges of fraud has resigned as the company's CEO. Yukos shares rose sharply by almost 4 percent after the news broke.
Heavy rains triggered flash floods in a popular tourist resort on Indonesia's Sumatra island, killing 66 people, including five foreigners. According to local police the dead foreigners included a German, an Australian, two Chinese and a Singaporean.
First results from parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic Georgia gave the pro-government bloc the lead, though opinion polls had consistently shown voters, deeply unhappy with their country's rampant poverty and corruption, favouring the o
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said he is ready for peace talks following an Israeli offer, the first tentative moves toward breaking a months-long stalemate. Arafat also chose Ahmed Qureia to form a new Palestinian government, a step that could enable
Targeting Americans with new courage, rebels hiding in a date palm grove shot down a Chinook helicopter carrying dozens of soldiers heading for home leave Sunday, killing 16 and wounding 20 in the deadliest strike against US forces since they invaded Iraq
Israel has allowed more than six thousand Palestinian workers to cross from the Gaza Strip into Israel's territory for the first time in more than a month. Authorities slightly eased a border closure, which had been imposed in September to stop suicide bo
Georgians head to the polls on Sunday as fourteen parties and seven coalitions are competing in the parliamentary elections. Analysts point out that the vote is seen as a test of strength for politicians seeking to succeed President Eduard Shevardnadze wh
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered Saturday night to mark the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, showing their continued support for the stalled peace process. The peace rally took place in the Tel Aviv plaza wher
A car ran a police checkpoint outside a Mississippi arena where US President George Bush was speaking, and rammed the building. Authorities swarmed the car with weapons drawn and took away the driver and at least two children who were with her.
Chief US administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer has said he wanted to accelerate the handing over of authority to Iraqis. Bremer said he wanted to give Iraqis a "path and a timeline" for the transfer of power from the US-led coalition.
California firefighters took a break from battling a massive blaze creeping eastward, as cool weather helped their cause and temperatures were expected to fall even further. Hundreds of firefighters were resting overnight, recharging before returning to t
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