Kosovo goes to the polls on Saturday in its third election since the 1999 conflict, but many Serbs may boycott the ballot in protest at their difficult living conditions. Western officials hope the municipal election will help strengthen peace in the U.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has called on Indonesia to do more to curb militant groups thought to be linked to the bombing on the island of Bali that killed almost 200 people. Mr Howard was speaking on the eve of a summit of the Asia Pacific Eco
Prosecutors in the US state of Maryland have filed murder charges against the two Washington sniper suspects. John Allen Mohammad and his teenage accomplice, John Lee Malvo, have each been charged with six murders.
US President George W Bush and his Chinese counterpart, Jiang Zemin, have said they both oppose any nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula. The two presidents, meeting at Mr Bush's Texas ranch, vowed to seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis that has f
Richard Harris, the classically trained actor whose roles ranged from King Arthur in "Camelot" to Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies, has died. He was 72.
Authorities in Montgomery, Alabama, have said they intend to seek the death penalty against the two suspects in the Washington sniper killings. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his stepson John Lee Malvo, 17, were arrested after a string of shootings in the W
Bahrainis voted in their first legislative elections in nearly 30 years in a ballot hailed by supporters as an important step toward democracy but criticized by Shiite Muslim groups for not going far enough. Early turnout on Thursday indicated that many S
A Muslim cleric suspected of links with Osama Bin Laden has been detained under UK anti-terror laws introduced after 11 September. London-based Abu Qatada, who is accused of being a senior figure in the Al-Qaeda terror network, is thought to have been arr
Israel troops backed by dozens of tanks entered the West Bank town of Jenin early on Friday. An Israeli commander quoted by Reuters news agency said it was the biggest security operation since one launched in Nablus in August.
Washington is hoping its nightmare is over, with the news that a rifle found in the car of two sniper suspects was the murder weapon used in the killing spree that left 10 people dead. Gulf war veteran John Allen Muhammad has not, as yet, been charged in
An initial meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the United States' draft resolution for arms inspections in Iraq lasted three hours. It was the first time that the US had handed out the text to all the other members of the 15-strong body who
In what is being interpreted as a potential major breakthrough, police hunting the Washington sniper have arrested two men in connection with their investigation. They were seized as they slept in a car at a roadside stop in Frederick County in Maryland,
A loud explosion has been heard in the Russian capital Moscow at a theatre where Chechen rebels are holding up to 800 people hostage. The blast occurred at 0915 local time (0515 GMT), but it was not clear whether it came from inside or outside or whether
A Turkish judge has ordered police to bring the head of the front running AKP party to court over charges of illegal earnings. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the charismatic former mayor of Istanbul, could face up to five years in prison over the allegations, but
Russian security forces are on high alert after an armed gang of Chechen guerrillas invaded a Moscow theatre taking hundreds of people hostage. Special anti-terrorist troops have said they will not try to storm the building unless the gunmen begin killing
In Baghdad, dozens of relatives of prisoners not released after Saddam Hussein's amnesty on Sunday have held an unauthorised demonstration. The protesters were demanding information about what had happened to their family members.
The Yugoslav Government has dismissed a deputy defence minister after allegations that a state-run firm was involved in arms sales to Iraq. Ivan Djokic was sacked after the US accused the Jugoimport company of helping a Bosnian Serb firm sell spare parts
The sniper who has killed nine people in the area around the US capital Washington has issued a warning that children are under specific threat, according to police. The warning comes as officers made a fresh appeal for the sniper to contact them over dem
The US administration has indicated that its patience with the United Nations is running out, after members of the Security Council voiced objections to a new draft resolution on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said
European Union foreign ministers have failed to reach agreement on how to finance enlargement. The ministers did not even discuss the biggest stumbling block, agricultural subsidies, after all sides indicated that their positions had not changed.
A 28-year-old Moroccan man accused of supporting the 11 September attackers has denied any knowledge of plans to launch terror attacks on the United States. Mounir al-Motassadek is on trial in Germany, charged with membership of a terrorist cell and of be
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