North Korea has admitted that it has a secret nuclear weapons programme, US government officials say. American officials said the North Koreans told a visiting US delegation earlier this month that they no longer felt bound by a 1994 accord, under which t
Australia has urged all its citizens still in Indonesia to leave the country, following "disturbing new threats" in the wake of Saturday's bombings in the holiday resort of Bali which killed nearly 200 people. "In particular short-term visitors whose pres
An unmanned Russian space rocket carrying a satellite into orbit has exploded shortly after blast-off, killing one person and injuring eight others. The Soyuz-U rocket blew up 29 seconds after take-off, Russia's emergencies ministry spokesman said on Wedn
The Dutch coalition government has collapsed after only three months in office. Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende told parliament he would present his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix later on Wednesday.
Iraqi officials say President Saddam Hussein has won 100% of the vote in a referendum on whether he should rule for another seven years. There were 11,445,638 eligible voters - and everyone of them voted for the president, according to Izzat Ibrahim, Vice
After three weeks of negotiations, the two main parties in Germany's governing Red-Green coalition have signed an agreement to continue their partnership for another four years. The 88-page document was signed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of the Social
Election officials in Serbia have formally annulled the results of Sunday's presidential election, but the party of frontrunner Vojislav Kostunica has already said it will challenge the decision in the courts. The poll was declared invalid, because turnou
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has warned European countries they must raise defence spending to counter world threats and maintain harmony with the US. Speaking in Chicago, he said Europe was offering an "increasingly inadequate response" to rogue states a
Iraqis lined up to show their support for Saddam Hussein Tuesday. "With our blood and souls we defend Saddam Hussein," supporters chanted at a polling station in central Baghdad as voters lined up to cast their vote.
Ambitious plans to halve world hunger by 2015 are facing failure, says a report from the United Nations. Experts predict that it could take a century to meet the target if progress were to continue at the current rate.
Two Indonesian men are being intensively questioned by police investigating the bomb attack in Bali which killed nearly 200 people on Saturday. Indonesian police chief Da'i Bachtiar said the identity card of one of them had been found close to the nightcl
Finnish police have been questioning two internet chat friends of a chemistry student suspected of killing himself and six others on Friday as he planted a bomb in a crowded shopping centre. "We are holding two of the bomber's friends," said a spokeswoman
A security guard has gone on the rampage in north-western Italy, killing seven people before committing suicide, police said. The victims are believed to be family members and neighbours.
A woman has been shot dead with a single bullet outside Washington DC, in the American state of Virginia. Police said they were assuming a link to the recent series of sniper attacks in the area, which have left eight dead and two wounded.
The Arabic television channel Al Jazeera has broadcast what it says is a message from Osama Bin Laden, in which he hails as "heroic" last week's attacks on US Marines in Kuwait and on a French supertanker off Yemen. The statement - which Al Jazeera says b
Kenya's main opposition parties have teamed up with dissidents from the ruling party and are promising to field a single candidate in presidential elections due in December. They announced what is being termed a super alliance, called the National Rainbow
Devolution in Northern Ireland is to be suspended for the fourth time at midnight on Monday amid a further crisis in the political process. The latest deadlock has been caused by allegations of IRA intelligence gathering inside the Northern Ireland Office
Indonesia's defence minister has accused Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network of involvement in the massive bomb attack on the island of Bali which killed at least 188 people. The American FBI and experts from Australia and Britain have joined investigation
Investigations have begun into the bomb on the Indonesian island of Bali that ripped through a nightclub on Saturday night killing 187 people and injuring 309. Australia, home to the majority of the blast's victims, has announced that Foreign Minister Ale
British and American experts will begin work on Monday in Ukraine investigating claims that the government there has sold a military radar system to Iraq. Such a sale would be in breach of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.
A conference in Havana marking the 40th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis has ended with a visit by participants to sites related to the dispute that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. The delegates - who inc
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