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
Serbia will have to hold fresh presidential elections after only 45.5% of eligible voters turned out for Sunday's run-off, independent elections monitors said.
Rebels in the Ivory Coast say they have taken the western cocoa-producing centre of Daloa - even as a new round of peace talks begins. There have been reports of fighting around Daloa since Saturday, but rebel claims that the city has fallen have not been
Two Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, including a toddler crushed when Israeli forces dynamited a house in Rafah, while two Palestinian gunmen died in a shootout while infiltrating southern Israel from Egypt for the first time.
Pakistan has rejected as "untrue" EU charges that the voting process in the elections was flawed, as an anti-US Islamic alliance loomed large over a new hung parliament. Accusations that authorities interfered with the electoral process were "indeed unfor
One of seven people killed in an explosion at a busy shopping centre near Helsinki was suspected to have carried out the attack, police have said. "There are no indications of motives yet," police official Tero Haapala told a news conference on Saturday.
Voting has begun in the second round of Serbia's presidential election, with polling stations across the country opening at 0700 (0500 GMT). Voters have to choose between Vojislav Kostunica, a constitutional lawyer and moderate nationalist, and Miroljub
At least 182 people are now known to have died in a devastating car bomb blast at a crowded nightclub on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali. Hospital officials estimate that 75% of the dead were foreigners, among them Australians, Britons and Germans,
Iraq has told the chief United Nations arms inspector that it is ready to receive inspectors in a week's time - a move dismissed by the US as another delaying tactic. In a letter to Hans Blix, the UN's chief arms inspector, Iraq said inspectors could retu
International observers from the European Union say Pakistan's general election was seriously flawed by official interference in favour of parties supporting President Pervez Musharraf. Results from Thursday's election give a party allied to President Mus
The party most closely linked to Pakistan's outgoing military regime emerged on Saturday as the main player and potential coalition builder in parliament, after an election in which an Islamic front won major gains. Dubbed the "king's party" for its perce
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, under pressure at home and abroad to reform his administration, held intensive consultations on a new cabinet on Saturday ahead of elections early next year. Palestinian officials said Arafat was meeting lawmakers, mem
A Serbian military court has convicted two officers and two former Yugoslav army soldiers for war crimes in Kosovo. The court in Nis found the four men guilty of killing two ethnic Albanian civilians in a village near Orahovac in April 1999.
A powerful explosion killed seven people at a busy shopping centre on the outskirts of the capital Helsinki. The blast ripped through the mall at about 1930 (1630 GMT) on Friday, killing six people and causing up to 80 injuries.
The French Foreign Ministry has announced that an explosion on board a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen appears to have been caused by an attack. A French investigator who inspected the holed and gutted vessel said he had discovered debris that ma
Russia has been removed from a list of countries failing to fight money laundering, compiled by the Financial Action Task Force. Only a little over a year ago the same body - made up of finance and law enforcement officials mostly from the developed world
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