United Nations officials are to hold their second and final day of talks with senior Iraqis on getting weapons inspectors back to Baghdad to avert the threat of war. At the same time, the United States and Britain will intensify their efforts to get their
Drug barons have brought much of Rio de Janeiro to a standstill as Brazil's election campaign enters its final week. Hundreds of shops were shut down across the city, including businesses around the fashionable Copacabana and Ipanema beaches.
The European Union says its members are free to negotiate deals with the United States to give American troops limited immunity from the new International Criminal Court. But EU foreign ministers have agreed a set of guidelines for any bilateral agreement
Russia has condemned the US and UK for carrying out air strikes in Iraq's air exclusion zones, saying they hindered efforts to resolve the crisis surrounding UN weapons inspections. "Bombing raids...
United Nations and Iraqi officials are meeting to discuss the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq for the first time in four years. It is the first real test of Iraq's commitment to co-operation with the UN since it agreed to the inspectors' unconditiona
The Swedish authorities have released from custody a man held on suspicion of trying to hijack a plane bound for Britain. Kerim Sadok Chatty, 29, was arrested a month ago at a Swedish airport after a gun was found in his hand luggage.
A court in eastern China has sentenced to death the owner of a fast-food outlet for poisoning snacks at a competitor's shop, causing the death of dozens of people. The poisoning - in the small town of Tangshan two weeks ago - made at least 300 customers s
Delegates to the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have concluded their meetings in Washington amid relative calm, reaffirming their resolve to work together. In concluding statements, the chairman of the meetings, Om
Senegalese authorities have revealed that more than 1,000 people were on the ship that capsized on Thursday off the coast of Gambia. The prime minister's office said about 200 passengers and crew who had boarded the ferry at a second stop had not been cou
The current Yugoslav President, Vojislav Kostunica, has won the initial stage of Serbia's presidential elections, the first poll since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic almost exactly two years ago. He will face Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has emerged from his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah for the first time since Israeli forces laid siege to it 10 days ago. He said nothing but blew kisses to supporters gathered outside and made a V for victory
Spain, Germany, Pakistan, Chile and Angola were elected to the U.N.
Turkish police say they have seized more than 15 kilograms of weapons grade uranium, which had been smuggled into the country from Eastern Europe. Two men have been arrested for questioning in the south of the country, close to the Syrian border.
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of London to oppose a war in Iraq. Organised by the pacifist Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain, the march also drew support from trade unions, religious leaders and Gulf War
Finance chiefs have been hammering out proposals aimed at preventing repetitions of the economic crises that have bedeviled countries like Argentina and Brazil. The plans put forward by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, meeting in Washin
It is election day in Serbia. But with most voters undecided as to who they want to replace Milan Milutinovic as president, no one is predicting the outcome.
Iraq has made clear it will not accept the new rules the United States wants to impose on United Nations weapons inspections. The proposal, to be debated by the UN Security Council, includes a proviso that failure to comply over weapons inspections could
Conservative former minister Edwina Currie has told a newspaper she had a four-year affair with ex-Prime Minister John Major in the 1980s. The liaison began in 1984 when Mrs Currie was a backbencher and Mr Major a whip in Margaret Thatcher's government.
Croatia says it will challenge the indictment of a former army chief, General Janko Bobetko, by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. The government said it had asked the tribunal to allow it to lodge a formal complaint against Mr Bobetko's
A new law in Nepal that decriminalises abortion and broadens women's property rights has come into effect, officials say. Parliament in Kathmandu passed the bill earlier this year, but then the legislature was dissolved and fresh elections called.
Police in Washington have arrested about 600 people at anti-globalisation demonstrations against meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. There were scuffles and small-scale violence as campaigners took to the streets, chaining themselv
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