Unidentified attackers have hurled grenades at a missionary hospital near Islamabad, killing three nurses. About 20 people were injured and one of the suspected assailants killed in the attack - the second against Christian or Western interests in Pakista
The level of accounting errors at bankrupt telecommunications firm WorldCom is almost double the level previously reported. An internal audit has revealed an additional $3.
The Turkish Labour Minister, Yasar Okuyan, has resigned amid controversy over a draft law aimed at expanding the rights of workers. In another development, Turkey has promised the IMF that despite the political vacuum of looming elections it will press ah
The French Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, has cancelled his country's plan to host an international expo near Paris in 2004 because of lack of finance or foreign interest. The decision was said to be based on a report by the government's inspector
A Serb leader in the divided Kosovo city of Mitrovica says United Nations police and Nato troops have raided his house in an attempt to arrest him. The man, Milan Ivanovic, said he had been elsewhere at the time, but that his home had suffered considerabl
A French court has ordered that the website of an ultra far-right group linked to the man who allegedly tried to assassinate President Jacques Chirac be shut down. The ruling is the result of a complaint lodged by the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF
The Czech government agreed on Thursday to sell a majority in national phone firm Cesky Telecom to a consortium of Deutsche Bank and Denmark's TDC in the largest private equity deal ever seen in eastern Europe. The German bank's venture offered 1.
President Saddam Hussein said on Thursday he was not frightened by U.S.
The new Czech Government has won a vote of confidence in parliament, scraping through by 101 votes to 98. The vote was a test of the government's razor-thin majority, which has set itself the tasks of bringing the country into the European Union and stren
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to lend Brazil an extra $30bn, hoping that this will help pull the country and the region out of crisis. About $24bn of this will be distributed next year, Horst Koehler, the IMF managing director said in a
Countries in East and Central Africa may move to ban the civilian ownership of small arms in a bid to fight insecurity in the region. It is estimated that there are 100 million illicit small arms in Africa, crippling development in many areas of the conti
At least 13 people have been killed and nearly 30 wounded in explosions in the Colombian capital Bogota, minutes before Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as the country's president. Several of the explosions took place in poor Cartucho district a few streets away
Relatives of the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing have given a cautious welcome to a statement by Libya that it is ready, in principle, to pay them compensation. The announcement was made by Libyan Foreign Minister Abderrahmane Chalgam, after talks b
Ukraine blamed two pilots on Wednesday for the world's worst air show disaster, saying their decision to ignore orders and execute a dangerous maneuver contributed to the deaths of 85 people. The victims, many of them children, died when a Sukhoi Su-27 je
The Palestinian leadership has agreed in principle to an Israeli proposal to pull troops out of some occupied areas in exchange for a crackdown on militants. "There is preliminary approval," Palestinian minister Nabil Shaath said after Chairman Yasser Ara
Saddam Hussein announced plans to address the Iraqi nation as a new report Wednesday said U.S.
German unemployment has gone back above the crucial 4 million mark, just ahead of a keenly-contested general election. The seasonally unadjusted jobless total was 4.
About 30 Israeli tanks firing heavy machineguns raided the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a sweep for militants and troops shot dead a Palestinian policeman, witnesses said. The incursion and bloodshed underlined the obstacles that remain to peace de
Iraq's central bank plans to issue a 10,000 dinar banknote for commercial transactions. "This note will be used in relatively large commercial deals, notably for real estate and costly machinery," Iraqi Central Bank (ICB) governor Isam Rashid Huwaysh was
Senior United Nations managers have been warned not to engage in lavish entertaining during the forthcoming environment summit in Johannesburg. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's chief of staff S Iqbal Riza urged his senior staff to remember that the confe
Ten members of the pro-Russian Chechen military police force have been killed in an attack blamed on Chechen rebels in the south of the republic. At least eight others were injured when their vehicle hit a radio controlled landmine in the southern Shatoi
UN Happiness Report: Bulgaria's Astonishing Leap in Rankings
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