Argentina to Repay IMF
Argentina has promised to pay USD 3.1 B to the IMF, missing by five hours a second default on an IMF loan repayment schedule.
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Argentina has promised to pay USD 3.1 B to the IMF, missing by five hours a second default on an IMF loan repayment schedule.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden might be preparing to move from Pakistan to Afghanistan, according to US intelligence sources cited by CNN. US intelligence found signs of a network of al Qaeda couriers and safe houses on the Afghan side of the border, sou
Abu Abbas, the Palestinian who led the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in which a wheelchair-bound American hostage was killed, has died in US custody, apparently of natural causes, a Pentagon official announced. Abu Abbas, whose real name
Two suicide attackers stormed a Masonic lodge in Turkey Tuesday opening fire with automatic weapons and setting off explosions that killed two people and wounded five, officials said. One of the attackers also died and one was injured in the assault, whic
Democratic presidential candidate and US senator John Kerry would have gathered 52% of the votes of the Americans were the election taking place in March, surveys show. Current US President Bush would be supported by 44% of the Americans.
Five British terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay are due to return home on Tuesday, Home Secretary David Blunkett confirmed. However, he suggested four other British suspects would probably face trial in the US.
The US are searching for a replacement to Haiti's now Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, US Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged. The news comes days after Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide resigned under US, French pressure, and went into exile.
The number of people affected by the Cyclone Gafilo, which ripped through the country's northern region on Sunday, has yet to be confirmed, but preliminary reports released by local authorities on Monday indicate that up to 100,000 people may be left with
Romania's Prime Minister Adrian Nastase represented the new structure of his government on Monday afternoon. The new cabinet will have 3 state ministers, namely Dan Ioan Popescu, state minister for economic issues, Ioan Rus, state minister on coordinating
Zimbabwean authorities say they've seized a US cargo plane allegedly carrying over 60 suspected mercenaries and military equipment. Interior Affairs Minister Kembo Mahadi said the plane was detained Sunday night at Harare's main airport after its owners r
Fourteen Romanian projects engulfed financial support of EUR 385 M in 2003, Romania's Ziua Daily informed on Monday. Except for Russia, Romania attracted the most significant level of EBRD investments in Europe over last year.
Iran intends to become a member of "the nuclear club," Hasan Rowhani, Secretary of the Supreme Council for National Security of Iran said at a session of the council of experts, one of the governing bodies of the Islamic Republic of Iran that recently cel
US operations in Afghanistan are marred by needless civilian casualties and the alleged torture of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Monday. The US military rejected the group's findings, saying it "confused the situation" in strife
Lithuania's Parliament will start hearing evidence on Monday in the impeachment of its president, who is accused of violating the constitution. The political crisis started last autumn, when the office of Rolandas Paksas was accused of having links with R
Iraq's 25-member Governing Council cast aside its deep communal and religious differences and signed Monday the country's historic new interim constitution after delays, which courted disaster. The US-picked Governing Council hailed the document as enshri
At least six people were shot dead as gunmen opened fire in Haiti at a procession celebrating the ousting of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. More that 10,000 people gad gathered in capital Port-au-Prince to hail Aristide's downfall.
At least six people were killed, including a journalist, and 26 more were wounded when gunmen opened fire on an opposition rally near the presidential palace in Haiti's capital, international agencies announced. One US journalist suffered gunshot wounds a
Greek conservatives swept to a landslide victory Sunday in parliamentary elections that ended 10 years of Socialist government and assigned a new caretaker to the troubled preparations for this summer's Olympics. The New Democracy party led the Socialist
Polls closed in the Greek general elections, with exit polls suggesting a clear victory for the opposition. The polls gave conservative leader Costas Karamanlis' New Democracy party a lead of about 5% over the socialists led by George Papandreou.
Israeli troops raided two Gaza refugee camps early Sunday, sparking gun battles that killed 13 Palestinians a day after militants choreographed an elaborate attack on soldiers at the main Israel-Gaza crossing point. The dead included militants, a 15-year-
US soldiers opened fire on a truck packed with explosives Saturday, killing the driver, and three Americans were wounded when the truck crashed on a bridge and exploded. Meanwhile, politicians conferred Sunday with Iraq 's top Shiite cleric to resolve a d
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