| Chavez says Iran helping Venezuela find uranium Venezuela says it is working with Russia to develop nuclear energy for peaceful uses, and the country's mining minister said last month Iranian officials were helping to look for uranium, wit ...[more] |
| Decide Afghan vote before adding troops: Senator Kerry In an interview with CNN's "State of the Union," Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the United States should not proceed with a new Afghan strategy involving more ...[more] |
| Iran frees Iranian-Canadian journalist on bail "Bahari was released on 3 billion rials ($300,000) bail from Evin prison on Saturday night," the semi-official ILNA news agency quoted a judiciary source as saying. Iran's state telev ...[more] |
| U.S. said to be planning deeper engagement with Sudan The policy change envisages a mix of "incentives and pressures," but there are no immediate plans to ease sanctions on Khartoum, which the United States has accused of genocide in the war-rav ...[more] |
| Masked gunmen kill Darfur police at U.N. compound The two officers died Thursday and a third was killed on Friday when security forces tracked down the raiders in south Darfur, shooting dead two of the attackers in an exchange of fire, polic ...[more] |
| U.S. said to be planning deeper engagement with Sudan The policy change envisages a mix of "incentives and pressures," but there are no immediate plans to ease sanctions on Khartoum, which the United States has accused of genocide in the war-rav ...[more] |
| Maldives sends climate SOS with undersea cabinet Aiming for another attention-grabbing event to bring the risks of climate change into relief before a landmark U.N. climate change meeting in December, President Mohamed Nasheed's cabinet hea ...[more] |
| West African leaders impose arms embargo on Guinea The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) also threatened full sanctions on Niger if President Mamadou Tandja does not take immediate steps to resolve the country's political cri ...[more] |
| German coalition parties see deal within next week Germany's conservative bloc, comprising Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), are trying to forge a policy agenda for the next four years with the ...[more] |
| Fire at India firecracker warehouse kills 32 The victims had gathered late on Friday at Pallipattu village, in Tamil Nadu state, to buy firecrackers to celebrate the Hindu festival of "Diwali." "The bodies were so badly burned t ...[more] |
| Thai "red shirts" push for royal pardon for Thaksin The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) accused the government of dragging its heels in forwarding the petition, signed by 3.5 million Thais, to King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who ...[more] |