Mahmoud Abbas is in a bind. Faced with a seemingly insurmountable impasse to negotiations with Israel, the Palestinian Authority president can either resign from his PLO chairmanship or come up with some serious, unilateral action to break the deadlock. With ...Read More
London, England (CNN) -- Forecasters predicted more rain for England's flood-ravaged northwest region Saturday, but said the risk of more flooding was smaller than in recent days. The badly hit town of Cockermouth was starting to dry out after the two ...Read More
Sri Lanka's ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees, detained in government camps, will be freed by December 1, according to a senior official.
Basil Rajapaksa, an adviser to his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, said on Saturday the detainees - numbering ...Read More
ROME - Italian police on Saturday arrested two Pakistani men accused of providing logistical support for last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, officials said.The two, father and son, were arrested in an early morning raid in Brescia, police in the ...Read More
A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 37 people and trapping 71 others nearly a third of a mile under ground.
The accident was a blow for the Chinese government, whose large state-owned ...Read More
President Obama's trip to China yielded precious little Chinesecooperation on the Administration's key concerns, ranging from currencyissues to Iran. That's a sign of the shifting balance of power between twocountries that have been locked in an uneasy embrace for more ...Read More
Chinese authorities say 31 people have been killed in a gas explosion in a coal mine in northeastern China and 82 remain trapped alive.
According to a statement issued by the State Administration of Work Safety, the blast occurred early Saturday ...Read More
MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka—Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday.
Some ...Read More
Italian police on Saturday arrested two Pakistani men accused of providing logistical support for last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, officials said.
The two, father and son, were arrested in an early morning raid in Brescia, police in the northern Italian ...Read More
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- A coal-mine explosion in thenortheastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang has killed 37miners and trapped 71, China Central Television reported on itsWeb site. The explosion happened at 2:30 a.m. at Xinxing mine where528 miners were working, the State ...Read More
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