| Prisoner deal hits snag on Hamas demands "Hamas still insists on its demands," the source, who declined to be named, told Reuters, naming the two top Hamas prisoners as Ibrahim Hamed and Abdallah Barghouti. An Israeli offici ...[more] |
| FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Nov 25 * denotes new or updated item * TARMIYA - Gunmen wearing army uniforms stormed a house and killed six members of the same family, including two women and a teenage girl, in the town o ...[more] |
| Iran detains scores of students, rights group says Iranian police, seeking to avoid any repeat of the huge demonstrations that erupted after a disputed election in June, have warned opposition supporters against using the December 7 Student D ...[more] |
| Iraq election chaos exposes sectarian divide Bitter disagreement over the allocation of seats among majority Shi'ites, minority Kurds and once dominant Sunnis is a sign of how much is at stake in the election due in January. The vote wi ...[more] |
| U.N. fails to halt Congo rebels: experts Far from resolving the root causes of the violence, the operations backed by the world's biggest peacekeeping mission have aggravated the conflict in North and South Kivu provinces, a U.N. Gr ...[more] |
| FACTBOX: Findings of report on U.N. Congo operations These are the key findings of their report, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters and which is due to be debated in the U.N. Security Council later Wednesday. - There is a "possible ...[more] |
| Five killed in protest in southern Yemen The group of 200 chanted slogans such as "No to the plot of Persian expansion" and "Yemen will remain free and independent" and called for the expulsion of Iran's ambassador. Though t ...[more] |
| SCENARIOS: How might Yemen's toxic mix of conflict develop? A Muslim Shi'ite revolt, southern secessionism and al Qaeda attacks have combined with water shortages, a humanitarian crisis, worsening poverty and falling oil income to stir powerful curren ...[more] |
| North Korea's Kim says China friendship "unbreakable" Relations between China and nuclear-armed North Korea, once described as being as close as "lips and teeth," have soured in recent years, especially since Pyongyang held nuclear test blasts i ...[more] |
| Somali rebels order WFP to halt relief food imports Al Shabaab insurgents control most of the south of the drought-ravaged country, where fighting has worsened one of the world's most acute humanitarian crises. Washington says the group is al ...[more] |
| China expert warns of pandemic flu mutation Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases in China's southern Guangdong province, said the presence of both viruses in China meant they could mix and become a ...[more] |