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 Serbia's President Boris Tadic has promised to continue his cooperation with the United Nations war crimes court in The Hague. read more [presstv]  Israel has begun returning more than 150 Fatah supporters who fled the Gaza Strip following fierce fighting with Hamas-controlled security forces. read more [Aljazeera]  Iran faces a fourth set of sanctions if it rejects incentives offered to it by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing programme. read more [Aljazeera]  A member of Eta, the Basque separatist group, convicted of 25 murders has been released from a Spanish prison after serving 20 years of a 3,000 year sentence, sparking outrage from families of the victims. read more [Aljazeera]  Pyongyang has said it will expel "unnecessary" South Korean staff from a mountain resort in North Korea, according to a statement on the official Korean Central News Agency. read more [Aljazeera]  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has launched an international fund to finance conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon. read more [Aljazeera]  The UN Security Council has voted to keep its peacekeepers in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan after last-minute haggling over African concerns about a possible indictment of Sudan's president on genocide charges read more [Aljazeera]  The UN's atomic watchdog has approved an inspections agreement with India that is key to finalising a nuclear deal between New Delhi and Washington. read more [Aljazeera]  Lebanon's newly formed national unity government has agreed on a policy statement that may allow Hezbollah to keep its weapons. read more [Aljazeera]  At least five people have been killed when a tunnel under the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed, a Palestinian official said. read more [Aljazeera]  Heavy fighting has broken out in northern Sri Lanka on the eve of a South Asian summit in the capital Colombo, leaving at least 11 government soldiers and seven rebels dead. read more [Aljazeera]  Attacks by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have hit record highs this year with hundreds of civilians killed, including 19 aid workers read more [Aljazeera]  China's president has called on the foreign press to abide by Chinese laws just a week before the opening of the Olympic games read more [Aljazeera]  Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has dismissed a campaign advertisement by his Republican rival which mocked him for being more of a "celebrity" than a politician read more [Aljazeera]  At least 15 schoolgirls have been killed after a dormitory collapsed in Konya, a province in central Turkey. read more [Aljazeera]  Pakistan's military has rejected as "malicious" a report that the CIA confronted Islamabad over allegations the country's intelligence service was aiding al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters read more [Aljazeera]  Turkey's highest court has announced that it will not close down the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) on charges of undermining the country's secular system. read more [Aljazeera]  Thousands of people in the West Bank have gathered for the funeral of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. read more [Aljazeera]  Radovan Karadzic, the war crimes suspect, has arrived in the Netherlands to face trial at The Hague on charges of genocide for his actions in the 1992-95 Bosnia war read more [Aljazeera]  Zimbabwe, grappling with a record 2.2m per cent inflation, will issue new bank notes that will revalue a $10bn note to one dollar. read more [Aljazeera]  Pro-Taliban fighters in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province have abducted 30 security forces personnel after surrounding a police station. read more [Aljazeera]  Four suicide attacks in Iraq have left at least 57 dead and hundreds injured. read more [Aljazeera]  A rebel group in Nigeria has claimed its fighters have sabotaged two Shell pipelines in the country's main oil-producing region. read more [Aljazeera]  The Iranian president has said he is willing to seek "common ground" with the US if Washington takes a new approach over the country's nuclear programme. read more [Aljazeera]  George Bush, the US president, has praised Pakistan for making a "very strong commitment" to combating "extremists" after talks with Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Pakistani prime minister. read more [Aljazeera]  Hundreds of Asian migrant workers in Kuwait have ended a three-day strike after the government said it would protect their rights, but also warned rioters would be deported. read more [Aljazeera]  Former Democratic candidate Mike Gravel says President George W. Bush should be taken to The Hague for war crimes rather than being impeached. read more [Presstv]  Ethiopian forces have attacked the Howlwadagge district of Balet Weyn, in Hiiran and killed six civilians, including a mother and her children. read more [Presstv]  Russian state nuclear power corporation Rosatom is planning to build a 4GW nuclear plant and an aluminum factory in the Far East, a report says. read more [Presstv]  Dozens killed in India bomb blasts. - At least 17 separate explosions strike busy areas of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. read more [Aljazeera]  Mahmoud Ahmedinjad, Iran's president, has said that the country now has 6,000 centrifuges actively enriching uranium as part of its nuclear programme. read more [Aljazeera]  Democratic candidate Barack Obama held a private session with Iranian-American donors before he started his Mideast tour, a report says. read more [Presstv]  At least six people are reported to have been injured in a series of explosions in the city of Ahmedabad in western India. read more [Aljazeera]  Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip have arrested 120 men after an explosion killed five Hamas members and a girl, the group's officials said. read more [Aljazeera]  Lebanese tanks have been sent on to the streets of the northern port of Tripoli where bloody sectarian clashes have killed at least six people. read more [Aljazeera]  Sudan is threatening to expel peacekeepers stationed in the Darfur region if Omar al-Bashir, the president, is indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). read more [Aljazeera]  The leaders of the divided island of Cyprus are to enter direct peace negotiations on September 3 aimed at ending the 34-year-old division of the island, with a solution to be put to simultaneous referendums. read more [Aljazeera]  A Qantas Boeing 747 aeroplane flying to Australia has been forced to make an emergency landing in Manila due to a gaping hole in its fuselage . read more [Aljazeera]  The Indian government may collapse as the country's politicians gather to debate a vote of confidence over a civilian nuclear deal with the US. read more [Aljazeera]  Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, has urged closer ties between the US and Europe in a speech to thousands of people in Berlin, the German capital. read more [Aljazeera]  Libya is stopping oil shipments to Switzerland in protest over the arrest of the son of Muammar Gaddafi, the country's leader, according to a state-owned shipping company. read more [Aljazeera]  Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of Somalia's Islamist opposition, has called for a halt to the killing and kidnapping of aid workers stationed in the war-torn country. read more [Aljazeera]  Iraq's Presidential Council, headed by Jalal Talabani, Iraq's president, has rejected a law that would have paved the way for provincial elections later this year, despite it being passed by parliament on Tuesday. read more [Aljazeera]  Sudan's president has dismissed accusation that he is responsible for atrocities in Darfur, as he began a two-day tour of the troubled western region. read more [Aljazeera]  Barack Obama says 'a nuclear Iran' would create a 'game-changing situation' not only for Israel but also for the rest of the world. read more [Presstv]  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the US decision to send an envoy to Geneva nuclear talks is a sign of respect for Iranians. read more [Presstv]  UN Secretary-General Ban says Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has declared readiness for further prisoner swaps with Israel. read more [Presstv]  North Korea has pledged to fulfil its commitments on scrapping its nuclear programme, during its highest level diplomatic contact with the United States in four years. read more [Aljazeera]  Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader and one of the world's most wanted men, has been captured by Serbian security services. read more [Aljazeera]  About 150 government troops have deserted their military bases in Somalia, joining the fighters of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). read more [presstv]  A Somali sheikh has been targeted in tribal disputes between clansmen from the Galkacayo town in the country's central region of Mudug. read more [presstv]  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will meet Spanish King Juan Carlos to restore diplomatic relations with the European country. read more [presstv]  The US Missile Defense Agency chief says Iran can hit most of Europe with a ballistic missile although it has not shown the capability. read more [Presstv] |
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