Turkey releases PKK 'peace' group

Turkey releases PKK 'peace' group


Turkey releases PKK 'peace' group

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:16 PM PDT

Ankara frees 34 Kurds arrested after arriving in Turkey from neighbouring Iraq.

MDC boycotts Zimbabwe cabinet

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:09 PM PDT

Zimbabwe's political standoff deepens as MDC stays away from government meeting.

NATO "a corpse", fumes former Canada military boss

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:03 PM PDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The splits inside NATO over the Afghan war have turned the alliance into a rotting corpse that will be virtually impossible to revive, says the former head of Canada's armed forces.

Tropical Storm Rick kills second person, winds calm

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:43 AM PDT

LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Rick lost strength as it neared Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Tuesday, but pounding surf killed a second person when a teenage boy drowned while swimming at a beach.

Poland to Accept Missile Defense Offer

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:31 PM PDT

The plan for so-called SM-3 missiles, proposed in Washington last month, will be spelled out in more detail on Wednesday when Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds talks with leaders in Warsaw.

BNP hits back at generals' attack

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:51 PM PDT

BNP leader Nick Griffin has attacked a group of generals who criticised "extremists" for using military symbols.

Harpist 'fraud after drug threat'

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT

A former royal harpist said she tried to forge a signature after someone threatened to tell newspapers about her drug use, a court hears.

Indonesia agrees to asylum deal

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:45 AM PDT

The leaders of Indonesia and Australia have agreed to join forces to tackle a big rise in the number of asylum seekers.

Refugee Crisis Looms in Pakistan

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:26 PM PDT

Thousands of refugees fled fighting between Pakistani soldiers and Taliban militants in South Waziristan, as suicide attackers bombed a women's cafeteria and a faculty building at a university in Islamabad, killing two people.

Taiwan warns of China 'threat'

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:11 AM PDT

Taiwan says China's military strength is far more than it needs for self-defence, and is a threat to the Asia-Pacific region.

Aphrodisiac attack wife convicted

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:03 AM PDT

A woman who slit her husband's throat after giving him a herb called horny goat weed is guilty of attempted murder.

Bernard Kerik Is Sent to Jail

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 09:00 PM PDT

The former police commissioner has his bail revoked.

Kazakh activist appeal rejected

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:10 AM PDT

A court in Kazakhstan rejects an appeal by a prominent human rights activist who was jailed in September for manslaughter.

Live - Tuesday football

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:29 AM PDT

Arsenal travel to AZ Alkmaar, Liverpool host Lyon and Rangers entertain Urziceni in the Champions League, while there is a full set of Championship fixtures.

Israel to form committee to fight U.N. Gaza report

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:58 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The prospect Israeli officials could face war crimes trials abroad led the Israeli government on Tuesday to form a committee to deal with the international legal consequences of a U.N. report on the Gaza war.

Karadzic fair trial rights respected: Hague prosecutor

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:30 AM PDT

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has had enough time to prepare for his trial over war crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnia conflict, the chief prosecutor for the Yugoslavia tribunal said on Tuesday.

California Sues State Street for $200 Million

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 09:00 PM PDT

California's attorney general, Jerry Brown, said Tuesday that he was suing State Street, the large Boston-based bank, accusing it of committing "unconscionable fraud" against the state's two largest employee pension funds, Calpers and Calstrs.

Iran not to cede 'nuclear rights'

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:30 AM PDT

Foreign minister rules out abandoning "legal and obvious" right to nuclear technology.

In Schools Post, Thompson Was a Conciliator

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:25 AM PDT

In the contentious world of New York City schools under Mayor Giuliani, William C. Thompson Jr. stayed in the background.

Indian PM warns of imminent militant attack

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:44 AM PDT

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's prime minister on Tuesday warned of a fresh militant attack and urged the armed forces to take measures to tackle security challenges nearly two weeks days after a bomb attack on its embassy in Kabul.

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