Death toll in Iran attack rises to 42: TV

Death toll in Iran attack rises to 42: TV
Philippine emergency teams prepare as typhoon nears
Blast hits south Thailand market
Elvis' hair leaves the building (Reuters)
NKorea tries to acquire SKorean jamming gear (AFP)
UK's Brown urges progress on climate pact (AP)
Thai king's illness leaves countrymen anxious (AP)
Philippine emergency teams prepare as typhoon nears
Pakistan denies Iran bomb link - report
Egypt warns Hamas it won't wait over unity deal
Intense diplomacy under way to rescue Afghan vote
Around 270,000 victims of human trafficking in EU
Suicide bomber kills 30 in attack on Iran's Guards
Philippine Muslim rebels met US diplomats
Hamas delays response to Palestinian unity deal
Seoul: NKorea uranium programme is 'very worrying' (AFP)
SKorea's top diplomat urges NKorea to disarm (AP)
Philippine emergency teams prepare as typhoon nears (Reuters)
Death toll in Iran attack rises to 42 - TV
India forces US jet to land

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:44 PM PDT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian state television said 42 people were killed in Sunday's suicide bombing attack on the elite Revolutionary Guards in the country's volatile southeast, raising the death toll from an earlier estimate of 35.

Philippine emergency teams prepare as typhoon nears

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:43 PM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines deployed emergency teams across flooded and landslide-hit areas in northern regions of the main Luzon island on Monday as a powerful typhoon moved closer, weeks after two storms killed more than 850 people.

Blast hits south Thailand market

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:28 PM PDT

Military says suspected Muslim fighters behind explosion that injured at least 24.

Elvis' hair leaves the building (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:31 PM PDT

Reuters - A pile of hair believed snipped from Elvis Presley when he joined the U.S. Army in 1958 sold for $18,300 (11,200 pounds) on Sunday, according to a Chicago auction house.

NKorea tries to acquire SKorean jamming gear (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:29 PM PDT

AFP - North Korea has been caught trying to acquire South Korean military equipment capable of jamming communications, officials said Monday.

UK's Brown urges progress on climate pact (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:05 PM PDT

AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will warn representatives of the world's biggest economies Monday that efforts to agree on a new global pact to tackle climate change are a historic test of international cooperation.

Thai king's illness leaves countrymen anxious (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:20 PM PDT

AP - As Thailand's ailing 81-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej begins the second month of a hospital stay Monday, his countrymen are wondering just how sick he really is.

Philippine emergency teams prepare as typhoon nears

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:32 PM PDT

Pakistan denies Iran bomb link - report

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:32 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has condemned a suicide bomb attack in Iran and denied suggestions from the Iranian president that "some security agents" in Pakistan were cooperating with the bombers.

Egypt warns Hamas it won't wait over unity deal

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 06:53 AM PDT

CAIRO - Egypt warned Sunday it would not wait "forever" for Palestinian factions to agree a unity deal after the Islamist movement Hamas postponed signing the accord with its Fatah rivals.

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 05:08 AM PDT

KABUL - France's top diplomat said Sunday Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his main challenger seemed willing to work together as international efforts intensified to end the crisis over disputed polls.

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 04:58 AM PDT

VIENNA - The United Nations said on Sunday there could be around 270,000 victims of human trafficking in the European Union and urged greater efforts to combat the illegal trade.

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:51 AM PDT

TEHRAN - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of the elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran Sunday, killing at least 30 people including top commanders and tribal leaders, a senior official said.

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:11 AM PDT

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines - Leaders of the Philippines' largest Muslim separatist group said Sunday they had met US diplomats and called for Washington's involvement to help broker a peace deal.

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 12:47 AM PDT

GAZA CITY - Hamas has delayed sending a delegation to Cairo to give its response to an Egyptian-proposed Palestinian reconciliation deal, a senior official in the Islamist group told AFP on Sunday.

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:53 PM PDT

AFP - South Korea Monday said North Korea's admission that it had an enriched-uranium programme was a "very worrying" problem and questioned whether the country was committed to disarming.

SKorea's top diplomat urges NKorea to disarm (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:36 PM PDT

AP - South Korea's foreign minister pressed North Korea to take real steps toward nuclear disarmament and immediately rejoin stalled nuclear talks, expressing doubt Monday over the regime's latest conciliatory gestures.

Philippine emergency teams prepare as typhoon nears (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:43 PM PDT

Reuters - The Philippines deployed emergency teams across flooded and landslide-hit areas in northern regions of the main Luzon island on Monday as a powerful typhoon moved closer, weeks after two storms killed more than 850 people.