AFP - Siemens, the German electronics and engineering giant, has said that restructuring costs in the first three months of its current business year resulted in a fall in net profit.]]>{br}{br}Vi

Reuters - China opposes sanctions against Iran's
nuclear ambitions and urges countries to consider a Russian
compromise, a Chinese spokesman said on Thursday, as Tehran's
nucle

Reuters - Three women held hostage by
an armed robber at a bank in a rural central Californian town
ran out on Thursday, but their captor grabbed one and puller
her back, poli

Reuters - Two American servicmen were wounded when
their vehicle was hit by a bomb blast while on patrol in a
restive eastern province of Afghanistan, the U.S. military said

Reuters - The U.S. military in Iraq freed five
women prisoners on Thursday, but American and Iraqi officials
stressed their release was pre-planned and not linked to the
case of kidnapped U.

AFP - Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei has announced his resignation, saying the radical Islamist group Hamas must form the next government after its general election victory.]]>{br}{br}Vi

AFP - China expressed support for a plan to have Iran's uranium enriched in Russia as a way to end the global impasse over the Islamic republic's nuclear program.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has arrived in Turkey and welcomed Istanbul's proposals to help end Cyprus's three-decade division, a major stumbling block for Ankara's b

AFP - A judge ordered the US government to hand some classified documents to the attorneys of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French Al-Qaeda member who could face the death penalty after admitting his ro

AFP - More than 400 detainees being held in Iraqi and US-run prisons, including five women, have been released in a move which could help free abducted US reporter Jill Carroll.]]>{br}{br}View t

AP - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and his Cabinet ministers submitted their resignations Thursday as the Islamic militant group Hamas appeared to have captured a large majority of seats

AP - The U.S. military said Thursday it would release five Iraqi women detainees, a move demanded by the kidnappers of an American reporter to spare her life. A U.S. official said the release h

AP - A European Parliament investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons could ask Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify, although it has no legal power

AP - Kidnappers of two German engineers seized their captives only two days after they arrived in Iraq, gaining access to their compound by pretending to be soldiers, police sa

FT.com - To understand how big the appetite is for emerging market debt these days, one should look at what has been happening to prices of bonds newly issued by Iraq, a country that has suffered o

Reuters - The Islamic militant group Hamas swept to
victory over the long-dominant Fatah faction on Thursday in the
Palestinian parliamentary election, a political earthquake that
could bu