AP - Nearly 16 years after the overthrow of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, survivors of his barbarous military regime have added yet another victim to the tens of thousands of deaths blam

Reuters - South Korea wants to begin discussions
for a permanent peace treaty to replace an armistice with North
Korea, President Roh Moo-hyun said on Wednesday.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP - Palestinians are voting in their first general election for a decade, with the Islamists of Hamas presenting the Fatah party with an unprecedented challenge to its long grip

AFP - The US online search engine Google has bowed to China's censorship restrictions to gain access to the country's booming Internet market.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP - Iran said that it backed a plan to enrich its uranium in Russia to defuse an international row over its nuclear power programme, but warned against Western attempts to put the debate before t

AFP - South Korea warned the United States of trouble ahead in bilateral ties after an angry dispute broke out between Seoul and Washington over sanctions against North Korea.]]>{br}{br}View t

AFP - China is in the grip of a worsening HIV-AIDS epidemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned, even as new official figures were released showing fewer cases than previous

AP - Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday in his first encyclical that the Roman Catholic Church has no desire to govern states or set public policy, but can't remain silent when its charity

AP - Amid tight security and a sea of green and yellow flags, Palestinians cast ballots in their first parliamentary election in a decade Wednesday — a historic vote that could shape the futu

AP - Armed men wearing military fatigues seized two German engineers from a car in northern Iraq on Tuesday in the latest brazen kidnapping to push a foreign government into another desperate race

AP - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said Wednesday they have agreed to hold talks with the government in Switzerland in February, raising hopes that the country may avoid sliding back

The Christian Science Monitor - In the halls of Sacramento, a special commission is rewriting Indian history: debating whether Aryan invaders conquered the subcontinent, whether Brahman priests h

AFP - SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, said that it was able to boost its net profit by more than 14 percent in 2005 on the back of a very strong performance in Nor

AP - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he is ready to resume peace talks with Israel, even if Hamas joins his government after Wednesday's legislative vote.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Thousands of activists marched through Venezuela's capital demanding an end to the war in Iraq and shouting slogans against U.S. imperialism at the opening of the World Social Forum back

Reuters - Iran on Wednesday accused Britain of
cooperating with bombers who killed eight people in the
southern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Tuesday, but Britain denied
any involvement.]]>{br}{br}Vi