Reuters - France said on Thursday it would
be ready to launch a targeted nuclear strike against any state
that carried out a terrorist attack on French soil.{br}{br}View the Enti
Reuters - China again called for restraint in the
Iran crisis on Thursday, with no sign of international
consensus yet on the West's drive for the U.N. Security Council
to take charge
Reuters - An al Qaeda bomb expert with a $5
million bounty on his head and a son-in-law of the group's No.
2 were among four militants believed killed by a U.S. airstrike
last wee
Reuters - Arabic television Al Jazeera aired on
Thursday new images of kidnapped U.S. journalist Jill Carroll
surrounded by armed gunmen that were part of a video tape the
channel had broadca
Reuters - U.S. and North Korean envoys to
talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear program met in Beijing, a
Chinese official said on Thursday, raising regional hopes the
stalled negotiatio
AFP - Iran said it was open to compromise in the crisis over its disputed nuclear programme as the United States and European Union pushed for Tehran to be hauled before the UN Securi
AFP - Supporters of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo paralysed the country's economic capital, Abidjan, for a fourth day running, despite calls from Gbagbo for them to end their protest a
AFP - Hungary will hold general elections on April 9 and 23, President Laszlo Solyom announced, the first time voters in the central European country will go to the polls since joining the EU
AFP - Pakistani intelligence officials said that about four Al-Qaeda militants were killed in a US air strike, reportedly including the son-in-law of the network's number two Ayman al-Zawahi
AFP - The US-led war on terror, which has led to charges of torture and inhumane treatment of detainees, is fuelling erosion of human rights across the globe, Human Rights Watch said.]]>{br}{br}Vi
AP - An al-Qaida explosives and chemical weapons expert and a relative of the terror network's No. 2 leader were among four top operatives believed killed in a U.S. missile strike in Pakist
AP - Iraq has asked U.S. authorities to release six of the eight Iraqi females in military custody but not as part of a bid to free a kidnapped American female journalist, a government official sa
AP - A battle for livestock between Ethiopian and Kenyan nomads has left 38 people dead in drought-stricken northern Kenya, officials and aid workers said Thursday.{br}{br}View the Enti
AP - The two main contenders in next week's Palestinian parliamentary elections — the ruling Fatah party and Hamas — pledged to avoid violence on voting day and work togeth
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - In Iran, an Islamic theocracy, Christians and Jews occupy an unusual place. But it's not necessarily uncomfortable.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti
AP - Knicks forward Antonio Davis climbed into the stands out of concern for his wife and was ejected without further trouble Wednesday night during the Chicago Bulls' 106-104 overtime victo
