The Palestinian president Mahmod Abbas has confirmed that he will not seek re-election in the presidential poll next January. He said hed made that decision due to the lack of progress in the peace process. From Ramallah, Bethany Bell reports. This i...
A court in Italy has convicted 23 Americans, almost all of them identified as CIA operatives for abducting a Muslim cleric, Abu Omar from the streets of Milan in 2003. United States said it was disappointed at the courts decision. Paul Adams reports....
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has appeared at the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal in the Hague for the first time since the start of his trial. Mr Karadzic listened calmly as the prosecution urged the court either to force him to atten...
President Obama has congratulated Hamid Karzai on his re-election as president of Afghanistan, but hes called for a new chapter there, including greater efforts to eradicate corruption. His remarks came after Afghanistans Election Commission cancelle...
It's still not clear whether the final round of presidential election in Afghanistan will go ahead, following the withdraw by the opposition leader Abuallah Abuallah who said he felt the runoff vote would not be fair. The incumbent Karzai has said th...
The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been holding a day of separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, but there's been no sign of any progress on resuming Middle East peace negotiations. Both sides refused to give any ground...
European Union leaders have ended a summit with an agreement to contribute to the huge sums required by developing countries to combat climate change. The EU estimates that governments worldwide would need to fund as much as 74 billion dollars a year...
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The US government says the attack on a United Nations guesthouse in Afghanistan would not succeed in derailing the second round of the presidential election in 10 days time. Five UN workers and three local staff were killed when militants stormed the...
The prosecution of the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has opened its case against the former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic. Prosecutors called him the supreme commander of the campaign of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War of the 1990s...