Visiting German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer called on Israel Monday to abide by the terms of the Middle East peace roadmap and freeze its settlement activity in the West Bank. Fischer told a joint press

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Republicans opened their four-day national convention on Monday with salutes to President George W. Bush's wartime leadership and repeated reminders of his response to the September 11, 2001, attacks. At an opening session in New

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Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Monday said US forces fighting militia in Najaf were defeated by the "spiritual glory" of the Iraqi Shia holy city. He was quoted by state television as speaking on

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Chechnya's new leader vowed on Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists after winning an election condemned by a rights group as a show stage-managed by Moscow. Alu Alkhanov, the former local interior

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Turkey's top general warned on Monday the military was ready to fight any separatist or Islamic militancy it saw threatening the country's secular order and unity. The army is the self-proclaimed guardian of overwhelmingly Muslim

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The Taleban warned on Monday of further deadly attacks in the run-up to Afghanistan's first presidential election after a car bomb in the heart of the capital killed up to a dozen people. Three Americans

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Bangladesh was brought to a standstill Monday by the fourth general strike in a week called by the opposition, which has stepped up its campaign to oust the government since an assassination attempt on its

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Libya appears to be earnest in its efforts to reveal the extent of its atomic bomb programme, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report published on Monday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said

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The Congress-led coalition government in the southern Indian state of Karnataka agreed Monday to drop all charges against jailed firebrand Hindu nun Uma Bharti, a report said. Last week, Bharti, who belongs to India's main

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Vietnam has released nearly 9,000 prisoners, including 10 inmates whose cases it says had drawn international attention, as part of traditional pardons granted ahead of independence celebrations on September 2. Foreign ministry officials told a

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