Iraq's interim prime minister urged the country's rival ethnic and religious groups to unite on Monday after millions voted in a historic election, but he warned that insurgents would launch more bloody attacks. Within hours

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A keenly awaited United Nations investigation into human rights abuse in Sudan's Darfur region does not describe violence against villagers there as "genocide", the Sudanese government said on Monday. Pro-government militia are accused of a

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The European Union moved to end a diplomatic row with Cuba on Monday by suspending a policy of inviting dissidents to national day celebrations at its Havana embassies in protest at the island's human rights

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A US judge ruled on Monday that the Guantanamo military tribunals for terrorism suspects are unconstitutional. In a setback for the Bush administration, US District Judge Joyce Hens Green also ruled the prisoners at the

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Israeli gunfire killed a Palestinian girl at a UN-run school on Monday, witnesses said, and militants shelled Jewish settlements in response, straining a de facto truce that has raised hopes for peace. The incidents punctured

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More than 50 countries, as well as international bodies, will attend a counter-terrorism conference in Saudi Arabia from February 5 to 8, the official SPA news agency said on Monday. Besides looking at the causes

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Iran said Monday its current freeze on uranium enrichment would be short-lived but insisted that its nuclear activities posed no risk to the region as claimed the United States. "The length of the suspension will

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A car bomb exploded outside a ministry in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, killing the driver, and fire broke out in another of the ex-Soviet state's government buildings on Monday, a security source and witnesses said.

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Sri Lankan stocks ended slightly lower on Monday on foreign selling in blue chips as investors sought profits after the market rose to fresh highs in early trade, brokers said. The key Colombo all-share index

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Stocks gained on Monday, buoyed by Citigroup Inc, which said it plans to sell its insurance unit to MetLife Inc, and relief that elections in Iraq went off with less bloodshed than expected. Life insurer

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