Ethiopia said Friday that a European Union move to freeze hundreds of millions of dollars in direct aid to the government over democracy concerns was "unacceptable" and urged the bloc to stick to prior commitments

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A British Airways flight with 300 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing in New York when an engine caught fire shortly after take-off, a transport official said Friday. The London-bound Boeing

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Four Afghan policemen were killed and seven others were injured when a bomb planted by suspected Taleban militants exploded near a checkpoint, an official said Friday. The blast happened late Thursday in the Hazar Joft

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China is still not sharing virus samples from animal bird flu outbreaks, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, a day after Beijing announced the country's third human death from the disease. The woman, a

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Leaders of Iraq's Sunni and secular communities gave a cautious welcome on Friday to a plan to bring foreign experts to Baghdad to review the results of this month's election, which they say was fraudulent.

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A French court on Friday rejected petitions by four campaign groups seeking to block the transfer to India of a decommissioned warship insulated with asbestos, paving the way for its imminent departure. A judge at

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Some 2,000 Egyptian riot police stormed a camp of Sudanese refugees on Friday, sparking clashes that left at least 20 Sudanese dead and more than 100 police and others injured, officials and witnesses said. Witnesses

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Iran's agreement to discuss Moscow's plan to enrich uranium in Russia does not mean that Tehran has abandoned its drive to enrich uranium on its own soil, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying

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A Malaysian man is claiming a new record after teaching non-stop for 88 hours, in a feat involving hundreds of students which left him with a sore back and high blood pressure, a report said

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Israeli forces on Friday dismantled three outposts in the occupied West Bank that had been erected by Jewish settlers in a show of strength ahead of elections. Battling to win a third term, Prime Minister

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