By Phil Mercer Sydney 12 October 2009 A group of Afghan asylum seekers who survived an explosion that killed five people in the Timor Sea are to be granted refugee status in Australia. The government, however, has signaled it will deport anyone conv
By VOA News 12 October 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen in Dublin, 11 Oct 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meeting with Northern Ireland's political leaders in Belfast Monday. The talks c
By Sonja Pace London 12 October 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has praised the peace process in Northern Ireland, saying it serves as an example for other conflict areas that bitter enemies can resolve differences peacefully. Secretary
By Ravi Khanna Washington 12 October 2009 Pressure is building on the Afghanistan battleground and in Washington as President Obama considers whether to meet a request for tens of thousands more troops to fight the Taliban insurgency and convince Af
By Maram Mazen Khartoum 12 October 2009 Three of four Islamists (excluding man in center) accused in 2008 killing of US diplomat and his Sudanese driver, raise their hands and shout slogans as they walk out of Sudanese court (June 2009) A court in S
By Elizabeth Arrott Cairo 12 October 2009 The Iranian government is rejecting Western pressure to move quickly on disclosing information about its nuclear program. At the same time, it is facing renewed opposition from candidates in the June preside
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 October 2009 Somalia's al-Shabab extremists have renewed their threat to launch attacks on Kenya. This time, the threat follows allegations the Kenyan government is recruiting ethnic Somalis in northeastern Kenya to fight al
By Scott Stearns Dakar 12 October 2009 Guinea's capital has been shut down by a strike called to mourn opposition demonstrators killed by government troops two weeks ago. Labor leaders called the strike as a day of prayer to remember what they say a
By Brian Padden Jakatra 12 October 2009 Victims of the recent earthquake that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra are getting help from their neighbors to the north, survivors of the 2004 tsunami. In addition to providing material support, these gr
By Sean Maroney Islamabad 12 October 2009 Pakistani security personnel, volunteers help victims injured in suicide bomb blast arriving at hospital in Peshawar, 12 Oct 2009 Pakistani police say a suicide bombing near the country's troubled Swat Valle
By Jennifer Glasse London 12 October 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters at Farmleigh House, Dublin, 11 Oct 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says Washington is committed to the goals set out for Afghanistan, but
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 October 2009 A group of forcibly displaced people in north Yemen The U.N. refugee agency reports a first convoy of aid has reached conflict-ridden northern Yemen from Saudi Arabia. The UNHCR says fighting between Yemen gove
By Al Pessin Pentagon 13 October 2009 The Pentagon says a Washington Post story claiming it is making an unannounced deployment of 13,000 additional troops to Afghanistan is inaccurate. US Soldiers in Afghanistan A Pentagon spokesman, Colonel Dave L
By Robert Raffaele Washington 13 October 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says it is not yet time for additional sanctions against Iran, and said the United States and Russia are working together on the issue. Clinton spoke to reporters
By Alan Boswell Nairobi 13 October 2009 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki opened a pan-African summit in Nairobi designed to produce a unified African position for global climate change talks in Copenhagen this December. The Kenyan head of state told the
By Anne Look Dakar 13 October 2009 Former Ivorian prime minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara declared his candidacy for the country's long-delayed presidential elections, now scheduled for November. Former Ivorian prime minister Alassane Ouattara (fil
By Edward Yeranian Cairo 13 October 2009 Reformist Iranian presidential candidate, Mahdi Karroubi, talks with media during his press conference in Tehran, Iran, 09 Jun 2009 Tehran's prosecutor says an investigation is under way into charges by Irani
By Selah Hennessy London 13 October 2009 UN peacekeepers (R) pass a Rwandan Hutu rebel (L) as they patrol in FDLR rebel-held territory in eastern Congo (File) Aid groups said Tuesday that the human cost of a UN-backed military operation in the Democ
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 13 October 2009 Israel is accusing the Islamic guerrilla group Hezbollah of endangering stability in Lebanon after a mysterious explosion. U.N peacekeepers patrol near the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre after an explo
By Ricci Shryock Dakar 13 October 2009 Rebel attacks in the Casamance region of Senegal are moving deeper into the interior of the country. This week's most recent violence occurred north of the regional capital of Ziguinchor. Rebels in Senegal's so
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