Ukraine’s parliament has approved a resolution calling on the president to immediately withdraw its 1,650 troops from Iraq. The worsening security

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Volunteers in Thailand have begun the grim task of exhuming hundreds of bodies of tsunami victims because of mistakes made with initial

The election of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian leader has ushered in a mood of cautious optimism in the region, although Yasser Arafat’s successor

The European Union and the United States have agreed to settle their subsidy dispute over Airbus and Boeing through bilateral talks. It means the

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Interpol has launched the world’s biggest ever forensic operation to help identify victims of the Asian tsunami. A team of 40 detectives, doctors and

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