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Hurricane Ike ravages Caribbean islands... 8 hours ago

After ravaging the Turks and Caicos Islands, Hurricane Ike headed toward the Bahamas, Cuba and the US Gulf Coast, as Tropical Storm Hanna continued to batter the US East Coast. ...more

Sarkozy to seek to Russia-Gerogia breakthrough... 8 hours ago

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to travel to Moscow to tell Russian officials to comply with a month-old peace plan for Georgia. ...more

Kuwait's PM to visit Iraq 8 hours ago

Kuwait's prime minister will travel to Baghdad this week in the first high-level visit since Saddam Hussein's invasion in 1990. ...more

Guinean youths torch vehicles at disputed... 9 hours ago

Unemployed youths demanding jobs torched vehicles belonging to mining group Rio Tinto at the weekend near its disputed Simandou iron ore mining project, a company spokesman said. ...more

Olmert promotes West Bank settler buyout... 9 hours ago

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday it was time to consider offering compensation to Jewish settlers who volunteer to leave parts of the West Bank that Israel would hand to the Palestinians in a statehood deal. ...more

Gaddafi takes kitchen diplomacy approach... 9 hours ago

The heart of many homes is the kitchen and that is where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hosted Condoleezza Rice for a Ramadan meal this week, a symbolic gesture to try to end decades of enmity. ...more

Locals' Fury As Boulders Kill 30 9 hours ago

Furious residents of a shantytown in Egypt's capital Cairo have hurled stones and insults at authorities for "inefficient" rescue efforts after a massive rockslide. ...more

Double Afghan suicide bombing leaves... 10 hours ago

Two suicide bombers struck inside the police headquarters in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar Sunday, leaving dozens of people dead and wounded, officials said. ...more

Immigrant death sparks riots in Spanish... 10 hours ago

Immigrants went on a rampage in a southern Spanish town overnight throwing stones and bottles at police after a Senegalese man was stabbed to death, police and Spanish media said on Sunday. ...more

Twin blasts hit Afghan police HQ 10 hours ago

Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside the headquarters of the main police station in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday, killing two policemen and wounding 29 people, police said. ...more

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