Hamas chief in Cairo for talks

HAMAS chief Khaled Meshaal is in Cairo to confer on ending the Gaza conflict, but the Islamist group is reluctant to agree a ceasefire without guarantees Israel will honour it, a senior Hamas official says. Meshaal was scheduled on Saturday...

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UN to hold emergency talks on DR Congo

THE UN Security Council will meet in an emergency session after UN attack helicopters launched missions against rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, diplomats say. France's UN mission announced on its Twitter account on Saturday that...

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Arabs to demand Gaza ceasefire: diplomat

ARAB foreign ministers meeting in Cairo are expected to demand that Israel immediately halt its campaign in Gaza, and to discuss sending a delegation of ministers there, an Arab diplomat says. The pan-Arab body announced on Wednesday its decision...

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Israel air raids kill 10, destroy Hamas HQ

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, Nov 17 AFP - Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed 10 Palestinians and destroyed the Hamas government headquarters as Israel called up thousands more reservists for a possible ground war. After Palestinian militants...

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Iran denies supplying rockets to Gaza

A SENIOR Iranian official has denied his country supplied the Fajr 5 missiles which Palestinian militants have been firing at Tel Aviv, Iran's Al-Alam television reports. "We deny having delivered the Fajr 5 to the Palestinian resistance. The...

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Ukraine's Tymoshenko in 'increased pain'

JAILED Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is in "increased pain" following her two-week hunger strike, but is too weak to receive full-scale treatment, her doctor says. The former prime minister took her first sips of fruit juice late...

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US stocks dip in opening trade

US stocks have opened slightly lower after the Federal Reserve reported an unexpected decline in the nation's industrial production in October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday was down 7.22 points (0.06 per cent) at 12,535.16. The...

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World leaders urge Egypt to push for truce

EGYPTIAN President Mohamed Morsi has branded an Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip a "blatant aggression against humanity", as world leaders called for restraint and urged Egypt to use its influence with Hamas to secure a ceasefire. "Egypt will...

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Terrorists behind Libya attack: Petraeus

FORMER CIA director David Petraeus has told legislators he believed all along that the deadly September 11 assault on the US consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack, a congressman says, as the former general faced congress for the first time since...

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Serbia angry Croatian generals acquitted

THE acquittal of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac of war crimes during the bloody 1990s break-up of Yugoslavia has been met with mixed reactions. While supporters of the generals at home in Croatia cheered and set off fireworks,...

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Spain halts evictions of most vulnerable

SPAIN has announced a two-year halt to evictions of the most vulnerable home owners as a public outcry mounts over suicides linked to desperate people facing expulsion. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's right-leaning government says it has it agreed...

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44 killed in Congo fighting

FORTY-FOUR people have been killed in new fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels, ending a two-month ceasefire. Both sides have blamed the other for starting the fighting. "The M23 has attacked us around 5am this morning," Colonel...

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Eurozone slides back into recession

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Source: AFP THE 17-country eurozone has fallen back into recession for the first time in three years as the fallout continues from the region's financial crisis....

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Star Wars, dominoes in Toy Hall of Fame

LUKE Skywalker and Princess Leia have outmuscled little green army men for a spot in the US National Toy Hall of Fame. Star Wars action figures have joined centuries-old dominoes in the class of 2012. The hall in Rochester, New York, announced...

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BP agrees to pay over $A4.36b fine

BRITISH energy giant BP says it has agreed to pay more than $US4.5 billion ($A4.36 billion) in US fines related to the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including $US4 billion in criminal claims. "The aggregate amount of the resolution...

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3 Indian troops, 2 rebels die in Kashmir

AN Indian army officer says three soldiers and two suspected rebels have been killed in a gunbattle near the heavily militarized line of control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Lieutenant Colonel Ankur Vashist says the fighting...

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SAfrican smuggler swallows 220 diamonds

POLICE in South Africa say they've arrested a 25-year-old man who swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country. Captain Paul Ramaloko of the South African Police Service says investigators arrested the man...

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Headteacher bailed after homework row

A PAKISTANI headteacher caught in a blasphemy row over a piece of homework allegedly derogatory about the prophet Mohammed has been released on bail. Asim Farooqi, 77, of Farooqi Girls' High School, was released after the Lahore High Court granted...

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Ivory Coast president dissolves cabinet

IVORY Coast President Alassane Ouattara has dissolved his cabinet over an apparent feud between member parties of his governing coalition. Amadou Gon Coulibaly, general secretary of the presidency, told a press conference the decision came after...

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US stocks turn lower in early trade

US stocks have turned lower in early trade after an opening jump helped by good results from Cisco and Abercrombie & Fitch. At 1545 GMT on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 60.04 points (0.47 per cent) at 12,696.14. The...

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New Israeli warnings on Gaza

DEFENCE Minister Ehud Barak is warning that a flare-up in violence with Gaza is "not over," with Palestinian militants firing two rockets and Israel carrying out air strikes overnight. The violence that began on Saturday appeared to have slowed...

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Thousands gather for solar eclipse

ABOUT 60,000 enthusiasts, scientists and astronomers are set to gather in northern Australia to watch Australia's first full solar eclipse for a decade. The eclipse, which will happen at around 6.39am (AEST) on Wednesday, is expected to be visible...

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AMF Bowling files for Chapter 11

BOWLING centre operator AMF Bowling Worldwide says it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy so it can implement a pre-arranged restructuring agreement. Virginia-based AMF announced the bankruptcy filing and the agreement on Tuesday morning. The...

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German investor confidence drops

GERMAN investor confidence in Europe's largest economy slipped unexpectedly this month over worries growth will cool over the next six months, a survey shows. The ZEW institute said on Tuesday its monthly confidence index fell to minus 15.7 points...

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US stocks mixed on Greece, US worries

US stocks have been mixed in early Tuesday trade amid worries about Greece's debt crisis and a US "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax hikes at year-end which threaten to drag the economy into recession. After opening lower, the Dow Jones Industrial...

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China to reveal new leaders on Thursday

CHINA'S Communist Party will on Thursday unveil the new set of top leaders who will take over the reins of the country for the next decade, one day after their week-long congress ends, the party says. The widely expected timing was confirmed...

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US stocks rise on China trade data

US stocks have opened with modest gains after last week's slump, lifted by encouraging China trade data that signalled renewed momentum in the economy and solid earnings from a key US homebuilder. In the first five minutes of trade on Monday,...

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Italian prosecutor charges S&P, Fitch

AN Italian prosecutor has filed charges of market manipulation against Standard & Poor's and Fitch ratings agencies over downgrades of Italy's credit rating that helped fuel the euro debt crisis. Following a two-year investigation, prosecutor...

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Emirates' first-half profit up 104%

DUBAI'S Emirates airline says it posted a 104 per cent surge in net profits in the first six months of the current financial year thanks to rising passenger numbers. "In the first half of the 2012-13 fiscal year, Emirates net profit is 1.7 billion...

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Russian growth slows to 2.9%

RUSSIA'S growth slowed to 2.9 per cent in the third quarter this year, the statistics office says, in a sign its economic activity is being hit by the global economic crisis. The Russian economy, hugely reliant on oil and gas exports, enjoyed...

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EgyptAir stewardesses begin wearing hijab

EGYPTAIR stewardesses who campaigned to wear the Muslim headscarf have begun donning the hijab for the first time since the national carrier was founded in 1932, a company official says. The first flight attendants dressed in the hijab, which...

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French gunman's brother blames parents

THE radicalisation of the French gunman who killed seven people on an eight-day shooting spree this year began at home, his brother recounts in a new book and documentary, according to media reports. Mohamed Merah killed three Jewish children,...

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Trial of Libyan ex-PM to begin

THE trial of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi's last prime minister, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, will open in the Libyan capital on Monday, the public prosecutor's spokesman says. "Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi will appear tomorrow (Monday) on the occasion...

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NATO soldier dies in Afghan insider attack

A NATO-LED soldier fighting insurgents in Afghanistan has been shot dead by a man in an Afghan army uniform in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of "insider" attacks, the alliance says. "I can confirm that an individual wearing Afghan...

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Blogger's Iran prison death to be probed

PARLIAMENT has launched a probe into the death in detention of an Iranian blogger and will make its report public, the ISNA news agency reports deputy speaker Mohammad Hassan Abutorabi as saying. Opposition activists say blogger Sattar Beheshti,...

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