ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (GMA News TV) Despite the government’s decision to dissolve its peace negotiating panel, Moro rebels are still open to holding talks to end their century-old struggle in Mindanao.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A deadly American-led raid on a Pakistani village embarrassed the government and eroded support for the pro-U.S. presidential front-runner Thursday just two days before the election.
BEIRUT (IHT) President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said Thursday that his country had made specific proposals to Turkish mediators for peace with Israel.
(Guardian) They are plucked off pizzas and discarded from caesar salads across the country, but somebody, somewhere has been eating too many anchovies. The fish that has divided food fans for years is today named on a list of unsustainable fish and shellfish that ethical consumers should not eat.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (IHT) Battles between government forces and ethnic Tamil separatists raged across northern Sri Lanka, with the military saying Thursday that it killed 28 rebels and the rebels claiming 11 government troops died in the fighting.
NAIROBI, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Kenya said on Wednesday the proliferation of small arms and light weapons were the main cause of instability in the region.
(Rediff News) The Bush administration, through a gag order on its written responses to Congressional questions, had sought to keep the Indian public in the dark on the larger implications of the nuclear deal, lest the accord run into rougher weather. But now its 26 pages of written answers have been publicly released by a senior United States Congressman.
(Mail & Guardian) Angolan political parties were set to wrap up an intensive election campaign on Wednesday with mass rallies as Africa's biggest oil producer prepared for its first peacetime election on Friday.
(Guardian) General Ali Shah Khan Paktiwal, the chief of the Kabul criminal investigation department, sits forward in his chair, stubs out a Marlboro Red and stabs the air with his finger. "Paktiwal knows no fear," he says quietly. "Paktiwal does not even know the meaning of the word fear."
UPI, Mindanao (IPS) Amidst the raging conflict between government forces and Muslim rebels on the island of Mindanao, the religiously mixed population in the North Cotabato region looks to a community radio station as a beacon of peace.
(Guardian) Relief supplies in Bihar are going to the highest castes first, ignoring plight of the most desperate, according to reports.
(Gulf News) Tehran: Iranian women's rights activists on Tuesday celebrated a parliament decision to indefinitely delay a vote on a bill on families.
DERA MURAD JAMALI (Daily Times) Naseerabad police on Monday arrested seven suspects after the government ordered an investigation into the killing of three girls and two women who were allegedly shot and buried alive around two months ago in Babakot village, 320 kilometres east of Quetta.
(OpEd News) Amy Goodman of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, while trying to free two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, who were unlawfully detained. Also arrested was Associated Press photographer, Matt Rourke.
(Democracy Now!) Nearly two million people have evacuated their homes as Hurricane Gustav heads towards the Gulf Coast. The Category 3 storm is expected to make landfall by midday today, with winds at 115 miles per hour.