| Bosnian Serb war criminal Plavsic back in Serbia The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague convicted Biljana Plavsic in February 2003 but last month granted an early release, a decision criticized by Bosn ...[more] |
| Yemen convicts rebels, Iran denies ship seizure On Monday, Yemen said it had impounded a vessel carrying weapons destined for the rebels of the Zaidi Shi'ite sect and detained its Iranian crew at the Red Sea port of Medi, in Haja province ...[more] |
| Abbas says might not run in poll, officials say "Abu Mazen (Abbas) told him that he would not be a candidate in the presidential election (in January) unless Israel abided by the peace requirement," said one of the officials, who are brief ...[more] |
| German court fines Holocaust-denying bishop The Bavarian court had Monday approved a request from state prosecutors in Regensburg for the fine but British-born Williamson has two weeks to contest the ruling. "If he decides not ...[more] |
| Guinea's September massacre pre-planned: HRW The bloody crackdown has drawn broad international condemnation of the country's ruling military junta led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, with the European Union on Tuesday saying it would i ...[more] |
| About-turn as South Korean defects to communist North Crossings are rare through the razor-wire and land-mined Demilitarized Zone buffer that divides the peninsula. But defections to the impoverished North from the affluent South are even rarer, ...[more] |
| Scientology convicted for fraud in France, escapes ban The French branch of the U.S.-based organization was fined 600,000 euros ($902,200). Four of its leaders received suspended prison sentences of up to two years and were fined between 5,000 an ...[more] |
| China says two executed for Tibet riots The International Campaign for Tibet, which campaigns for self-rule for the restive mountain region in far-west China, said on Monday that Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak were executed for arson-r ...[more] |
| One dead, two missing in Malaysia bridge collapse They were part of a group of nearly 300 pupils from several dozen primary schools in northern Perak state who were on a camping trip in a village 200 km (120 miles) north of the capital Kuala ...[more] |
| Abbas says might not run in election, official says "Abu Mazen (Abbas) told him that he would not be a candidate in the presidential election (in January) unless Israel abided by the peace requirement," the official, speaking on condition of a ...[more] |
| Chinese visit seals end of chilly ties with Australia Relations plummeted in June over a failed bid by China's state-owned metals firm Chinalco for a $19.5 billion stake in Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto and the arrest in China of an Australian exec ...[more] |