Irans hardline rulers sent uncompromising signals to foes at home and abroad on Wednesday, warning of possible legal action against opposition leaders and testing an upgraded missile that could reach Israel.The United States said the launch of a Sejil 2

The 10-day-old climate talks ran into disputes and paralysis as they entered a critical stage Wednesday, just two days before President Barack Obama and more than 110 other national leaders hope to sign a historic agreement to fight global warming.Poorer

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Wednesday extended the mandates of both president Mahmud Abbas and the Hamas-dominated Parliament until new elections can be held.The PLO took the decision that president Abbas and the Legislative Council will continue their duties

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has little to show for his years of talking peace with Israel, and with talks in deep freeze he seems to have hit a dead-end.His strategy of negotiating the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel

The Libyan convicted over the Lockerbie bombing cannot be contacted in Tripoli by the Scottish authorities charged with supervising him following his release, The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.Under the terms of his release from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds

Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti believes a Palestinian state will only be brought about through a combination of talks with Israel and popular resistance.In written responses sent to AFP from the Israeli jail where he is serving five life sentences,

Dozens of Iraqi security force members were involved in attacks that killed up to 112 people in Baghdad last week, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday.There is widespread suspicion in Iraq that the police and armed forces have been infiltrated

Prime Minister Gordon Brown told former Israeli minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday that she would always be welcome in Britain, after a warrant was issued here for her arrest, his office said.In a telephone call from Copenhagen where he is

The five children of Mary Muwombi have grown up in the war of South Sudan. It was a harsh existence living on the brink of death and eating whatever they could find just to survive. My children grew up in

Irans judiciary warned opposition leaders on Wednesday that prosecutors had enough evidence to try them and accused them of offences tantamount to those of the rebel Peoples Mujahedeen.I say to the leaders of the sedition that we have enough evidence

Its becoming so hard these days. I only managed to get a few fish yesterday, said Galal Saed, 35, casting his net into the Nile near the town of Hawamdia, 25 kilometers south of Cairo.Saed said he usually catches 2

Mauritania has introduced tough anti-terror legislation which authorizes phone tapping and scraps the statute of limitations for terror-related crimes, the official AMI news agency reported Tuesday.The legislation, presented Monday by the government, follows last months kidnapping of three Spanish aid

Yemeni Shiite rebels accused the US air force late on Tuesday of joining attacks against them, and killing at least 120 people in a raid in the north of the poor Arab state.The savage crime committed by the US air

Chancellor Angela Merkel faced demands to explain Germanys unpopular Afghanistan deployment as a parliamentary panel convened on Wednesday to probe damaging allegations over a deadly air strike.The commission has formed to investigate the events of September 4, when a German

After suffering setbacks from California to New York, Maine to New Jersey, same-sex marriage supporters got a victory Tuesday with the City Councils vote to legalize gay marriage in the US capital.Gay couples could begin getting married in the city

The Philippines most active volcano spewed ash as high as 500 meters and burning rocks and mud a kilometer down its slopes on Wednesday and volcanologists expect a major hazardous eruption soon.More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from around

The man cleared of murdering BBC TV presenter Jill Dando won substantial libel damages from The Sun and the News of the World newspapers on Wednesday over claims he had pestered women with whom he had been obsessed.Barry George served

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday hailed a new beginning in the alliances ties with Moscow, during the first visit by a NATO chief to Russia since last years Georgia crisis.Rasmussen met Russian leaders including President Dmitry Medvedev