#civil war

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Taiwan businessman jailed for spying for China

Taiwan`s supreme court has upheld a decision to sentence a businessman to three-and-a-half years in jail for spying ...

Taiwan to build stealth warship fleet

Taiwan is to build 12 new stealth warships in reaction to China`s naval build-up, the island`s navy announced ...

Obama aide in Yemen in anti-Al Qaeda drive

A senior aide to Barack Obama flew into Yemen on Sunday to meet the leader of a country battling with al Qaeda ...

Annan says he will return to Damascus soon: diplomat

UN and African Union envoy Kofi Annan Tuesday told the UN Security Council he intends to return to Damascus in the ...

Suicide bomber kill six including lawmakers in Somalia

A suicide bomber killed at least six people including two lawmakers in an attack in the central Somali town of ...

Darfur rebels `seize` army posts near Heglig

Rebels from Sudan`s Darfur region on Thursday said they seized two Sudanese military positions north of the Heglig oil ...

Gunmen kill four Shi`ite farmers in Baghdad attack

Gunmen killed four Shi`ite farmers in the northern outskirts of Baghdad on Monday, police and hospital sources said, ...

Turkey urges political reform in Syria

Syria should heed the will of its people by implementing political reforms and allowing free elections, Turkish Prime ...

South Sudan will not return to war with Khartoum: minister

South Sudan will not return to war with Khartoum despite a second day of airstrikes and bloody ground assaults in ...

Gunmen execute Yemen official, three killed in clash

Unidentified gunmen abducted and killed an intelligence officer in southern Yemen, sparking a clash in which two of ...

Sri Lanka should punish civil war crimes - UN forum

Sri Lanka should ensure government troops who committed war crimes during the final stages of its war against Tamil ...

West to pay Afghan military $4 bln a year: Karzai

The international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after ...

Opposition ahead in E. Timor election count

Early results from East Timor`s presidential polls on Sunday showed the opposition Fretilin party`s Francisco "Lu Olo" ...

East Timor votes in test for young nation

East Timor voted Saturday in the country`s second presidential election as a free nation, seen as a key test for a ...

2,000 Tamils stage protest at UN in Geneva

Thousands of Tamils from across Europe protested in front of UN headquarters in Geneva Monday demanding the creation ...