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Published:Friday | February 15, 2008 | 2:30 PM

The European Justice Minister, Franco Frattini wants every visitor to the EU to have their fingerprints taken as soon as they enter the region.

Published:Friday | February 15, 2008 | 10:35 AM

Five people were killed and 18 others wounded at the Northern Illinois University’s Dekald campus yesterday.

Published:Friday | February 15, 2008 | 10:33 AM

The President of Chad has imposed a 15 day nation wide state of emergency.

Published:Thursday | February 14, 2008 | 1:51 PM

The Secretary General of Burma\'s largest rebel group, the Karen National Union, has been killed.

Published:Thursday | February 14, 2008 | 1:50 PM

An earthquake with a magnitude of more than 6.5 on the Richter scale has hit southern Greece.

Published:Thursday | February 14, 2008 | 10:22 AM

The Iraqi police have detained an official at a psychiatric hospital in connection with the bombings of two alleged mentally disabled women.

Published:Wednesday | February 13, 2008 | 2:38 PM

One of Israel’s and the United States most wanted men was killed in a bomb attack in Damascus this morning.

Published:Wednesday | February 13, 2008 | 8:51 AM

Senator Barrack Obama has won another round of the votes in the Democratic primary elections in his bid for presidential nomination.

Published:Wednesday | February 13, 2008 | 8:49 AM

The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales has declared the floods a national disaster.

Published:Tuesday | February 12, 2008 | 4:27 PM

Zimbabwe\'s ruling Zanu-PF party has expelled former Finance Minister, Simba Makoni from its ranks.

Published:Tuesday | February 12, 2008 | 12:43 PM

Masked men carrying high-powered weapons reportedly kidnapped two journalists in southern Iraq yesterday.

Published:Monday | February 11, 2008 | 1:56 PM

President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, remains hospitalised in critical condition after being shot by rebel soldiers yesterday morning.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2008 | 2:58 PM

President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete has dissolved his cabinet following increasing accusations of corruption.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2008 | 12:39 PM

The British government is set to introduce a new points based immigration system on February 29.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2008 | 12:33 PM

The United States is threatening to bar Kenyan politicians and businessmen from entering the US, once they are alleged to have been involved in post election violence.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2008 | 12:29 PM

A Muslim Cleric is to be extradited from the UK to the US to answer a series of terror charges.

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2008 | 2:10 PM

Villagers in Ecuador have been ordered to leave their houses after a volcano shot columns of ash several miles into the air.

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2008 | 2:09 PM

A Kenyan policeman is to be charged with murder after he was filmed shooting at two men who were later found dead during election protests.

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2008 | 1:27 PM

Rescue teams are still searching for victims of tornadoes that ravaged five states in the United States on Tuesday.

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2008 | 1:44 PM

Voting has begun in several US states in the biggest day of nominations in the race for US president.

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2008 | 1:44 PM

A Hong Kong journalist who was jailed for spying in China has been released.

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2008 | 1:00 PM

Thousands of people have fled the Chad capital, N’Djamena after two days of fierce fighting between the government and rebel forces in the city.

Published:Monday | February 4, 2008 | 2:03 PM

Crocodiles have killed three people and injured two others near the central Mozambique town of Chemba.

Published:Monday | February 4, 2008 | 2:02 PM

A search is now on for persons who went missing after a series of earthquakes hit the Great Lakes area of Rwanda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday.

Published:Monday | February 4, 2008 | 9:58 AM

Armed forces have used tanks and helicopter gun ships in an attempt to drive back rebels from the Presidential Palace in Chad’s capital N\'Djamena.

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