Published:Thursday | February 26, 2009 | 6:35 PM Serbian ex-President Milan Milutinovic has been acquitted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo by a UN war crimes tribunal.
Published:Thursday | February 26, 2009 | 6:34 PM Four people have been charged in a wide-ranging investigation in the US into an alleged assisted suicide ring.
Published:Thursday | February 26, 2009 | 1:13 PM The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a huge spending bill altering the shape of US-Cuba policy and easing travel to the Caribbean island by Americans.
Published:Thursday | February 26, 2009 | 9:34 AM The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that should lead to the easing of restrictions on Cuban-Americans wanting to travel to Cuba.
Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2009 | 6:22 PM US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is warning Congress that the recession now affecting the country could last into 2010.
Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2009 | 6:21 PM An Iraqi interpreter has been killed and at least three US soldiers wounded after coming under fire from police in Iraq.
Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2009 | 2:57 PM The United Nations is suggesting that the world\'s poorest countries move away from selling their natural resources and concentrate instead on manufacturing.
Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2009 | 2:56 PM Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is to become the first foreign leader to hold talks with US President Barack Obama at the White House.
Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2009 | 10:26 AM More Australian residents have been forced to flee their homes as renewed bushfires destroyed at least one house and injured three firefighters.
Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2009 | 10:26 AM At least 70 people have fallen ill in China after eating pork products contaminated with an illegal animal feed additive.
Published:Monday | February 23, 2009 | 6:05 PM Scores of properties said to be farms owned by whites in Zimbabwe have been invaded since the country\'s national unity government took office.
Published:Monday | February 23, 2009 | 6:04 PM Spain\'s justice minister has announced his resignation after being criticised for going on a hunting trip with a prominent investigative judge.
Published:Monday | February 23, 2009 | 1:33 PM A British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years has been returned to the United Kingdom.
Published:Monday | February 23, 2009 | 8:20 AM Amnesty International has called for a freeze on arms sales to Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups following the recent Gaza conflict.
Published:Friday | February 20, 2009 | 8:22 PM Italy\'s government has passed a law on sexual violence and illegal immigration after a series of rapes blamed on foreigners.
Published:Friday | February 20, 2009 | 8:21 PM The government of the US Virgin Islands said it has suspended a company owned by Allen Stanford, from a tax incentive programme.
Published:Friday | February 20, 2009 | 1:37 PM The Inter-American Development Bank has launched a new 600 million credit facility to help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean better cope with natural disasters.
Published:Friday | February 20, 2009 | 7:31 AM Argentina has ordered a British bishop who denies the Holocaust to leave the country or face expulsion.
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2009 | 6:25 PM The government of Venezuela has announced plans to take control of the Stanford Bank in the country and sell it.
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2009 | 6:25 PM Texas billionaire Sir Allen Stanford has been found in Virginia and served with civil legal papers from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2009 | 1:46 PM Activists in the United States have called a protest for the weekend as Washington moves to deport more than 30,000 Haitians.
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2009 | 1:45 PM French President Nicholas Sarkozy is to meet with lawmakers from Guadeloupe today, in an effort to end the ongoing strike against the high cost of living.
Published:Wednesday | February 18, 2009 | 5:19 PM A US federal appeal court has overturned a ruling that would have released 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Published:Wednesday | February 18, 2009 | 5:18 PM A judge in Zimbabwe has rejected an application to throw out charges against a senior member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Published:Wednesday | February 18, 2009 | 1:14 PM The four week strike in Guadeloupe over the high cost of living has resulted in the death of at least one protester.
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