JERUSALEM, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed on Wednesday to the release of 120 to 150 Palestinian prisoners later this month as a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian officials said. ... > full story
NOUAKCHOTT, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — The leaders of a coup in Mauritania may have won the support of many local politicians but they face a tide of international outrage for ousting the desert nation's first democratically elected president. ... > full story
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — Israel has agreed to release roughly 120 to 150 Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Wednesday. ... > full story
BELGRADE, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — Serbia has stepped up its pursuit of fugitive Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic whose arrest is crucial to the country's European Union bid, a senior Serbian official said on Wednesday. ... > full story
PARIS, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — France said on Wednesday Rwandan charges that senior French officials were involved in the African country's 1994 genocide were "unacceptable" but it still wanted to continue to improve ties with Kigali. ... > full story
ABOARD AIRFORCE ONE, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — The White House said on Wednesday it believed world powers had to take further "punitive" measures against Iran because Tehran gave no concrete reply to their demand that it freeze its nuclear activities. ... > full story
NEW DELHI, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — India's prime minister will hold an emergency meeting with political leaders on Wednesday to defuse a land row over a Hindu shrine in Kashmir which has sparked some of the state's worst religious riots in two decades. ... > full story
ANKARA/BAKU, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — An explosion on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline on Tuesday night in eastern Turkey has halted the oil flow along the one million barrels per day pipeline, a senior Turkish Energy Ministry official said. ... > full story
MOSCOW, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — Russia accused Georgia of sending warplanes into a Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia overnight, an allegation swiftly denied by Tbilisi. ... > full story
JAKARTA, Aug. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — Lawyers for three Islamic militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings lodged a legal challenge on Wednesday over Indonesia's method of executing convicts by firing squad, calling it inhumane. ... > full story
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Turkey's interior minister said Aug. 4, 2008 (Wall Street Journal) — A number of suspects in last week's deadly bombings in Istanbul, which killed 17 people, have been arrested, Turkey's interior minister has ...
Turkish jets attack Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq Aug. 4, 2008 (Xinhua News Agency) — Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebels holed up in Mount Qandil region of northern Iraq Tuesday, said the Turkish military. . . Turkish General ...
Eight PKK rebels killed in clash in SE Turkey Aug. 4, 2008 (Xinhua News Agency) — Eight rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in the clash with the Turkish security forces in southeastern Turkey, a ...
Report: 3 teens held in deadly Turkey bombing Aug. 3, 2008 (ABC 8 Washington D.C.) — Investigators were trying to determine Monday who was behind the deadliest attack against here civilians in nearly five years, a bombing that ...
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