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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Brazil Thursday to urge nations straddling the Amazon basin to adopt tough measures to combat climate change and preserve rainforests. Called by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the one-day ...  

Promising talks between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement over a prisoner exchange involving Franco-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have hit a snag. Some prisoners - including jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti - are valuable political pawns.  

The Commonwealth is trying to shape the direction of upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen by inviting top outside leaders to a weekend summit here, host Trinidad said on Thursday.UN chief Ban Ki-moon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen have all been invited because "there was some concern about the way negotiations were going ahead of Copenhagen next month," Prime Minister Patrick Manning said.  

Abuja - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is being treated in ... is responding remarkably well," Adeniyi said, adding he was unsure when Yar'Adua would be able to return to Nigeria. Pericarditis usually lasts one to three weeks, but is treatable ...  

A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says peace talks cannot resume until Israel also halts settlement activity in East Jerusalem. His comments come a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a 10-month halt for new building permits for Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank - a move welcomed by Washington.  

Mexico City, Nov 27 (DPA) Mexico expects a peak in influenza A (H1N1) infections in late December and early January, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said Thursday. Cordova Villalobos said that those are teh dryest and coldest weeks of the year in Mexico, and “the virus spreads faster” in dry conditions. “There will be more [...]  

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s chief negotiator for EU accession Egemen Bağış, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, Spain’s Secretary of State for the EU Diego Lopez Garrido and Ambassador Marc Pierini, head of the Delegation of ...  

Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka said it completed the return of Tamil civilians displaced in the war with Tamil Tiger rebels to the northern Jaffna district as part of plans to settle almost 122,000 people in camps by the end of January. “Several ...  

adding the word 'outgoing' to the description ← Previous revision Revision as of 23:22, 26 November 2009 Line 19: Line 19: - '''Dr. Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei''' (lang-ar|محمد البرادعي, transliteration: ''Transl|ar|DIN|Muḥammad al-Barādaʿī'') (born June 17, 1942, in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]) is the Director General of the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] (IAEA...  

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, center, the former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, now known as Tuol Sleng genocide museum, stands in the court room of the U.N.-backed ...  

The annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage has begun in Saudi Arabia, with officials saying they expect lower numbers mainly because of fears about swine flu. A senior Saudi health ministry official told the BBC that international visitor numbers might not be ...  

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) and his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade have discussed the ways to develop bilateral ties. The two sides also discussed ...  

Bamako - National and international inquiries are under way in Mali into a burnt-out Boeing 727 that is believed to have made a cocaine delivery, President Amadou Toumani Toure has announced. "The reference details of the aircraft have been found (on ...  

Representatives from President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF and the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) factions led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Professor Arthur Mutambara resumed the crucial talks late on Monday ...  

The lawyer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge jail chief urged a UN-backed court Thursday to recognise his client's remorse, as the landmark trial over the "Killing Fields" era draws to a close.Since his trial began in February, Duch has begged forgiveness for overseeing the murders of around 15,000 men, women and children at the S-21 or Tuol Sleng prison, a former high school in the capital Phnom Penh.Inmates were taken from Tuol Sleng during his...