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Croatian secret police ex-chief extradited to Germany

Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)

Croatia Friday handed over a former secret police chief chief to Germany to head off further worsening of relations between European Union leaders and the newes...

Colombia peace talks seen faltering

Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)

Colombia's talks with Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel group are faltering amid hardening positions on both sides after two months of a bizarre truc...

Outside View: Repeating the past

Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)

As we look ahead to the New Year, work and strive to keep resolutions and to meet promises, we might take a moment to offer contemplative thanks for the many gi...

Gulf Arabs pursue united military command again, allies skeptical

Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)

Saudi Arabia and its five partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council say they're establishing a joint military command to coordinate their defenses, but it remain...

Netanyahu's new govt to face pressure on peace, Iran

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

Benjamin Netanyahu emerged from Tuesday's vote with a new term as Israel's leader, facing fresh global pressure over peace with the Palestinians as he seeks to ...

Child soldiers still recruited in Myanmar

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

Child soldiers are still being recruited in Myanmar despite the nation's recent political reforms, an advocacy group said Wednesday, as it urged better monitori...

FARC signal progress in peace talks

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

Colombia's FARC guerrilla group said Wednesday it had established some common ground with the government on sensitive land issues in peace talks aimed at ending...

First African forces moving to central Mali: French FM

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

The first contingent of an African force being deployed in Mali has begun moving towards the centre of the country, where French troops are seeking to help Mali...

Dawn missile attack kills Syrian family: activists

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

Five members of one family -- a couple and three children -- were killed when a missile hit their village in Syria's northern province of Aleppo before dawn on ...

Israel centrists gain, but Bibi squeaks in

Jan 23, 2013 (UPI)

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took a beating in Israeli parliamentary elections, with his right-wing bloc giving ground to a new center-left alliance, but i...

Israelis vote in poll seen returning Netanyahu

Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)

Israelis voted on Tuesday in an election seen as returning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to power in a rightwing coalition charged with tackling the key iss...

Behaviour of death-masked French soldier 'unacceptable': army

Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)

The French army regards a photograph of one of its soldiers in Mali shown posing in a skeleton mask as "unacceptable" behaviour, a military spokesman said Monda...

Syria minister says nation will defeat conspiracy

Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)

Syria's Defence Minister Fahd al-Freij said on Monday that the country will defeat a conspiracy against it and overcome "terrorist gangs," state television repo...

Filipino economy to benefit from peace

Jan 21, 2013 (UPI)

A U.K. investment bank predicts that the entire Filipino economy could benefit from an MILF peace treaty. Britain's Standard Chartered Plc. multinational bankin...

Syria builds paramilitary force aided by Iran: NGO

Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)

President Bashar al-Assad's regime has put together a new paramilitary force of men and women, some trained by key ally Iran, to fight what is now becoming a gu...

Five family members die in Syria air raid: watchdog

Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)

Five members of one family were killed in air raids on a town in Damascus province on Sunday, as Syrian warplanes bombarded a battleground town southwest of the...

Neutral Austria decides to keep military draft

Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)

Austrians opted by a large margin Sunday to retain military conscription, bucking a European trend since the end of the Cold War of scrapping the draft. A total...

Colombia's FARC rebels end ceasefire

Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)

Colombia's FARC rebels announced Sunday the end of a two-month unilateral ceasefire declared in November at the outset of talks in Cuba aimed at ending Latin Am...

French launches 'total reconquest' of Mali's north

Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)

French troops on Sunday consolidated gains in Mali's Islamist-held north as Paris said the aim was its "total reconquest" and Russia, Canada and Germany offered...

Algeria will decide 'in its interests' on airspace: minister

Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)

Algeria will authorise the continued use of its airspace for France's military intervention in Mali based on its own interests, Communications Minister Mohammed...