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Egypt and Saudi Arabia call for Arab meeting on Lebanon

Reuters - 2 hours 24 minutes ago

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt and Saudi Arabia called on Arab foreign ministers on Friday to meet urgently to discuss Lebanon where forces of the governing coalition are locked in fierce street fighting with Hezbollah gunmen. More »

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown walks out of 10 Downing Street on his way to Prime Minister Questions at the House of Commons in London, May 7. Brown has entered the list of people with greatest influence on British Jews, although he does not have the

    Brown enters Jewish power list

    AFP - Friday, May 9 11:49 am

    LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown entered the list of people with greatest influence on British Jews published Friday, although he does not have the "natural affinity" of Tony Blair. More »

  • A Palestinian rests on sacks of flour received from the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) headquarters at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza May 6, 2008. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah

    India may ease rice curbs as supply worries linger

    Reuters - Friday, May 9 11:17 am

    MANILA (Reuters) - India said on Friday it may allow limited rice exports, a sign that a global supply crisis could start to ease, as Philippine traders held off purchases hoping for new crops soon from southeast Asia. More »

  • Top U.N. human rights forum to examine food crisis

    Reuters - Friday, May 9 11:05 am

    GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on May 23 to examine how the world's food crisis is undermining the right to food for millions of people, officials said on Friday. More »

  • Somali insurgents briefly seize police base

    Reuters - Friday, May 9 09:53 am

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist rebels firing rocket-propelled grenades briefly seized a major police base in the heart of Somalia's capital, residents said on Friday, raising even more doubt over prospects for rare peace talks. More »

  • Mohammed Yakub (L), a clan elder in El Ram, poses with other clan elders in El Wak, near Kenya's northeast border with Somalia, April 25, 2008. It is tempting to romanticise the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-coloured soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky.

    Kenya's nomads feel pain of food prices

    Reuters - Friday, May 9 02:51 am

    EL RAM, Kenya (Reuters) - It is tempting to romanticize the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-coloured soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky. More »

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party, in power for 11 years, slumped to 23 percent -- even less than the national vote equivalent in the May 1 polls that saw them limp in third.

    Support for Labour at all-time low: poll

    AFP - Thursday, May 8 09:24 pm

    LONDON (AFP) - Support for the Labour Party has fallen to a record low, according to an opinion poll out Thursday which suggested the main opposition Conservative Party were now 26 points ahead. More »

  • FACTBOX - Aid offers pour in for cyclone-ravaged Myanmar

    Reuters - Thursday, May 8 08:16 pm

    Governments and relief agencies around the world have promised almost $40 million (20 million pounds) - (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta gave the U.S. military permission to fly in relief supplies for the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, Thai Supreme Commander Boonsrang Niumpradit told Reuters on Thursday. More »

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown (L) and Northern Ireland's First Minister Ian Paisley attend the USNI Investment Conference at Stormont Parliament Building in Belfast, May 8, 2008. REUTERS/David Moir

    U.S. firms invest one year on from NI deal

    Reuters - Thursday, May 8 07:07 pm

    BELFAST (Reuters) - Leading North American business leaders and politicians declared Northern Ireland open for business on Thursday, promising to invest in the province a year after power sharing ushered in a new era of political stability. More »

  • Northern Ireland's First Minister Ian Paisley(L) and Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Stormont Parliament Buildings in Belfast. Brown and Ireland's newly-elected Prime Minister Brian Cowen hailed economic progress in Northern Ireland Thursday, a year after a historic power-sharing government took office, saying investment was now pouring into the province.

    Ireland, Britain hail progress on NIreland anniversary

    AFP - Thursday, May 8 06:02 pm

    BELFAST (AFP) - Britain's and Ireland's leaders hailed economic progress in Northern Ireland Thursday, a year after a historic power-sharing government took office, saying investment was now pouring into the province. More »

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